Alt-x shell-mode

There you go.

A1: Sure, but why would we want to?

A2: Yes, it’s :q![Enter]emacs[Enter]

It has one. It’s called evil-mode.

I’m not an anime guy, but I loved the manga (except Marika). How’s the anime compare?

Ugh, I hate those things. I spend lots of effort cutting logs, sealing the ends, storing them where they can dry for a few years, and then my spindles are full of wormholes.

Sorry, too busy counting digital outputs on Modicon PLCs to think about that stuff.

Also indexes. Once you’ve been bitten enough by off-by-one errors this actually becomes a pretty handy double-check.

I had a partner when I opened a computer shop back in the day. Closest I’ve come to having sex with him was the time I saw his wife topless through the window.

Significant Other is much more specific.

Quite possibly. I wouldn’t know. Either way, Microsoft is an American company and plays by (or subverts, or writes) American rules.

Money is power. Get enough of either and you get corruption. Some people fight the system, some people learn to profit off it. If it doesn’t work that way in other parts of the world, then it’s because their systems work differently than ours.

Edit: quite possibly, not quit possibly. I’m a touch typist. I type every day. So why does my typing get worse with age?

True, but he didn’t.

Charter schools are a bit of a hot topic in the US right now because the GOP is pushing them really hard. There are pros and cons - it’s a complicated issue.

I never said he was moral, either.

Sure, but that’s how business works when you’re as big a company as Microsoft. And he was good at it.

I never said he was a nice guy, only that he was good at business.

Totally agree on the skill part. The ability to read documentation and understand it is extremely important. Especially if you need to coordinate with nonprogrammers like engineers, or if you work in fields that SO doesn’t cover well like I do.

That part of it, sure, but the guy was good at business and made some smart bets (that the microcomputer industry would explode, for one). Microsoft didn’t get as big as it has based only on their technical ability. They got there because they made the right decisions and were cutthroat against their competitors.

Bill was at the right time and right place, but he was also the right guy. You gotta have them all.

foreach is useful when you don’t need to know the index of something. If you do, conventional i, j, k, etc. are useful.

A lot of it depends what you’re doing (number crunching, for instance) or if you’re in a limited programming language (why won’t BASIC die already?) where parallel arrays are still a thing.

When the practice started, most (if not all) programming languages used capital letters. IIRC the computers that ran early FORTRAN (which is where the I,J,K, etc. convention comes from) didn’t even support lower case letters.

Hrm, so did Ramanujan really die or did he get snatched up by the Indian equivalent of the Invisible College?

Speaking as someone that grew up with records, 8-tracks, and cassettes: yes, yes it is.