I agree. When first learning Vim the learning curve is very steep for what feels like basically advanced cursor moving but with more experience it becomes a very powerful text editor. Last week another I had a 10,000 line file that was the output of a bash command with two columns and each column was in quotes. I needed to remove the first column and the quotes around the second column. There are many ways to do it but all I had to do was open up vim and type `qaA<backspace><esc>T"d0jq` and `10000@a` and cleaned it right up.
For those non-viers out there, the analogous option in non-modal editors like, say, sublime, would be `select all => split into lines` or `column selection`.
I agree with the necessity of structure at a younger age. The current public education system in America has strict schedules and classes geared towards getting the lowest common denominator a high school diploma. However in a college setting, which is supposed to prepare you for the real world, it's more of a sink or swim scenario that separates those who are disciplined and are willing to work than those who don't know how to thrive without someone telling them what to do at all times. I'm really interested to see how this new university works out.
I'm just speculating but I'd say that with the recent death of Ian Murdock and how that situation played out, tensions are high between the HN community and the police in America.
Yeah, great. A bunch of tech nerds and programmers commenting on a job where your safety is constantly on the line and you have to make split second decisions and you're under enormous stress and there is no black and white. This board is so anti-police it's just disgusting.
I work in an industry that supports public safety.
Yes, being a police officer is dangerous, but their safety is not /constantly/ on the line - yeah, maybe once a day, maybe a couple times a day, an officer is going to have to make a choice that could endanger them - its not every second of every day.
The cameras in the end are supposed to protect the officer as much as the citizens, it makes the officers accountable, as well as provides backup for their version of events. Now I get the desire to not be recorded all the time, no one wants a surveillance state - but when the methods of redress for a corrupt officer are so few, body cameras are a reasonable precaution in the eyes of the public.
HN is generally anti-authority, and right now, I can of very little visible authority wise than the police, so right now the police are there as a focus point.
