From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:19:18 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87bnzemnnk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389723634 15359 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2014 18:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:20:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 19:20:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W38bP-0005jK-Oq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:20:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W38bP-0006zm-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:20:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JYlQPQB4/Zl8Gx/XPntaCEb7OV0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203124 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95393 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: >> If a first year student of mine cannot distinguish >> data and code (s)he'd get an F grade. customize does >> that. > > How lucky that John McCarthy was not your student... > > No offence, just could not resist a (maybe lame) > joke. I agree that the distinction may be important. > My logic professor used to say: "What does it mean > that a mathematician *identifies* two things? It > means, first of all, that he *distinguishes* them." > Maybe it's similar here. I don't think it is so much a matter of principle or even attitude. It is just what happens. I have not seen that particular example first hand but it makes sense - though I'm perhaps surprised at the impact of Emacs on today's students :) Serious, put it this way: if one wants to be a programmer, easy: *act* like a programmer, and then just add *volume* (time). Lot's of guys underestimate this. Mounting an USB-mp3-player, using avconv to extract the sound from a YouTube video (which you downloaded with youtube-dl), then splitting the file with mp3splt, copying the files, and unmounting the device - they don't want to do that, because it is "trivial", "too easy", they don't have the "time", so why don't use their iPods instead? Right? *Wrong*! -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573