From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: don't show the $-bar that indicates text before and/or after the window view, horizontally
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppu7qdo2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871a4299-aefc-4982-b90f-ef3f4d3b2176@googlegroups.com
Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>> (At this point, I'd suggest to invest some time in reading the
>> manuals, because messing with such advanced stuff is not
>> recommended if you don't even know what the fringes are, how to
>> control them, and what is slot zero of the
>> standard-display-table.)
>
> Even after teaching CS for nearly 3 decades, I continue to find
> unsettling the mercilessness with which the Dunning-Kruger
> effect strikes the unwary.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect? Wikipedia:
> The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled
> individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating
> their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed
> to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their
> mistakes.
Well, well! Are you going to keep this up, guys?! I asked a
question on technology, and got a couple of answers. Since then,
you are doing your worst insulting me.
OK, Mody: 1) I have a degree in CS myself, probably not as fancy
as yours, but fancy enough to know this is not CS, but CP
(computer practice). You can't pull rank.
2) And, I happen to be a teacher myself. And the *one* thing I
always encourage my students is: be *active* with your material!
Think, write, draw, ask, answer, juggle. You, on the other hand:
when I ask how to hide the $ sign - which is doable with *one*
line of Elisp, a solution which worked instantly, and in the
process brought clarity to another thing I didn't know, namely
fringes - you think this illusory superiority, of an unskilled
individual? I hope for your students sake this is not how you
treat them.
--
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573
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2013-07-23 18:13 don't show the $-bar that indicates text before and/or after the window view, horizontally Emanuel Berg
2013-07-24 1:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2013-07-24 17:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-24 17:16 ` Damien Wyart
2013-07-24 17:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-24 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1719.1374695805.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-24 21:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-24 23:35 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1726.1374708932.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 0:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 2:14 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <<8338r3x2ta.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-24 19:56 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1716.1374688401.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-24 21:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-24 21:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1723.1374701789.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-24 22:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-24 23:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1725.1374708201.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-24 23:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 5:09 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 7:52 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-07-25 7:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1736.1374739225.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 8:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 8:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1739.1374739991.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 9:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 9:40 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-25 10:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1747.1374749300.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 17:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 10:34 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 10:55 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-25 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-25 16:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 18:20 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.1773.1374776354.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 18:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 19:04 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-26 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-27 12:30 ` Chris Van Dusen
[not found] ` <mailman.1840.1374845680.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 16:50 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-26 17:01 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1867.1374858127.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 17:12 ` Rustom Mody
[not found] ` <mailman.1748.1374749649.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 12:07 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 17:13 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1771.1374770675.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 17:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1772.1374774190.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 18:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1776.1374777727.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 18:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 19:16 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-25 21:50 ` Bob Proulx
2013-07-25 18:06 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 18:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 18:46 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.1777.1374777912.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 18:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 19:33 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-25 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1778.1374778124.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 18:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-25 21:51 ` broken thread (was: don't show the $-bar that...) Nicolas Richard
2013-07-25 11:40 ` don't show the $-bar that indicates text before and/or after the window view, horizontally Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.1752.1374752366.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 17:36 ` Emanuel Berg
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