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September 25th, 2008

bodyhead said :

Hey, great answer today on my ‘speaking in tongues’ question.

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• September 9th, 2008

  Is there a way to search for all/recent questions a user has answered?

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• 23 hours ago

  Where are the editors?

  @Jeruba Yep, you saw it first. Good catch. :) @nxknxk I think of that too, every time I see “less” used when “fewer” would be correct. It bothered me for a long time, until one day I sort of realized out of the blue that it really doesn’t benefit the English language much, if at all, to draw that distinction. So it stopped annoying me, and things like to/too, lose/loose, they’re/their/there bother me a lot more now. Oh, and @Likeradar just reminded me that I complain bitterly about inappropriate or missing punctuation, “inappropriate quotation marks”, and suchlike. Which is true, I detest that. So anyway, I guess my point is that I agree with your sentiment, and the general idea that language has a proper form which should be respected – but I now fine myself on the other side of that specific example. (I feel the same about “who” and “whom”, too..)
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• 23 hours ago

  Where are the editors?

  @NewZen Um.. “site”? I think you meant “sight”. Which highlights the obvious response to your question: we’re all human, and make mistakes from time to time. You caught an editor’s, I caught yours.. somebody will catch me in one before too long, no doubt. (Or maybe you actually did mean you can’t stand the site of those errors, i.e. the newspaper. Dunno.)
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• 1 day ago

  Who's the newest Jelly to swim into Fluther's 10K hizzouse?

  @Likeradar Lurve lurve lurve you too. :)
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• 1 day ago

  Who's the newest Jelly to swim into Fluther's 10K hizzouse?

  Wow, 10000 lurve.. that’s a lot. I feel, um, oddly attracted to you now. Would you maybe like to move in together? ;-)
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• 2 months ago

  Parameters or Registry keys? Which is best to tell an application to do "something" at startup?

  The registry is probably the better choice. That’s where “configuration”-type stuff is supposed to go, for one thing, so people are more likely to look for it there. For another, users will sometimes create their own shortcuts to an application, and we don’t necessarily want to have to deal with maintaining some set of flags in order to do so. (Depending on exactly what you’re trying to accomplish, it might be nice to build in some command-line parameters too, in case power users would want to utilize them..)
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