One of the things I like about google chrome is the omnibar: i can search within a website directly from the bar. For example, I can type amazon.com<TAB> and then I can directly search. This also works for many of my company's internal websites. Can firefox do that?
Not sure what's built in, but you can definitely make it do that by right-clicking on a search box and making a shortcut. I have 'wp' for wikipedia, 'yt' for youtube, etc.
Firefox's keywords are really nice in general. If you bookmark a URL, replace a parameter in the URL with %s and assign the bookmark a keyword, you can use the keyword with an argument to replace the parameter.
Well, indirection can be quite helpful even for simple checks:
if is_json(somestring) {
// do something
}
function is_json(string s) {
return JsonLib.convert(s) != NULL
}
this indirection is easier to read rather than thinking too much about what JsonLib.convert(s) != NULL mean. This does not hinder debugging because you only debug this is_json function when the code does not evaluate is_json as expected. Every other time, you debug what's in the if statement.
The given example x.startswith("foo") is simple enough to include it directly. However, if there is a business reason for why "foo" is checked here, it will be difficult to understand why the check is there. This will be more difficult to read a code like this:
if x.startwith("-")
do something
instead of
if is_yaml_node(x)
do something
def is_yaml_node(x)
x.startwith("-")
If nihilism is true, then it follows that our lives are very little to no significance. And if that's the case, then we should do what pleases us rather what is right, since we have one life to live.
In any case, I think Alvin Plantinga has something good to say about science and religion in his book: science, religion, and naturalism, where the conflict really lies.
The point of nihilism is that there is no "should." There are no logical conclusions from nihilism except all of them. If you feel a connection to fellow sentient beings, act in accordance with that. If you see them as your tools, then act so.
This frees up your moralistic framework to be solely realized by your own ethics. It takes some time to clarify and arrive at them, sure, but it necessitates an active engagement with the world and your influences upon it.
Or not. You could just use it as an excuse to live in hedonism or to off yourself. But that choice is entirely yours and you take ownership of it whether you want to or not.
