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Live free or die is also the motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, who ironically mandated that it be placed on all licence plates and attempted to sue people who refused.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die

Live Share is probably _the most_ interesting feature of the entire editor, and is not open source or usable with VSCodium. See [1] for further links.

[1]: https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-ar...

WD My book Live updates were always problematic.

There was one update where log files filled the root partition preventing the device from booting.

I had to remove the drive from the enclosure, and connect to a computer to recover the device.

They did refund it and not asked me to return it, but it wasn't encouraging.

I knew him first as a lyric writer. The article mentions Beware of the Beautiful Stranger, which really is wonderful, but some of his other lyrics are pure genius, too.

I highly recommend the albums Beware of the Beautiful Stranger and Live Libel if you're in to slightly folky music with insanely clever words.

Several literature on the subject which has not been mentioned in this article:

- Behavioral Programming http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~bprogram/

- Live Sequence Charts (LSCs) http://wiki.weizmann.ac.il/playgo/index.php/Live_sequence_ch...

The opening of Live Evil is one of my favorite bass grooves of all time. A good portion of that album is very difficult to sit through, though. Interesting intellectually and historically but not something I find myself putting on for pleasure. Something about the trumpet does not lend itself well to electronic treatments IMO.

That's a much easier quote to throw around than "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die or maybe "What is to be done? The answer is easy. It has always been easy. Stop saying 'not in my name' and start saying 'over my dead body'. That's what we did. It works. Do it." http://wlcentral.org/node/2818

Chrono Trigger will always be one of my all-time favorite stories on any medium.

A few other SNES recommendations from the top of my head:

• EarthBound (aka Mother 2, another popular RPG with fun music. Combat may feel too grindy/frustrating though)

• Super Gussun Oyoyo (Lemmings + Tetris)

• Live A Live (RPG where you play characters from multiple timelines)

• Pop'n TwinBee (shoot-em-up and platformer with very colorful graphics in a pastelly palette)

• Terranigma (RPG spanning multiple eras)

• Treasure of the Rudras (Japan-only RPG with fan translation)

• Bomberman (hilarious couch PvP)

• Pocky & Rocky (cute shoot-em-up with a Japanese folklore theme)

• Yoshi's Island (one of the best platformers)

There were a bunch of other obscure titles with unique gameplay mechanics that I can't recall the names of at the moment. Will have to comb my ROMs folder.

My favorite utopian moment from the Manna story:

"Live Your Life means that you are able get the most out of your life, as opposed to the least. Instead of dying in Terrafoam, or dying in some job that you hate, you live your life in the Australia Project in freedom and prosperity. Live Your Life means that you are in control -- again, the emphasis on freedom of choice. You decide what you want to do, and then you are able to do it. You reach your full potential. Live Your Life is the idea of thinking about your life as a whole, as something that you get to design and control. Does that make sense?"

Past seasteading threads, in case anyone's curious. Others?

The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866017 - Dec 2019 (255 comments)

Seasteading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20082483 - June 2019 (222 comments)

A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17478300 - July 2018 (90 comments)

Floating city project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519863 - May 2015 (76 comments)

Charter the Seasteader I - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4435994 - Aug 2012 (37 comments)

Seasteading: Cities on the ocean - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310873 - Dec 2011 (112 comments)

Building a new society on a free floating platform in the high seas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088570 - Jan 2010 (25 comments)

City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510984 - March 2009 (16 comments)

The next frontier: 'Seasteading' the oceans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462278 - Feb 2009 (26 comments)

Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441310 - Jan 2009 (36 comments)

Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194028 - May 2008 (29 comments)

This is really cool! I oftentimes use repl.it to explain a concept or something to friends learning programming, this will be really helpful!

Since people are recommending other multiplayer-stuff I'll recommend Live Share for VS Code [0]. It is so useful that I've shifted to VS Code (with my teammates) for some projects just for the live sharing. I've tried Floobits (to be able too keep my regular editor), but that seems much more elaborate with persistent "projects" which is not really a fit for my more casual use case.

[0]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/

I suppose it's foolish to belabor the point, but (a) is it just me or are you sounding a bit of a bully? and (b) everything you wrote is untrue.

My impression comes from observing language: it is saturated with idioms. You can't throw them all out (without a lot of unnatural effort) nor is there any need to. You might as well say that a musician should use only notes and not chords, or avoid standard chord progressions. If you can find any significant piece of writing that avoids idioms, I'd like to see it.

Idioms are not cliches. An idiom is a phrase whose meaning is more than the sum of its words. A cliche is a phrase that has become hackneyed through overuse. (Nor, by the way, are cliches necessarily obfuscatory. "Get your ducks in a row" is, but "Live and learn" is not.)

Style manuals have their place but are hardly scripture, and there are countless examples of great writers breaking every rule in the book. Indeed, Strunk & White breaks its own rules, sometimes when describing the very rule it's breaking (which is part of its charm [1]). So even if your claim were correct, it wouldn't prove anything. But I'm pretty sure it isn't correct. Since you claim that Chicago, Zinsser, and Strunk & White all agree on the point, please show us where; I'd like to see. All three of those texts are searchable online and I couldn't come up with anything. But I only tried for a few minutes.

[1] Just for fun, here is an example: "Students of the language will argue that try and has won through and become idiom. Indeed it has, and it is relaxed and acceptable. But try to is precise, and when you are writing formal prose, try and write try to." How can anyone not love E.B. White?

They come to the opposite conclusion of what I read several years ago. Live Long? Die Young? Answer Isn't Just in Genes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/health/31age.html

Three pages of the article are behind a paywall, but I recall something it said near the end. It was that when they crunched the numbers, of everything they looked at, longevity was the least correlated with heredity.