Derbasti

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by Derbasti 14y ago
"if prevention rather than prosecution is to be our new main goal" I find this increadibly dangerous. Does that mean the police will move against "potential" crimes? Against people making plans? I hereby jokingly declare that I am planning
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Funny. Chance has it that I am right now working my way through "Practical Common Lisp" and rather enjoying Common Lisps bag of tricks. We'll see if I will dive deep enough to start hacking on the compiler itself. Once I go there, this post
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I would not say it's essential, but multiple cursors is certainly one of the features I use quite frequently in Emacs. In many occasions, it is more useful than plain search and replace, though even that is kind of super charged in Emacs to
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Be aware that the multi-GPU models are not as great though, since BIOS emulation mode does not allow for graphics card switching and the bigger GPU uses a lot of battery.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I disagree. I tried to learn Vim a few times during university. It was fun, I was able to use it productively, but it didn't stick. Neither did Emacs. I only got invested in Vim at work, where I actually had to use a text editor for a signi
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by Derbasti 14y ago
frankly, I think Visual Studio is a sub-par IDE for C++. Code highlighting is pretty bare bones. Debugging often misses stack frames and it regularly loses access to local variables. There is practically no refactoring support. The compiler
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Just open several terminal buffers in Emacs.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Is there a nice resource somewhere where one could endeavor to learn about how LaTeX works internally? Because all those tricks look like they follow some internal logic that I am entirely unfamiliar with.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Wow, this is probably the best doodle I have ever seen. Or maybe I just love Douglas Adams so much.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Totally awesome presentation! I've never seen anyone describe this stuff this cleanly (even though I studied it in college). Plus, I love the audio work on that video. The positioning of his voice to tell you what he is doing while you don'
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I use Rdio instead of Spotify because of its radio feature Contrary to what the article was saying, whenever I started one of those automatic playlists based on an artist or something, Spotify would seemingly play stuff at random. There wou
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by Derbasti 14y ago
SublimeText 2. What a great piece of software. And on a completely unrelated note, I then got thoroughly enamoured with Emacs. Thus donated some money to that.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
"The Forever War" by Joe Haldemann. Possibly the best science fiction I ever read! "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and its video lectures[1]. Highly recommended! [1]: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineerin
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Have a downvote, sir. The online/offline availability of a program has very little to do with its enjoyability. The OP did not claim to support any of your use cases, hence the aggressive tone of your comment is out of place.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Email is free if you like to be targeted by ads and want to contribute to advertisement research. Also, next to no customer service and no choice regarding you contract. Which is still a great bargain. But not one I choose.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
By the way, it's a code generator, not a preprocessor. Everything you write is valid C++, it's just that there is additional code being generated that interfaces with your code.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
A formal definition of the language could separate implementaion specific bugs from actual language features. It would thus help implementers of alternative implementations of Ruby.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Even works on my iPad. Color me extremely impressed!
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I do the same. However, I also view the generated PDFs in Emacs and I set it up so that the PDF-in-Emacs will auto-reload whenever the PDF changes. And I agree, refTeX is amazing and awesome! Lately, I even left pure LaTeX and migrated to o
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I did that, too. But I constantly switch back and forth when I'm writing German code (think LaTeX). Pure coding is fine, and so is pure prose, but whenever the two mix, its a pain.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Two of the most powerful languages I know are also very simple. Lisp and Lua come to mind. While they can't compete with Python or Ruby in therms of libraries, their syntax is far simpler and more powerful than any other language I know. I
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by Derbasti 14y ago
A few years back I researched for a scripting language for an embedded project. The choice came down to Tcl, Lisp and Lua. We went with Lua and liked it a lot. After reading this article I wonder how Lua and Tcl compare. It seems like Tcl i
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Also, I just love that clickedy-click and finger movement. Actually, both of the above are queues that can help the brain retain stuff.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Maybe I did. Sorry about that. I meant terminal emulators available in most modern GUIs.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
The Devs I know are predominantly on Windows, but they still use terminals. Some use CMD terminals on Windows, some use Putty on some remote Linux box. Some use Cygwin. And then there are a few Linux/OSX people who mostly use the graphical
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by Derbasti 14y ago
There are some fairly awesome Vim plugins out there for various IDEs. In fact, I would consider their availability a great feature of Vim!
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Right. Who uses terminals these days?! Except just about every developer I know.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I have a feeling that we might add Sublime to that list at some point. It is cross-platform and easily extensible. I hope it can survive long enough to accumulate enough plugins and developers and be open-sourced at some point. But that I'm
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Also its not cross-platform. And those plugins in compressed js gave me shivers.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Are you maybe using 'standard library' and 'available libraries' interchangeably? Ruby and Java and C-iods for example have very limited standard libraries, but their respective ecosystems provide a great number of additional libraries. Pyt

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