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by cabacon 13y ago
To seed a comment, here are some VIM links I have enjoyed recently: https://github.com/carlhuda/janus is an easy way to pick up some nice plugins. I found it overwhelming the first time I played with it, but I am back
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Learn Vimscript the Hard Way(learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com)
67 points by cabacon 13y ago|16 comments
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by cabacon 13y ago
I just wanted to say "Thanks!" for the mobile view. I have found HN to be difficult to read on my ipod touch, and I'm glad you're working on fixing it up. I have nothing to say about the million-and-one suggestions abo
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by cabacon 13y ago
Not really - the discussion on the thread makes it sound like the kind of thing that comes up from time to time anyway. If I had to guess, I'd expect that it happened based on the mission of making something that was good enough to re
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by cabacon 13y ago
To be fair, I haven't used Julia, but I have heard it suggested as an open-source replacement for Matlab/Octave. To that end, I hope it turns out well. When I was looking to see where the project was at, I got nervous when I rea
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by cabacon 13y ago
I have had a huge amount of fun lately going through the J labs. Start at jsoftware.com to download the interpreter, then the labs are all built into the interpreter. You can also run it on iOS. The terse code actually means you can type in
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by cabacon 13y ago
I learned about vagrant from this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149 I wanted to call out the advice from that article to use fabric (if you use python) to control the vagrant+VM instances. You use c
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by cabacon 13y ago
I think the efficiency of markets is based around marginal costs and benefits, not absolute costs and benefits. The cost of goods are set by looking at the intersection of the people willing and able to supply the good, and the set of peop
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by cabacon 13y ago
Look into producer and consumer surplus. In any exchange, you'll tend to find that the value of the items exchanged are worth more to the receiving party than the giving party. It's practically essential to agreeing to a trade. The consumer
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by cabacon 13y ago
You're sending the IV as part of the data, and the IV is not encrypted. The message being sent is time.time(), which is hugely predictable. The padding is easy to attack, and the inclusion of the IV means you'll get the first data block t
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by cabacon 13y ago
You could setup splunk free (or one of the OSS clones like logstache or greylog2) on the Linux host and use that web interface for visualizing and searching the logs.
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by cabacon 13y ago
The "I was going to say X but I didn't" joke seems common in the CS/computer community. I find it vaguely irritating, because you're saying something you know you shouldn't be saying, as evidenced by distancing yourself from the statement.
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by cabacon 14y ago
This also made the Old New Thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/11/26/10371...
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Arguing about pseudoscience: a useful analogy(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by cabacon 14y ago|0 comments
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Ignition(library.sciencemadness.org)
1 points by cabacon 14y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 14y ago
Yes, yes they do. After you get to deduct your 401(k) contributions, your FSA, your mortgage interest, get deductions for having kids, you don't pay nearly 20-30% of your gross salary in taxes. It's probably closer to 10% when you're at t
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by cabacon 14y ago
That will be nice, but it's still not a sufficient trade-off for duration in your day, unless your time spent in the autonomous car counts as part of your work day. I liked the idea of taking the train into the city instead of driving to m
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by cabacon 14y ago
I bet that works. Based on advice in an older HN thread about VPSes, I looked on lowendbox.com and found a Chicago VPS provider for $20/year for a 128M/5G VPS with 200GB/mo. of bandwidth. It seems to run OpenVPN just fine for when I've wa
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Things Cloud Public Beta(culturedcode.com)
1 points by cabacon 15y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 15y ago
Here's the thing, though - I clicked through, and started to watch the video about "25 features in 10 minutes". The icon change is listed as feature #1. I stopped watching around feature #3-4, because the product wasn't interesting to me.
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by cabacon 15y ago
He linked to his vimrc on github from the article. The binding is done in this block: if has("gui_macvim") "Use Experimental Renderer option must be enabled for transparencY set transparency=15 set guifont=Monaco:h10 set no
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by cabacon 15y ago
I recently watched Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" ( http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ ) where he promoted Alice ( http://www.alice.org/ ) as a tool for teaching kids to code. I downloaded it and played with it, and it looked pretty good. L
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Sure, we do that(blogs.msdn.com)
7 points by cabacon 15y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 15y ago
For what it's worth, changing the extension doesn't seem to work for me. A simple C program ( http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML ) gets detected as TeX. Trying to change the http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML.tex to http://hastebin.com/36QWBlY
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by cabacon 15y ago
What impressed you about the supercomputers of 5 years ago that no longer impresses you about today's supercomputers? The Cray approach ( http://www.nccs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/UserMeeting20... ) and the IBM approach ( http://en.wi
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by cabacon 15y ago
Doesn't the difference between just being irrational (e.g., sqrt(2)) and being transcendental (e.g., \pi, e) matter here?
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by cabacon 15y ago
Actually, I really like the stories about his nieces too. He had one about watching his niece learn to cheat that was fantastic. Re: snark, I wasn't talking about his own snark; that's great. I'm talking about the bits he adds labelled "P
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by cabacon 15y ago
I have never written anything that runs on Windows, regardless of language or API, and I still subscribe to his blog. I feel badly that he gets snarked at so much that he has started injecting pre-emptive snark responses; I think he might
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by cabacon 15y ago
1) I didn't see anything that suggested that all DLL functions have this hot-patch point. I think from his perspective "Windows DLL" means "a DLL that is part of the Windows operating system", not "a DLL used by an application executing o
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Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?(blogs.msdn.com)
320 points by cabacon 15y ago|43 comments

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