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by crazydiamond 14y ago
The worst is when you spend time typing in a post and it gives this errors on submission. Although one can back-tab, copy, refresh, paste and resubmit.
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Bitnami Rubystack: (from the link) BitNami Ruby Stack greatly simplifies the development and deployment of Ruby on Rails applications. It includes ready-to-run versions of Apache, MySQL, Ruby and Rails and required dependencies. It can be d
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Can you brief us on why you tried "J". Did you stick around with "APL" ? To the OP, I am a little lost, someone's posted a link to a book or manual, what is the purpose of the thread. Who is the above link of interest to ? Which kind of C p
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Are you one of the development team ? I've just started looking at Julia. I've read the 2 blog posts on Shell sucking. A couple quick questions: 1. Reading from STDIN. I only succeeded with "readlne(STDIN)". All attempts to use open() fail
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Reddit has a thread by Bill Gates (thisisbillgates). Why not write him, he is a humanitarian who will surely help you. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_c...
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Thanks. Seems dwim is more for web apps or servers. And its pretty new. I have downloaded Modern Perl recently and do have a lot of books on perl bought (and read) in the early 2000's. I am wary of generally downloading modules from CPAN si
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Thanks. I have been looking for a list of top downloads for perl modules (at CPAN or anywhere else). Do you know of such a list ? I moved from awk to perl (for my scripting) around 2000, while using Java at work. However, I moved to ruby in
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
I have just started going through the docs a bit. I am interested in 2 things. One, programs that interface with other commands -- essentially rewriting large shell programs in a "better" language. I saw the section on "external commands" a
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Yes, command line and ncurses (rbcurse / highline, ffi-ncurses).
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Besides the name making it difficult to come back to (google shows an older twig thread on HN) ... I come across various nice projects like this one, and "tig" and also "eg" (easy git). However, its tough to find a compelling reason to use
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Sooner or later someone is going to tell you to put this in your .vimrc: inoremap <Up> <NOP> inoremap <Down> <NOP> inoremap <Left> <NOP> inoremap <Right>
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
I have been using vi/vim since 1989, and I found spf13 to be a totally frustrating experience. Twice I tried it out and quit. It messes with settings of neocomplcache (issues reported and verified with authors), it installs plugins like aut
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
| Suicide is an option, but I'm mediocre also in this area. Thankfully, you are mediocre in that area. There must be something you enjoy doing, which if you work hard enough on, you can achieve some level that you can proud of. Within that
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
I discovered I was not very smart long back (about 20 years back when I started working). I compensated by working harder, reading more books than others, reviewing more carefully, thinking more about the things I am doing -- professionally
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
To the creator: What about all the other plugins and macros that already use "s" ? I'd love to try this out, but remapping basic keys has always led to some other function or mapping or macro suddenly failing. Why can you not rework the "f
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Youtube has a huge list of "Chillout Ambient Mix" which is quite good to program or read books with. There's also classical music.
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Is this the same as http://sourceforge.net/projects/safeclib/ ? If not, is it new? Where is it hosted ? What license is it under ?
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
> As to your question here: "Who is this "my" who has a goal in meditation" > The my is me; all of me. Not just the observing me, not just the thinking me, or the feeling me, but the inseparable combination of the three. Seriously,
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
I think first of all I'd like to know why you want to learn meditation, are you expecting something. Although, I myself don't believe in getting lost in books and concepts, however at some stage you may find it motivating or helpful to read
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
A very good post but I don't understand your dissing of ET. Where does he separate the mind into "observer mind". He certainly does say "observer" or maybe even observing consciousness. | I could write a whole blog post on the problems I ha
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Try http://www.vimtips-blog.com/ Also vimcasts.org, and check the zzapper page linked in the tips blog.
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
I used it (YankRing) for some time, but it was never consistent. The plus point is that it works across terminal, otoh often "p" did not work, so i would have to do "YRShow" and select. Often this is used, but everything you delete gets cop
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
The part about written in C was just added on. My point was "better or faster". If you say "faster is better" I'll have to agree :)
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
btw, on my system the `brew install` failed giving an error about "make the appropriate changes to your system". When I tried installing pyquery I realized it requires sudo access to write to /Library. I was able to install using "sudo pyth
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
I believe FF is heavily used in the HN community.
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
On zsh, "print -rC2" for printing some listing in 2 column format. The number of columns (C) can be specified. (print is a builtin). zsh's file globbing is awesome. Some simple ones: *(.) - only files *(/) - only dirs *(
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
"better" or just faster since its written in C ? It is not a drop-in replacement for ack. e.g. there are some basic usages it does not support -- iirc counts (ag -c pattern).
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
less -F Won't page if less than one screenful. zsh users can also do: < filename (less than character)
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
Works great on OSX ML. Anything similar for Firefox ?, I just prefer that to Chrome (FF esp with Pentadactyl).
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by crazydiamond 14y ago
| "The police have their priorities skewed," complains B Arun, a journalist with a prominent newspaper. Theoretically, Delhi has a policeman for every 223 people, but what’s unstated is that most of their duty hours are spent on protecting

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