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by ecyrb 5y ago
The Beowülf song "today is a gift" sampled the "noodles" exchange, which prompted me to watch the KFP movies.
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by ecyrb 7y ago
I found "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" [1] by Joseph M. Williams to be more informative than both of these recommendations, but YMMV. There is a newer version, but I haven't read it. [1]: https://smile.amazon.co
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by ecyrb 11y ago
Kibana / ElasticSearch? It's limited, but pretty and interactive, and gets you a bunch with very limited up-front work. I'm sure you can find some better demos, but here's one: http://parlement.letemps.ch&#
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Some Clarification(penny-arcade.com)
1 points by ecyrb 13y ago|0 comments
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by ecyrb 13y ago
Using Coq to verify PDF files (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPw7eo3nQI The core of the xmonad window manager was verified with Coq (PDF): http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~swier004/Publications
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by ecyrb 14y ago
One of the hints for assignment 2 is: "Most of the solutions for this assignment can be written as one-liners. If you have more, you probably need to rethink your solution. In other words, this assignment needs more thinking (whiteboard, pe
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by ecyrb 15y ago
vimpulse is an extension to viper and gives you (for example) visual mode (copy blocks using 'v'). http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Vimpulse
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by ecyrb 15y ago
> But it is so painful to try to switch. It's a heavy cognitive load to do even simple things like navigation. You might be interested in viper mode [1], or another one of the VI emulation modes for emacs. [1] http://www.emacswiki.org
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by ecyrb 15y ago
details here: http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/05/anatomy-of-com-server-...
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by ecyrb 15y ago
Congrats on making it through both. I haven't gotten to the dragon yet... For those interested, you can get a red dragon for significantly less than the newer editions (check amazon).
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by ecyrb 15y ago
Somewhat related, Don's site: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/
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by ecyrb 15y ago
Or you could use the Viper and Vimpulse packages to enable Vi style emulation in Emacs.
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by ecyrb 16y ago
Might find this useful: http://astrometry.net/
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by ecyrb 16y ago
Reminds me of the Cory Doctorow short story: "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" Available here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/08/weak-and-strange
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by ecyrb 16y ago
This week's Economist on the coming currency / trade war: http://www.economist.com/node/17251850?story_id=17251850&#38... http://www.economist.com/node/17252006?story_id=17252006&#38...
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by ecyrb 16y ago
apt-get install xfonts-terminus
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by ecyrb 16y ago
Having the tilde so far away is pretty annoying in a shell, but I haven't invested the time in coming up with something better.
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by ecyrb 16y ago
I'm pretty happy with LustyExplorer [1] which sounds like it does what iswitchb-mode does, but also has a decent find-file browser. 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LustyExplorer
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by ecyrb 16y ago
With viper and vimpulse you get a pretty good vi emulation.
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by ecyrb 16y ago
I used to use a Typematrix 2030, but have gone back to standard keyboards. I use viper and vimpulse in emacs, so I'm currently using the following mappings (in addition to a Dvorak layout): CapsLock key = Backspace (I hate that reach) Tild
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Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?
42 points by ecyrb 17y ago|13 comments
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Economics in One Lesson(jim.com)
1 points by ecyrb 17y ago|0 comments
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by ecyrb 17y ago
Well, maybe I'm not the best person to ask, and my answer was a bit off-the-cuff. The best answer is probably more like: it depends on what you're doing . But, I just find that Java makes life easier. For example, you don't have to worr
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by ecyrb 17y ago
Oh man.... the tooling situation.... Eclipse for Java. Visual Studio for C++ on Windows. Netbeans everywhere else? I am constantly dissapointed with my tools. (edit) ViEmu for Visual Studio is excellent. I'm not sure if it's Eclipse or v
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by ecyrb 17y ago
I simply meant that Solaris is now an Oracle property - not that they're Oracle DB boxes.
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by ecyrb 17y ago
How easy is it to use C# on a (shudder) Oracle Solaris box? (edit) In all honesty, skennedy makes a very good point. C# does seem to be gaining popularity. (And yes I'm aware of the Mono project.) Frankly, I just don't trust Microsoft.
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by ecyrb 17y ago
For distributed computing: Java.
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by ecyrb 17y ago
I happen to work for a company in the financial sector. Our developers use Java (mostly). Our research department uses whatever they are most comfortable with for research, but the result of their research is coded up in C++. If we had to
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by ecyrb 17y ago
To avoid the "I'm a friend of [x] ..." email, I always say: "Send me your resume, and I will make sure it gets to the right person." I won't actually forward the resume on, but I usually look at the resume for curiosity - and if it's a frie
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by ecyrb 17y ago
I was browsing the Java API docs a few days ago when I noticed that the shortcut icon (left of the URL in firefox) had changed from a steaming mug, to a white O on a red background. That's when it really hit me. (Though I think Oracle have

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