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by edavis 12y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say "no setup." I just tested it and what if I want to install magit? As it isn't included in the default repo, I'll have to add MELPA. At this point is there much difference between addin
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by edavis 12y ago
True, but that isn't a scenario I have to deal with. My development machines are both OSX. If I need an emacs editor on a linux box, I fire up mg. I just haven't needed to provision emacs on a non-OSX machine for years now. If cro
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Show HN: Homebrew-emacs – Install Emacs Packages via Homebrew(ejd791.wordpress.com)
11 points by edavis 12y ago|9 comments
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by edavis 12y ago
Yes. RSS is still primarily how I get my news. As for how, I built my own reader: https://github.com/edavis/river It generates a roughly reverse chronological "river of news" ( http://rsshub.org&#x2
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by edavis 12y ago
I don't think one size fits all here. To me, a good tutorial app is one that effectively showcases the strengths of a framework while being honest about weaknesses. So for Django/Rails, anything that goes over CRUD operations woul
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by edavis 12y ago
Been working on this for a few weeks now. Really happy with how it's turned out. My personal instance is running here: http://rsshub.org/feeds/ Here's the config that runs it: https://dl.dropboxuse
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Show HN: River – A river of news aggregator written in Python(github.com)
6 points by edavis 12y ago|1 comments
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Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown(blog.codinghorror.com)
263 points by edavis 12y ago|220 comments
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by edavis 12y ago
> I agree they should rename, and after they rename, no one will give a crap about Markdown anymore. I doubt that. RSS is still widely used even though Atom has the more precise specification. > Call it Sparkdown or Harkdown or some
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by edavis 12y ago
Because Standard Markdown implies something that MultiMarkdown and Github Flavored Markdown don't: That it is the One True Markdown. People are acting like Atwood and company are just trying to bring a little sanity to the project wh
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by edavis 12y ago
It's amazing how similar this is already to the RSS/Atom format wars: Widely read blogger independently develops a simple file specification that addresses a real world problem. Simple file format becomes a de facto standard. De
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by edavis 12y ago
> There was an obvious, demonstrable need out there for implementation consistency. I hear this sentiment a lot but I just find it unconvincing. Over the past decade, Markdown became the lingua franca for transforming plain text to HTM
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by edavis 12y ago
A question for the "scripting language" (Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc.) developers who have used Go: How do you like it? I work primarily in Python but have been wanting to expand my toolkit. I saw a lot of Python programmers get
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by edavis 12y ago
I always upvote people who reply to me. Even if they disagree with something I wrote. For me, the upvote work as "I have read your reply and thanks for taking the time to write it." Then I'll continue the conversation if ther
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by edavis 12y ago
"class Position(namedtuple('Position', 'board score wc bc ep kp')):" Whoa. I've literally never seen this idiom before. But I immediately like it.
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by edavis 12y ago
Health insurance. All the terms (co-pay, co-insurance, deductible, premium, etc.) with non-obvious meanings. The delicate dance between me, the insurer, and the health provider when a bill needs to be paid. The whole thing feels scuzzy. I w
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by edavis 12y ago
try/except/else used to throw me, but I've grown to like the idiom. All it means is the try clause didn't raise any exceptions. And a "finally" clause is ran whether an exception was raised or not.
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by edavis 12y ago
Good points on all. Thanks for taking the time to engage, at any rate. You're right: I'm too sanguine on the possibilities of what "wholesale, violent revolution" could look like. I felt after bashing Lessig, it would on
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by edavis 12y ago
Compared to the philosopher kings we have now? Congress has an 80% disapproval rating. The President rains death from above via flying robots and secret kill lists. The Supreme Court routinely stacks the deck in favor of the powerful. Inequ
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by edavis 12y ago
But can you blame their apathy? It's hard to get fired up about making tweaks at the margins that ultimately might produce a few better outcomes down the road. I say give people something bigger to aspire to and maybe they'll
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by edavis 12y ago
Save your money, people. I'm sorry, but this just seems like another in the long line of Lessig projects with laudable goals but will ultimately amount to very little. Remember Rootstrikers? From MayDay.us: > The funders of campaign
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Write An Excellent Programming Blog(emptysqua.re)
4 points by edavis 12y ago|0 comments
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by edavis 12y ago
> What would it take to make an SSG appeal to a broader set of users? I don't think the SSG, as they largely exist today, will ever gain widespread usage by mainstream users. But one thing that could drive greater adoption would b
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Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
190 points by edavis 12y ago|71 comments
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by edavis 12y ago
I would love to see an Emacs package management system that copies the best parts of other, already established package managers instead of creating something from scratch. Homebrew is a joy to use. APT is beautiful. Arch Linux is doing int
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by edavis 12y ago
Encouragement, mostly. My way of saying, "I can tell a lot of effort went into this. Thanks for putting it together."
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by edavis 12y ago
If you're up for it, try riverpy: https://github.com/edavis/riverpy Here's a demo: http://river-demo.ericdavis.org/ The README is a bit out of date now, but it all works. I've been using
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by edavis 12y ago
FWIW, I think there should be. Always seemed a bit odd seeing Ask and Show posts merged together like that. In case anyone's interested, I've put together a project [1] that generates a "Show HN" RSS feed here: http:&#x
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by edavis 12y ago
You're fine. I've seen Excel used for far worse.
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by edavis 12y ago
Great stuff, Matt. I've always wanted to build something in the RSS space that could net me some extra cash. Write-ups like this let me know it's not a totally hopeless idea! As for optimizing when to check for new feed items, I r

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