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by jcw 17y ago
The revenue of the site would soar, which means that the people running the site could ... change the economy of an emerging nation. I find that whenever I say things like this, people either look at me funny or laugh. I wish more people
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by jcw 17y ago
I've hit ctrl-w and closed a window while taking a test in class.
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by jcw 17y ago
NetBSD comes with nvi, which is a clone of the original vi: http://www.bostic.com/vi/
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by jcw 17y ago
Also see his mandelbrot set/towers of hanoi using vim macros (not vim scripts, but macros): http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/vim/index.php
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by jcw 17y ago
I'm trying to do this myself--I taught myself C, but still can't write any non-trivial programs. Some people find C easy to comprehend, and think naturally in terms of pointers. Not me. Gnu Ed's source code is quite easy to read. Plan 9's u
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by jcw 17y ago
From the site, it looks like it has regex search/replace and multiple/vertical selection. It also looks like it can automate tasks (with macros, perhaps?). I use vim, but I've been thinking lately that all you really need to efficiently edi
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by jcw 17y ago
Because we are trying to build a tower from the machine to the abstract?
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by jcw 17y ago
Geez. All this Be nostalgia lately has had _me_ pining for it, and I've never used it. Gonna try out R5 on my old pentium II. Hopefully it'll replace XP. It seems fitting, as that computer is nothing more than a toy for making art.
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by jcw 17y ago
In that regard, is it art?
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by jcw 17y ago
I've read this and various other scheme macro tutorials and still can't make sense of them. There's still a lot going on in the background with hygenic macros, basic tutorials won't teach you how to write even simple ones on your own. PLT s
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by jcw 17y ago
Steven Pressfield (author of Gates of Fire and Legend of Bagger Vance) would disagree: http://home.stevenpressfield.com/books/war_art.asp#excerpt I highly recommend The War of Art, his book on overcoming procrastination for artists. Sit d
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by jcw 17y ago
Stuff like this makes me want to make the jump (from vim). There are _cats_ on the front page.
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by jcw 17y ago
It's nice to see people still remember BeOS. I never had a chance to use it, but it looked like there was something special about it. Did anyone here own a BeOS system?
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by jcw 17y ago
Are you just burnt out? When you're low on inspiration, taking a day to do everything but work can do wonders. Get out the house, see some friends.
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by jcw 17y ago
Just today I was tinkering with dreamscheme and its SDL hooks, thinking about writing a pong clone, wondering if it would gain any attention after Haskell pong has.
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by jcw 17y ago
I'm installing it right now.
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by jcw 17y ago
I kept hitting ⌘0, wondering why nothing was happening.
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by jcw 17y ago
It starts up about as fast as IE6 does. I'm guessing two or three seconds. Because of Arora, that computer is actually usable now. Thanks for the great browser!
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by jcw 17y ago
Here I am thinking that it's a required nowadays that browsers are huge, hulking monsters because of the multitude of things that need to be parsed and rendered on a web page. A minimal and unix-y browser sounds wonderful. I've been enjoyin
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by jcw 17y ago
How would one go about learning machine language for, say, x86? I already know a fair bit of assembly.
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by jcw 17y ago
I'm 20 and I drink totally way too much coffee.
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by jcw 17y ago
See, the "...Or Does It" clause refers to the theory that the internet is actually the collective subconscious (certain fringe weirdos propose it is in fact the entire abstract), and we just now have found a (somewhat) tangible way to acces
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by jcw 17y ago
Awesome. This is a great addition to the plaintext arsenal (which includes Markdown and Textile). I'd like to see a superfluous extension/hack of this to be able to produce art and cool-looking things in general, a la pixmaps: http://en.wi
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by jcw 17y ago
This is really cool. I thought one of the design decisions of SQL was that it would NOT be Turing complete, so hacks like this could not exist. It's funny that the nature of a database makes things like this possible. Can a turing machine b
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by jcw 17y ago
I wish I could upvote this twice. I love minimal/tiny languages.
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by jcw 17y ago
Wait, what happened with them all "getting arrested" and everything?
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by jcw 17y ago
Why are we having Erlang day instead of _why day? Why do we have to have Erlang day while I am knee deep in messy PHP work?
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by jcw 17y ago
I love Panic so much.
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by jcw 17y ago
I was about to post the same link. I would rather read that guy's excellent and concise article than buy this couple's book or sift through their entire blog for details.
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by jcw 17y ago
Because we're all afflicted with terrible ADD after years of internet usage. We need short paragraphs with key sentences bolded and big colorful images in-between to keep our attention.

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