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by mark_h 14y ago
I seem to recall a Knuth anecdote describing how he'd sunk so deep into the study of fonts that he'd go to a restaurant and pick up the menu, and only much later remember about the food.
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Become an Antarctic explorer with panoramic imagery(googleblog.blogspot.com.au)
1 points by mark_h 14y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 14y ago
Awesome!! That guy is steadily doing some amazing publicity for emacs. This is a "live" video he did, slightly longer at 18 minutes, but with lots of javascript refactoring, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Te_a-AGqM
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Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel(lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com.au)
175 points by mark_h 14y ago|16 comments
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In-browser LEGO(google-au.blogspot.com.au)
2 points by mark_h 14y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 14y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by mark_h 14y ago
Is that where John Goerzen (of http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ ) works? I watched Bryan O'Sullivan's CUFP keynote the other night, http://cufp.org/videos/keynote-real-world-haskell , and he mentioned that John was working at a tractor
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by mark_h 14y ago
His wife who has just had her own $1m kickstarter success! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palm... Quite the creative couple.
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by mark_h 14y ago
I think switchable is something different; ironhide/bumblebee are for the newish "optimus" setups, which currently only work properly for windows AFAIK. It's quite neat: rather than switching between cards, the discrete card is used only f
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by mark_h 14y ago
I don't know if it's the same one he uses, but I use "Nanny" for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cljcgchbnolheggdga... (or leechblock for firefox)
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by mark_h 14y ago
For the people wondering what autodiff is, I found the following article a real eye-opener when I came across it (mainly, his paper he links is very accessible: http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/paper.pdf ). http://blog.sigfpe.com/2005/07/au
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by mark_h 15y ago
There was this, the other day: http://gizmodo.com/5893494/googles-overhauling-search-to-mak...
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by mark_h 15y ago
I wrote this some time ago for navigating with (g|e)tags, allowing you to view the current stack as you drill down: https://github.com/markhepburn/tags-view (you can prune the stack too, so you only see the important bits of context) It w
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by mark_h 15y ago
Beautiful Code (O'Reilly, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596510046.do ) has a chapter on the dictionary implementation.
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Giant insect rediscovered on rock spindle after 80 years(npr.org)
6 points by mark_h 15y ago|0 comments
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Pre-Millennium Tension: The Dali Clock Y2K Easter Egg(jwz.org)
77 points by mark_h 15y ago|9 comments
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by mark_h 15y ago
Fair enough, cheers.
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by mark_h 15y ago
Out of curiosity, if you've used emacs for 10 years I'm assuming you're familiar with ediff; what do you find so useful about vimdiff? (I've never used it, so I'm genuinely curious)
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by mark_h 15y ago
I think this is also why "the best way to learn something is to have to teach it", or at least that's what I've found. When you start imagining what questions you might get asked, you begin uncovering all sorts of holes in your understandi
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by mark_h 15y ago
I just got around to checking that out; thanks!
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by mark_h 15y ago
My go-to artist is Zoe Keating (layered cello, and on bandcamp as an added bonus: http://music.zoekeating.com/ ). She's also quite interesting to follow: she's heavily into twitter, and is quite open about her profits, dealings with label
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by mark_h 15y ago
I hadn't heard that, thanks. That's kind of a full-circle moment then, given that transactional memory started out as a hardware proposal!
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by mark_h 15y ago
That is a definitely usability flaw IMO. I forget the exact dance I did, but I think in the end it was simply to create an account, and they associate all books you've previously ordered with that email address with your new account. The e
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by mark_h 15y ago
I don't think anyone has mentioned the discount code yet; it might still be active (bd50 for 50% off; it worked for me about 6 hours ago): https://twitter.com/#!/nathanmarz/status/156459481864220672
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by mark_h 15y ago
+1 for Hanson's book in general (which I think I might have initially read on your recommendation anyway!). I don't do a huge amount of C programming these days, but it was a huge eye-opener.
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by mark_h 15y ago
Don't forget M-; is comment-dwim which usually does... what you mean (uncomments the region if it looks commented, comments it otherwise)
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by mark_h 15y ago
I've "only" been using it since 1998, but I always skim threads like this -- even lots of short articles -- because there's nearly always something new to discover! Sometimes it's hard not to gush, but it's just such an amazing and organic
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by mark_h 15y ago
I couldn't agree more! My all-time favourite in that regard: http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/
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by mark_h 15y ago
The instructions from the wiki for Unity-2d integration also work fine: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Unity_... That runs xmonad with the unity panel; it doesn't add the launcher, but I was never a fan of that to b
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Opt-out of Google's wireless-access-point location database(googleblog.blogspot.com)
18 points by mark_h 15y ago|4 comments

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