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by mbork_pl 4y ago
As a mathematician turned programmer who taught logic to first year students for many years, I can't wait to get hold of this book.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
I have a fairly small apartment where I live with my wife and two kids (7 & 13). I read/write a lot while commuting by public transport. Work from home is a nightmare for me, even though I have to commute 10+ km to the office. I m
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Shameless plug: I also have some psql tips on my blog, for example here: https://mbork.pl/2020-02-24_Some_psql_tips And I agree that psql is great!
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
This may be true, and it worries me. I have a (completely unproven) conjecture that things that make programming boring (like writing boilerplate code) are more or less things that let us avoid burnout. How many hours per day can you stay
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
I would even say that I can see no reason creating/distributing/etc. of pornography should be legal at all .
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
# Your program will be compiled as you # type, but it will not start running # until you press cmd-enter or # ctrl-enter, depending on how much # your computer cost. How cute;-)...
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Hello everyone! It seems I cannot not write, and so I wrote another book. This time it is a short booklet about personal accounting in Ledger, a plain-text, command-line accounting tool. It is a fairly niche topic, but I do hope some people
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I wrote a booklet about personal accounting in Ledger(mbork.pl)
2 points by mbork_pl 4y ago|1 comments
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Where are you from, if I may ask?
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
I suppose there are various right-wing ideologies, and some of them may be compatible with Christianity. I cannot imagine any left-wing ideology (which is at best wrong and at worst downright evil) compatible with Christianity.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Oh, yes! This is something I use all the time , and it's so natural (I've been using Emacs and dabbrev for about 2 decades now) I don't even think about it.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
As a Catholic I assure you that you can't reconcile Christianity with left-wing ideology. And I fully agree that FOSS is not necessarily socialist.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
That's very neat. I wouldn't use it even if I had such a need - Emacs Calc seems to do everything this does and much more - but I'm glad people create such nice tools.
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The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs(mbork.pl)
375 points by mbork_pl 4y ago|197 comments
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
This is a cool anecdote about something that happened to me last week. I'd love to hear similar anecdotes where people who use Emacs (or Vim, or other software sophisticated enough) were able to combine its features in unexpected ways
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Good point, though I cannot not mention that you seem to have reinvented (a portion of) Magit, only with a worse UI... ;-)
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Who needs `git pull`? It's just a footgun.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
> You can also skip the reflog if you have a reference to the commit [...] And you always have it, in the `ORIG_HEAD` variable.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
I guess Git suffers from a similar problem as (La)TeX: it's a truly great prototype which sadly wasn't thrown away to build something better. Don't get me wrong, I like both TeX and Git _very_ much. (I even co-authored a LaT
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Thanks! How about an RSS channel? You can choose one here: https://mbork.pl/Recent_Changes . (See also here: https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Rss_Action .)
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My Plans for 2023(mbork.pl)
2 points by mbork_pl 4y ago|3 comments
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Hello everyone, here are my plans for 2023, some of which might be interesting to a few folks here (read: I'm going to write a book, again! – and then hopefully a next one). I'm posting it here in hope of getting some feedback. TI
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Ah. Silly me. Still, linting/parsing 5000 sloc is almost instantaneous even on my pretty old laptop.
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
But this is precisely my question: in what way does splitting the code into many small files help with that? Personally I find jumping between many files (especially when they are located in various directories on various levels in the fs)
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Well, Git is pretty good at merging when the changes are in different places of the same file. Though your second point is a very good one. FWIW, sometimes when I worked on a really large file, I put some ^L's ("new page" ch
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Actually, LaTeX has to recompile everything even after a tiny change (there are rare exceptions like TikZ, which can cache pictures, but even then it can put them into some file on its own AFAIR, so that I can still have one big file). Now
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Another excellent point, but only applicable to compiled languages (so still not my case).
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
This only applies to OOP, no?
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Very good point, though this is really a deficiency of "most editors". ATM I have 300+ files open in my Emacs (which is no wonder given that I work on several projects, and my current Emacs uptime is over 6 days, which is even fai
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Fair enough, though I've been working as a programmer for over 6 years now (and I've been programming on and off, as a hobby, for over 3 decades).

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