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by mcantor 15y ago
- How do delete without clobbering the "clipboard" register: Delete to the "black hole register", "_". For example: "_dd - How to enter the solution to a quick math equation while in insert mode: Use the "expression register", "
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Writing Efficiently(tsbazelli.com)
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by mcantor 15y ago
Please refer to the HN guidelines, which you can reach by clicking "Guidelines" at the bottom of every page: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it
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by mcantor 15y ago
If Warcraft & Starcraft had been the first games to use that naming convention... Weren't they?
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by mcantor 15y ago
This is an admirable hack of SO's intended use. It would be great if there was a site that actually afforded this particular use case. Wikis are too open-ended. Perhaps something in the middle.
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Method_missing considered harmful(thingsfittogether.com)
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Start developing for OS X in just 68 easy steps(thingsfittogether.com)
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by mcantor 15y ago
One of my favorites is tar: $ tar -m foo tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. Oh, right! `-Acdtrux'! How could I have forgotten. I deal with ACD Truc
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by mcantor 15y ago
Internalizing the correct ritualized movements lets you forget about them so you can focus on high-level strategy (winning fights/writing applications). Lego bricks are hard and consistent and unchanging, and you need them to build incredib
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by mcantor 15y ago
I think a lot of people don't even realize such libraries are out there, or don't understand that there's a wheel being reinvented. ("It's just command line options. Why would you need a whole library to do that?")
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by mcantor 15y ago
One more: Keep your "usage" blurb succinct and clear. Don't clobber your users' terminals with two pages of output when they're not expecting it. If "yourapp", "yourapp -h" or "yourapp --invalid-flag" results in two screenfuls of informa
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by mcantor 15y ago
I think the use of "interface" is sensible, if somewhat ambiguous on the surface. In this context, options & arguments are the interface to the utility , not the "CLI", which is the interface to the command line itself . Context-awar
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by mcantor 15y ago
Oh, and another: Use your language's command-line option processing libraries. OptionParser in ruby and argparse in python. There is no reason to eschew these libraries: they're part of the standard library, they require zero coupling to
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by mcantor 15y ago
Here's another one: Provide explicit flags for default behavior . For example, if your lines-of-code counting utility excludes preprocessor directives by default, and includes them when you pass "-i", provide an "-x" switch that signals to
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Quieting the lizard brain(sethgodin.typepad.com)
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by mcantor 15y ago
:-> I hope I didn't come off as critical! I often hang out with a feminist-leaning crowd, so that sort of thing tends to stand out to me. (The running joke is "The hardest thing about being a straight white male is remembering that n
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by mcantor 15y ago
Well, it's stereotypical for both hackers and hippies to have scruffy facial hair and hygiene problems, so I guess I can see how one might mix them up. Hackers don't hug their computers, though. At least, not when anyone else is looking.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Why will the comments be pure crap?
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by mcantor 15y ago
I think it's kinda funny how the "Did you consider a woman player's perspective?" question at the end asks us to be mindful of women as a game-playing demographic while simultaneously forgetting that women are also a game-designing demograp
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by mcantor 15y ago
How is this hacker news?
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by mcantor 15y ago
Why is that phrase surprising?
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How should I architect my (mostly) text-based game server?(stackoverflow.com)
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Ask HN: Resources for multiplayer game server development
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Young Adult Fiction Vs. Old Adult Fiction(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server(yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
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by mcantor 15y ago
their female attendees have been... intolerant of the culture of computer gaming Their female attendees have been harassed and disrespected. You need to understand that there is no such thing as an objective experience; context is the tr
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by mcantor 15y ago
The women-only events exist to provide more support for women in technology. The intention behind men-only events is to avoid having to support women in technology.
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by mcantor 15y ago
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. One of my friends has been named "Bubonic Johnson" ("Johnson" is not any part of his name) for over a year and Facebook hasn't nuked his account from orbit yet!
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by mcantor 15y ago
Nevertheless, that doesn’t in any way add to a debate over my specific comment This assumes that the OP's only goal was to debate. I opine that his secondary goal was to be a little cheeky and possibly evoke a chuckle, which was successf
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Another Google "abuse prevention gone wrong" horror story(twitlonger.com)
21 points by mcantor 15y ago|16 comments

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