nicferrier

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Bits of an emacs parser for creole in lisp - my tribute to McCarthy
4 points by nicferrier 15y ago|0 comments
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by nicferrier 15y ago
bad leadership?
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by nicferrier 15y ago
as previously discussed here, threads are coming to emacs. there is a long standing effort to introduce them, here's the branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/concurrency/files
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Making async programming easier in emacs with macros(nic.ferrier.me.uk)
24 points by nicferrier 15y ago|2 comments
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by nicferrier 15y ago
ok. interesting you think that. I do extensive team development with gnu screen but there are still times when I am trapped in my X window and behind my firewall and bringing someone into my machine would be an extensive job. What I'm worki
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by nicferrier 15y ago
I believe someone is working on an emacs in guile. That's the right approach. I don't believe it's necessary or sensible myself. I like Scheme a lot. But Emacs resembles CommonLISP more than Scheme so for Emacs future CommonLISP seems the m
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by nicferrier 15y ago
It has. One of the things that prompted me to do this is that all the other attempts seem constrained in ways that were not really useful to me. An HTTP based tool will never offer the full power of emacs at the remote end. But it could be
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by nicferrier 15y ago
And that's exactly what I'm working on right now. It won't quite be an etherpad because doing constant diff is not a trivial thing... but bi-directional "live" editing session over the web will be possible. I am a couple of weeks away from
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by nicferrier 15y ago
emacs already has lexical scope. https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode/blob/master/elnode.el#L... that's how you turn it on. you need a fairly recent version. My bitbucket repo is here https://bitbucket.org/nic/emacs but of course, the o
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by nicferrier 15y ago
nah. what can be done will be done. besides... it has it's uses. of course, I would say that.
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About elnode - EmacsLisp version of node.js(nic.ferrier.me.uk)
119 points by nicferrier 15y ago|22 comments
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by nicferrier 15y ago
brilliant article very clearly illustrated.
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What's your force multiplier?(nicferrier.tumblr.com)
2 points by nicferrier 15y ago|0 comments
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by nicferrier 16y ago
so the thing in the screencast is not a message from a user, nor does it claim to be. It's actually an experiment with a 3rd party to see if an automated response system converts people to our paid service well.
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by nicferrier 16y ago
I didn't say you fabricated the story, I am taking issue with you claiming they are fake users, made by us. They are not, they're real users of the site. Could be there was a lot of spam on the site at that time - but we weren't sending you
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by nicferrier 16y ago
that's not a message from a user.
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by nicferrier 16y ago
I can't say there aren't spammers using our site. that problem waxes and wanes and we try to deal with it as best we can. The user quoted is most definitely a spammer and I'll look into why we haven't caught that. I don't think that's what
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by nicferrier 16y ago
we do not.
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by nicferrier 16y ago
right. I'm the CTO. I'm not sure what I can do to combat the perception that I sell snake oil. I don't sell snake oil. I help people meet each other. If you really WANT snake oil I guess I could find some and get it to you.
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by nicferrier 16y ago
I don't know what he received so I can't say. But our tools promote real users interacting with real users. Maybe Robin could talk to us if he has a problem. Horses for courses not withstanding.
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by nicferrier 16y ago
for the record, robin wauters didn't approach us to verify anything in the story and the accusations are untrue and misleading. we focus very hard on getting people to talk to each other and interact and we have a number of features on the
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by nicferrier 16y ago
devops makes so much sense to me because it's what I've been doing my whole career. The trouble is with the devops movement, as the blog says, the old tools and processes are sometimes still relevant. Sysadmins in that category 2 from the f
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Devops needs to be a two way street devs and ops(mike-woome.tumblr.com)
16 points by nicferrier 16y ago|12 comments
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by nicferrier 16y ago
WooMe.com is looking for devops or webops people and people good with django and python and postgresql. Lot's of different types of work available, quite a few positions. See http://jobs.github.com/positions/da0182a2-e11e-11df-933d-bc4...