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by nickknw 15y ago
If you're using Pentadactyl (or Vimperator), then you get this with Ctrl-i. Vimperator (and now Pentadactyl) is the reason my main browser has been Firefox for a long time.
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by nickknw 15y ago
Vim questions generally do belong on StackOverflow, not SuperUser. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25925/vim-questions-...
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by nickknw 15y ago
I remember reading something by Erik Meijer where he states he also thinks it is an unfortunate name. I think he suggested coSQL, and gave an interesting perspective on the relationship between SQL and noSQL. This was the article: http://c
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by nickknw 15y ago
Same thing happening here, I'm in Canada though. EDIT: Worked when I used IE8 though. I was using FF5 on WinXP before. May just be a coincidence.
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by nickknw 15y ago
If you find yourself in this spot again, Ctrl-r `cd /som` helps.
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by nickknw 15y ago
Programming Praxis[1] is a site that has been constantly updated with these kind of exercises. [1] - http://programmingpraxis.com/
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by nickknw 15y ago
I think most development has moved onto the fork, Pentadactyl: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
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by nickknw 15y ago
I came late; what used to be there?
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by nickknw 15y ago
Exactly. This isn't representative of 'the github community', it's more like 'the subsection of the reddit/hn/etc communities that feel the need to post funny pictures using their github accounts to do it'
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by nickknw 15y ago
Wow, thanks for pointing out that second one. That's bugged me for some time too!
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by nickknw 15y ago
When I first saw Code Bubbles I thought it was fantastic. I'm looking forward to trying this and hoping this is a first step towards wider-spread adoption for it.
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by nickknw 15y ago
This is really interesting, and pretty exciting to me. I've heard so many good things about SICP and yet it has been phasing out of use in courses. The potential for a course/book that takes SICP and improves on it is really neat. Also, the
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by nickknw 15y ago
I was about to mention Altered Carbon, glad I'm not the only one who has read it. He did an amazing job of exploring many of the far-reaching impacts of being able to transplant consciousnesses. To your examples of crime and law enforcement
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by nickknw 16y ago
Wow, thanks for the tipoff on Pharo, that's really neat. I'll have to keep an eye on that one!
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by nickknw 16y ago
For me, it's got kind of the same appeal that lego did as a kid. And The Incredible Machine. It has other appealing elements, for sure. Exploring large dark randomly generated cave systems with danger at every turn, combining items with oth
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by nickknw 16y ago
I was really impressed with that when I read about it (I think Douglas Hofstader had a section about it in GEB). Does anyone know if there have been similar projects along the same lines? (i.e. with a constrained virtual environment)
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by nickknw 16y ago
(d) can integrate with the browser in a convenient way
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by nickknw 16y ago
Wow, great post, thank you! This also gave me a new perspective on pg's "Beating the Averages".[1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by nickknw 16y ago
> but it seems like a large part of this market would want numeric-only URLs Except for maybe douglasadams.42 ;)
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by nickknw 16y ago
Thanks, I was trying to remember where this article was.
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by nickknw 16y ago
Sorry, should have been more specific. In your .pentadactylrc, under the Shortcuts section, where the first line is `map <Leader>r :o read<CR>`. It looks like this is so that when you type <Leader>r, you go to google
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by nickknw 16y ago
Just curious about that Shortcuts section in there - what's that for? It almost looks like it's doing the same thing as the quickmarks (:he quickmarks).
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by nickknw 16y ago
Regarding vim and "normal people" shortcuts, if 'source mswin.vim' doesn't work for you, here are the mappings I have in my .vimrc to give it the normal CTRL-C, CTRL-X, and CTRL-V, as well as sharing the clipboard with windows: " shar
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by nickknw 16y ago
FWIW, I am 22 and I was also taught this way.
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by nickknw 16y ago
Tax the rat farms!
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by nickknw 16y ago
It's probably good to note there are some differing opinions on diveintopython, (well, mostly zed shaw's opinion). Here is his rant about it: http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html Here is the hn discussion of his rant: http://news.ycomb
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by nickknw 16y ago
I dislike it when graphs are used to mislead like this. Take a look at the first graph, its baseline is .008%, not 0% like the rest. It is already a huge drop, you don't need to try to lie to dramatize it more!