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by nyellin 15y ago
OK. My old complaints against package.el were as follows: 1. Packages need to be updated manually by maintainers. I can't use package.el to install the master branch of my favorite project on GitHub, or an old snippet on EmacsWiki. 2. Marm
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by nyellin 15y ago
Yes, package.el doesn't install arbitrary snippets from anywhere on the internet.
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by nyellin 15y ago
It isn't an official part of Emacs, but no Emacs user should go without installing el-get, the meta-package-manager for Emacs. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get El-get can install and update elisp from git, svn, http, and EmacsWiki. (It
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by nyellin 15y ago
It's interesting to note that the first automated simulator of real-world processes was the water-powered MONIAC, built only 62 years ago. (MIT Whirlwind, the first digital simulator, was finished two years later.) Articles like this make m
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by nyellin 15y ago
I copied and pasted from the original comment. The word "just" was added later.
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by nyellin 15y ago
I'm downvoting you for saying I think it's a stretch to call this a mistake If it wasn't on purpose, it was a mistake. Period. It might be inexcusable, as you later pointed out, but it was still unintentional. Everyone likes to hate on Fa
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by nyellin 15y ago
Gosh, this needs an explanation: Pentadactyl is a vim-like environment for Firefox. Other extensions add vim bindings to Firefox. Pentadactyl lets you customize Firefox yourself, the same way you would customize vim. http://dactyl.sourcefo
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Go from HN comment pages to original articles with 2 keypresses in Pentadactyl(github.com)
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by nyellin 15y ago
I mostly use Org for taking notes on classes and projects. I don't (yet) use Org for events. Does this answer your question: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/282143/org.png (That is a fullscreen Emacs with 3 Org buffers and a Deft search.)
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It isn't all or nothing. You can open all your old files in org-mode and slowly start taking advantage of org-mode. It's all text. No conversion necessary.
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by nyellin 15y ago
That software already exists and is called org-mode :) Some reasons to use org-mode: * Org-mode is part of Emacs, so you can extend it in Lisp. If you so desired, you could record your weight each morning by sending yourself an email and sc
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by nyellin 15y ago
Call me old fashioned, but I think notes of different topics shouldn't mingle with one another, and dumping all your notes in one file is a recipe for creeping disorder. I use Deft for listing note files and performing full-text searches to
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by nyellin 15y ago
If anyone is struggling to stay on top of notetaking or organizing their life digitally, I highly recommend org-mode and deft-mode. One day I will blog about what org-mode has done for my life, but for now just accept my word: I have typed
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by nyellin 15y ago
You might be able to check what the Googlebot executes by adding javascript to your site and checking the thumbnail. EDIT: Removed comment about the bot's user-agent. The article links to a Google FAQ which answers the question.
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By getting tested you increase the chances that everyone finds a match, not just Amit.
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The Caltech Asynchronous Microprocessor (1988) was the first asynchronous microprocessor (1988). Caltech designed and manufactured the world's first fully Quasi Delay Insensitive processor. During demonstrations, the researchers amazed vie
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The World's First Vegetable Powered RISC (1988)(async.caltech.edu)
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by nyellin 15y ago
OK. Can I ask what you use for bookmarking and what type of urls you bookmark? I have a few thousand bookmarks in Delicious, but I've nearly stopped bookmarking altogether. I noticed that I almost never look up bookmarks later, so I've star
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by nyellin 15y ago
Yes, I switched back to Firefox for Pentadactyl, a complete vim-like environment in the browser. I tried all of the vim extensions for Chrome, but Chrome just doesn't expose enough (any) internal APIs to implement Pentadactyl. Chrome exte
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by nyellin 15y ago
Israel, voting for Asia. I am looking for fellow Israeli developers who want to hack on a startup at night.
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Setting up an iodine IP-over-DNS proxy(blog.y3xz.com)
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City in a bottle(cityinabottle.org)
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by nyellin 15y ago
One more suggestion: change the Twitter and Facebook posts to "I am ___, I do ___" and a link. It is mysterious and doesn't look spammy.
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by nyellin 15y ago
Some feedback: * Add geographic location and show people near you * Change "you have no friends" to "you have no friends yet. why not invite some?"
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I love it. Here's my profile: http://iamido.info/users/23963-natan-yellin
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by nyellin 15y ago
Use vim's visual mode when the noun is uncertain. Or just select the smallest possible block and . repeat.
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Gadsby: 50,000 Word Novel Without The Letter "E"(en.wikipedia.org)
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A True Tale of a Truly Haunted House (American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1921)(ghostvillage.com)
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Haunted Rationalists(lesswrong.com)
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by nyellin 15y ago
The article is about being a pragmatic programmer. Know when to stop modeling, stop writing endless abstractions, and start writing code that does something . Don't model for the sake of modeling.

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