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by nyellin 15y ago
You replied to an interesting and insightful article with irrelevant criticism of the author.
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Portrait of a N00b(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
124 points by nyellin 15y ago|67 comments
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Power consumption spikes during TV commercials(secure.wikimedia.org)
4 points by nyellin 15y ago|0 comments
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by nyellin 15y ago
The Neo layout is overlaid on top of your existing keys. You use a modifier key to toggle the second layer. More resources: * Homepage (German): http://www.neo-layout.org/ * Wikipedia: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Keybo
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Neo Keyboard Layout for Programmers(secure.wikimedia.org)
2 points by nyellin 15y ago|1 comments
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by nyellin 15y ago
Look them up on Google News. Disgusting.
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by nyellin 15y ago
Hopefully the bottle would be taken seriously.
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by nyellin 15y ago
The article is from July. I was surprised to hear Better Place described as a California startup: Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur; almost all Israelis can describe Better Place, but no one knows the company is incorporated in the sta
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What experiment would disprove string theory?(physics.stackexchange.com)
18 points by nyellin 15y ago|0 comments
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by nyellin 15y ago
Many IDE features aren't necessary in Emacs and Vim, both of which have incredible generic text-manipulation capabilities. Want to add setters/getters to a Java class? Use YASnippet or SnipMate. Want to rename the local variable foo to bar?
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by nyellin 15y ago
Parenthesis for method invocations are optional, if the method does not take any arguments. obj.compute instead of obj.compute() That seems silly. The optional semicolons also irritate me. ----------------- (Added) I imagine a committee o
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Hello World In Less Than 20 Bytes(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by nyellin 15y ago|0 comments
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by nyellin 15y ago
I didn't realize it when I posted. Here is Matt Cutts' explanation of the date options: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/useful-google-feature-better-d...
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by nyellin 15y ago
I wish Google catered more to geeks. I understand how Google indexes the web. Let me control my own queries. Give us geeks the ability to enable/disable freshness, even if it means appending &fresh=0 to the URL
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Anti-Debugging Tricks(stackoverflow.com)
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Bypassing Little Snitch(natanyellin.com)
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by nyellin 15y ago
That depends on who is asking. If you're a responsible parent who plans creative and intellectually-stimulating activities for his/her children, by all means pick other activities. On the other hand, for many people I know, "being kids" ref
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by nyellin 15y ago
Do not use viper mode. Use evil, a much better emulation layer from the authors of vim-mode and vimpulse. I also recommend evil-surround.
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by nyellin 15y ago
I read about Sprite in IEEE Spectrum and love the concept. http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/exploring-spac... That said, where are technical specifications? What microcontroller are they using? What is the range of the wirele
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by nyellin 15y ago
Thank you, especially for your notes on aio_. As promised, I sent you something by email, but know that your comment is worth more than that. Fast scrolling in large buffers (especially complex XML files opened in nxml-mode) I think nxml-
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by nyellin 15y ago
Concurrency alone isn't enough to implement all the features. Another requirement is shared memory (i.e. threads) or extremely fast IPC.
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by nyellin 15y ago
Hi hollerith, I don't use my shell as an editor, so I don't really understand the comparison. If my list is inaccurate, please correct me. Prove me wrong about three items above and I'll buy you a paypal beer for improving my workflow.
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by nyellin 15y ago
Here are some features that to the best of my knowledge are currently impossible: * Non-blocking save on network drives * Non-blocking autosave * Rebuilding tag tables in the background * Loading and fontifying large files in the background
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by nyellin 15y ago
Does anyone know the status of multithreading and concurrency in Emacs 24? As far as I can tell, multithreading didn't make it in. Why not?
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Margaret Dayhoff(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
1 points by nyellin 15y ago|0 comments
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by nyellin 15y ago
See also: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WriteRoom
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by nyellin 15y ago
I empathize with the developer, but this disclosure is wildly irresponsible. It's a pain contacting live representatives at any large corporation. When you're dealing with the financial industry, you should grit your teeth and find a way to
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Till death take us all away(natanyellin.com)
1 points by nyellin 15y ago|0 comments
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by nyellin 15y ago
At least Javascript has isNaN(). Exercise: Try checking for NaN in C. Then read [1] and see if your method is cross platform like you thought [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/570669/checking-if-a-doub...
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Berkley's Racist Bakesale(edition.cnn.com)
5 points by nyellin 15y ago|2 comments

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