rbonvall

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by rbonvall 12y ago
It is also my pet peeve. It is a big disadvantage, and I haven't ever needed the top bar (or wished it was there when there isn't one) so for me top bars are a feature with negative score. I guess we spacebarers are a minority and
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by rbonvall 12y ago
For the 2010 earthquake (which was at 3:30 AM) electicity went off in the whole city and I didn't have a flashlight handy in the room I was living in. The only luminous thing I had handy was my cell phone screen, and no, it doesn'
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by rbonvall 12y ago
In my case, my IDE is the command line. ack is one of its plugins. The builtin plugins are also ok (find, ls, mv, etc.). I can create my own plugins for my IDE, and there are even package managers to install new plugins (yum, apt-get).
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by rbonvall 12y ago
O'Reilly ebooks are always 50% off! They send these promotions regularly, but you can always pay half the published price.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
You can literally create a StackOverflow for comebacks at http://area51.stackexchange.com/ If you do, I'll commit to it :)
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Most modern smartphones do not hace physical keyboard, and my Kindle has spoiled me to think that anything less than a month is not “long battery life”.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
I love this idea. I rely too much on custom file naming conventions, and I always end up ditching applications for managing file metadata (for example Calibre for ebooks or several others for photos and music) because using `find` covers mo
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by rbonvall 13y ago
The point is that you don't need to know.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
In Vim using digraphs: Ctrl-K f * → φ Ctrl-K t * → τ In general: Ctrl-K <latin letter> * → <greek equivalent>
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Technically it is not a matter of precision but of accuracy.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
It reminds me of the 'bridges' game from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. It has the additional restriction that edges cannot cross each other. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzle
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Nice demonstration of a simple feature. 2048 could become the new TodoMVC ( http://todomvc.com/ ).
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by rbonvall 13y ago
If you thing it'll take you too long, just realize that you'd be playing all the new 2048 clones that will keep appearing during that time anyway.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Actually for TeX it is “modern math typesetting is ugly”: In the late 1970s, Donald Knuth was revising the second volume of his multivolume magnum opus The Art of Computer Programming, got the galleys, looked at them, and said (approximate
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Pure-CSS-zero-lines-of-javascript version. 2048-as-a-monad version. 2048-as-a-jquery-plugin version.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
I think it would be git checkout --ping (Checkout already does too much; one more doesn't hurt).
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by rbonvall 13y ago
That's not how most secretaries work, so that service should be called "Knuthian Secretary" :)
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by rbonvall 13y ago
s/his/her, and s/her/his in the third story.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
My girlfriend is a social worker and works at a primary school. These are some responses I have had to "how was your day": "Today a girl was raped by his grandfather. We suspect he's also his father." "A 10-yea
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Apparently the sentence "my telly is red" has an adverb and uses passive voice :P
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by rbonvall 13y ago
At least in Vim, line numbers help to move around and operate on text really quickly. Move cursor to ninth line above: 9k Delete from here to seventh line below: 7dd Copy thirteenth line above after second line below: :-13t+2 Having line nu
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by rbonvall 13y ago
I bet these are the features you're not using yet: git checkout -p for discarding hunks from the worktree, and git reset HEAD -p for unstaging hunks from the index.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Vim provides operators for changing case: gu for lower case, gU for upper case and g~ for swapping case. For example, gUaw changes the current word to upper case. guu changes the whole current line to lower case. In visual mode, you can use
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Very nice idea. Congrats! One thing that I've always thought it's missing is a list of projects in domains other than programming for motivating people that don't have an interest in programming per se. That means no Lisp int
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by rbonvall 13y ago
You know what's worse than CUDA or OpenCL? General purpose algorithms implemented in a graphics API. I read a lot of GPGPU papers at the university, and I could never understand the older ones, that described algorithms by mapping ever
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by rbonvall 13y ago
I was interviewed twice this year. In both interviews I answered a question by saying "first, let me cheat a bit" and providing a Python one-liner. Then, I'd proceed to develop a longer version in C. Both times my interviewer
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by rbonvall 13y ago
awk and sed don't have REPLs, and they are undoubtedly scripting languages.
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Do you mean something like http://wikimapia.org/ ?
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by rbonvall 13y ago
Hi fogus, I really enjoyed the article. I just want to point out a couple of typos: a) s/tern/term/ in footnote 9; b) in German nouns are always capitalized, so it should be "der Fluchtpunkt".
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by rbonvall 13y ago
I can see myself using a regular terminal emulator for vim on one half of my screen, and something like Final Term for running tests and doing other stuff on the other half. Since one uses terminals for several different things, it kind of

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