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by rgrau 7y ago
I attempted to bundle firefox history to memacs, and remember it used to work ok-ish, but of course, you have to be using the whole emacs,org-mode suite. I can't guarantee how well it works nowadays cause I forgot to add the cron job l
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by rgrau 7y ago
One little thing I did for Allegro was to compile their docs into a dash docset so you can use emacs' dash-docs with it. - https://github.com/kidd/AllegroLisp.docset - https://github.com/dash-docs-
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by rgrau 7y ago
redis is very good. Also, any suckless project is very readable. I liked Lua code too. I'm not a C programmer but these projects have this Quality in common that transcends the programming language (I think). Opinions?
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by rgrau 7y ago
"I used SoftICE extensively from 96-00'-ish ... to the extent that as a teenager I had single-step dreams and dreams where I tried to hit CTRL-D.". That. wrt everything stopping while using SICE, I remember looking at the win
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by rgrau 7y ago
Racket team are in the process of migrating to Chez, not Guile.
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by rgrau 7y ago
I've entered an infinite loop clicking that link. Luckily scheme does tail call optimization and I didn't crash, just looped forever.
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by rgrau 7y ago
Vim is like APL for text editing.
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by rgrau 7y ago
I never thought of it that way, but that's a very good point indeed. As an emacs user, I think what makes emacs special is not the keybindings, but the software itself, or, better phrased, the architecture and approach to extensibilit
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Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video](media.emacsconf.org)
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by rgrau 7y ago
Another one for the lists in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21480590
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by rgrau 7y ago
The results for "The results for this particular HN post are:" are: Bad: 0.9800 - Good: 0.0220 NB. Sorry for that, I just had to do it :)
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by rgrau 7y ago
Like the old Moore's Law of "don't do anything, your software will run faster in 1 year time", we could nearly apply this to software itself "don't touch anything and, by comparison, in 1 year time it will be a
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by rgrau 7y ago
The two oldest pieces of software I currently use (Emacs and Postgres) manage changes pretty well and somehow, they now scale at a ratio of features, speed, and size that's pretty decent. They probably evolve slower than newer younger
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by rgrau 7y ago
oh, hey boss! I just bought this cherry extraloud MX-blue so you can hear me clickyclacky from your office. And created a deeplearning model to count clicks for our new pay-by-press payroll model. something something democratization :)
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by rgrau 7y ago
I don't consider myself that much advanced, but I think Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought"[1], and Wirth's "A Plea for Lean Software"[2] make one rethink many concepts of our daily programming tasks
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by rgrau 7y ago
I'm in deep love with magit, but in my case it has done nothing to know more about the git internals but the contrary. In which cases you found it "opens" git for deeper inspection? My experience is that it lets me operate at
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by rgrau 7y ago
Expert Software Designers read. And do it continuously. Not only HN and medium, but big "essence" ideas that you do not get usually on day to day tasks, and mold the perception of problems and solutions. People familiar with Wirth
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by rgrau 7y ago
tmux adds more structure to windows, panes, layouts,.... which is not necessarily a good thing in the sense that you can't easily build an arbitrary layout from another arbitrary one. It all depends on your workflow, but tmux can&#x27
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by rgrau 7y ago
As this is not an overnight conversion and you are quite proficent with vim already, my advice is to: - Get used to type "emacs file.txt" instead of "vim file.txt" in your console. - Have a function in emacs that opens t
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by rgrau 7y ago
Can't wait for the next evil-mode happening
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by rgrau 7y ago
Indeed I miss CL's "live coding" every day since.
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by rgrau 7y ago
Well, that was my best shot :(. I'm sorry I don't have an answer then. You were asking for threads, and gambit has lightweight threads, so I assumed there was a way to use them via ln. Multi-core threading is a different story th
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by rgrau 7y ago
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme, supporting Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenWrt. http://www.lambdanative.org/
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by rgrau 8y ago
Speaking about age and contributions. I turned 36 today and this emacs version is the first one that has some code of mine. It's strange, but I feel extremely excited about this coincidence. :D
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by rgrau 8y ago
In a new job/project, knowing the span of dates per author gives me an idea of the churn of the company, and how long are people staying there. I had a script to do it and when I discovered this project I contributed this feature
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by rgrau 8y ago
> Michael Chriton - Jurassic Park. The movie was better. That surprised me as I found the book far better than the movie, and in fact it's a book I keep recommending. What did you find lacking there?
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by rgrau 8y ago
There's this new implementation called "gerbil"[1] which runs on top of gambit, is still very young but looks very promising. It's opinionated in a good way (IMHO). [1]. https://cons.io/
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by rgrau 8y ago
I guess it's not the same kind of introspection because it adds a level of indirection, but I've heard stories of the VM itself being implemented in something called "slang"[1] that's a kind of lower level smalltalk
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by rgrau 8y ago
Yoshiki Ohshima regularly posts interesting "new" videos on his youtube channel[1]. Not only Alan Kay's talks but content produced in PARC back in the day, or relevant people around that environment. If you need a less abstra
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by rgrau 8y ago
Indeed Smalltalks (Squeak, Pharo, Amber) have so many "Aha!" moments waiting inside I just open them and start fiddling with the Class Browser (until I break the whole thing). 'Boolean>>ifTrue:' is just the gateway

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