surki

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by surki 16y ago
I assume you are using git to manage your home directory. I use gibak[1] for the same(built on top of git). Out of curiosity, what is your setup like? [1] http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction
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The Lemacs/FSFmacs Schism(jwz.org)
2 points by surki 16y ago|0 comments
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by surki 16y ago
That's nice. I use emacs -Q -f list-colors-display to find out the color codes
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by surki 16y ago
For the people out there who live in Emacs - Give Emacs + Wanderlust a try. It has a nice imap implementation, you can prefetch the mail, work offline, have multiple imap accounts etc. Previously I was using Mutt + offlineimap
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by surki 16y ago
If you are using Conkeror, you can use create a page mode, specific to a site - http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes Conkeror seems to have a reddit mode already in place, may be you can cook up a mode for HN - http://conkeror.org/PageMo
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Android Hax(jon.oberheide.org)
1 points by surki 16y ago|0 comments
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by surki 16y ago
Shouldn't we s/microprocessor/microcontroller/g ? It looks like these the are the chips we are talking about http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/msp430g2211.html http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/msp430g2231.html
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by surki 16y ago
I use wget for the same. I usually call it from gnu screen, to update the status line with the no. of unread mails unread="$(wget --secure-protocol=TLSv1 --timeout=3 -t 1 -q -O - \ https://${gmail_login}:${gmail_password}@mail.google.
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by surki 16y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by surki 16y ago
Which version are you running? I am on 6.8.50.20081120-cvs I seem to have auto completion (on tab)
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by surki 16y ago
hmm, Linux? After trying many clients, I have settled for rTorrent (libtorrent.rakshasa.no) which is quite lean and terminal based (so that I can wrap it in a Screen session) It supports OS X as well.
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by surki 16y ago
Did you try Gnu Global? I mostly use it for C/C++, but it claims to support "C, C++, Yacc, Java and PHP4".
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by surki 16y ago
You are right on some fronts. It does require some work in Emacs to set up the ideal dev. environment. I mostly do C/C++ stuff. I use gnu global for code tagging and navigation [1](aka "goto definition" thing). As for project organization,
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by surki 16y ago
Previous discussion about ledger - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872244
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by surki 16y ago
On a related note, if you want to keep the connections open and get reconnected automatically on disconnection, try this autossh http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ So I have something like autossh -f -N -R 2222:localhost:22 home -S "none
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by surki 16y ago
Have you enabled SSH connection sharing? If you have a connection open already, it could leverage that (ssh does it, not tramp).
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by surki 16y ago
... "and emacs doesn't really work for me in terminals as well as vim." What kind of problems are you facing running emacs in terminal? I always run emacs in terminal (wrapped inside a screen session) and I have found no problem so far. I r
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by surki 16y ago
This post provides some more information about how iPhone's multitasking compares to Android http://blog.rlove.org/2010/04/iphone-os-4-and-multitasking.h...
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by surki 16y ago
Use IMAP access to get & sort messages by size and delete ?
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by surki 16y ago
On a tangential note, Timecrimes (Spanish) is another good movie I enjoyed watching - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cronocr%C3%ADmenes
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MeeGo for Netbooks released -- and it's fast(linuxfordevices.com)
1 points by surki 16y ago|0 comments
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by surki 16y ago
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=commitdiff;h=59b0bd5709404...
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by surki 16y ago
I think long term plan for upstart is to replace cron[1](generating events at scheduled time ...) And some more general information here [2] [1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-cron [2] http://www.netsplit.com/2006/09/01/upsta
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Comprehensive C Archive Network (ccan.ozlabs.org)
7 points by surki 16y ago|0 comments
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by surki 16y ago
How about http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
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by surki 16y ago
You don't have to recompile, you can control it through proc (/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq)
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by surki 16y ago
curl -I http://wordpress.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:17:29 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Connection: close Last-Modified: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:17:26 +0000 Cache-Control: max-age=27, must-revali
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by surki 16y ago
Did you try Wanderlust(emacs)? I previously used to have offlineimap(gmail) + Mutt. Wanderlust has wonderful support for IMAP.
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Nihilism vs. Existentialism(freethought-forum.com)
1 points by surki 16y ago|0 comments
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by surki 17y ago
On a similar note, I found this book http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Return-Self-Anthony-Storr/dp/... to be quite interesting. It discusses about solitude, its necessity and other related issues like depression in detail.

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