telemachos

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by telemachos 14y ago
I'm taking the same course. I was frustrated with the SML REPL, learned about rlwrap and wrote this up. Glad it helps. (I just posted the tip to the course's forums as well. Thanks for reminding me.)
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Improve your REPLs with rlwrap(ithaca.arpinum.org)
91 points by telemachos 14y ago|27 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
299 days ago - 132 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752447 168 days ago - 26 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332971 Not complaining at all about the repost, but I remembered previous discussions and people m
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by telemachos 14y ago
A promising start. But it would really help if it were possible to edit aliases you've posted. (For example, I want to clean up the tags for something I posted, but that doesn't seem possible.)
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by telemachos 14y ago
I love it overall, but it would be great if the user could fine tune it a bit. An example: Under "Repositories contributed to" on my page, I see two repos from a place I worked. Those repos are private, and after I left, I had my commit rig
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by telemachos 14y ago
I have read the book. It does not teach you C. It assumes that you know the language. It does not teach you anything about the syntax of the language. He does not tell you how to log into a UNIX system. He tells you what happens when yo
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by telemachos 14y ago
> Don't be fooled by the title.. it's a beginner book. I never know what to do with comments like this. It's obviously not a beginner's book. At the very least, it assumes that you know C. If your response is "C is a small language. Y
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by telemachos 14y ago
Popular suggestions (not introductory): C Interfaces and Implementations (David R. Hanson) Expert C Programming (Peter van der Linden) I'm also a fan of C Programming: A Modern Approach (K. N. King) as an introductory book, b
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by telemachos 14y ago
Many tech publishers now sell their ebooks as bundles: one price for multiple formats (usually the big three, sometimes even more). O'Reilly, PragPublishing, NoStarch, Informit spring to mind. (Not saying that it isn't a good thing, but I'm
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Simplify your shell's prompt with git-prompt.sh(ithaca.arpinum.org)
2 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
And an epub for anyone with Nook or other epub-friendly device: https://github.com/ieure/sicp . Check the pull requests for a few updates as well.
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by telemachos 14y ago
One issue that will come up with any exporter: abook can handle multiple entries for each category, and (I think?) ppl can't yet. So, at the moment, I'm not sure there's a way to export without losing some information. Anyhow, I will defini
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by telemachos 14y ago
There's abook[1], but yours seems different in design. (Main difference at a glance: Yours doesn't work on captured interface. So in that sense, yours is more Unixy.) One nice thing about abook is that it integrates nicely with mutt (which
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Non-invasive printf debugging(ewontfix.com)
1 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
I'll second this. I switched from Jekyll to nanoc about a year and a half ago, and I'm very happy with it. I wrote a short piece about extending nanoc (to add categories) that people may find useful[1]. nanoc's own website has good introduc
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by telemachos 14y ago
The river metaphor probably made you think of Plato. The famous quote "You can never step into the same river twice" is attributed to Heraclitus[1], but it's Plato who (first) tells us that Heraclitus said it[2]. Plato's theory of forms (or
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Explorations in Unix(drbunsen.org)
239 points by telemachos 14y ago|33 comments
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Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman are RSpec’s new project leads(blog.davidchelimsky.net)
2 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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[PragProg] Black Friday/Cyber Monday 40% off Sale(pragprog.com)
4 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
So far as I know, the PragProg discount is still valid[1]. I think it's valid all day today. Load up your cart, and as you go through the purchasing process, there's a button to apply coupons. Click there, and enter the word TURKEY (not sur
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by telemachos 14y ago
In addition to the "50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice" article that Zed links, Language Log[1] is a great source if you want to learn more about the problems with prescriptivism and Strunk and White in particular. Geoffrey Pullum is one of
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Can you have a comma before because?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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An Algorithm to Reliably Identify Nested Substrings(blog.jerodsanto.net)
1 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
Apparenly Ryan Dahl considered Lua, but he rejected it because "Lua is less ideal but a lovely language - I did not like that it already had a lot of libraries written with blocking code. No matter what I did, someone was going to load an e
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by telemachos 14y ago
Please look again at your original post. This whole business about "at one point in their life" simply isn't there. You didn't say those words. Just the opposite: in one of the later paragraphs, you talk about people "who lived and died in
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by telemachos 14y ago
Your original post sounded very different from what you're saying now, but I apologize if I misunderstood you. Your last two paragraphs talk about whole lives and what the world recognizes without in any way distinguishing between the examp
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by telemachos 14y ago
> Einstein was an assistant patent examiner. Wittgenstein was a gardener at a monastery and then a primary school teacher. I take your point, but Einstein and Wittgentsein are not good examples. You list jobs they held, but those jobs d
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LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
1 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
Worth a mention is that you can customize how Readline handles these sorts of shortcuts in your ~/.inputrc file. For example, I use forward and backward by word far more often than by character , so I do this: $if Bash #
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by telemachos 14y ago
If you want to teach someone a command line editor (that's an if, but at some point it will be useful - at the very least as a backup), then nano or pico (pico is often - maybe always - a symlink to nano) is a good idea. It would be unple

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