telemachos

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Your Move: The Maze of Free Will(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
I was lucky enough to hear Rostropovich play the 5th cello suite live once. I would rank his performance a lot better than "fairly well", but tastes vary. Another favorite performance of mine for those suites is Anner Bylsma[1]. He uses a m
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by telemachos 14y ago
> ꙮ I always use enum instead of #define for numeric constants. I'm new to C (and very much a self-taught amateur), but what's the advantage of this? (No snark - I just don't see it.) I have a file at hand with this: #define MAXLI
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by telemachos 14y ago
O'Reilly has a forthcoming book 21st Century C [1] by Ben Klements. I haven't read it yet, but it clearly aims to be a new look at C programming. [1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do
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by telemachos 14y ago
Over and above the interview, I'm very happy to see that K&R's C Programming Language will soon be released in ebook formats.
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by telemachos 14y ago
I can't speak about notmuch (haven't tried it), but maildir-utils/mu[1] compares well to mairix. In particular, I think it's under more active development currently. [1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
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by telemachos 14y ago
I second the suggestion of maildir-utils/mu[1]. Here's my setup for that, in case anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/45e318c68eb5a52e1646 . It's essentially a cronjob (LaunchAgent on OSX) that calls a shell script to update the
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by telemachos 14y ago
I noticed a few weeks ago that some of Github's recent blog photos were really big.[1][2][3][4][5] They range from just big to "Are you kidding me? I can watch this slow-loading in real time even with a good connection..." big. Given how mu
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Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt?(nytimes.com)
3 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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RVM 1.16(engineyard.com)
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by telemachos 14y ago
Re vim bindings, this tweet[1] by John Nunemaker makes it seem unlikely. (Not actually sure how serious he is, but it's a funny tweet - and I say that as a Vim user.) [1] http://twitter.com/jnunemaker/status/247800799625887744
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by telemachos 14y ago
For a longer list (though the explanations are briefer), see Zenspider's Ruby QuickRef[1]. It also includes a handy listing of predefined global constants[2] (and a lot more).[3] [1]: http://zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#pre-d
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by telemachos 14y ago
Somewhat random, but I'm the person who "packaged" Aristotle Pagaltzis's outstanding rename for Homebrew. I'm very glad to hear people other than me are using it too.
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What are block args?(blog.zenspider.com)
2 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
This isn't a direct solution for you since your material is already in HTML. But LeanPub[1] is one simple way to get ebooks. You write in Markdown, and they produce pdf, epub and mobi formats. [1]: https://leanpub.com
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Precedence parsing made simpler(blogs.perl.org)
20 points by telemachos 14y ago|1 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
I think the use of 'idiomatic' that daviddaviddavid had in mind is this one[1]: 1. a. Peculiar to or characteristic of a given language. b. Characterized by proficient use of idiomatic expressions: a foreigner who speaks idiomatic Engli
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by telemachos 14y ago
A side note to mikelward's answer for OSX users: by default Terminal.app starts all shells as login shells[1]. You can easily change this behavior, but it's the default and many people never even know it's set that way. This is different
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Github: Notifications & Stars(github.com)
257 points by telemachos 14y ago|84 comments
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On sharpening the saw(vimcasts.org)
3 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
See also http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=2062 (linked in the Use Vim article).
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The Battle Against Emoji(usevim.com)
2 points by telemachos 14y ago|1 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
See three14's post[1] in this thread. He gives the link - the story is still online: http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&... [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344785
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Noisily channeling Claude Shannon(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
2 points by telemachos 14y ago|0 comments
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by telemachos 14y ago
I don't think the parent means to compare Gladwell directly to Daisey. Daisey is just an example of how easy it is to spin tales if you don't care about truth. If I understand him, the parent is responding to this question of yours "Why isn
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by telemachos 14y ago
> Gladwell might be a compelling - albeit extremely formulaic - writer, but how does he fare as a journalist? In fairness, we probably shouldn't judge him as a journalist. He's a storyteller and a popularizer instead: someone who reads
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by telemachos 14y ago
> Jab at him all you want for the superficiality of the ideas he's trafficking in, or for being beholden to corporate sponsors. I'm not sticking up for what he writes. But what he writes isn't the key to his success. Gladwell could writ
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by telemachos 14y ago
I've posted and deleted this a few times, since I keep rethinking it. This is a Lua version, and I'm pretty new to Lua (it's good practice). No reverses needed; just numeric for loops. I'd rather keep n = 0 as a separate case since it doesn
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by telemachos 14y ago
Again, I didn't really think you were being judgmental. It's just that in Ruby, the for loop definitely doesn't have pride of place at all. You're may be right that most programmers learn languages where for is more common, but I wonder abo
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by telemachos 14y ago
> Are you using iterators like .each or .map, or are you using a normal, index-based for loop? I doubt you mean anything very judgmental by 'normal', but this still jumped out at me. In Ruby an index-based for loop is pretty unusual. Th

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