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by tokipin 19y ago
i use vi with Dvorak without any key remappings. it did take some getting used to at first when switching, but probably less getting used to than it took when i was first learning it on qwerty also, hjkl aren't used often. you don't usual
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by tokipin 19y ago
about the longest 'combos' you make are action-move combos, which is 2 keys, and both the actions and move keys do things by themselves. 'w' for example moves to the beginning of the next word. it's a common travel key. 'dd' deletes the
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by tokipin 19y ago
one of maddox's classic articles: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
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by tokipin 19y ago
here's arc in js http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/arclite/ Silverlight 2.0 with the DLR plus the in-development IronScheme might be good too http://www.codeplex.com/IronScheme
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by tokipin 19y ago
whenever this topic comes up i always think of the people who never finished college. bill gates, jobs, eminem, etc. i don't think people like that are very rare in the US it's not a big deal if you go to college or not. more important i
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by tokipin 19y ago
i heard second-hand about a theory/hypothesis saying that companies who focus on countering their competition perform poorly compared to those who focus on their market/potential market. it's pretty obvious i think. focusing solely on the
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by tokipin 19y ago
i think dataflow programming is a pretty good angle of attack
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by tokipin 19y ago
speaking of slickedit, it's a very good editor. it has all the source editing stuff you could want like intellisense and tagging and whatnot, along with emulation for a bunch of editors like VS, emacs, vim. if i didn't use so many of the
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by tokipin 19y ago
David Brin's Uplift novels
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by tokipin 19y ago
what's interesting to me is it's not even that difficult to get life-like, self-balancing, responsive motion, etc with basic things like feedback loops (eg segway.) i don't know what to blame most robots' relative rudimentaryness on except
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by tokipin 19y ago
lol. i'm with you curi. this article just wasn't ostensibly boneheaded enough in my case, my james bondian self-discipline, my exceptional always-in-flow-like concentration (nevermind when i'm actually in flow,) and my einsteinian think-i
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by tokipin 19y ago
them's fightin' words
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by tokipin 19y ago
the 'surface computer' is pretty cool http://www.news.com/1606-2-6186146.html it makes me wonder what sorts of things will be possible with a 'space computer'
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by tokipin 19y ago
that part you quoted was totally tongue-in-cheek
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by tokipin 19y ago
one of the commentors there mentioned how apple starts from the form and then works on the function. in others words, first think: "what do i want?" and then worry about "how do i do this?" to me that's obvious, but i realized most compa
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by tokipin 19y ago
vedic mathematics offers similar numeric tomfoolery
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by tokipin 19y ago
looks like the GCD algorithm
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by tokipin 19y ago
the source for HN is available in the Arc distro
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by tokipin 19y ago
he's not saying software engineering is a joke. he's saying the phrase "software engineering" is a joke in that programming is much more fluid than mechanics that doesn't stop people from trying to engineerize software development, for wor
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by tokipin 19y ago
i'll have a go at it. im really bored atm
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by tokipin 19y ago
allright. i came up with something but 1) it only works on windows and 2) you need an extra app. it's a really really good app though the app is AutoHotkey: http://www.autohotkey.com/ and the script is: #SingleInstance Force #E
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by tokipin 19y ago
oops. i thought i had done that some times. i'll see if i can come up with any useful mechanisms to compensate for lying
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by tokipin 19y ago
pg said that Mac lets him drag and drop code from vi to repl - and he was very happy about it you can do that on any OS with the GUI shell for Vim (with Vim running in Vi compatible mode if that matters) [edit]: actually it doesn't
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by tokipin 19y ago
why not mexico?
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by tokipin 19y ago
i'm not exactly sure what he's talking about, but there's 2 things Lua has here. one is that the language is functional, so you can replace, alter, or remove the dangerous functions. the other is that you can specify the variable 'environ
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by tokipin 19y ago
a timer might be nice for comparing algorithms and languages
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by tokipin 19y ago
Lua would be a nice and easy addition. in particular WoW uses it for its UI mods
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by tokipin 19y ago
when i was living in san jose in a... what those artsy-sounding things called... it was about $1000 a month. rent was $700, everything else like utilities added up to about $200. starbucks/jamba juice every day added up to $100 >.&#60
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by tokipin 19y ago
booooooooooooooooooooooooring to me the ugly flash ruins it, it would have been uber in SVG
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by tokipin 19y ago
i don't have any children of my own but i lived with my family while my younger brothers were growing up. none of us ever had to hit them. to me hitting a child is a dangerous shortcut to explaining things. if they recognize you care abo

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