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by tsm 13y ago
It's nice to see terminal output at the same time as you're editing. Right now I'm working on a Rails app, so it'd be great to see RSpec failures while fixing my code--currently I either alt-tab between terminals or use a second monitor. Al
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by tsm 13y ago
I'm always fascinated when something like this appears on HN and it turns out to be a dozen lines of bash. I could easily imagine writing a hundred lines of a "better" language (Python, CL, Ruby...)to do the same thing. I guess it just spea
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by tsm 13y ago
I was just searching for such a thing yesterday. Did the patch go anywhere?
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by tsm 13y ago
I guess I should be thankful 98% of my programming life is in higher-level languages than C, but...am I the only one whose terrified of the magic numbers? In hex ? Can anyone provide context about what's so special about 0xfb20 and 0xfb4f?
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A Look at Flat Design and Why it's Significant(uxmag.com)
3 points by tsm 13y ago|0 comments
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by tsm 13y ago
Interestingly, in Spanish "mama" means "breast". The intimate word for mother is "mamá" (stress on the second syllable, not the first).
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by tsm 13y ago
http://sfbayarea.craigslist.org/sub/
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by tsm 13y ago
(1+ 'A)
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Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition(lispinsummerprojects.org)
100 points by tsm 13y ago|40 comments
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by tsm 13y ago
My favorite programming language is Common Lisp. My favorite text editor is vim. I have no cognitive dissonance about this. More to the point, the extensibility of an editor and the core editing functionality are orthogonal. As they say, "E
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by tsm 13y ago
Yes. They should be of minimally-viable quality. It needs to be stable enough and featureful enough to be useful. That's all.
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Ubuntu.com redesigned(ubuntu.com)
1 points by tsm 14y ago|0 comments
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by tsm 14y ago
Looks pretty nice! You have a classic chicken and egg problem...nobody will be active on it until other people are active on it. But with you in NY, me in Chicago, and presumably many HNers in SF it shouldn't be too hard to get a few first
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by tsm 14y ago
Is something like this what you were looking for? http://www.3dtris.de/
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by tsm 14y ago
Another fun (for some value of fun) variant is Hell Tetris[0] based on xkcd[1]. 0 - http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris 1 - http://xkcd.com/724/
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by tsm 14y ago
As good as it is to identify these, it's worth pointing out that another fallacy is the assumption that the point a fallacious argument is trying to prove is wrong because it has a fallacy. It's possible to be right but still commit a falla
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by tsm 14y ago
Yeah, a key feature of Greek and Roman education was focusing on winning the argument on both a logical and emotional front--they taught that if you didn't use both effectively you weren't really doing a good job.
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by tsm 14y ago
I've found Wikipedia's list[0] to be both more complete and more Ctrl-F -able, but this is certainly attractively laid out and has good descriptions. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
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by tsm 14y ago
>Are they actually visiting 10 or 20 websites a day manually? Some do. My brother, for example, has several dozen political or gun-related blogs that he reads religiously. He doesn't even keep a bookmark list--he just remembers all of
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by tsm 14y ago
I interned at an IBM acquiree this summer and that's how they taught me Rails. "tsm, you need to make a webapp that does X, Y, and Z in Rails." "Um...I've never written a webapp before, nor do I know anything about Rails." "We know. So. tsm
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by tsm 14y ago
Removed lines happen between existing lines, so using an underscore makes it look like that. Compare: 25 - def foo(): 26 baz() With: 25 _ def foo(): 26 baz() (Where there used to be a bar() call bef
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by tsm 14y ago
Where? It talks about "improv[ing] Hacker News" by commenting and voting on HNW ideas--those aren't very concrete. It later admits that the chances of any of this making it into HN proper are "not very high". Half of the About section featu
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by tsm 14y ago
I don't have an account there, but it's worth pointing out that alternative sites like https://lobste.rs do exist.
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by tsm 14y ago
>I use hnnotify, which works really well but relies on scraping. I'd love to see official functionality that works pretty much identically to hnnotify. If it's working "really well", why do you care about the fact that its implementatio
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by tsm 14y ago
This is all fantasy. PG runs this in his spare time off a single server. Every feature I saw on the list has viable workarounds. Yes, it'd be nice if they were supported out of the box. But I don't think the lack of native features is negat
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by tsm 14y ago
Having PG as a commenter, mod, and admin is a tremendous asset. HN also benefits from the close ties to YC in general--it'd be a bit tricky to tell all the YC folks that they need to post not on news.ycombinator.com but over at reddit.com/r
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by tsm 14y ago
Parens are a Lisp thing, not an FP thing. Languages like SML and Haskell (especially point-free Haskell) are very light on them.
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by tsm 14y ago
Better put: 3:2 is 15:10. 4:3 (my favorite) is 13.33:10
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by tsm 14y ago
At work we use Gerrit, and code has to be reviewed and approved before it gets into origin/master. It's not the prettiest, but it worked well for what we were doing. GitHub also has good reviewing facilities. If you don't have team members
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by tsm 14y ago
Maybe 3 needs to become 42. Maybe x needs to become price. Maybe miapelling needs to become misspelling. I pretty frequently have a one-character thing that needs to be replaced.

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