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by tyrmored 14y ago
You're right, it's not aimed at advanced or even intermediate users. To be honest I'm surprised (though flattered as I usually am) that it got onto HN. Hopefully it's useful to at least some people to clarify Vim's behaviour, since it may n
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by tyrmored 14y ago
> ... without requiring you to understand how vim works ... That's the kicker. If you don't actually learn how Vim works, you're missing out on most of its power. You don't need Janus, you need Vimcasts: http://vimcasts.org/
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by tyrmored 14y ago
Article author here. I generally recommend against Janus because I think there's much more value in learning Vim's core behaviour thoroughly, which is best done by starting with a relatively minimal or even empty .vimrc file [1] and no plug
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by tyrmored 14y ago
Yeah, it nailed all the Perl I tried, even rather niche stuff.
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by tyrmored 14y ago
I gave it this and it thought it was Vala: #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { return 0; } Haskell is a very weird guess for yours.
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by tyrmored 14y ago
Vim?
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by tyrmored 14y ago
Your college does not dictate your eventual status as a "square" or counterculture icon. Timothy Leary, whom Nixon described as the most dangerous man in America due to his immense countercultural influence, was a Harvard lecturer. Ted Kacz
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by tyrmored 14y ago
I don't hate Microsoft Word, but that's probably because I stopped thinking of it as an application for composing or editing text more than ten years ago. Instead I wrote in something like Notepad, and after having converted to the UNIX-lik
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by tyrmored 15y ago
This actually occurred to me as I was writing it; I tried to decide whether it was better to call it more accurately what it was, or refer to it as something with which people were more familiar and hence have a concept to which to relate i
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by tyrmored 15y ago
Op here. That part is mostly to use a familiar tool first and then talk people into trying Ack out. I don't use grep anymore for code work either.
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by tyrmored 15y ago
You can prepend a count to that too, to increment/decrement by a fixed amount. This gets scary useful when you use tpope's speeddating plugin.
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by tyrmored 16y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1883
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Thank you! I had no idea this existed.
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by tyrmored 16y ago
New PHP developer here. Just some perspective from an "industry" guy rather than a super-smart startup guy. I can clearly remember my first foray into Rails, and it'll be a while before I try it again unless I need it for a job. I just don'
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by tyrmored 16y ago
I can see this is sort of tongue-in-cheek, but I really have to agree. I find there's just no better way to do it. That said, for slightly esoteric techniques like Suckerfish menus, http://htmldog.com/ helps a lot.
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by tyrmored 16y ago
I bought Ferriss' book on a whim at an airport. I have no qualms in saying I think it's perhaps the worst waste of $20 in my life. The guy's a charlatan.
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Exactly. Good thing it's a plugin. I've always loved how the vim core stays so pared down into not-much-more than vi, which is 99% of the time all I need. I have difficulty understanding why a text editor needs to be anything but a text edi
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by tyrmored 16y ago
This is what I don't quite get; why make the distinction between "real speed" and "perceived speed"? Really, as far as the vast majority of your users are concerned, the speed of the page is from when they click you in a Google result to wh
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by tyrmored 16y ago
My point is more that I've known more than a couple of frontend developers who leap on nifty frontend profiling tools like these before they've even tried a couple of well-placed table indices, or asking the database developer or systems gu
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by tyrmored 16y ago
It is a little bit of a stretch. I'd guess that proper use of variable declaration, which JSLint enforces, could make more efficient use of memory. It also doesn't tolerate idiosyncrasies like missed semicolons which might amount to a touch
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by tyrmored 16y ago
I've found trying to make your websites faster is kind of a drug. They can just never be fast enough. You start with Google Page Speed, and before you know it you're profiling your CSS for slow rules in Safari ... For most database-driven a
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Ten bucks says they store the passwords in cleartext too.
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Hell, if you can get enough like-minded friends into it, just make up your own holiday.
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Among PHP developers, the idea that "PHP is already a templating language" became pretty much memetic. I use an older version of this engine in my work and never really bought into actively hating Smarty, although I stopped using it for m
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Does anyone else find it just a little bit chilling that the idea of a group of people educating themselves independently is seen by modern society as weird?
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Having used both in admittedly elementary contexts this is the #1 reason, easily
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by tyrmored 16y ago
I switched to Debian from Ubuntu (where I got my start in Linux) because I no longer felt like I needed the UI or install to hold my hand and wanted to be able to build up my own system from a minimal install. I chose Debian simply because
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by tyrmored 16y ago
That's a pretty curious and probably flawed metric to choose. Surely it would be better to find the actual "is no longer in a relationship" updates? Sample size sucks too. Of only 10,000 status updates, how many would actually include those
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Winner!
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by tyrmored 16y ago
Shreddix?

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