xiaomai

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   by xiaomai 13y ago

   I'm tempted by emacs/evil as well, but everytime I try to make the switch I run into two problems: 1) intial emacs setup: it feels really tricky to just get basic editor sanity configured (auto-indent, syntax highlighting, etc.) 2
2. 122.▲
   by xiaomai 13y ago

   For linux people, this can be accomplished with: https://github.com/cmatheson/super-caps That said, I don't use this anymore because I found that I rarely release escape (er, caps lock) before moving on to the nex
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   by xiaomai 13y ago

   I'm a huge fan of the nix/guix projects (initially I was super excited to see a guix because I prefer scheme, but actually the Nix language is wonderful). I'm really surprised the Nix package manager doesn't have a bigg
4. 124.▲
   by xiaomai 13y ago

   Read the paper from the Nix people, it's fantastic: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf
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   by xiaomai 13y ago

   This was a really great explanation of glue records. It seems like those are often overlooked when learning about how DNS works.
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   by xiaomai 13y ago

   Many mechanical keyboards have a no number pad option. Two off the top of my head are: http://codekeyboards.com/ (currently sold out, so you would have to wait a bit), and the Happy Hacking Keyboard ( http://www.
7. 127.▲
   by xiaomai 13y ago

   have you seen plover? ( http://plover.stenoknight.com/ )
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   by xiaomai 13y ago

   I don't know think this is a fair assessment; wouldn't having users fall-back on the vesa driver be sufficient for what you are describing? The nv driver supports extensions like xv, so I've always found it was fine for my 2
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   by xiaomai 13y ago

   I'm a huge fan of this command-line password manager: http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/ It's just a simple wrapper around gpg and (optionally) git. Makes it real easy to sync passwords between m
10. 130.▲
    by xiaomai 13y ago

    This keyboard looks awesome. Another mechanical keyboard that is very interesting is this new split-design one: http://ergodox.org
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    Oh thanks! That's always nice to hear.
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    None of what you are saying about mplayer has been true for years. And it has never been necessary to download codec packs for mplayer2.
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    This doesn't directly address web apps, but is a much more substantial rebuttal of some of the original article's claims: http://www.excelsior-usa.com/blog/java/5plus-garbage-collect...
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    For anyone else looking to take a course like that, Coursera has a course on htdp right now: https://class.coursera.org/programdesign-001/class
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    > I'm more concerned about my usage of Gmail An awesome free-software webmail client is something that is sorely missing. sup or notmuch serve my needs well for a console e-mail client with good search/labels/conversation
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    This kind of post is counter-productive. If someone is starting to use more free software, it's very discouraging when people start getting nitpicky about stuff like binary blobs. Yes, a distro without that stuff is technically more
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    I hope we see a lot more of this soon. It's disappointing to see so many hackers using proprietary OSes/editors/etc. to build systems based on free software.
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    This is fantastic. I remember playing freeciv way back in 1998 (it was the best linux game at the time). This looks like it might solve my problem of finding interested people to play with.
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    The gnome3 ppa is still 3.6 for the most part unless you are also using -staging.
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    How to write simple, useful and composable javascript applications(killdream.github.io)

    2 points by xiaomai 13y ago|0 comments
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    by xiaomai 13y ago

    Jeremy Siek also has a good intro to the notation: http://siek.blogspot.com/2012/07/crash-course-on-notation-in...
22. 142.▲
    by xiaomai 14y ago

    april fools
23. 143.▲
    by xiaomai 14y ago

    I don't care for the desktop shell they're making, but the applications I have tried are really high-quality. The screen-capture program is really great and feature-full.
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    I've been super excited about Steve Yegge's Grok ever since I first read about it. I hope it's getting closer to some kind of (open source) release. http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    ctime is trivial to manipulate. For instance, 'touch -t 1111111111 foo'
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    This is quite similar to notmuch's vim plugin, if that makes you feel any better.
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    > For the first time in as long as I can remember, I know my next laptop and phone will not have a Apple logo on it.
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    I first started using GNOME when GNOME 1 came out. GNOME 1 and 2 weren't ever very satisfactory for me, so I spent a lot of time trying alternate window managers (mostly WindowMaker and openbox, but I also spent a considerable amount of ti
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    hit ^l in nautilus.
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    by xiaomai 14y ago

    Great writeup. Have you checked out mutt-kz[1]? It is a mutt fork with fairly seamless notmuch integration. [1] https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz