Found a great list of reasons to prefer either emacs over vi, or vi over emacs. Note that recent releases of vim have added quite a few features (but of course, that begins to prove the whole point of emacs …), and it’s not nearly the primitive editor it was once; now it’s the primitive editor it is now. Emacs, of course, is not standing still: version 22 will soon be out.
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Found a great list of reasons to prefer either emacs over vi, or vi over emacs. Note that recent releases of vim have added quite a few features (but of course, that begins to prove the whole point of emacs …), and it’s not nearly the primitive editor it was once; now it’s the primitive editor it is now. Emacs, of course, is not standing still: version 22 will soon be out.
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The Image Quiz searches Google Images for pictures related to some keyword or keywords, then displays them to you; your job is to guess what keywords were used in the search. Strangely addicting, and loads of fun.
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The Image Quiz searches Google Images for pictures related to some keyword or keywords, then displays them to you; your job is to guess what keywords were used in the search. Strangely addicting, and loads of fun.
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Google offer a searchable database of products, services and so forth; I’ve submitted my books in a bid to see if they make any money. The books are:
G.K. Chesterton Alarms & Discursions & What’s Wrong with the World Christopher Morley Shandygaff Booth Tarkington Penrod (hardcover) & Penrod (softcover) We’ll see if they sell or not. It’d be kinda cool if they did.
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I just ran across Craig Finseth’s book The Craft of Text Editing. It’s a kind to implementing a text editor, given the knowledge current as of 1991 (which, sadly, hasn’t progressed a bit — the old text editors are in many cases far more advanced than the modern ones). An essential read if you’re looking to write an emacs-like editor.
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I just ran across Craig Finseth’s book The Craft of Text Editing. It’s a kind to implementing a text editor, given the knowledge current as of 1991 (which, sadly, hasn’t progressed a bit — the old text editors are in many cases far more advanced than the modern ones). An essential read if you’re looking to write an emacs-like editor.
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Many years ago I started to get into Scheme, an academic programming language which was supposed to become the official language of the GNU Project; it was this which drew me to it. After all, if the GNU Project would be using it everywhere, then it’d serve me well to learn it ASAP.
Scheme’s an interesting member of the Lisp family; code is represented as a list which may itself be manipulated.
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Many years ago I started to get into Scheme, an academic programming language which was supposed to become the official language of the GNU Project; it was this which drew me to it. After all, if the GNU Project would be using it everywhere, then it’d serve me well to learn it ASAP.
Scheme’s an interesting member of the Lisp family; code is represented as a list which may itself be manipulated.
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Well, for one, Zed Shaw will kill them if they don’t. But seriously, he brings up some very important points about the use and misuse of statistics in computer science circles.
I’ve used R, the statistical package to which he refers; it’s a nice piece of work, and very useful for my purpose at the time (which was determining the root cause of some performance problems on one of my hosts).
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Well, for one, Zed Shaw will kill them if they don’t. But seriously, he brings up some very important points about the use and misuse of statistics in computer science circles.
I’ve used R, the statistical package to which he refers; it’s a nice piece of work, and very useful for my purpose at the time (which was determining the root cause of some performance problems on one of my hosts).
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I just read an article about iAudio, a portable little audio player which — unlike the iPod — might be worth owning. It uses a real AA battery, not some expensive proprietary failure-prone one; it plays unencumbered audio formats like Ogg Vorbis; it has a little FM tuner. The iAudio might be the player for me.
4 February 2018: I did end up getting one, and I really liked it. There’s a newer version available, too.
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