billturner | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: GitNews Web – Trending Repositories from GitHub, HackerNews and Reddit
Agreed. Would be nice to know if it's trending for a good or a bad reason. Links back to HN and Reddit would help with that.
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billturner | 7 years ago | on: How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints from University Libraries
Sounds similar to what happened just recently at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh's rare books collection: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2018/07/20/Two...
billturner | 7 years ago | on: Neovim 0.3 released
Can't answer about copy/paste an NeoVim, but I just switched from vim -> neovim this week, and do feel it's a bit snappier. I also switched from syntastic to ALE for syntax checking and that made a huge difference as well.
For copy/paste in the terminal and vim, I usually have vim in a tmux session, and that has a few helpers to work with system clipboards. Not perfect, but better than vanilla vim's copy/paste.
billturner | 8 years ago | on: Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived
One of the Pittsburgh papers just ran an excellent, in-depth article about something very similar, happening in one particular neighborhood of the city: https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/riding-od-road/
billturner | 8 years ago | on: India demonetisation fails to purge black money
There were a couple of interesting Planet Money podcast episodes on this from earlier this year:
* part 1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/10/527803742/episo... * part 2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/12/528181998/episo...
billturner | 10 years ago | on: Writing code doesn't mix well with oration
I was going to mention this same presentation, but you beat me to it. He does a wonderful job with the code, as well and keeping the material interesting, and he has a good sense of humor. I'm looking forward to the videos he's working on for Egghead.io.
billturner | 10 years ago | on: Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade
If they mean closed source, that list could include Google +, Google Reader, Google Wave, etc
billturner | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
Although it does seem to be very slow to respond, https://voat.co/ seemed to have stepped in as a replacement at the last big upheaval. They seem to constantly have troubles staying up though.
billturner | 11 years ago | on: SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs
I did not, and assumed it was the actual SE site. My bad.
billturner | 11 years ago | on: SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs
There's one in beta: http://vi.stackexchange.com/
billturner | 11 years ago | on: Capistrano's Borked
Well, it looks like capistrano itself is just fine, but someone took to adding spam on their Github wiki.
billturner | 11 years ago | on: Salted Password Hashing – Doing It Right
Page was timing out for me. Here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S76Yg0P...
billturner | 11 years ago | on: America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane
It's funny how just from the description - "toughest, ugliest" - I knew exactly what warplane it was. As a kid thirty years ago, I probably put together five different plastic models of the A-10 Warthog.
billturner | 11 years ago | on: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
Well, that's odd. They have the wrapped characters in Mac Chrome for me, but not in FF.
Another comment says change deployed but they're still off in Chrome on Mac (even with a forced/shift reload): http://imgur.com/IIaUiav
billturner | 11 years ago | on: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
I totally agree with chollida1. This is always the first tutorial I point people at.
Is it possible to add "overflow: scroll" to the code sample blocks' CSS? I get a few characters flow down to the next line which is a bit ugly. A couple of examples:
http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#code...
first code block here (with a wrapped "g"): http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#sec-...
billturner | 12 years ago | on: TextDrive shuts down
I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
billturner | 12 years ago | on: What's happened to TextDrive?
Yep, I did earlier today when another TextDrive customer alerted me.
billturner | 12 years ago | on: What's happened to TextDrive?
That's a horrible shame.
billturner | 12 years ago | on: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple
Your post looks good, but why do you link to your twitter post, which links back to a HN submission, which finally links to the post on your site? Can you not just point directly to it?
billturner | 12 years ago | on: SublimeGit: Full-featured Git integration for Sublime Text
I suggest this one: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter
It's quite nice, but I would turn off live updating, as that slowed things down a bit for me. Updating on save works perfectly fine.
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