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guest2143 | 5 years ago | on: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)

The ability to travel thru time with :earlier & :later

(edit like a timelord!)

guest2143 | 5 years ago | on: C++ the Good Parts (2014)

I totally expected this to be a joke where the site was blank.

I haven't worked with C++ for years, and it's nice to see there really has been some progress improving some of the C++ parts.

guest2143 | 5 years ago | on: Using Enumerated Types in Python

Python 4... It's just going to be Haskell.

guest2143 | 5 years ago | on: Review: Lamy Safari (2008)

Lamy 2000 is so amazingly smooth. I really like having the piston fill, instead of cartridges and adapters. There's more ink, and it's more reliable with less fuss and mess.

guest2143 | 5 years ago | on: Reading habits that changed my life

The best tool to read with is a pencil.

guest2143 | 5 years ago | on: Habits of High-Functioning Teams

Anyone have an example of taking a low functioning team to a high functioning one? Building trust, changing culture.

It's one thing to just say "here's the ideal". And another to say if you're in a sub-optimal place, "just leave."

But how to change a poor habit place into a good habit place.

I don't think bad habits really go away, they get drowned out by the better habits. I think the same is true of teams. But, IMHE, improvement has been hard to come by.

I'd love to hear your stories.

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing

I'd like to see some approval test infrastructure here as well, q.v. https://approvaltests.com/

Being able to have a customer accept what the output looks like and then listening to when the page changes would be great for giving non-technical people control over passing tests.

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It

Have you considered vimwiki http://vimwiki.github.io/?

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Political Ads

Can't they just charge a lot more? Like $10million per ad?

It's a surcharge to avoid political ads, but hey Mr. Bloomberg, if you need to get attention... we will collect your money.

What would they do with this extra money? Fund open source foundations?

...wait... is $10Million too low? Is there that much money in politics?

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: Narcissistic CEOs weaken collaboration and integrity

The only defense social humans have is really to detect them. Watch for their inability to feel empathy.

Ask them to tell a joke. Do they do it right?

http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

my line in the sand is play. Does this creature play?

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: Emacs 26.3

using vim for go-to-definition, `gd` takes you to local definition, `gD` to global, q.v. :help gd

I find it often quicker than an IDE..

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: People Simply Empty Out (1986)

Reading this essay made me think of this book that I recently read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_Art

How much of the obstacles that we face are there just to 'resist' the shining light we each could bring into the world? Or the work we were meant to do?

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: How to parent more predictably (2018)

This book changed how I parent: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6162649-healing-stori...

The ability to modify behavior by singing a couplet from a story I read -- no raising of voices, or wagging of fingers -- was revelatory.

It's from the waldorf educational tradition.

guest2143 | 6 years ago | on: I Sell Onions on the Internet

I thought this was going to be a new version of the onion router.....

guest2143 | 7 years ago | on: What Even Is a Number?

I was surprised by no discussion of ordinality. Cardinality was something I also specifically expected.

Counts of things are described here, but the greeks went to great lengths with geometry to discover numbers (and even killed people who came up with irrational answers)

guest2143 | 7 years ago | on: Encryption efforts in Colorado challenge crime reporters, transparency

or provide journalists with decryption tools?

guest2143 | 7 years ago | on: Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get

Some country's firewalls distrupt https, which makes downloading things via https difficult.

guest2143 | 7 years ago | on: Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commissions will fail (2012)

Nothing came of it? The whole Virtual Office Website (VOW) thing got created.. before meetings NAR and RESO intone legalese about encouraging competition. There's a lot of fear that the FTC will step back in and do something. With the level of MLS balkanization, innovation has a bunch of high hurdles.

guest2143 | 7 years ago | on: How to design co-programs

Newton's "..standing on the shoulders of giants..." was a dig at Hook (who was short). It's Isaac being an arrogant jerk, which he was in spades. (Even if he revolutionized thinking in a number of areas.) It's not a statement of humbleness..