ludwig | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?
Where is the preorder page? :)
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ludwig | 12 years ago | on: Practical Tmux
I've been using tmux for a while now, and it's a great tool. I hardly open any new terminal windows now.
If anyone is interested in the settings I've accumulated over the months, here is my config file: https://github.com/ludwig/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf
ludwig | 12 years ago | on: A Universe Full of Planets
Use Chrome's incognito mode.
ludwig | 13 years ago | on: tmux 1.8 Released
For what it's worth, here is my carefully crafted ~/.tmux.conf file. I was used to screen, so I carried most of the keybindings along when I switched to tmux.
ludwig | 13 years ago | on: Who Can Name the Biggest Number?
Graham's number is big, sure. But in a similar duel[1] between two MIT professors, they settled on this number: “The smallest number bigger than any number that can be named by an expression in the language of first order set-theory with less than a googol (10^100) symbols.” Try and beat that! :)
ludwig | 14 years ago | on: The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
The second interpretation of that quote is that beginners can also see/find things that experts would miss. Not surprisingly, that quote is from Suzuki's book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"[1]. I view both interpretations as valid.
ludwig | 14 years ago | on: The Real Reason We'll Miss Steve Jobs
Not long enough! I can't speak for anyone else, but you've eloquently described the main reason why I found Steve Jobs so inspiring. If you've read The Talent Code, I am definitely reminded of the chapters on Ignition, where the author Daniel Coyle writes about the conditions under which people are inspired and motivated.
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you back up your projects online?
You could try Linus Torvald's method :)
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.dev.kernel/msg/76ae734d...
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Top Programming Fonts
Well, there's APL. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AplLanguage
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Startup Death Clock
This might explain it for you: http://www.quora.com/Is-37signals-a-lifestyle-company-Why
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: You’re not entitled to anything. Hustle for everything you’re worth
Wait, I'm confused. They quoted figures of 8000 boxes at $4 each, but on Fred Wilson's blog post the quote indicates it was 500 boxes at $40 each. Which one was it?
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: HackerTable.com, reservations at elusive restaurants (3-day project)
More like you can never get reservations there. They're constantly eluding you, if you will.
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Google’s history shows that people did not believe good idea to start with
Reminds me of the old adage which partly reads "...if your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: LaTeX coffee stains
Nice. I'm getting flashbacks of the time I managed to get a big coffee stain on one of the pages of my application to MIT. This was at the post office, minutes before the final deadline >.<
I simply wrote "sorry!" right by the stain, and mailed it off. I've no idea what influence this might've had, but it didn't seem to hurt since I got accepted anyway :)
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Generating code from natural language is closer than you think
You're thinking of a disk: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=draw+a+red+disk
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Stack Overflow just became a top-500 site.
Nice app! Any plans for an iPad version?
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
Neat. I was wondering when that patch would work itself into the main line. I had been running a locally compiled version for so long that I forgot to check back on it.
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Ask/Show HN: HNdex, lists to replace spreadsheets on HN
This reminds me... I need to start making landing pages for my projects :)
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Minecraft server built in Node.js
You linked to a fork of the original project http://github.com/nornagon/nodecraft
ludwig | 15 years ago | on: Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
I recently switched to tmux after years of having used screen, and it's great. It didn't take me that long to configure, which I did mostly by working my way through the man page.
For me, the two killer features that made me switch were the vertical splits (vanilla screen only does horizontal splits), and the distinction between windows and panes.
If it helps anyone else, here's my ~/.tmux.conf file[1], with keybindings that match closely to the screen setup I've grown so accustomed to.
[1] http://github.com/ludwig/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf
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