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No, you don't need any special editor. In fact, I wouldn't recommend using one, as all the special editors are really just a crutch. It's much better to learn how to program the underlying LaTeX itself, rather than rely on some high-level tool to do it for you. (just my opinion here)

There are an absolute glut of LaTeX tutorials out there to get you started. Here's one:

http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/index.html

But there are many, many others. Some are particularly good for people in certain specialties. For instance, here's an excellent LaTeX resource for logicians:

http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/logicmatters/...
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Sometimes you need to learn from your mistakes, regroup, change strategy, and try again. It's a balance between avoiding failure and learning from it, but not fearing failure of something that is just beyond your reach. Otherwise, we risk making the bar so low that we're praising effortless success.
See the section "Format once, change the content a lot" in the article. (particularly important with resumes) If that's not true in your case, you're almost by definition using LaTeX incorrectly.
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All I see under my picture on the Dashboard is "Upcoming sessions - No upcoming sessions."

My tutor profile definitely exists, because I sent myself a message through the site.

Is there something messy with having a user account and a tutor account with the same email address?
When a buddy of mine was having an obsessive time of it and begged me to save him from himself, I edited the .hosts file to redirect from wikipedia, reddit, and similar sites.

It worked (but not as well as just dropping in on him at lunch, asking how things were going, and getting him to get his proverbial in gear)...
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I'd argue that this isn't really that dissimilar from most simple template engines. It's basically substituting class names for placeholder syntax, though with a bit less flexibility for things like repetitions or conditionals. Though I'd agree that I'd rather just use something like Mustache than this.
...what state are you in?
It's not as good as it gets for one simple reason. Mobile. Ms's policy when behind is embrace and extend. They are almost behind in browser share and are currently not in the running with win phone 7 (that could change rapidly as their offering is on a technical level in the running). In order to compete on mobile they will have to bring their browser upto webkit levels. They will do this as if they lose mobile they become irrelevant in the next 10 years. Mobile is the new desktop and desktop client + office is their bread and butter
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Hi I just tried signing up using my FB id, on the clickpass option of HN. After allowing the application to access my FB account, it threw an error "Facebook login failed". And yet I am here posting this message. What happened?

- Arvind
Nice work.

Check: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2225761

This offer is available to you as well. :-)

(BTW, silent1 mezzo's [DinnerPlanner.net] promos are already running on 3 of these sites. Also, I think you two should seriously consider a strategic alliance, at the minimum.)
"Suing people who are giving you money...spending millions on propaganda deeming sharing an illegal act."

How is someone who is pirating music giving the RIAA money? Isn't sharing copyrighted materials in fact an illegal act?

I've long thought that a lot of the RIAA hatred stems from pirates looking for a scapegoat to portray as the "real" bad guy so as to negate their own guilty feelings. It's easier to rip artists off if you feel like you're ripping off some evil, faceless corporation instead. It's silly that anyone was upset with the RIAA over suing people who were pirating their copyrighted materials. They were well within their rights to do so, and it's their job to protect the rights of the content owners they represent.

Unfortunately, opinions like this one are often drowned out. Many people have grown so accustomed to the free ride that they don't want it taken away, and they don't want to be reminded that they are in fact ripping artists off. The artists must always be kept out of the equation.
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Yeah, that applies to PCMCIA and Cardbus too.

A USB attack device could probably also emulate a hardware CD-ROM.

I wonder if they could emulate a crypto accelerator and actually use stock drivers with backdoored hardware?
I do something similar with wildcard forwarding, only instead of filtering those emails, I full out block an alias when I start getting spam there.

Though I must say that I've been surprised at how many (theoretically) legit places have leaked my email address. Like when aweber got hacked, I suddenly started getting spam on a whole bunch of aliases.

If my address gets leaked but I still want to continue getting email from a company, I update my email address with them to include the (then) current month and year (so companyMMYY@) and then I disable the old alias. So far, I haven't gotten any spam at any of these new MMYY aliases so it kinda feeds my suspicion that their mailing list must have been hacked.
It's neat... but there are probably two things I'd personally want in a recipe storage site that would make me switch from using a drafted e-mail in gmail.

1. A way to download all of my recipes for backup.

2. A simple way to convert between metric and imperial.
I've been running Synergy across 2 computers 3 monitors for a few years. Very cool how the author synced the background image. I should take the time to do that.
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How do you rationalize including logic in the markup?
Agreed, autojump seems far more principled too than the method described in OP.
"Format once, change the content a lot"

That assumes a number of things:

First, it assumes that at some point you'll settle on some perfect formatting for all time. That's really unlikely (especially for me).

Second, it assumes that the same resume format is appropriate for each prospective employer you'll be sending your resume to. There are many who feel you should tailor your resume to the employer you're sending it to. That could certainly include tailoring the format, depending on how different the jobs you're applying for are. A resume for a web design job might look very different from one for a programming job. And many people do both.

Third, it assumes your LaTeX skills will never improve and you'll never discover new styles or fonts or tricks you'll want to apply to your resume to make it better in the future. Things you didn't know at the time you first wrote it.

All these are potentially incorrect assumptions. There are some great reasons to keep tinkering with the formatting, even in LaTeX.

That said, I never implied in my original post that the reason that I spent a lot of time futzing with the formatting in LaTeX was because I was re-formatting stuff I'd already formatted to my satisfaction once. No. In fact, it took a long time to format it in the first place.

Yes, it's true that maybe this will save me time and grief in the long run (if I can let sleeping dogs lie, and not try to improve the formatting once I've settled on one I like), but maybe not.

Anyway, I'm not trying to convince anyone to ditch LaTeX and switch to Word. I love LaTeX. And I hate it. It's a love/hate thing. There are some really great things about it. It can make your documents look marvelous, and you can do some amazing things with it.

But it can also be very frustrating (especially if you want to do stuff that's non-standard, and varies too far from the defaults that the (often broken) document classes had in mind when they were written).
Very interesting... but kind of confusing.

The playback seemed to show the current version of the target pages, with my login... and the scrolling and cursor playback weren't aligned.

What sort of uses are you hoping to enable?
http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis is quite relevant to HN, don't overlook it.
I think if anything frequent use of HN would reflect poorly on one's productivity.
Fairly old news. I ported Mono to Android a few years ago and got Python and Ruby running that way.

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/02/monodalvik-interop.html
Praising kids for effort is a mistake. That leads to adults who excel in giving the impression of expending great effort without properly planning for success. Praise kids for what you want - achievement.
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I think he just wants to separate the presentation from the logic, which might be good when you don't trust designers re-jiggling things, and you want clean code. Plus, if you're working with a lot of AJAX, it's nice to be able to reproduce the presentation on the server the same way you do it on the client. I suppose keeping the two in sync can be difficult, which is why you probably would only want to render on the server on the initial page request.
I have a latex resume and I run into a few problems. Some companies/agencies only accept .doc formats. The latex2rtf or latex2txt is also error-prone. But, my resume looks awesome and it's easy to move things around/add things without any formatting. I haven't touched formatting in 5 years or so.
Oopsie, wrong link: http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/microsoft-dlr-and-mono-b...
Really, guys? -4 for mentioning one of my projects in a joke?
So basically you are for free speech except when you don't like it.

That's not free speech though.
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At least with the current native client, you ship architecture-specific binaries. So the existence of "some ARM support" doesn't help you browse a site that posted x86 object code.

They do have a version that's based on shipping LLVM bitcode instead, but that is not yet ready for prime time and it's not clear when it will be.

Here is a comment of mine from last time NaCl came up that explains this and other issues with it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057611
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The cold war was one of attrition and boiled down to two numbers 1.5 and 2.1. The soviets had access to 1.5 times the resources but used those resources at 2.1 times the rate of the West. (eg. if it took the US 1 tonne of steel to build a tank it took the soviets 2.1 tonnes.) Economists attribute the increase resource cost to the waste and inefficiencies inherent in a centrally planned economy. This is basically why for what a waste of money it was Star Wars was a success because it forced the Soviets into using resources they could not afford in order to keep pace with the west.

Hence, the USSR went bankrupt before we did.
They may have gone to a lot of effort, but I have to say it's not smart to put content on a page that doesn't work when javascript is off.
Thanks for your feedback.

>The playback seemed to show the current version of the target pages

The way recording and playback happens, only URL of visited pages is recorded, so you can understand the reason why it was showing latest pages.

> the scrolling and cursor playback weren't aligned

I think it should work. If you mean playback did not show it correctly, then I will look into it.

> What sort of uses are you hoping to enable?

I plan on letting users record their browsing session as a demo or educational purpose. I haven't finalized how to best use it. What would you use it for?
I use textexpander to keep from cd'ing everywhere... Just stick in a text expander snippet for directories I use a lot...

ie:
hwst - cd /usr/Brad/Desktop/Dropbox/Brad/howas.it/repos/howasit_alpha/
etc...
Can I get "2.2250738585072012e-308" as a custom license plate?
Schenck is an abomination of a case and clearly was decided on the side of fascism and repression of utterly harmless free speech.

The problem is that no one shouts fire in a crowded theatre, and anyone who did would rightly be indicted on a number of charges not pertaining to speech. The Schenck case had nothing whatsoever to do with theatres or people wrongly alerting theatre goers to a fire.

The metaphor was used by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who was an embarrassment to the country, to stop people from criticizing US involvement in WWI, claiming that criticism of US imperialism was identical to shouting fire, and was a clear and present danger, which is obvious bunk to everyone as it is not the same thing at all.

And here we are again. Someone is saying unpopular things and the reaction is to claim censorship is justified because there is a theatre that is not on fire somewhere.

Let me be very clear. There is no theatre. There is no fire. There is no one shouting fire in a theatre. And if there was someone shouting fire in a fireless theatre the result would be that the other patrons would tell the person yelling to shut up and sit down.

It is time to stop defending the abomination that is the Schenck decision and the lunatic that was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in Buck vs Bell, ruling that the government has a right to sterilize women against their will for the same reason the government has a right to vaccinate people against their will. The decision upheld Laughlin's Model Law, which was then used as a model document for the Law for Protection Against Genetically Defective Offspring, passed in 1933 in the German Republic, allowing forced sterilizations of those thought defective there as well.
Many people thought replacing email and IM with some grand collaborative technology would be spectacular too. A lot of articles were written about Wave, breathlessly reciting the history of email in their opening paragraphs as if it was already a given that Wave was a successor of equal magnitude.

I'm not convinced at this point in time that NaCl offers enough advantages over the rapid development of JavaScript or the power and speed of operating system APIs. Apps running in the browser was attempted in the 90s with Java, and NaCl been around for a few years now. This link is just announcing that it's supporting the Pepper plug-in interface in Chrome.
Wave was definitely overhyped. That's why so many sought beta invites and why so many were confused and disappointed when they finally got in.
I actually needed some help with pulling the right fonts into the client's browser. @octopus, do you know of any reading material/guide on this? DIH5 doesn't go deep enough in the subject.
I criticise Chrome because I don't think their approach is a sustainable one. As it happens, I have been on the wrong side of exactly that bug when it came to a client demo, and apparently what you regard as "not entirely broken" is different to what my paying clients regard as such.

As I told you in the other thread, I have nothing to do with Microsoft. Not everyone who disagrees with you, or indeed with the majority opinion in any given discussion, is a troll/sockpuppet/astroturfer. And this discussion is still on my HN home page right now, never mind when I posted my previous comment several hours ago.
Why not just

shopt -s cdable_vars
nm=`pwd`/blog
cd nm

No need for hacks when you know how to shell.
If you actually have a family crest, I'll let it pass.
If you make up a fake family crest (think Donald Trump here), it'll come across as douchébag pretentious. I'll probably pass it around to my friends and we'll have a good laugh. You won't get a call.
Anon got more than that. Anon got passwords that got reused. I would be shocked if they did not poke around the network more to see where those passwords would go, and (given that passwords were reused where they shouldn't have been) I would not be surprised if there were not some more interesting places that they got into.
Likewise. I started using it back in ~2008(I believe) and haven't looked back. I figured there was value in reposting this for those that aren't familiar with it and some of the recent changes.
Why is a home-rolled cd script interesting when there are many more mature, feature-rich cd-tools out there?

* http://www.skamphausen.de/cgi-bin/ska/CDargs

* http://micans.org/apparix/

* http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

* http://github.com/rupa/z

* http://github.com/flavio/jump

Also, the title is misleading. I thought it was actually a commandline tool that removed the need to cd most of the time, like lightning: http://tagaholic.me/2010/04/08/lightning-speed-for-your-shel...
You could possibly snapshot the page when the recording happens – if the page changes a lot – so the playback still makes sense.

I could scroll the displayed page, but the cursor still seemed to be moving about as if at the original viewport offset. At one point it seemed to snap back.

The interaction has potential... I almost grok the filmstrip of frames right-and-left... but not quite how cursor time-series interacts with the frames.

Yes, I'd agree a possible application would be recording web-driven presentations. With no install required, it could be better than existing 'screencasting' options. More tools to mark up a page with annotations/overlays could be helpful for that.

Watching users interact with sites, if normal clicks rather than intentional drag-opens can be enabled, might be interesting for remote usability studies.
There is a very nice LaTeX class than can be used to make beautiful resume's: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...

See sample resume's here: http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html
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I have 3 emails. A personal one, one I use for social networking, and a business one. The passwords to each are different and so far, I haven't had any spam problems or anyone emailing me who I didn't want. Maybe it's just me, but I think I have a good stagey.
1. How about we just learning to type fast(-er) and use file name completion

2. Use real shell like ksh, where history search actually works

3. cd $OLDPWD is occasionally helpful. Occasionally.

Kids...
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I should have looked at your comment before posting my own similar comment, but I wanted to add that the codebase sharing is almost a given. With Windows 8 being ported to ARM one can only assume it's to bring a very full implementation of Windows to the mobile market.
I used a latex class to format one of my papers. At the final date of submission I found out they except only .doc format. I am still looking desperately for a latex2doc converter. Anyone here knows about this?
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"I think the smartest guys are those who do not get much news coverage, make decent money silently without growing too big, and not being too small"

no spread news about the site, lots of money, small userbase --- is this even possible???
if yes, please give an example of a working site.
I use jobspice.com and call it a day.
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Phelps or Anonymous? :)
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Yes. Here's how to set a separate sudo password:

Assume your primary user account is called "user".

Set up a second account, whose password you want to be your sudo password. Let's call this account "admin".

In /etc/sudoers:

Defaults:user runas_default=admin
Defaults:user runaspw

Now, as "user", you can

sudo -u root whoami

and you will be asked for "admin"'s password.

The only downside is that "root" is no longer the default user to become, you have to explicitly specify it.
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Kelsey Camille Grammer
soon-to-be ex-wife of 'Frasier' star Kelsey Grammar, may have found fame on Beverly Hills Real Housewives, 'but the transition into the spotlight was anything but ideas.
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The last job I applied to, I sent a plain text resume and they were impressed. Since then I've just kept my LinkedIn profile up to date and get a PDF from that to send out (believe it or not, I need to send a resume to HR if I want to change departments within the company).
I don't think that many people use LaTeX on their resume as a way to look impressive just because they know LaTeX. I think that many people use it because they find that it easier to control the layout of their document than in something like MS Word or {Libre,Open}Office Writer. I spent a number of years with a MS Word resume filled with tables to space things out correctly. I used to dread needing to make changes to it because of how fragile the setup was. On the other hand, I find it relatively easy to make changes to my resume now that I have it in LaTeX.
I think you're misinterpreting the motivation for doing this.
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/09/29/video-glass-node/ This video from David Glass shows why this can be very powerful when code on the front end and the backend. It's pretty straight forward. Check for content. If not generate content. Attach behavior (skipped on the server). render out put (the branch between the server and the front end).

There is an example using express and all kinds of cool business.
Like most things in life, there's a middle-ground and a balance between the extremes that isn't easy to figure out. There's no easy answer for such things.
I don't create many documents in PDF or print form. When I do, I use my very basic LaTeX knowledge to create something that looks nice. Because word processors are useless and fiddly.

It's cynical and utterly baseless to deduce "pretentious" motives.
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I think most people who use LaTeX on their resume would do it because it makes it look better and is easier in some ways (that McGee mentioned), not because it is there to pad their resume.

McGee explicitly mentions that the reason he does it in LaTeX is not to get the "+12 points bonus". I think you're being presumptuous in accusing others of being pretentious for using LaTeX.
I am currently pulling my hair out just trying to get various activities to send stuff between each other. Doing this stuff in Javascript is so much easier with JSON and it's too bad there is no JSON equivalent for Java and the static typing doesn't help matters either so I can't wait until there is another option other than Java for writing applications.
That guy has nothing on Laserskater.

http://reallifesuperheroes.org/wiki/index.php?title=Laserska...
Microsoft is going to keep caring because the browser has become the most important application on a computer.

If Internet Explorer is garbage then sure the average user could go download a third party browser but they could also just jump ship to a non-Microsoft operating system or device.

The trend over the last couple of years is users just wanting something that works out of the box and if Microsoft wants to keep those users on Windows or other MS devices then IE is going to have to stay competitive.
"Soon your browser will be synonymous with your computer."

This prediction is going on 20 years old. :)
Sure, but in the vast majority of (if not all) events the Phelpers are kept far enough away that the people at the events don't even see them.
The reason to expend lots of effort on useless things is so that you're mentally conditioned to succeed when the important things come along.

Truly life-changing opportunities are fairly rare, and they usually pop up when you don't expect them. To capitalize on them, you have to be prepared. If you've been sitting around slacking off for the previous several years, you're probably not going to be in a position to pounce when the opportunity arises.
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