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Remap to tab? Insanity!

I remap it to Caps Lock of course.
I only found Vim syntax highlighting annoyingly slow on TeX, LaTeX and Pandoc Markdown (which supports embedded TeX math formulas), so maybe the TeX syntax highlighter is the single source of slowness. (Also, there is a tex-slow section of the Vim manual, but I think there aren't sections like that for other languages...)

But moving to Emacs had many other benefits, so I'm definitely glad I did it. The LaTeX is just what made me look for other editors, being the one thing that really bothered me about Vim.

And about the remote VMs: as user jerf said, you only run one Emacs, on a local machine, and use Tramp [1] to edit remote files as if they were local. It's great!

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
Am I the only one who finds the broad permissions that are required by many Chrome extensions crazy from a security perspective? This one can:

- Access to your data on all websites
- Access data you copy and paste

Talk about a non-starter, even if I were to trust the developer. Chrome is all too happy to auto-update extensions by default. All it takes is one extension developer compromised to have a nice little copy/paste and bank-website logger that phones home. I could have trusted the developer. I could have reviewed the source code. I could do a number of things and still open up myself to risk for such things. I understand this particular extension needs said permissions, but there has to be a better way. Many extensions ask for permissions they have no need for. Looking at the install numbers, people are all to happy to hand them out. I imagine some of the trust comes via proxy of being on the Chrome store.
Enjoyed a lot watching teams live streaming their work on youtube. High value time spender.
This seems to boil down to "I don't understand things written in a language I don't understand" which is fine and all but haven't you ever been curious why so many people will assert it is worth the time to learn?

I think the second part kind of misses the point, as someone in vim has already implemented the feature you wanted, the way that you wanted. So you are basically turning on a parameter.

What is much more important to ask here is how would I implement that functionality [in whichever editor] from scratch, and can I even do that?
The NS Savannah was previously at Patriot's Point in Charleston SC, and I got to go through her. She hadn't been de-fueled so you couldn't go through the reactor spaces, but there was a window that you could look through and see it (Oooo! Atoms!)

The polarized windows are interesting -- you rotate the inner half until at 90° they are dim. But it never got dim enough where you could sleep during the day in a cabin.

It is a beautiful ship, and it's obvious from looking at it vs. a modern container ship why it wasn't a commercial success. But as a technology demonstrator, I think it was mostly successful.
It might be the next one after Evil. Evil is already here, neovim is coming.
Yea but at one point we need to figure out what to do with our lower-educated part of society. Not everyone can become a programmer. And once we kill all blue collar jobs and replace them by either robots or self-service, then what's left for humans to do?
This does not work for me on Windows 7 in Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.
Yep, as it essentially visits all links on a page to check their availability.

However, you can add rel="nofollow" to links you don't want to check. You can also exclude entire domains and specific links by right-clicking on the extension icon and clicking on 'options'.
You could always ask the engineering team if it was feasible (assuming you can do that without guilt tripping them).
Another common one is Capslock.
True. But shouldn't the robot be LESS expensive then?
- more efficient
- works 24/7
- requires no salary, is not unionized etc
There are a few flaws in the thinking here: One, that we can define a "healthy human" or that any humans can be found that are operating at full health. Two, that there is a single set of traits that defines a healthy human, or that it could be distilled via sampling and synthesizing data about many humans. Three, that any such indicators or traits they discover will not change over time.

There is undoubtedly the need for tremendous amounts of research into human physiology and health, but there's a very naive hubris that runs through all these grand analysis projects that promise to solve all human health woes. Our bodies are the most complex systems that we know of in the entire universe. The idea that we are anywhere close to understanding how they should optimally work is just completely daft.

Just look back at the promises made by the Human Genome Project in the early 90s. Yes, we've learned a lot since then, but mostly we've learned that the relationship between our bodies and our genes is far far more complicated than we imagined 25 years ago.
I follow the zeroth law.
To each his own. I'm very fluid with my esc key hitting. I find it to be a very satisfying motion.
Hey Cal!

I'm sorry to hear that you had a negative experience... The situation you describe is especially a concern to me. It is a risk to take since they might show excitement here-and-now, but fail to follow up later on (for whatever reasons).

How did you first start out though? Did you get the idea first and then pitch it to the city council or did they reach out first? I'd love to know more. :-)

And thanks for sharing your story, I'll definitely keep it in mind.
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Ah, right, I forgot what the common remap was, thought I'd get that wrong, thanks for the correction.
Check out Madison. Its a good concept that needs more backing.

http://opengovfoundation.org/
https://github.com/opengovfoundation/madison
Is Amazon stretched too far?
The last time I tried Emacs+Evil I found that when pressing Ctrl+[ there was a slight delay when moving back into command mode. I was constantly tripping up when typing furiously.

This alone was enough to move me back to Vim. Everything else about Emacs was awesome. I would love to go back if I could get over this one problem..
Who was the first victim?

The company who received the feature they were told that they would have?

Is it wrong to employ Machiavellian tactics in order to help LGBT groups further advance the rights of those oppressed?
I cannot recall the last time I wanted to move 16 lines - that would imply I stopped to count the lines. What I invariably want to do is "move down one paragraph" (C-down) or "move to that spot I can see on the screen" (1-6 lines, tap up/down; 6-30 lines, hold the down key for about a second until I'm within a line or two, then tap up/down a couple times; >30 lines and use pgup/pgdown to get closer). For anything further away than that, I'm going to use isearch to get closer.

Sometimes I want to make a complicated motion in the horizontal and vertical axes at the same time in a context which is not well-formatted source code and hence has no good paragraph/word landing points. For this I move my hand slightly further and grab the mouse. It always amuses me watching people try to do it "the right way" and then spend 30 seconds trying to work out what sequence of buttons will get them there, then spend another 30 seconds remembering what they wanted to do when they got there.

I'm not trying to minimise the number of logical keystrokes, I'm trying to minimise the time and distraction of navigation. A few simple operations combined with key repeat seems to work really well. Lots of people seem to neglect the power offered by key repeat.

I'd love to meet somebody who could navigate source code faster than me and learn how they do it. When I do, I'll probably change my approach. However, I've worked with a lot of different people who used a lot of different approaches (yes, including that one where you display the line offset from point and type the number of every jump) and in the past decade I have not found any of them to be faster than me - although I have found a few who were roughly the same speed.
> Command instead of Control for shortcuts

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're using one of the Mac OSX ports of emacs that tries to make emacs behave more like a Mac app. My advice is don't do that. Use emacsformacos.com [1]. It's plain ol' GNU emacs built for the Mac platform. I was so glad to find this and quickly gave up Aquamacs. I want my emacs to behave the same whether I'm on Mac or Linux (or Windows for that matter, but I'm doing less and less on Windows these days).

Let me know if I've misunderstood you!

[1] -- http://emacsformacosx.com/
M/S Romanca
Thanks for explaining. So why would your liability for the chicken be $25, the retail price? Why wouldn't it be what a chicken costs to you?
Contra? Shouldn't it be Contrl? (Original name is Contrλ)
The luxury mini cruiser Romanca is an large gulet-style ship intended for 16 guests in 8 cabins, but with the capability to free up another cabin for two more guests. With a large deck area and spacious cabins, it is an excellent choice for large groups. http://www.gulet.hr/gulets-for-charter/luxury-mini-cruiser-r...
This is an extension that does copy and paste. Your complaint may be valid, but not for this extension.
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Also, re: laziness, it's more nuanced than that. See this quote by SPJ, from a 2009 interview ( https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/simon-p... ):

> "Laziness has lots of advantages, including modularity. These days, the strict/lazy decision isn’t a straight either/or choice. For example, a lazy language has ways of stating ‘use call by value here’, and even if you were to say ‘oh, the language should be call by value strict’ – which is the opposite of lazy - you’d want ways to achieve laziness anyway.

> Any successor language to Haskell will have support for both strict and lazy functions. So the question then is: what’s the default, and how easy is it to get to these things?

> How do you mix them together? But on balance yes, I’m definitely very happy with using the lazy approach, as that’s what made Haskell what it is and kept it pure."

I'd say he is arguing that keeping laziness as the default was the right choice...
Yes, I was more thinking of the European Renaissance period, where many armies incorporated large mercenary contingents which some of them, like the Landsknechts, happily changing employers. Italian Condotierri were also notorious for this behaviour.

Though it should be said that employers were not necessarily more trustworthy, and could be prone to "forget" to pay the mercenaries they had hired once they had no more need for them.
When I use Vim or Emacs, forward/backward incremental search is the main cursor navigation. :)

So, to answer your question about what it's like: it's great!
How about weebly or startuply?
When I had a Mac, I would use Command as Meta (and caps as ctrl, which is a good idea no matter what OS/editor you're using).

(Unfortunately option is still needed for certain symbol, like /|\, in many keymaps, but that's the mac's fault , not emacs.)
Yeah, that's all done through a seperate EEPROM chip accessed over SMBUS, which is essentially the same as I2C. Raw SDRAM chips don't provide any way to query their specification; on embedded systems that use them, the settings are generally all hardcoded in the bootloader.
I only discovered ido about two years ago and, man, I can't imagine emacs without it now ... and I've been an emacs user for over 20 years! Only dabbled with helm a bit, there was one helm-enabled package that I really wanted to try.
xxx being between 50 - 200

You're probably better off with a lower number that would likely be outside of the dhcp pool. It's fairly standard to set aside the first 5-20 addresses for future network equipment.
This does not take into account real estate taxes.

For the house I'm about to buy, it says the mortgage would be 1730$. That would be extremely nice, except that I have 830$ of monthly taxes.

So it's actually no where near that.
I always have an access point and wire with me when I travel because of this, but Marriot and Hilton hotels I've visited in the last year did not have working wired Internet, despite having the port built into the desk.

A Marriot in Seattle gave me link but no address. I followed the ethernet cable behind the desk to a DSL style modem that connected to the hotel's phone system. I checked it out and essentially, instead of running Cat5 wire, they re-used the phone lines and were basically doing in-house DSL to each room. I called the front desk and was told that they had discontinued their wired internet.

Other Marriots and Hiltons I've tried since didn't even have the little device there, just a sad ethernet cable hanging down from the desk.

Thankfully, my current job provides a hotspot, so most of the time I just use that. The cost of the room and wifi don't bother, it's the fact that the speeds are horrible during non-peak times and non-existant during peak times.
One of the guys at my first job at General Dynamics in the 80's worked on the nuclear airplane. They all thought it was dumb idea at the time.
Do you know if any teams will be doing the same this year? Would love to watch.
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Hoarding illegal material is a crime (and not a thought crime.) We call it 'recel' in French. Not sure what is the legal term in English, 'fencing' is argotic, right?
Worst case scenario, what could happen if the nuclear reactor failed or was damaged in some way?

I see the benefits, but attaching them en-masse to various classes of warships seems like a recipe for disaster if war does actually break out.
For the love of Zeus use logarithmic graphs for the price!
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg60zczsg2012-01...
It does a lot more sense, doesn't it?
Why exactly does Cringley have such a hate on for IBM?
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> In some ways this is minor (Astronomy isn't likely to have an MP come out against contraception and the like, so it's less pernicious than some religions).

Presumably you mean "astrology" rather than "astronomy"?
My wife is an ex-IBM and the cut-to-get-growth story rings true.

But it overlooks a core problem that IBM faces. The cloud is a competitive platform for problems that previously required mainframes. They successfully defended (kinda) against Oracle/Sun in areas like running large banks and stock exchanges.

What happens to IBM when you can solve hard real-time transaction problems on 1000 loosely-coupled distributed computers instead of 1 large mainframe (made up of a 1000 processors with shared state)? That day is either here or close.

My take is that they can't ignore the cloud but they can't win it either. Tough place to be.
True re: page hits. That said, I think Peter does a good job qualifying the traffic he got, and pointing out the caveats: that it can fade over time (and he's not afraid to post his "shark fin" graphs); that it shouldn't be interpreted as a false positive; that PH's userbase might be very different from your target market.

And even if you do think PH is your target market, you can learn something useful from a shark fin. You're getting feedback from an abnormally insightful group of people, which is both good and bad. Bad, because the feedback isn't necessarily market-generalizable. Good, because the depth you'll get is better than what you'd get from a test group plucked at random from the general population.

In any event, getting featured on PH shouldn't be the beginning and end of one's marketing plan. And Peter is pretty careful to point that out.

I'd imagine that conversion looks better for products whose intended target falls more in line with the PH crowd. (See Ryan's comment re: 40%. My guess is that products on that end of the spectrum were right in the wheelhouse for this community.) So the operative lesson here is to understand the PH userbase, and to put that userbase into context within one's broader marketing strategy.
When your pager sounds at three in the morning with a problem that needs fixed Right Now, you start to realize what all the benefits of having your complete bag of tools on the server you're working on are. At the very least, you now have an interactive grep/sed/regex tool that you can use to strip out all the irrelevant info from the log file you're poring over. You can now jump between files with ease because of multiple buffers. You have interactive diffing. Your output of logfiles is now color coded. In short, you have all those tools on the box, with it managing all of the context, etc, for you, so you can more easily fix the problem, and get your butt back to bed.
it seems common among ex-employees.
Craftsmen and tools. It is an age old story, you grow to trust and understand a tool. Programmers and text editors are an extreme example, because programmers often spend 30+ hours a week using a single too, their editor.

Vim and Emacs have survived because they are "fit for a purpose"... they are really good at editing text! Emacs has a niche in expandability. You can always twist Emacs to do your bidding... and it has a culture of tinkers. Vim has much more of a culture of users, people who want to edit text rather that toy with their editor.

These editors have roots in the 70s and are still kicking -- that isn't some random accident, that is because the fundamental act of editing text hasn't change too much.
You are absolutely correct. My critique wasn't directed at this extension, but Chrome in general. In this instance, I'd love to see:

- Access to your data on all websites (when directly activated)
- Access data you copy and paste (when directly activated)

It is my understanding that Chrome does not have this level of granularity in permissions currently.
It probably makes even more sense in the right comment thread...
FWIW He wasn't really in the bush. He was in a suburb of Madison called Middletown where there are corn fields on the outskirts of residential neighborhoods and the weather was fairly mild last weekend. Low humidity and 80ish F.
Not only can they not make a profit on running cloud services, they can't make a profit selling hardware to the people who do, either. Something..something..selling the division to Lenovo...
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If you want to see results of state of the art commercial systems see NIST'a recent FRVT 2013's test results:

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2013.cfm
Oh, I see. It's "hard" because it doesn't give me enough colors to choose from.
ibm do distributed computing, their selling point will be that the firms computers will be on location, rather than away in a warehouse in another state.
The fact that Tredinnick is on the Health and Science committees is is proof that the illusion of government is just one big epic troll by our lizard overlords. Oh how they chortle.
Bootstrapping the reeducation of enough people to effectively get them intensive-gardening in that kind of a situation would be a massive challenge, but if enough people did the feed-your-neighbors preparedness approach we might have enough time to get it done. If we were looking at a long-term scenario I think I'd want to have at least a year of grace period to get people rolling. Thinking back to all the mistakes I made starting my own farm, if my life had been depending on success I'd most likely be dead, or would have survived solely by eating my sheep...

Cuba is an interesting example of a place that had to rapidly adopt a low-power lifestyle, and they actually seem to have done it with grace. There might be a good case there to study for clues about what works. They have the advantage of not having to contend with long, cold winters though, which is a critical difference for most of North America.
I agree, but it did kick off another "vim vs emacs" which is always fun :)
We also don't have police helicopters here in Madison at least to the best of my knowledge
This looks like a good explanation of what you are talking about: http://www.kittiwake.com/refinery_process
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I don't, it's just the name I use on the readme. The library is published as the `contra` global.
It depends, but if you do Haskell, with syntastic and ghcmod-vim, you get most of what I care about in an IDE, namely getting warning of errors before trying to run my program.

The Vim plugin for Visual Studio is very good, in my memory. Note that Kate has also a pretty good Vim mode. There is also a decent free Vim plugin for Eclipse [1].

1: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/
I don't believe these people should be marginalised to menial or tedious jobs with little appreciation and a pittance as pay. Essentially to render them invisible to the larger operation of society. This might be hopelessly naïve on my part, but I believe they can be just as productive in a different capacity.

Trade schools and apprenticeships can greatly reduce the burden society must endure in order to level the field for non-skilled labour. I don't believe white and blue colour jobs need such a strong line dividing them and so I'm sure new avenues for selling services or exchanging things of value and different definitions of what we value will emerge.

Of course, this is now getting into an area outside the scope of - and much complicated than - a robot parking system ;-)
Fast proper fuzzy-find completion on files, buffers and tags that works across multiple platforms and even on files not in source control. In Vim I have it bound to <leader>f, <leader>b, <leader>t -- on my multiple trips over to Emacs land -- I have tried lots of ways to get the equivalent working and always come up short.
Do one thing well. My text editor shouldn't be managing child processes or SSHing or trying to be a visual Git interface, and Vim does a great job displaying my code so I can understand it.
I live in Australia, but I've also driven in the UK and parts of Europe. Any roundabout I've used has worked in the same way -- as you approach the roundabout, you must give way to vehicles already on the roundabout.

Relevant to the circular road with T-intersection analogy, I'm reading the Wikipedia page[0] on T-intersections and I must admit the concept that "vehicles on the right always have the right-of-way" makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. But I suppose that weird rule would screw up the circular road metaphor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-way_junction#Right-of-wa...
"Unless, of course, MI5 actually have an obscene number of people on their books - perhaps as many as fifty thousand agents, which, if that is the case, means our 'democracy' is completely fucked."

I am not sure what law or internet forum rule it is that says any sufficiently developed parody of being a kook is indistinguishable from being a real, honest to goodness kook... but browsing around this site I am quickly reminded of that adage.
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It's strange how a piece of code any dev could, and likely would, have written in 1992 can now reach the HN front page.

Isn't it odd that this kind of minimalism is now considered novel?

(Not that I'm bashing the author. Doing this stuff was fun in the 90s and it's still fun now)
Poe's Law is what you're looking for, I believe.
Totally agreed.

I don't know why I didn't make more of the conversion rate. I might have to edit the post and add some slightly more insightful data to this.
That makes no sense-a nuclear powered carrier that doesn't require underway replenishment, would be much more capable if its escorts also didn't require conventional oil fueling.

If the US had continued to build nuclear powered surface ships through the end of the cold war, then it probably wouldn't be so expensive-economies of scale, plus you'd still have the infrastructure and training pipeline there.
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