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I started with purcell's config as well. I did two separate attempts at getting started from scratch, and it was just too much. Using purcell's config made me somewhat productive in a week.

Now I'm starting to do my own changes to his config, but there's still a lot of stuff I'm afraid to touch. I'm thinking of declaring ".emacs bankruptcy" soon, or maybe start from something more minimal like the Starter Kit linked in the article (I wish I knew about it before starting with purcell's)

Biggest thing I miss when I moved from Vim was tmux. Window management in Emacs is a nightmare, and the shells suck as well.
not too sure if I understood, it's been a while since I used sublime text. meta-x is probably the most literal analog of the command pallet, but you might be asking about packages, in which case using meta-x to bring up the 'command input' and typing package-list-packages might be what you are looking for.
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I understand how most court decisions are made, e.g. those involving legality (or morality) of some action. E.g. it's clear to me why a court could find it legal/illegal that the CIA had a jail in Poland.

In this case, however, the court is deciding on facts. I guess what happened here, as vidarh's comment implies, is that the court had some indirect evidence presented, and based on that evidence, ruled that it is more likely than not that the CIA had a jail in Poland (and is concealing the real, definite evidence).
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The DOS games I've seen are DOSBox wrappers.

I wonder if they've made the games work (if they didn't already) by hacking DOSBox, rather than the game.
I am no longer a Fog Creek employee (I left to join an education startup a bit ago), so this is not an official opinion, but anyway:

Joel wants Trello to grow a lot faster than Fog Creek could bootstrap it. In my personal opinion, a big reason why Copilot and Kiln never quite made it was that we didn't have the developer resources to dominate the market when we were in a good position to do so. Because we insisted on bootstrapping, we necessarily had very small teams, meaning that competitors, who were willing to go into debt to have larger teams, were able to come from behind and surpass us in both marketing and features. In other words, while both products are successful and profitable, they likely could've been a lot more successful and profitable if Fog Creek had thrown a lot more resources onto them back at the beginning.

What you're seeing with Trello is an attempt to avoid that happening again. Trello is currently in a strong leadership position; taking VC now to secure that will pay for itself later. While Trello could likely be profitable very quickly if Fog Creek wanted it to be, doing so would require a very small team bootstrapping itself again, meaning that Fog Creek could repeat the same mistake a third time. And that's why you're seeing this.
Really? How young are you talking about? I graduated about a year ago and almost everyone I knew who was really interested in writing software read at least some of his stuff from joelonsoftware...
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For the section that isn't actual body copy and isn't for reading as one article?

That's not a good example of where multi-column works "nicely".
maybe smex? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Smex
+1. Still can't figure out how to manage data in Angular
Kudos to Trello team! I use it everyday to track my personal work. I used it on web and on mobile apps.
Interesting concept. I think this would be great for travellers so they don't have to ask for directions from locals who might otherwise misguide them.
For example: http://learningindia.in/how-to-never-get-lost-in-india/
http://indiaopines.com/perils-directions-india/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ&list=UUeUXM6fLbf...
I don't think it's the technical accomplishment that's significant - more the fact that producers are increasingly recognising Linux as an emerging gaming platform.
Not at all! Stuff like this just makes it easier for the Gosu group at Guidewire to advocate for more open source resources, so thank you!
That's Linux.
I would love to check out the Punch Ball version. The original Mario Bros. game was very fun to me. It was so simple looking yet the gameplay was great and I found myself challenging friends all the time.

I'm also a fan of the Donkey Kong games where you have to jump across platforms and use trampolines, I have to find a way to check these out!
I started with nothing. I believe that just like every Jedi must build their own light sabre, every Emacs user should build their own dot-emacs. Conversely, thus spake the great French philosopher: "hell is other people's .emacs"

Emacs is a stern taskmaster, but she repays the investment in multitudes.

Glory be to the thermonuclear text editor.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=thermonuclear%20text%20editor
You don't need to simulate the entire universe in order to accurately simulate a causal chain - just the visible universe. Which is a lot smaller.

Hell, you could just simulate an individual and what they observe. For all I know, I'm talking to the AI in which I, and solely I, reside right now. Woo, simulation-solipsism.
You ever heard of the "Hague Invasion Act"?

"U.S. President George Bush today signed into law the American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, which is intended to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a U.S.-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague. This provision, dubbed the "Hague invasion clause," has caused a strong reaction from U.S. allies around the world, particularly in the Netherlands.

In addition, the law provides for the withdrawal of U.S. military assistance from countries ratifying the ICC treaty, and restricts U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping unless the United States obtains immunity from prosecution."

http://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-bec...
Feels to me that mobile devices are so different than desktops in terms of interactivity, that everyone has to just step back and re-design. And it's kind of permission for everyone to re-design. Once it's all done if they didn't go responsive they end up with the "old" desktop site nobody wants to touch and the "new" mobile site with all that design work.
I don't really understand the need to create a women only workshop. Why is there such a need for this?
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The design is clean, but I dislike the layout for big screens.
But I have to admit that it is easier to read with the main column width being smaller.
It was originally called "GScript" but that was too generic so the lead eventually came up with "Gosu" which let us keep our ".gs" extension.
Say they manage to sustain these channels over distance, and figure out the pulse timing to be usable for a relatively sustained link...

What happens on a snowy day? (or other weather types with lots of interference... hazy/dusty days, etc).

What effect would a stiff wind have on this?

What effect would it have on a person walking through the plasma creation beam?
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So what you posted here...this is what I want to see in the OP's otherwise well-intentioned guide. I can say "yes" to a lot of those things, and "maybe" to the others...Don't get me wrong, I love learning new things, especially languages...but in this case, we're talking about a tool that is critical for me to learning other things...when writing an evangelism guide, the saying, "show don't tell", is even more urgent.

That said, I'm going to hold off of emacs at the moment. My goal has still been to learn vim :)
> does the motor run all the time, or in intervalls?

It runs all the time. I built one of these using a kit from Sensebrige. The results were not as good as I had hoped.
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Yeah, I and several people I know are regular Trello users and none of use it for Kanban. For us it's just a simple pipelined workflow tracking tool: todo, doing, paused, done

Some people use it for completely non-tech things, a couple I know use it to track their sales pipeline.

It's pretty amazing that there really wasn't something quite as simple made before it, it seems so obvious in retrospect. The implementation is spot on.
> So all things considered, what value does Emacs bring me?

The value in emacs is all the language specific modes and utilities that will allow you to turn emacs into a customizable IDE where you can run your builds, tests and debuggers from inside the editor.

There are "proper" IDEs out there but all of them are more or less language specific. Emacs is a general purpose text editor and can be used with any language, and customized to the tools and conventions around that language.

I use so many tools and languages that having a single language IDE (or many of them) is not an option. And I don't want to go back to running a simple text editor and running my builds on the command line separately.

I've been a Vim user for quite a long time but I'm slowly making the transition to emacs and evil-mode (I recently started doing some symbolic math Scheme code in emacs). Vim is a great editor but tool integration is the weak spot. Especially debuggers don't really play nice with Vim.
We use a bit of a dated version of Gosu where I work (something I never thought I'd get to claim on HN...), but I believe that curly braces are perfectly fine to use, and actually required if you have a multi-statement block (essentially starting to look like anonymous functions in Javascript).
I like trello and use it for personal stuff occasionally, but the work I do just can't be hosted somewhere else. Legally. So I hate web apps and cloud this, cloud that, mostly because they are no good to me.

The type of work I do would change before the need for controlled local hosting will--in other words it might be that mine line of work will become obsolete or transform so dramatically that the requirement of controlled local hosting is moot. That would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath.
I have done it once, but I still gave like 6 days notice.

Here is my opinion. You said government agency, so first, if there is anything sensitive about your work I wouldn't do it this way no matter what, give them 2 weeks (some require a bit more). It could affect how you are reviewed in the future if you ever want to get back into that type of work and could also subject you to heightened scrutiny now (the kind you don't want).

Second no matter which you choose. Even if you hate your boss, be honest and up front. Say something like look, this isn't working, I am stressed beyond belief, I know I am not giving you what you deserve now and I need to move on immediately to start over. 2 things can happen, the person may have some compassion and say cool, I get it, I don't like it, but I get it and good luck. Or they could say get the hell out and don't come back. Either way, you get what you want. The third is they might try to convince you to stay, which makes it a little tougher, but just stick to your guns and be honest. Frankly, in this situation you feeling anxious about it works in your favor as they will see it as genuine versus you being a prick, and it won't affect you later so no worries.

No matter what, don't make it personal about the supervisor or the company, environment etc. Just stick to the fact you need to pull the cord before you burnout and become useless (or whatever is your case).

Last point. I have a number of developers who work for my company and I don't generally care how they left their last employer, all I want to know is can you do the job and if you are treated well will you work out. And that is up to me to decide, not an action you took prior (unless I somehow see a pattern).
>> Oh wonderful! So if I (as a customer or as a service) make a mistake I'm completely hosed. And since the service isn't insured (yay no regulation), a mistake on one customer's account can harm everyone else.

There is no reason why the payment processor can't implement some security in case of errors. What is more, with credit cards you are handing out your details every time you do a purchase. Have you ever heard of stolen credit card data? When you transfer BTC your don't need to send all your private details that would permit an unwanted second purchase.

>>Fiat -> BTC -> Fiat adds an unnecessary link to the Fiat -> Fiat transfer. How could this possibly be more efficient?

In a BTC economy there is no need to do the conversion.
Sorry, bad morning, but you do realize that you just did exactly what you scolded me for doing, right?
Look into dynamic equity models. eg. Grunt Funds (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-18/grunt-funds-... )
There was a trend for a while of people posting images to imgur that had a totally different thumbnail. A rickroll of sorts.
I'm sorry... My only thought is "yet another JVM language that I won't ever get to use". Because if I have a project that is new, I'm using Ruby until I need a clojure/go back-end or something. If I have an old project in java, I doubt I'll adopt a new language. Hell it's already hard enough to get people to use Scala, and it has tons of benefits over vanilla Java.

Clojure, Scala, Klotlin, Groovy, JRuby, and now Gosu... I don't know... I'd love to at least see these sites compare themselves to other languages. Like why Gosu vs Klotlin when Klotlin was already worked on by JetBrains and afaik used for the development of their IDEs...
>more<esc>bimuch <esc>

Don't you mean "bcw"? ;)
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What annoys a lot of central European countries (ex eastern block countries) is the fact that their enthusiasm for the US is greeted with complete indifference.

Czechs, Poles and others still need an US visa, despite the fact that they are fully fledged EU members and part of the Schengen treaty.

So the general attitude is no more quite as gung-ho as it was in the beginning of the millenium.
I entered this industry in February 2012, but his essays have still had a major impact on me as a developer. Part of the credit for this goes to Jeff Atwood, who has retained a lot more visibility than Joel, for frequently linking back to early internet writing.
Yep, you're right, bad morning, I know better. At least my other account is now dead - just takes one thread!
Interesting to note that ctrl+shift+f, which on the desktop version is a shortcut to jump to the search area context, works in the mobile version but doesn't let you type (for some reason).
You completely forgot the many GPU issues that still exist.
BTC is property, not currency. US has a minimum wage law. Won't work.
I don't know that I'd compare it to Scala at all, I feel like they have very different capabilities, each of which have their pros and cons.

Whether it's uglier... I guess I haven't written enough Scala to know, but my Scala is pretty ugly :(.
I'm there with you on this as another romanian&american person. This seems to all have started showing more with the air defense strategy in the region pushed by US some time ago but i am sure this goes back even more than that.
At the same time these deals do sound like they are a bit one sided, in favor of US.
I associate the word "Gosu" with the Korean/International StarCraft scene, where the word describes a very skilled player. I wonder the project lead was also thinking of that.
> > you likely can't Google it

> "!g OSX airport command" works fine

Of course. The parent was referring to a situation when someone lacks internet access, due to a networking problem they are trying to fix, rendering them unable to use Google to find the command.
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Really? It's wrong? By what measure? It's certainly not illegal to manipulate online polls. In fact, I personally find it quite amusing to do so, in certain cases.

Do you agree?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
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Not everything works 100%.

For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet

the color legend for the map works in desktop, does not in mobile.
I love Trello. We use it as our editorial workflow board at Mashable (meaning it is where stories live from assignment (or sometimes conception) to the various editing/publishing phases. We use it to visually see what is publishing next, to see embargos or scheduled posts for different areas and more importantly, to see what everyone else is working on.

To me, that's the hallmark of a good tool: when it can be used in an industry it really wasn't designed for (publishing workflow) as if it was built for that purpose.

Props to Joel and to Trello!
under adverse space weather conditions, launch personnel may delay a launch, and satellite operators may postpone certain operations (e.g., thruster firings). For the spacecraft industry, however, the primary approach to mitigating the effects of space weather is to design satellites to operate under extreme environmental conditions to the maximum extent possible within cost and resource constraints.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12507
It had low performance, but once I figured out that the keybindings were all empty and you had to restore them to default everything kinda worked ok. Low FPS, but playable on my Nvidia GTX760M laptop.
Here's the report: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12507 (it was funded by NASA)
Yeah, no endlessly expanding line lengths, no tiny type. This should have been changed ages ago. (The only thing I dislike is the complicated process for switching to another language.)
I interned at Areva T&D in 2006 (now Alstom Grid). While I was not working on that specific project, I remember they had a very powerful EMS (Energy Management System), which let them simulate incidents (e.g. "what happens if these power lines are destroyed").

Doing a quick search, this seems to be called a "dispatcher training simulator": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatcher_training_simulator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_management_system

http://www.alstom.com/Global/Grid/Resources/Documents/Automa...

http://www.alstom.com/Global/Grid/Resources/Documents/Automa...
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A great reference with some pragmatic advice.

I've heard that one of the main benefits to emacs is that it can be used to tool itself to one's needs; curious to know if that's what others have found?
That is really a great news to see Trello taking off now on its own. I really like the tool overall and used it my self for my own purpose.

Unfortunately to use it in a larger company, it is a more difficult situation since there is no hosted in house solution. I know various team in a company that would be willing to pay the extra $$ to host a Trello set of servers in house to avoid sending data outside their network.

If Trello was to consider making such hosting a reality I am pretty sure it will spread really quickly like Wiki server are now becoming quite standard and hosted inside company's network.
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There is always a principal/agent problem in large companies. "What's in it for me?" differs from "What's in it for the company?" Much of management and leadership is related to overcoming this issue.
I hate whitespaces here.

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> I've been using Emacs as my day-to-day editor for coming up on 15 years now. There is a lot to be said for picking up a tool with that kind of longevity.

To amplify your comment: I'm going on 33 years, and one of the great things about emacs is how it has changed with the times.
Is it possible to have multiple helicopters work together to lift one object? If so, 10 of these could have done it :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26
Yeah, the JVM alternative language space is pretty crowded. Gosu does have a few advantages, though.

One big one is that it is in commercial use at many of the largest companies in the world thanks to its Guidewire heritage. That means that it is going to be continually developed and that its success isn't dependent on immediate uptake.

Another is that most other alternative JVM languages are either dynamic or more complicated than Java, whereas Gosu is still statically typed but is (arguably) simpler than Java in many ways.

But, yes, it's a crowded space and I can understand skepticism.
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Why Gosu over Groovy or Kotlin?
>> It'd love to see BC companies do well and then die off, so that we get reforms in banking

Do you realize that your beloved banks caused the GFC and many huge financial scandals like the Libor in Europe or the HSBC money laundering in USA?

There is no reason why banks cannot use BTC or any other cryptocurrency but the real issue here is who controls the money.
> There is no reason why the payment processor can't implement some security in case of errors.

Sure, and banks already do that. A lot of it, in fact.

My point wasn't that these things aren't possible with BTC. Rather, my point was that these problems don't go away just because you're not using a traditional currency. Which means the overhead associated with these problems doesn't go away, either.

It's just that BTC is really small right now, and so the cost + difficulty of addressing these problems at scale isn't yet apparent.

> with credit cards you are handing out your details every time you do a purchase.

(1) No one makes payroll with a credit card; (2) BTC transfers -- especially at scale -- aren't as fast as CC transfers without someone assuming some risk; (3) CC companies basically exist to assume that risk and mitigate; (4) if you're going to design a new payment processing technology appropriate for POS transactions, creating a new currency is absolutely not necessary.

> In a BTC economy

Well.
Ironically, their mobile webpages do, but not their app. Tables render quite nicely on their mobile pages, but on their app they extend off-screen uselessly with no option to scroll.

Check this out, then view the same page on the Wikipedia app for an example: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popu...
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The end of the post:

"If you are leading a project that creates huge amounts of data, instead of employing a bioinformatician in your own group, why not collaborate with an existing bioinformatics group and fund a post there?"

If that's your goal, perhaps using a less derisive and incendiary tone towards the straw man scientist in the post would've been good?
Subjective. I prefer the desktop version with the right-hand infoboxes with the text flowed round them. That way most of the summary information is "above the fold".

Also, on my Android Chrome the foldable subsections are folded by default, which screws up links to subsections.
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What's the state of AMD Radeon cards for gaming on Linux right now? I think I'll soon upgrade my desktop computer's graphics card, and I wonder if I'll have to restrict myself to Nvidia only. (Intel's not an option because of performance)
Indeed, when Alexios Comnenus needed to bribe his way into Byzantium, he didn't even bother trying the Varangians, figuring that it was pointless. And the Swiss were known for loyalty.
Fwiw, Czechs no longer do. Six ex-eastern-bloc countries were added to the visa-waiver program in 2008: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia.
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