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bellbind··on AutoJS – JS library for textarea lookahead
Why can't I specify a remote dictionary of my own ? AKA: no i18n support, thank you. Why is the data mixed in with the code in the first place?
bellbind··on The Zuckerberg Files - All public utterances of Mark Zuckerberg
I had the same reaction: to me they were contradicting themselves in no more than two sentences. Then I read on and followed links: http://zuckerbergfiles.org/?page_id=41

So this is indeed a copyright issue. Like all copyright issues, bittorrent is the answer.

bellbind··on Learn Git Branching
Great stuff there, I actually learnt from what I thought was an interactive tutorial for beginners. The commands (like 'reset' to go back to the beginning of a level) are not that straightforward from the beginning though. Also I haven't found how to actually see your solution yet (not that I have really searched for it, but it would be nice to have a big button).
bellbind··on \d less efficient than [0-9]
If you use a preg engine you can add the /a modifier which excludes unicode chars from matches.
bellbind··on \d less efficient than [0-9]
It does. See http://ideone.com/Q1lf1M
bellbind··on Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy
Pirated content is free content: you can't really say that one person pirating your game equals one lost sale. Would have he bought it, if he was given no alternative choice to get it? When the price is null, there are low to no expectations as to how good the product should be, hence there's a lot more people using it. Someone gives you something that has value for free in the street, would you take it? There's a good chance the answer is yes, even if you do need it.
bellbind··on Docker - the Linux container runtime
We've been working on a minimal LXC manager for a week now, but docker seems to be exactly what we need. Can't wait to check this out. https://github.com/cpra-lcoffe
bellbind··on Hacker News Refrigerator Magnets
Whole new way to interact with others, interesting idea.
bellbind··on Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
It seems to be a good tool for teaching networking. Back in school we used to do that with VDN (which is still maintained http://opale.u-clermont1.fr/vdn/wiki/doku.php).
bellbind··on Show HN: I built this CRM Tool for Windows. Thoughts?
The divs "Customers" and "Goals" have the same text. I think the price is too low. Also, a screencast would be nice.
bellbind··on They are Opening that 100 year old package right now - watch live video
Drugs. A lot of it.
bellbind··on "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
Here's some feedback : tapping the spacebar with the phone? That's dumb. Why? I have to hit hard for the "bump" to happen. But that's not really a problem since hitting a keyboard with a cellphone makes no sense. Consider another scenario :

a) The user clicks somewhere (or vocal command?) to enter a listening state.

b) Then he shakes his phone.

bellbind··on Click to add drama - Belgium Internet provider
Reminds me of the Intel ads for the Ultrabook (eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kuMen5UOm0). Good way to communicate.
bellbind··on How to Learn Haskell
Why did I clicked that link? Now I can't help learning me a Haskell.
bellbind··on How I Learned to Program
What I'm saying is that programming for fun on your free time is absolutely not the same as programming to pay the rent, and this is not straightforward when you start learning computer science (and that's what this article is about, right?). You have to respect a lot of things that stops you in the creation process, because the goal here is not to do cool things but do as you're told, to take decisions not for your entertainment but for your boss. Sure there are people that do whatever they want at work, but it's relatively rare. And this, my friends, is just my humble opinion.
bellbind··on MusicForProgramming();
Wrong in so many ways.. I don't know where to start.
bellbind··on How I Learned to Program
Well, all this is a bit of a fairy tale to me. Sure programming on my free time with friends, always wanting to know more, to go further, that's true it is fun and I'd say it's a way of life. Now consider: process, deadlines, the annoying management guys.. All this is exhausting and boring, it takes away creativity and fun. Not everything is bright and shinny like that article seems to state. The guy actually designing apps is not necessarily the guy who will code them, etc. There's a lot of frustrating realities out there that are better to be known and accepted than ignored.

Also, see http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0358233/is-pro...

bellbind··on CodeHack3r: online code editor with some nice features
I really like the fullscreen editor, but ideone.com is actually more handsome imho. Editor? great ; now I want to execute it.

If I really could compile my code and execute it on my machine, I would not be using that website in the first place.

bellbind··on Show HN: My weekend project to learn Javascript - 'Pinterest for Hacker News'
I hate full-width websites that do not handle x-resizing. But nice job.
bellbind··on Zsh is your friend.
AFAIK this is not possible with fish, as variables cannot be used as commands like in bash (and the ! history feature does not exist in fish, it is designed to be fully interactive).

See http://fishshell.com/user_doc/faq.html#faq-history

bellbind··on Zsh is your friend.
!! is not specific to fish. It is a history feature to get the last command. It's like using '!ec' for getting the last command that starts with 'ec'. Using `!!` is not "getting output of previous command", it is re-executing it and getting that output.

For that alt+. tip, I'd use the special $_ var.