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selfish question here: Does anybody know how to setup vim so that :! recognises aliases?

something like...

  set shellcmdflag=-O\ expand_aliases\ -c

freakwiton Real-Life Massive Multi-Player Spy Game

I wonder what the best webpage idea is to get people to send me $5 for nothing or very little in return.

freakwiton Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3

"Opera and Webkit implemented (very brokenly, in at least Opera’s case) a small subset of SVG 1.1 Fonts; basically just enough to pass Acid3."

freakwiton Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

got any recommendations for a pull up bar?

freakwiton More fully-featured, modern Lisps, pulleezz

Follow the link on "Compared to Haskell, Lisp is a big hack." - http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-lisp-is-big-hack-... - for a more detailled post.

freakwiton VIM from novice to professional by: Derek Wyatt

tip: use dj to delete two lines

freakwiton Spelling Corrector in 21 lines of Python

There are two implementations listed for Java. The first is 35 LOC and the second is 372.

freakwiton You must learn JavaScript

http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/

and a demo in ie9 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickhodge/archive/2010/06/29/having-...

freakwiton Now that you have turned 22 can I please give you some advice...

"at many points, playing guitar felt like work to Jimmy Hendrix"

Achieving mastery is the "work" part

freakwiton Switching from SVN to Git: A Startup’s Perspective

I'm sorry, if you're competent you can make svn work.

freakwiton Why I love text files

I think we have the same desktop.

freakwiton CodingBat: Python

The real idea here is mentioned in the about page: http://codingbat.com/about.htm

Summarised... a CS lecturer noticed that students who struggle with the small things like syntax, have less time to focus on the big issues of algorithms and data structures. The site gives short practice problems to that effect.

More challenging problems would be interesting, but there's a limit to what you can fit in the stated goal of short problems. Although, I wouldn't say that more difficult problems could be solved in similar space :)

freakwiton CodingBat: Python

codingbat is javabat renamed. Presumably because they added python

freakwiton Music notation in HTML5/SVG

Have to disagree with you here. Classical notation is much easier for me to read than that.

freakwiton Are you rich? If so, how did you get there?

Some of us aren't doing so fine.

Knowing not to do something is good, but knowing how to do something is far better.

freakwiton Are you rich? If so, how did you get there?

Disappointed that this comment does not recommend an alternative.

freakwiton Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible

What sort of problems are people thinking of?

SSDs have been a big speed improvement - have they enabled new developments?

freakwiton The JVM Language Summit 2010

yes

(This post was made at: 7:05 AM 30th July 2010 Sydney)

freakwiton What Social Skills I Learn From The HN Community

Prove it.

(No, really. You're not presenting good evidence here.)

freakwiton A re-introduction to JavaScript

To be fair, they do note this shortcoming.

"Note that this trick should only be used for arrays which you know do not contain "falsy" values (arrays of objects or DOM nodes for example). If you are iterating over numeric data that might include a 0 or string data that might include the empty string you should use the i, j idiom instead."

freakwiton Android vs. iPhone: How Google is winning hearts of developers

I don't think Google is winning hearts - rather, they are losing hearts more slowly than Apple.

freakwiton Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers

But isn't it interesting that she gets her child to make a comment on HN instead of writing it herself?

freakwiton Iphone 4.0 official video

I parsed it as "The overall lifetime of a phone is generally limited by the death of it's battery rather than the glass. If the battery could be replaced, the durability of components would be more of an issue."

freakwiton Skype lies, breaks "Skype-to-Skype"calls are free promise

But in the sale of the gift cards/credits, at a 1:1 exchange rate, your assets would increase as well as your debt, surely?

freakwiton Google launches Google TV

according to matt cutts' live "buzz". It is an android OS variant!

"Software: Built on Android 2.1 + Google Chrome + a Flash 10.1 plugin. Aha: Android apps will work on Google TV. The mobile market will work on Google TV. Demo of Google TV running Pandora with no changes by Pandora. Brittany Bohnet from the Google TV team is up. From a web browser, you can select an app, and the app gets sent straight to the Google TV. Two application frameworks: web apps, and Android apps. A Google TV-specific SDK will come out down the road. Ambarish Kenghe is up to talk about Google TV. You can optimize for the size of the screen. From a web site, I think he said you'll be able to switch channels and record shows."

[ http://www.google.com/buzz/109412257237874861202/RXsQ4oG885h... ]

freakwiton Flash Player: CPU Hog or Hot Tamale? It Depends.

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different...

freakwiton Flash Player: CPU Hog or Hot Tamale? It Depends.

It's a hog inside windows, too.

freakwiton Dark Room

Sometimes, I will use vim in a virtual terminal instead of my normal ubuntu desktop. The switch back and forth takes more time than a standard alt+tab which seems to trigger something in my brain to stick with it longer than using vim `normally'.

freakwiton You ain't gonna need it

If you're not using it, you're crossing the YAGNI line.

freakwiton Status and Signals: Why Hardcore Gamers Are Afraid Of Easy Mode

The author posits that hardcore gamers are against the inclusion of an easy mode entirely, not just that they are unwilling to play these modes.