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jcsalteregoon Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today?

The built-in IDE for PowerShell 2.0 is pretty good from what I recall, but I tend to just stay with the good ole blue console.

`Get-Help` and `Get-Member` are great discovery tools -- pipe anything to it, or do `Get-Member -inputObject $foo` and get all its properties.

jcsalteregoon Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today?

> - I run everything through the bash shell which works fine but is a pain to connect to Windows batch files. This makes automation harder than required.

What are you using bash or batch files for? Have you tried PowerShell as a replacement for batch files?

jcsalteregoon Ask HN: What to do in Portland?

I visited earlier this year and here were my highlights (YMMV):

  - Fuller's Diner
  - Powell's Books and Technical books -- a few blocks from each other IIRC
  - Pearl district in general
  - Tender Loving Empire (I went to the SW 10th St one)
  - Sweet Masterpiece (awesome chocolate + wine/coffee pairings!)
  - Saturday (weekend) market
  - OMSI (first time in a planetarium since the mid-90s)
  - Portland Aeriel Tram
  - Portland Art Museum
  - Japanese and Rose Gardens, Oregon Zoo

jcsalteregoon Offer HN: Grab lunch with the photos team at Facebook

A bunch of us Illinois CS/ECE students, alumni and various stragglers hang out on irc.nullirc.net's #cs.

jcsalteregoon Ask HN: How have you applied computer science IRL?

I don't know about you guys but when I go grab dinner with my philosophical-type friends, we all share a fork and knife.

jcsalteregoon Heroku is down for the third time today

M = 1000 in Roman numerals, but the confusing bit is not reading them like Roman numerals (2000) but rather interpreting them as one thousand thousands, or one million.

jcsalteregoon Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never Heard Of

Closer to watch -

  while 1; do datetime; ls; sleep 2; done

jcsalteregoon Ask HN: Chicken and egg problem: Ideas on beating it?

Hardly. Probably IRC too much.

jcsalteregoon Ask HN: Chicken and egg problem: Ideas on beating it?

Eggs, beating -- I see what you did there.

jcsalteregoon Minecraft.net is down because of what I believe is an attack

Well, also: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1360555436/on-second-thought-pe...

jcsalteregoon GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

Sorry, those were features of parallel, not make (unless I'm mistaken).

jcsalteregoon GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

I've just resigned to do a search for /EXAMPLES as soon as I need any.

jcsalteregoon GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

The MacPorts version worked for me.

Perhaps the Portfile will have the patches you need to manually compile on OS X:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/paral...

jcsalteregoon GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

make requires a Makefile, whereas one can pass parameters directly to parallel.

There also seems to be a few more options revolving around job success/failure and how to react -- a) ignore failed jobs and report how many at the end, b) cleanly exit as soon as a job fails and c) stop all jobs as soon as one fails.

jcsalteregoon The Complete History of Lemmings

The More You Know™

jcsalteregoon The Complete History of Lemmings

DMA Design -> Rockstar North

jcsalteregoon Fast polling using C, memcached, nginx and libevent

It was nice to see zedshaw reviewing C code in the comments there.

jcsalteregoon Smeagol: guiding you through setting up an osx machine for open source ruby work

FTR:

  smeagol is this ugly dude who led some hobbits around,
  this is kinda the same thing. Except, like, instead of
  hiking mordor you're trying to write some open source
  code on a mac.

jcsalteregoon Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

Oh boy, nethack_el does not play well with `longlines-show-hard-newlines`.

jcsalteregoon Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

I went .emacs bankrupt this summer.

gist.el, powershell-mode, yaml-mode, org-mode are a few I've taken out for brevity.

Otherwise, a few of these are emacs23 specific:

  ;; syntax highlighting
  (global-font-lock-mode 1)
  
  ;; add .emacs.d to load path
  (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d" load-path))
  
  ;; nethack
  (add-hook 'nethack-mode-hook (lambda () (linum-mode 'nil)))
  (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/nethack" load-path))
  (autoload 'nethack "nethack" "Play Nethack." t)
  (setq nethack-program "/opt/local/bin/nethack")
  
  ;; 4 spaces in objective-c
  (add-hook 'objc-mode-hook
            (lambda ()
              (setq tab-width nil)
              (setq c-basic-offset 4)))
  
  ;; straight to *scratch* buffer please
  (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
  
  ;; use old navigation for line movement
  (setq line-move-visual nil)

  ;; linum mode
  (require 'linum)
  (global-linum-mode 1)
  (add-hook 'linum-before-numbering-hook
  	  (lambda () (setq linum-format "%d ")))

jcsalteregoon Oracle: the new "axis of evil" against Free software

Good call :)

jcsalteregoon Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB

I hope they didn't upgrade to 1.0.0.

jcsalteregoon Oracle: the new "axis of evil" against Free software

> No company is perfect. But these recent moves seem to indicate that the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so.

I looked on a map and 850 miles north of Redwood Shores leads me to believe he is a) admitting Adobe (Seattle) was the previous axis of evil or b) bestowing the title upon Canada.

Well, that's ten minutes of my life I'll never get back.

jcsalteregoon Why brevity matters

This is the first time Safari Reader has been useful.

jcsalteregoon Patent for pull down to refresh mechanic.

You mean how Oracle took Sun's defensive patents and unleashed all hell?

jcsalteregoon Patent for pull down to refresh mechanic.

Given his outward support of other developers' using the Pull Down to Refresh mechanism, this is a defensive patent more than anything else.

http://twitter.com/atebits/status/21665180962

http://twitter.com/atebits/status/21629390400

jcsalteregoon Stephen Wolfram Uses This

Yes but where's the cellular automata? Those things can do EVERYTHING

jcsalteregoon Scott Aaronson explains his $200k bet (8 Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong)

Well played, jrockway. Well played.

jcsalteregoon Scott Aaronson explains his $200k bet (8 Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong)

But reading the overview felt like reading Joseph Conrad’s _Heart of Darkness_: I’d reread the same paragraph over and over, because the words would evaporate before they could stick to my brain.

shudder

jcsalteregoon Dear people-who-run-Twitter, whom to follow, whom

The same goes for Facebook's blatant abuse of the neuter singular "their" instead of "his/her" -- which really can be resolved most of the time since Facebook usually possess people's genders.

Anyway...