jcsalterego

The takeaway for me (since I use Emacs in a console and not in GUI mode) is `C-x n n` and `C-x n w`. Looks like it could be pretty useful for `M-x replace-regexp` (if I don't want to use query-replace-regexp, and I've got a lot of searching and replacing to do in a particular region.

jcsalterego··on Emacs, artist mode

As an Emacs user, my answer is no. Choose your path and become proficient in it. Unless you have ample time, you may run the risk of becoming a Jack of All Trades, Master of None.

jcsalterego··on Meet Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter’s New Rival

Or an apostrophe after "Facebook," I think.

jcsalterego··on OpenSolaris fork imminent?

As adbge mentions elsewhere, the latest ZFS package in FreeBSD is lagging OpenSolaris's.

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1567463 (or scroll down)

jcsalterego··on Natural language parsing for the web

Interesting, but I wonder how commercial use of the API requires the license:

http://otlportal.stanford.edu/techfinder/technology/ID=24472

jcsalterego··on Apple Magic Trackpad

I've got a MBP hooked up to an external monitor, and I find myself using the four-finger upward-swipe to show my desktop.

That's about it.

jcsalterego··on Guido van Rossum: Thoughts about Python Future

Speaking of DVCS, Mercurial was chosen at PyCon 2009, although the implementation timeline appears TBD.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#decision

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/08793...

jcsalterego··on Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

I suppose if I'm to spend my karma it would be following up with comments such as this one:

"WHO DO YOU THINK??! points THE LIBYANS!!"

<3 BTTF

jcsalterego··on Mongrel2 Is Now BSD Licensed

I need to start signing my emails with "And I promise not to buy guitars with it,".

jcsalterego··on Nowmov (YC W10) is seeking Rails engineers

Title: Ten foot grad.

FTA: Y Combinator Graudate.

jcsalterego··on Python Internals: Adding a new statement to Python

Great breakdown.

I tried something simpler once, trying to map str.format() to a binary operator in Py3k.

http://github.com/jcsalterego/py3k-atsign

Needless to say it didn't pass the python-ideas (or was that python-dev?) mailing list trial, mostly because it produced ambiguities that plagued the % operator, which prompted this new str method in the first place.

jcsalterego··on No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010)

Unix epoch had it right. Let's just all count seconds before/after 1 Jan 1970.

jcsalterego··on [dead]

tl;dr 1. Title is linkbait 2. Idiotism is doubleplusgood

jcsalterego··on (take 8 (david-edgar-liebke))

Best use of animated gif in an interview, ever.

jcsalterego··on Nginx directly to mysql. 3 - 4 times as fast as php + libmysql

php MCs worldwide yo.

jcsalterego··on [dead]

I deal with those by flagging.

jcsalterego··on 75% of New Zealanders to get 100Mbps fiber by 2020

Do Kiwis even have >100Mbps leaving New Zealand? :(

jcsalterego··on Hurl

There are companies which act as proxies, e.g. EuroDNS.

jcsalterego··on Looking for wannabe FreeBSD/EC2 users

Interesting you should mention those technologies, as they both originated from Sun and have been ported elsewhere. While FreeBSD's ZFS is a solid port and probably the best non-Sun implementation, it's actually a few versions behind.

It might be worth checking out OpenSolaris, despite its future seeming to be up in the air, with Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

jcsalterego··on Looking for wannabe FreeBSD/EC2 users

Prime example: NetApp uses (and contributes back to) FreeBSD.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1042664.htm (minor mention)

jcsalterego··on 10 Mac Apps I Can't Live Without

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's okay to downmod me for getting too meta. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

jcsalterego··on Use makeup to hide your face from detection systems using the Viola-Jones method

Also known as the Lady Gaga method.

jcsalterego··on Inside Everyblock's furniture-less Chicago office

As one of the creators of the programming language Django, which is widely used by Web site programmers around the world...

jcsalterego··on Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator

Good point, I've lost track..

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