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Why I still use emacs: I've been using it for 10+ years and my fingers and general workflow are very very used to it. I regularly use vim (for quick editing and vimdiff), but keep coming back.

If only emacs had a "project drawer"/"tree drawer" like textmate, then it would be golden. ecb doesn't quite cut it for some reason, I keep reverting to textmate each time I need to get an overview of a huge source tree I'm not familiar with.

It's an e-commerce startup that's dogfooding by selling stickers, if that makes more sense.

Nothing, YAJL got a lot of things very right. We use it in our C daemons for a bunch of things. Not having to unpack the whole JSON into memory is pretty handy.

ts=3? Is this some sort of subtle troll to irritate all factions of tab stop religions?

Far from. In Stockholm, for a child she would have paid 120 SEK (~17 USD) for an ER visit. That is assuming she was a resident or in possesion of an EU/EEC insurance card. Going price for an ER visit without EU insurance would be 1650 SEK (~240 USD). So not close even there.

I'd say it's good for talent since you don't have to pick a startup depending on what benefits you get (vacation time, health insurance, parental leave) due to the government providing well enough to begin with. Of course employers here can differentiate by offering more vacation, privatized health insurance, pension deals, but the swedish government seems to provide a better package than most US employers do.

In Sweden you wouldn't get 2.5 months of accrued paid vacation, it's more like 10 days, as the first 120 days (of 480) (pa/)maternal leave is counted towards vacation.

Then again you have the legal right to take 25 days of vacation per year, but not all of these have to be paid.

It can, but this system was running on a Compact Flash (real small, I think maybe 32M usable space) so swapping was out of the question. This was also before CF got good and started mapping in good sectors when bad got overwritten.

The mmap() implementation is awesome. I used to write code for a network hardware management computer which ran OpenBSD on a memory-constrained Soekris (quasi-embedded environment more or less). The fact that OpenBSD's implementation returns memory when allocations are free()'d saved my bacon more than once. With another malloc I'd be out of memory way sooner.

It comes with the operating system, no need to re-link against a different library or a different LD_PRELOAD path.

Yes, by setting the MALLOC_OPTIONS environment variable. See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc

Looks great, but I can't set an international return address without a state. I'm a registered voter in the US, but haven't been a resident for a long time.

Guess I'll just email my rep.

I'd love to move to Berlin just for the hacker scene that is there, centered around Chaos Computer Club. The open source / hacking / copyleft scene seems bigger there than other places in Europe, at least from what I felt when I was there for Chaos Communication Conference.

Also the döner.

'Ship spinning' also covers an easier way to access certain well-used menus for managing your ship, without having to open the 'Ships' window. The 'spinning' part is a minor loss, not being able to easily access cargo/fuel/hangars is a major UI drawback.

This gave me the idea to try http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org he mentioned on my logs, and I'm already finding a bunch of stuff to fix after a quick run.