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I have a couple of friends, both white-water guides and accomplished outdoorsmen, and they both put whitewater in a different category of risk: you can do everything right, and still die just due to the unpredictability of it. One of them said he had an instructor who basically said "if you stick with this long enough, either you'll die or someone you know will". They were both in the latter category.

require simply loads a feature, assuming it exists. use-package can do a whole lot more, including installing the package, configuring auto-loads, setting up key-bindings, pre- and post-load configuration, etc.

It's a third-party package itself at this point, but I believe it's going to be included in Emacs before too long.

That is a spectacularly well-presented paper (and I haven't even attempted to read it yet!). I love the visual overview of the algorithm in figure 3.

Yeah, fascinating book; weren't the graphics issues due in part to the lack of maturity of C++ tools at the time though? (I don't remember exactly because it has been a while since I read it)

Similarly, I absolutely loved this gif (5 pitches overlayed, near-identical release point and very different trajectories): http://deadspin.com/coolest-gif-ever-shows-five-yu-darvish-p...

Seriously one of the most impressive blogs out there. Here's him answering your question: http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/03/30/end-of-term-and-how-i-rea...

I don't know if it supports jupyter (I haven't used either in a while), but ein for emacs is pretty cool: https://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/

I quite like the chart representation used in cookingforengineers.com, showing the parallelism in a recipe, eg

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Cak...

Smartparens will work with xml tags and more.

(I still use paredit for lisp languages though, and I can't remember if there was a reason for that or it's just inertia/conservatism).

Kasparov played a game against that program too, for the Turing centenary celebrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrxdWkjmhKg

There was a talk at Clojure/conj by Tim Ewald on just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw

"Programming with hand tools"

Lots of conference reviews nominated it in their favourite talks too.

patio11 has a great story about how he learned of it, via Patrick Collison:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-ma...

Magnar had a great hack to only turn it on when you goto-line: http://whattheemacsd.com/key-bindings.el-01.html

Rich Hickey is another one worth reading (/listening to) for more examples of breaking things down to core principles, and potentially coming up with a new approach based off them. For example datomic, which breaks a database into the core components of storage, query, and transactions.

Emacs has EIN (http://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/); perhaps a vim implementation is possible?

...and at the risk of turning this into a lengthy "how (I think you should) to learn Emacs" thread, learn the help commands. _How_ to look up the hot key, how to look up the documentation for a key sequence, etc.

Once you have your head around how Emacs works, and that it's self-documenting and you can dig into it, the path gets a lot smoother.

Zoe Keating is always worth-while reading about this, including being open about where her royalties come from. For eg (this was the post that got represented as "pay me in data"): http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/35737991443/what-i-want-fr... (there's a spreadsheet with the breakdown in there)

That one got featured in the NYT, prompting a couple of follow-ups: http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/41955905309/a-blog-about-a...

http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/42057406771/where-does-the... (I loved the internet-expertise implied by Several people advised me to consider touring as a revenue stream since “that is where artists make most of their money”.!) More pertinently though: "Live performance is usually my revenue stream with the highest expense ratio: flights, hotel rooms, commissions, crew, advertising, etc…"

Since this is turning into a recommendation thread, I'll add Jim Wendler's 5/3/1: httup://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/how_to_build_pure_strength You can buy the ebook and I'd recommend it, but you can also find essentially all the details online. A very similar philosophy of big-lifts basics, constant incremental progression, etc.

Robin Milner is another notable CS research without a PhD, but with a Turing award.

It's a false dichotomy as you say, and a big reason people claim "ideas don't matter" is because their definition of execution includes "getting a better idea" (or, pivoting). If the idea truly didn't matter then you should be able to succeed _with that same idea_. Semantics I guess, but it is a platitude that doesn't get questioned much, it seems.

I had no idea that stealing supplies was so common! I really only heard on it -- and was shocked -- while listening to this talk (about K2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA

Edmund Hillary wrote "High Adventure" about a year after his climb, and a it's a great description of just how things were done in those days! It's a very easy read too, in a boys-own-adventure style.

Speaking of aerial photos though, Over The Himalaya (http://www.amazon.com/Over-Himalaya-Koichiro-Ohmori/dp/09385...) has some staggering photos from the region if you like that sort of thing. Out of print, but worth tracking down.

Mark Otto owns getbootstrap.com by the looks of it, which at the moment just redirects to the github site.

Geo-redirected blogspot URLs are getting a bit out of hand on HN!

I submitted this as well (.au): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799685

And of course it was also submitted as .com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4800296

Have an upvote to try and get some discussion on this article, but I wonder how many others aren't making it to the front page because of diluted votes?

Jon does post roughly annual updates as dredmorbius pointed out; this is the last one I could find on a quick search: https://lwn.net/Articles/504952/ That's probably slightly more positive than others, which typically seem to be along the lines of "scraping by, subscriber counts are roughly static".

(Please consider subscribing by the way! Lwn is a fantastic resource in my opinion, and I'd hate for it to go away).

It is shocking how many pages break because of this (usually, you check the console and it has thrown an exception because FB is not defined)

There's http://apiaxle.com/ to look at as well, an open-source solution (no personal experience with it)

I seem to recall a Knuth anecdote describing how he'd sunk so deep into the study of fonts that he'd go to a restaurant and pick up the menu, and only much later remember about the food.

Awesome!! That guy is steadily doing some amazing publicity for emacs.

This is a "live" video he did, slightly longer at 18 minutes, but with lots of javascript refactoring, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Te_a-AGqM

Cool, thanks.