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If you're using OS X and have kinetic scrolling ("scroll with momentum") enables at the OS level, you can try disabling "Smooth Scrolling" in FF4 (Advanced -> General -> Use Smooth…

SciTE is a fine editor; it was one of the only ones I liked before I fell under the emacs spell. Now I can't use anything else, but I can certainly second the recommendation if you…

I tried to like TextMate very hard. Coda is even better, like TextMate on PCP. Oh how I wanted to love Coda, but I just couldn't do it. It felt like having a one-night stand with t…

This isn't a reply to this comment, this is a reply in general to any comment that says [deleted]: Being deleted only makes me want know what the comment was. It's like censoring b…

Wow, I used to have own a fUnc Surface 1030 back in the proverbial day when I had time (an a machine that was able) to game. That was the best mousing surface I've ever used, hands…

I actually try very hard to do everything with the keyboard. I'm an emacs zombie, though I'm sure the vim-o-nauts would agree: mousing is just really inefficient. BUT! It depends o…

I second Euler's equation. Also, two books that really rocked my world (though I guess it's not really an answer to the question) were Dune and House of Leaves.

OR you can do: CTRL+e for beginning of the line, CTRL+a for the end, CTRL+k to kill from the caret to the end of the line, CTRL+u to kill from the caret to the beginning, CTRL+h to…

Oh I completely disagree about the Spotlight menu being as fast as Quicksilver for launching apps but even besides that Quicksilver can do so much more. You can: set global shortcu…

I can't think of a single time I've ever used C-x C-i. I have my C-w bound to backward-kill-word, which I definitely wish every editable text area would obey. I find it's damn near…

Macbook Pro + Emacs (aquamacs) = Love. Anyone else find that they are absolutely bound to emacs and no matter what else you try to use, you find yourself, like a turtle returning t…

And just why can't you give at least a vague sketch of your idea? Are you afraid us, the humble readers and commenters at Hacker News, will steal your idea when you plainly say tha…

As tjr said, it would be helpful to know what sort of things interest you. My advice is to find an open-source project that you use every day or find technically interesting (firef…