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The Beowülf song "today is a gift" sampled the "noodles" exchange, which prompted me to watch the KFP movies.

I found "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" [1] by Joseph M. Williams to be more informative than both of these recommendations, but YMMV. There is a newer version, but I haven't rea…

Kibana / ElasticSearch? It's limited, but pretty and interactive, and gets you a bunch with very limited up-front work. I'm sure you can find some better demos, but here's one: htt…

Using Coq to verify PDF files (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPw7eo3nQI The core of the xmonad window manager was verified with Coq (PDF): http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/…

One of the hints for assignment 2 is: "Most of the solutions for this assignment can be written as one-liners. If you have more, you probably need to rethink your solution. In othe…

vimpulse is an extension to viper and gives you (for example) visual mode (copy blocks using 'v'). http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Vimpulse

> But it is so painful to try to switch. It's a heavy cognitive load to do even simple things like navigation. You might be interested in viper mode [1], or another one of the VI e…

details here: http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/05/anatomy-of-com-server-...

Congrats on making it through both. I haven't gotten to the dragon yet... For those interested, you can get a red dragon for significantly less than the newer editions (check amazo…

Somewhat related, Don's site: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/

Or you could use the Viper and Vimpulse packages to enable Vi style emulation in Emacs.

Might find this useful: http://astrometry.net/

Reminds me of the Cory Doctorow short story: "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" Available here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/08/weak-and-strange

This week's Economist on the coming currency / trade war: http://www.economist.com/node/17251850?story_id=17251850&#38... http://www.economist.com/node/17252006?story_id=17252006&#…

apt-get install xfonts-terminus

Having the tilde so far away is pretty annoying in a shell, but I haven't invested the time in coming up with something better.

I'm pretty happy with LustyExplorer [1] which sounds like it does what iswitchb-mode does, but also has a decent find-file browser. 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LustyExplorer

With viper and vimpulse you get a pretty good vi emulation.

I used to use a Typematrix 2030, but have gone back to standard keyboards. I use viper and vimpulse in emacs, so I'm currently using the following mappings (in addition to a Dvorak…

Maybe an "unhide all" button in the event we hide something unintentionally?