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The ability to travel thru time with :earlier & :later (edit like a timelord!)

I totally expected this to be a joke where the site was blank. I haven't worked with C++ for years, and it's nice to see there really has been some progress improving some of the C…

Python 4... It's just going to be Haskell.

Lamy 2000 is so amazingly smooth. I really like having the piston fill, instead of cartridges and adapters. There's more ink, and it's more reliable with less fuss and mess.

The best tool to read with is a pencil.

Anyone have an example of taking a low functioning team to a high functioning one? Building trust, changing culture. It's one thing to just say "here's the ideal". And another to s…

I'd like to see some approval test infrastructure here as well, q.v. https://approvaltests.com/ Being able to have a customer accept what the output looks like and then listening t…

Have you considered vimwiki http://vimwiki.github.io/ ?

Can't they just charge a lot more? Like $10million per ad? It's a surcharge to avoid political ads, but hey Mr. Bloomberg, if you need to get attention... we will collect your mone…

The only defense social humans have is really to detect them. Watch for their inability to feel empathy. Ask them to tell a joke. Do they do it right? http://hintjens.com/blog:_psy…

my line in the sand is play. Does this creature play?

using vim for go-to-definition, `gd` takes you to local definition, `gD` to global, q.v. :help gd I find it often quicker than an IDE..

Reading this essay made me think of this book that I recently read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_Art How much of the obstacles that we face are there just to…

This book changed how I parent: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6162649-healing-stori... The ability to modify behavior by singing a couplet from a story I read -- no raisin…

I thought this was going to be a new version of the onion router.....

I was surprised by no discussion of ordinality. Cardinality was something I also specifically expected. Counts of things are described here, but the greeks went to great lengths wi…

or provide journalists with decryption tools?

Some country's firewalls distrupt https, which makes downloading things via https difficult.

Nothing came of it? The whole Virtual Office Website (VOW) thing got created.. before meetings NAR and RESO intone legalese about encouraging competition. There's a lot of fear tha…

Newton's "..standing on the shoulders of giants..." was a dig at Hook (who was short). It's Isaac being an arrogant jerk, which he was in spades. (Even if he revolutionized thinkin…

Here in Colorado we have "actual homeless". Going to a homeless shelter in the winter time provides a great sample. And, there are dangers in those shelters where homeless people a…

Clever Cycle has practical bike fashion needs: https://clevercycles.com/apparel/men/bottoms They have stuff for the other genders as well.

My grad school professor was at a bar with a consultant friend who was trying to find the optimal wiring paths for routing expensive electric cables. My professor asked for the cha…

This python project is modelled on yahoo pipes is worth taking a look at: https://github.com/nerevu/riko

Spinning it off was part of the deal with Carly coming on board. :/