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A story of doing the right thing for abandoned (and wannabe abandoned) packages

Incredible contributor in both technical and organizational ways. And nice as hell too.

There are a remarkable number of people attending our Emacs meetup who are under 30. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.

I used https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook at one employer and it works quite well for Jupyter. Of course Org is great but if your coworkers are unfamiliar it's prob…

Re: the C code, Emacs will happily let you ignore your own config settings. Just turn off anything labeled "electric" and nothing will happen automatically. And don't press tab, th…

You definitely needed to be on evil-mode or a framework (like Doom) based on it. The key bindings with ctl, alt, etc. are the least important part of Emacs but sadly, the part ever…

This really captures the power of Emacs for people with Lisp skills. For coders with strong habits of high-level thinking it's a real force multiplier. Why shouldn't we apply the s…

It is probably easier to write correct concurrent code now, thanks to the new features he mentions. However, as always plenty of rope is provided, and the old programs are still va…

Presumbly it is the American ones (such as myself) being referred to - separated from their relatives by more than a century and a half https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_A…

Git submodules work pretty great for this IMO. Rather than incorporate a snapshot of the source, pick a commit hash. Still frozen at a point in time, but you get to move which one …

I certainly like Jetbrains, but is it a "unicorn"? I doubt it has a billion dollar valuation - not least because it is a private company.

I doubt anyone is willing to pay 2x performance for their C code to be more friendly. If they were, why are they writing in C? To me this is the fundamental issue with the friendly…

A commercial product covering similar territory is UndoDB http://undo-software.com/undodb/

In this case, and many others, Google's code style guidelines are controversial...

Have you used Boost.Fusion? This looks very much like BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT and seems to have similar design goals

I do love war stories, but I think the OP has missed something: After the meeting one of the managers told me that it was really our job to come up with projects that the customer …

Because properly handling overflow if you're using signed values involves UB, it's super hard to get it right. Even Apple has struggled with it: http://www.slashslash.info/2014/02/…

For anyone who is curious about the intended use of exceptions in C++ I recommend Jon Kalb's two-part tutorial on exceptions from CppCon 2014. First video is here: https://www.yout…

Compiling with exceptions turned off is highly unusual. If you do that, you're not really writing C++ anymore, as it's a fundamental part of the language. Exceptions are the mechan…

I'm curious about that last bit. I occasionally hear this argument that size_t being unsigned is a bad thing. Presumably the standard library designers would claim that a size cann…

The Google guidelines are... somewhat out of sync... with the intended use of language features as described in the Standard and the recommendations of people associated with it. T…

I tried to find you on Twitter, and it corrected my search to "mantronix". No joke. Anyway thanks for sharing your code!

Can you elaborate on the "significant performance impact"? If used properly, they should have no runtime overhead - they are predicted "not taken" in modern compilers.