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Often when using C++ I find myself solving C++ problems, not real problems. In a domain with very difficult math and performance challenges, the C++ problems will be dwarfed by the…

Vim and Emacs seem to work fine if you have Gnu's win32 tools.

What advantage does this have over flot?

Copying is not theft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7axyrHWDQ

At the lower price, you produce a lot more consumer surplus. This is valuable if you're the charitable type.

This class looks really intense. I'm so excited for this -- just look at that syllabus!

The problem with anecdotal evidence is that it makes you under the impression that you know something. If it were as harmless as it were useless, there would be no problem.

I just stumbled upon it. I am a student, and I had to set up a small site for a class which implemented a solution to a problem that I had already solved in python...

You can run python on heroku with a system call from a ruby app. Just run something like: @output = `echo \"#{variable}\" | python script.py`. This will let you read standard out f…

"4HWW is about identifying the highest impact things and cutting out the rest." This is one of the primary aims of GTD.

But we do have reasonable priors on parapsychology from its wasteland of unreplicated, flawed studies, with no convincing results despite decades of effort.

This is why we replicate studies. Unreplicated parapsychology results are a dime a dozen.

paredit.

Psychic powers would be another form of transparency.

It's pretty awesome. I have it set up to lock my computer without any way (besides going to the tty screens) to unlock it... Any other way and I end up postponing the breaks and no…

Saying that two groups are homomorphic doesn't tell me much more than there exists a group homomorphism... As far as I know, isomorphism implies one can be transformed into the oth…

To play devil's advocate, a single open platform like Android would leave plenty of room for competition.

You're not concerned about people looking over your shoulder?

If you're going to go with Emacs, any of these options are suddenly much brighter ;-)

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Please, let him be creative.

| situation permitting Yep, that's good 'ol vim for you.

I completely agree with you, except that I value customization higher than you do, so I choose emacs. Have you considered VIPER mode for emacs? I know it's not complete VI emulatio…

Actually, this could be done if the program didn't use any print or input commands. In general, it still cannot be done.