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I was interested in trying out fbs as I've always had many problems trying to get an executable build for Windows. I tried the simplest example he shows, but after running 'freeze'…

The Goldfinch was fantastic, definitely in my top 5 favourite book of all time, if not top 2 along with the Empire Falls by Richard Russo and The Stand by Stephen King.

"Different Seasons" is my favourite collection, and out of the 4 total stories in it, 3 became movies (The Body became Stand By Me, Apt Pupil, and The Shawshank Redemption). Can't …

"Writers write." -- Stephen King

Serious question: how does this not just become a race to the bottom salary/compensation-wise the same way other remote sites like upwork have become? If I have to compete with oth…

I feel the same way, but I feel like once you start learning Emacs, you reach a point (see 'emacs bankruptcy') where you just want to know what every single line of elisp is doing …

Same here, used both vim and emacs for many years, reading all the books and customizing them both endlessly. Getting older now and tired of wasting time trying to get vim and/or e…

Hacker's Law: Given an infinite amount of time, any system that can be exploited for advantage, will be exploited.

One issue I see with the nice flow chart is that OS X, and maybe others, look for .bash_profile, not ~/.bashrc as the flowchart suggests (Interactive -> Login Shell? -> "--rcfile ?…

> Well, they're three times the price. That's a bit hard to swallow, honestly. Exactly, people keep bringing up Garmin as a replacement but I don't think it is. I was into Pebble f…

I'll be sad to see them go too, at their price point they couldn't be beat. Unfortunately they have been treating their Kickstarter and pre-order backers poorly (as they did with t…

Using Helm is a joy, you will be able to find commands much easier than the vanilla Emacs completion system. Give it a try, I consider it essential now, and the fuzzy matching save…

Pretty much the same story here. Used Vim for years and even read a couple of the books out there on it, but I was always running into annoying little issues that drove to me to tr…

The email that started it all (at least in the software world): http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed.html

> achieving very professional results. Rolled my eyes at this line, took one look at the cover and the typeset, grimaced, and closed the article. Strange what passes for quality th…

> Oh my goodness - it never occurred to me that a library could be scary Me neither (probably doesn't help that I'm a trained librarian). I love walking into messy used bookstores …

He should've put left_pad.py in a folder with an __init__.py to make it a proper package ;)

And the rm -rf / joke ;)

I like to use: git push -u origin master So then the next time all I need to do is: git push

If you have the cursor just before the area you could do: 'dt)' meaning delete to next ), or 'ct)' to delete until next ) and the drop into insert mode. Learning word objects in Vi…