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I use it daily. I run a slightly modified version: I added line editing capabilities with linenoise and I use EREs. The most common use case for me is editing with :g/re, which all…

For an alternative solution, describe the directed graph by listing the nodes and using whitespace to represent the arcs: $ cat riddle Vixen Rudolph Vixen Prancer Vixen Dasher Danc…

I've always used MessagEase (both on Android and iPhone). It is a keyboard layout that was originally designed for the Palm Pilot, and it is optimised for typing with one finger. I…

I don't think the paper assumes a many worlds interpretation.

Did you read the paper I linked to?

All the paradoxes disappear if we use Quantum Field Theory instead of Quantum Mechanics. I would really like someone with deep knowledge on Quantum Theory to explain if something i…

The ten sample games: Sample game 1 https://lichess.org/VMe0gfa2 Sample game 2 https://lichess.org/Zqwn4Gzk Sample game 3 https://lichess.org/G2fPHci8 Sample game 4 https://lichess…

For scripting, I recommend the rc shell from plan9, which is the one I use for my shell scripts. It is only when I want to share a script with other people that I consider using /b…

In most platforms you can install the rc shell from plan9. It's what I use exclusively for my shell scripts. It is only when I want to share some script with other people that I co…

We started openredis in 2011, and we reached the 1k customers mark a year later. It's a Redis hosting service for EC2, also available as a Heroku add-on. Aside from the fact that t…

I love the idea, thanks for the tip!

I just updated the README with a gif of that video. Thanks for the idea!

That's interesting: commands that consume everything in the stack. About saving/loading words: I have plans to work on that, it could be a very useful feature.

I'm not the author of the post, I just wrote the tool. I agree with you that it's not groundbreaking technology :-) In fact, the code is extremely simple. As I mentioned in the REA…

Some years ago I wrote a tool called mailcat, which is a fake SMTP server that prints the incoming emails to stdout. I use it to this day when I need it in development. It's availa…

For the original go proverbs, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_proverb .

The author of the article declares his incompetence at building and maintaining software projects for which he's not the target user, and thus concludes the same applies to the cre…

My experience is the opposite, I agree it may vary from person to person. Care to elaborate what went wrong in those projects?

The way you put it, it looks like it's a matter of trust rather than understanding. If you don't understand what X does and how, if you don't want to invest the time to analyze it,…

An extended version of the quote would be "Don't just believe that because something is trendy, that it's good. I would go the other extreme where if I find too many people adoptin…

It can be simplified even more: megalotto = MegaLotto.new megalotto.draw(10)