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JNRowe
7,426karma·1,207submissions·February 3, 2014
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Discussed yesterday under its old name¹. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28408682
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Ick, my bad. My toplevel comment could - and should - have been far more constructive. The updated tagline in the repo is a big improvement, good work!
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Frankly, if you're happy with Google Calendar just use that. They really are very different, I'd compare remind more to working with the Google Calendar API. You get to control remind with …
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A little warning in the README that it is going to send your file to GitHub might be prudent. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be expecting it to be rendering the markdown locally.
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Perhaps I'm missing something or the site is doing some weird UA sniffing, but I don't see the video. I did however find them tucked away elsewhere¹. [Same message as for the other submissi…
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Perhaps I'm missing something or the site is doing some weird UA sniffing, but I don't see the video. I did however find them tucked away elsewhere¹. ¹ https://meetings-archive.d…
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I'm a huge fan of remind, and have a `rem -q` display in every new terminal window I open. remind can appear incredibly daunting given how long the documentation is, but it can slowly grow with y…
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A bunch of the better defaults mentioned are already handled by vim since v8(:h defaults.vim), but beyond that using Tim Pope's vim-sensible¹ feels like it may be a better starting point. The re…
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I suspect if I had to answer as many questions/rants about type strictness as the authors do I'd probably choose much stronger language. It definitely wasn't intended, but I guess my e…
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One way which isn't great, but an option nonetheless… The zsh parser is happy with that form: $ zsh -c '< <(echo hi) while read a; do echo "got $a"; done'
got…
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If you're a zsh user it offers a version of something like xargs in zargs¹. As the documentation shows it can be really quite powerful in part because of zsh's excellent globbing facilities…
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I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm aghast at the lax typing¹, but I look forward to this change hitting a release. Adding some sugary support for a strict DATETIME type in a future release …
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“The DoD clarified that it was either a bomb blast or a combination of natural phenomena, such as lightning, a meteor, or a glint from the Sun.” I guess that is a kind of clarification, right? I fi…
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Markus Kuhn’s International Standard Paper Sizes¹ is a great document on ISO-216 paper sizes, if you want a little more depth than HelloNurse’s succinct description. It also covers US-style sizes tow…
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FWIW, it actually is part of an old sci-fi novel, featuring in Arthur C. Clarke's 2010¹. China suddenly joins a race to Jupiter by firing up its "space station". ¹ https://…
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Rob Eastaway's excellent How Long is a Piece of String¹ covers the history of month and day names in its first chapter. Thirteen pages from 30000 BCE to now, via abundant and perfect numbers. D…
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The 90's Lotus 108¹ mentioned in the article is such a radically different approach to the one in TFA. I wonder if any of the new ideas were considered back in the 90s, but dropped because of ma…
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I wouldn't - you know - use this, but with zsh… $ print -l ${(s:, :):-Paris, France, Europe}
Paris
France
Europe
I won't try to answer the "is zsh any better?&q…