Dejital

The Stanford online CS101 class will be taught by the same teacher as these Google lectures. [1] I enjoyed him very much when I was just starting with Python.

[1]: http://www.cs101-class.org/

Very cool. I wish the Youtube play button wouldn't show, as my first thought was to click it.

Neat. It might be useful to be able to import existing color schemes and make changes.

Not reliable. There seems to be little if no policing of the submissions, so sites like Facebook and Google are on the list several times and likely submitted by jokers.

There are multiple problems with tmux on OS X. pbcopy and pbpaste, for instance, are entirely unusable. Even if tmux has some nice benefits over screen, it probably isn't worth it to the Mac user to switch.

There are a couple of work-in-progress `org-mode` clones for Vim, VimOrganizer in particular. However, I do not feel comfortable recommending either VimOrganizer or its counterparts. Personally, I've realized that any `org-mode` implementation to Vim would be going against the editor's nature. I might recommend TaskWarrior if you're looking for command-line GTD application as an alternative to `org-mode`.

Colemak was a lot of fun to play around with, however my frequent use of Vim makes any alternative keyboard unusable. Just scattering H,J,K,L throws my productivity for a loop.

"I often think of what OS X would be like if Apple assumed only Pro users would use it and everyone else would be on iOS."

It's an interesting thought but quite feasible. Open up any Apple "Pro" app like Logic Studio, Aperture or (more recently) Final Cut Pro X. The look and feel is quite different than the rest of OS X. Things are smaller and far less intuitive (they are hidden away). Apple knows that amateurs will stick with Garageband, iPhoto and iMovie, all of which feature large, intuitive interfaces. I like that they are not afraid to make their "Pro" apps heavy-duty.

It's difficult to get a sense of quality with lists like this. Nonetheless, I think it's great resource. Heading over to check out the Heideggerian Philosophy "courses" right now!

HP laptops now provide a barebones restore feature. That is, if you don't mind restoring your system on day one, you can boot to the recovery partition and forego installing all of the extra software after restoring the operating system. I forget their term for this exactly, but it's a nice feature that appeared only recently in their line of laptops.

Tim has issues with one application, but blames the entire operating system. Is this fair? Further, the trash bin problem of not having an "Ignore All" button has always been around. That does not mean the operating system is becoming worse, just that an age old frustration (albeit a very obscure one) is still around.

I have some issues with Lion, but they are grounded primarily in my complete satisfaction with Snow Leopard and lack of desire to change (if it ain't broke, don't fix it).

When Tim says "there were many things worse in Snow Leopard than in Leopard," I cannot recall a single one. In fact, the Snow Leopard release was undoubtedly a very well received one.

The new icon threw my bookmarks toolbar for a spin, for a second I thought I deleted the bookmark. I think it looks classy and I have been enjoying all of the improvements that Google has been making to Plus. Nevertheless, a favicon change with no commentary is hardly newsworthy.

Probably the best example I have of learning a feature by accident is macro recording. Occasionally I used to hit the q key when I was meaning to hit w to navigate by word. After a few months of wondering what "recording" meant, I looked it up and it has become one of the most important components of my workflow ever since.

However, I would argue that for the vast majority of Vim features, learning "by accident" is unfeasible. Many commands give no visual or verbal indication of what happened (consider marks). Further, both the tutorial and the Vim wiki are very readable and can cover a lot more ground than by hoping to accidentally hit a goldmine feature while mashing random key combinations.

Reminds me very much of the scene from film Stop Making Sense of David Byrne singing and dancing with a lamp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg_ZGcuybs

Ralph Levien's Inconsolata [1] is the strongest attempt I've yet seen at reproducing the quality of TheSansMono.

[1]: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Org-mode is an unmatched tool for keeping track of your day to day tasks. I have yet to find an alternative that offers scheduling tasks with as much flexibility as org-mode. The biggest barrier for me, however, is that org-mode runs inside of Emacs. As a Vim user, I have tried all of the org-mode implementations for Vim and have yet to find one that can come even close. Further, fitting something similar to org-mode into Vim goes against the simplicity of Vim which I value so much already.

Taskwarrior is a decent command line alternative to org-mode, but is lacking in the scheduling of tasks department.

Why not take it one step further with:

  nore <Space> :

Let your thumbs do the work.

And for the sake of convenience, alias the following to something simple like "ip":

  curl -L -s --max-time 10 http://ip.appspot.com | egrep -o -m 1 '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}'

My .vim folder would be a gigantic mess without Pathogen. I recommend using Tammer Saleh's update_bundles script ( http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-path... ) to keep your vim plugins up to date.