_3ex7

REPL

I have heard that same idea applied to the likes of Jordan or Jay-Z. Be out there taking shots from the foul line or write a 16 every day.

I haven't figured out how to translate that to writing code or building a product. What would it be: Write a for-loop everyday on some code kata type stuff? Write down a business idea once a day?

I was frustrated with a project I was working on a couple weeks back and wanted to just hack on something totally different. As a result, I wrote code to display the clock in tmux as a binary clock[1]. As someone who does not do a lot of C coding, I found the code base to be very clean and easy to figure out.

[1]: http://bitbucket.org/mdg/tmux/

My top 5 (non tech and in no particular order):

    Ronaldinio 
    MF Doom  
    Madlib            
    Bansky               
    Aaron McGruder

COTA rocks!............

From the 9fans mailing list a while back, someone asked what the plan9 people at Google use:

http://9fans.net/archive/2010/02/344

and

http://9fans.net/archive/2010/02/366

Well some of the libraries out there are glue for C++ code. I think that is what he was inferring anyways.

The underlying problem is the kool aid drinking, not node.js

Thanks for the link...

I like walking around the mall after a day of work and examining the typefaces used in all the store windows. I am a programmer first, so its probably pretty boring to the average designer. For me, its like there is this whole new world [typography] that I didn't know existed. I always thought it was "just words", much like how I thought cooking was "just following a recipe" (Cooking is my other personal interest outside of coding).

Thanks for the heads up with that book... I was wondering if there was a K&R for typography.

How can you tell? Are you able to tell what a typeface is just by looking at it? What characteristics help you decide ?

I have been trying to learn about typography, passively, for the past couple months. Anything sans serif looks like Helvetica to me.

I would say Food Network shows DO show a lot of faces. They are very much about selling a brand. Just walking through the local Target housewares aisle, I see Rachel Ray, Giada, Paula Deen, Barefoot Contessa, Bobby Flay, etc, all with their own brand of cooking accessories.

Sorry if I came across as the comic book guy from the Simpsons

> Try not. Do or do not, there is no try

Is what the Jedi master said (RIP).

I assume the F-shape pattern is only effective in languages that read left-to-right?

> But there's a part of me that misses the simple look of OS 9 and BeOS

Have you given HaikuOS any time ?

Why is emailing an exception bad (Slide 48)? Can a small site get away with it ?

During his day, Edison would take time out by himself and relax in a chair or on a sofa. Invariably he would be working on a new invention and seeking creative solutions to the problem he was dealing with. He knew that if her could get into that "twilight state" between being awake and being asleep, he could access the pure creative genius of his subconscious mind.

To prevent himself from crossing all the way over the "genius gap" into deep sleep, he would nap with his hand propped up on his elbow while he clutched a handful of ball-bearings. Then he would just drift off to sleep, knowing that his subconscious mind would take up the challenge of his problem and provide a solution. As soon as he went into too deep a sleep, his hand would drop and the ball-bearings would spill noisily on the floor, waking him up again. He'd then write down whatever was in his mind.

Taken from: http://www.wilywalnut.com/Thomas-Edison-Power-Napping.html

Copy and paste the following into the address bar to view images

    javascript:var tags=document.getElementsByTagName("a"); for (var i in tags) { if (tags[i].href.search(/jpeg|jpg|png/) !== -1) { var img = document.createElement("img"); img.src = tags[i].href;img.width = '400';tags[i].parentNode.appendChild(img); } }

EDIT: Eh... It could use some help ..

Do you ever fall asleep with a cup of ball bearings in your hand when you are stuck on a problem? I have always wanted to try that ...

It wasn't the font I was looking for.

Conversely, I would imagine this is why people hate on Bing. They associate it with Microsoft, an 'evil empire', and must figure it is shit search (or whatever negative connotation they have with the company).

The same can be done with Openbox.

I am not so sure that makes it a good idea though. Why undermine something so deliberate?

Original comment was something like:

"Obligatory 'Have you tried tmux?!?!'"

I deleted it because I thought HN might think I was trolling or something.

Do you use a terminal multiplexer or something similar?

I only ask because my set up was exactly like what you just described. Once I buckled down and started using one, it negated the need for a lot of the tags I had with dwm.

In regards to number 7:

>7. Use a tiling WM

I recall reading a Plan 9 pdf on the Acme editor (sorry cant find it right now). A unique feature to that text editor is that it is heavily mouse-based. This is contrary to many peoples (myself, at the time, included) belief that both hands on the keyboard equals increased productivity.

I used to be 100% dwm. The euphoria of navigating around with your home row was great (vim + vimperator + dwm). When I purchased a MB, I left my tiled-wm ways and have not really missed it. Switching my hand from keyboard to mouse feels more natural than a lot of awkward <Ctrl+__> or <Alt+__> commands. Plus, most TWMs I have used require a decent amount of time upfront to become accustomed to all the keybindings. The time difference in switching between mouse and keyboard vs just using the keyboard is so trivial that it really isnt worth the plunge in my opinion, though if you think you might like it better, by all means try it.

Something such as a unified desktop (OS X, Haiku, Gnome, KDE) will make you more productive rather than a window manager that optimizes for pixel real estate.

I'm using Rhino + jQuery + env.js + Postgres for processing html and it works great. None of the code will ever need to run on the client so being in total control of the environment is liberating.

Oddly, jslint.js is just fine on either end of the spectrum, but probably isn't intended for your end-user.

>being able to write both client and server code in the same language has a lot of advantages.

Instead of html + css + sql + js + (python, ruby, [FotM]) its just html + css + sql + js? I would not be surprised to see html + css + sql + js (dom manipulation) + js (server side). The only benefit I see is that one could re-use their input validation.

Are there any examples of this in the wild? I have heard many claim that using JS on both sides is a big win, but have yet to come across anyone actually doing it (genuine question, it is something I would like to take notes from).

Just curious, how closely does your book resemble an episode of Good Eats?

Is that jQuery John ?