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edheberton Solving Wordle in 3.64 guesses on average, 99.4% of the time

For the creator of Wordle and their partner, who obviously have some love of word puzzles, REBUS (a picture to word puzzle) would be a familiar word.

edheberton Changing how I review code

The latter would be a very useful code commit message, (the line #55 may be excessive), both for the author and the reviewer.

edheberton Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

Sometimes the discrete unit I am looking to listen to is the album, not just a song.

edheberton Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards

The Linnstrument captures the dynamic range of strike and release velocity, as well as pressure and aftertouch direction; translated to MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression).

As someone with relatively small hands for piano, I have been enjoying the wider range of intervals with one hand provided by the Linnstrument's layout.

edheberton Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football

Local games are simulcast over the air.

edheberton MA, CA take the top spots in Bloomberg's index of innovative states

NASA?

edheberton Ask HN: I don't like my new job, now what?

I once got this advice as, "Either change your organization or change your organization."

edheberton The Physical Web

The project's ethos is very similar to Rob Pike's 'dream setup' that he describes in his usesthis interview, http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/

edheberton Update on Julie Horvath's Departure

Well, it sounds like they tried to sweep things under the rug.

edheberton Git 1.9 Release Notes

vc-diff works pretty well.

edheberton Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

  $ ack --thppt

  _   /|
  \'o.O'
  =(___)=
     U    ack --thppt!

edheberton Keyboard innovation is making them worse

Try remapping it so that the Command buttons, i.e., the keys next to the Space Bar, are Control. This was the position of the old Symbolics machines. To my hands, it makes Emacs much more efficient, since the rest position for the thumbs can be between the Space Bar and the Control keys.

edheberton NFL, MLB Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts

How is that a win/win?

edheberton 37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009)

By asking a Scotsman.

edheberton Using Historical Data To Rank The Top Magic: The Gathering Cards

And following suit, Jace the Mind Sculptor.

edheberton Working hours: Get a life

What about the sort of person that needs to make sure their child is picked up from day care?

edheberton GitHub was down

What I would like to see is an analogue to offlineimap for GitHub's project management services.

The protocol could even be email based.

e.g. a pull request is an email with the git formatted patch attached. Issues are emails with discussions as threaded mail/news, etc.

edheberton Show HN: Zipline - algorithmic trading in open source Python

I'm one of the co-maintainers of the project.

You're right that there is a chasm between backtesting and actual trading.

The title may be a little future thinking, we are working on adapting the event/stream-based backtesting engine to drive live trading.

Updating the description to help declare intended goals of being a wider algorithmic trading suite.

edheberton Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released

I'm curious, is the naming related to the two neighboring towns in MA?

edheberton TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

If backup files are giving you an issue, you can change the behavior of emacs so that it saves backup files in a separate directory, instead of the alongside the file that is being edited.

(setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . "~/saves"))) (setq tramp-backup-directory-alist backup-directory-alist) (setq backup-by-copying t)