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gavingon Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/stable-ch...

Mountain Lion.

gavingon Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements

installed on osx; launched; still no lion scrollbars or full screen support

honestly mozilla?

gavingon Learn R two minutes at a time

http://www.screenr.com/7wp8

what... just happened

gavingon Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show

I don't think that's fair since neither party had said anything about the split before that went live.

Now that Dan's expressed his thoughts, I wonder if John will do the same.

gavingon Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message

Here's another way to get around letting Facebook know you've read someone's message:

Delete your facebook account.

gavingon VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

I used to love VLC, pity they ruined the OSX version.

MPlayerX all the way now and I don't look back.

gavingon What time is it?

Ditto. Flash is dead.

gavingon Writing a CV in LaTeX

I'd be interested in this too!

gavingon A great list of command-line tips

I love my vim, but yuck on the shell.

gavingon OSX For Hackers

Nah, not that one but that's good too.

gavingon OSX For Hackers

Still waiting for a god damned "disable swoosh effect" defaults key for switching between desktops as you could in snow leopard.

gavingon Show HN: Noise up your pipelines with flute

Screencast: https://vimeo.com/39440084

gavingon Why do we need "? extends" in Java

Why do we need Java?

gavingon Torvalds: More bitwise tricks

meanwhile everybody awkwardly +1'ing each other

gavingon What I learned interviewing with Google

probably the most boring thing I've read all day

gavingon We are sorry

Not bad, but could have done without the "As we continue to expand and grow we will make some mistakes along the way." sentence.

gavingon Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co?

".. sites like sourceforge ..."

articles showing its age

gavingon Google at GitHub

christ, don't even joke

gavingon Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page

Something hilarious about the infographic linking Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf) when it'll be down today.

gavingon Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

Totally intend to if/when I get some time :)

gavingon Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

Real link: https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/19d95fa1ee0461dbe4d5...

Mind you on second thoughts, I really miss the mixed indentation warning.

gavingon Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

Yeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :)

Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.

gavingon Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

Goodbye old friend https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/plugin/s...

gavingon Tools I Use - tmux

Big thing holding me back from tmux is the lack of cygwin support for (unfortunately) my work environment. Otherwise, I'd switch cold turkey.

gavingon Google: Let it snow

Anyone wanna tear out the source and package it up?

gavingon Simple cli to manage your tasks (you haven't seen one like this before)

Haha, from the FAQ:-

    Why is it not packaged as a gem?
    To make it run faster.
    How fast is it?
    Very fast

cos, you know, I really need my todo list manager to be as performant as possible at the expense of install convenience.

gavingon Twitter Redesigns Around Four Concepts: Home Timeline, Connect, Discover, Me

Fairly skeptical initially, but liking the changes so far. Web interface seems a lot more stable and fiddly too.

You'll pry my tweet bot from my cold, dead hands though.

gavingon The single most useful Emacs feature

M-! open http://www.vim.org/

gavingon Steve Losh's .vimrc

Ugh. Be careful with that, since actually giving a /g has the effect of toggling the behaviour all together.

From :help 'gdefault':-

    :help 'gdefault'
    'gdefault' 'gd'		boolean	(default off)
    global
    {not in Vi}
    When on, the ":substitute" flag 'g' is default on.  This means that
    all matches in a line are substituted instead of one.  When a 'g' flag
    is given to a ":substitute" command, this will toggle the substitution
    of all or one match.  See |complex-change|.

    command		'gdefault' on	'gdefault' off	~
    :s///		  subst. all	  subst. one
    :s///g		  subst. one	  subst. all
    :s///gg		  subst. all	  subst. one

While not quite documented under ":help :s_flags", two 'g' flags cancel each other out. This also applies to 'gdefault'.

Also, be aware that this may break a huge amount of scripts out there, should you decide to use it as some (hard to debug) issues are caused because of it.

gavingon I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords.

Obligatory http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ link which taught me a ton.