skeuomorf

ad hominem.

Also, when writing code it's not unusual (at least among LISP and Haskell programmers) to have the editor replace a word for its corresponding symbol, the most famous example of which is (lambda -> λ) because some people find it easier to parse e.g. in emacs[0]. You can easily imagine doing that for other expressions, like (forall, there-exists, ...etc).

All in all I think it's a matter of preference which is in turn related to each individual's experiences.

[0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettyLambda

I haven't used Alfred but I think you might find rofi[0] interesting.

[0] https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/

The video is also available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmjlmn0jHbw

This is not entirely true, ancient Egyptians used chariots in warfare, which they originally picked up from the Hyksos [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariotry_in_ancient_Egypt

Of relevant interest: "Quasicrystals in medieval islamic architecture" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rldnu9rNpH8

Yeah, it's pretty common with code that uses the builder pattern as well. I also like to use it with rust combinators e.g. https://github.com/skeuomorf/conshash/blob/master/src/lib.rs...

I think some (most?) of these mathlets are used in conjunction with MIT courses [0], for example it's used in [1] with an assignment so that it develops the intuition of the student solving that assignment.

[0] http://mathlets.org/courses/

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variab...

Cite? Cause Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haytham (Arab muslim), Al-Biruni (Persian muslim) and Ibn Sina (Persian muslim) among others played a big role in the development of the scientific method.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method#E...

That was kinda my point, I was not nitpicking -relative OP's- grammatical usage, I just thought it was convenient to refer to the author in a more specific manner since his details were obvious. I had no idea whether their -relative OP- :) intention was to use "their" in a singular or plural manner. Heck, one of my favorite Stephen Fry videos [0] talks exactly about this!

Also, the videos you referenced are great :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

Actually I think the correctness of using a singular they is disputed but I am not a grammaticist, however the word cromulent which you used is not even a real word but I didn't mention the correction to do all that nitpicking, I just thought since the person's information is accessible, it'd be nice to refer to him correctly that's all.

Relevant video [0]

[0] https://vimeo.com/mediatedmattergroup/glass

nitpick: He not they. [0] Steven is also the person who developed MathBox. [1]

[0] http://acko.net/about/

[1] http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/

Oh, you're gonna love this [0] and the work of Territory Studio[1]. Also, check out r/unixporn [2], it has some cool stuff.

[0] http://www.hudsandguis.com/

[1] https://www.behance.net/TerritoryStudio

[2] https://reddit.com/r/unixporn

This is pretty cool. It reminded me of [0] where a guy emulates kinda GTA-like behavior.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1hOCX_UVo

There's also "The Dash" which is an earphone. [0]

[0] https://store.bragi.com/

You might also enjoy ranger[0] which is a console file manager with vi key bindings, I use it as my primary file manager and it's pretty convenient when SSHing as well.

Edit: I should also clarify that if I will work with a remote directory for a non-trivial amount of operations or time, I just mount it locally via sshfs[1] which also saves me the pain of having to install ranger on the remote machine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090834

[1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

I recently switched from vim to emacs (mostly cause I want to mess around with LISPs and emacs LISP support is good e.g. CIDER) and I've had my eye on Magit from the get go, haven't had the time to mess around with it yet but definitely looking forward to do that.

>The disadvantage, of course, is that one really should still know how to use git competently at the command line for the 15% of tasks such wrappers aren't good at.

I definitely agree with this. I always learn the core technology before learning any convenience layer/wrapper/abstraction e.g. {(git, Magit), (CSS, -Insert Grid Framework-)}.

Very cool. I've been wanting to get into machining for a while (haven't had the time yet) and I was planning to do that by building my own machines (foundry, precision lathe, milling machine, drill press,..etc) with the aid of Dave Gingery's books [0] but I am still not sure about them (they use imperial units, which I loathe and they might be outdated).

[0] http://gingerybookstore.com/index.html

Oh, I see.

Hmm, Egypt by any chance?

Exactly, I was kinda shocked at how much they've raised (via crowdfunding) given the absence of vital information.

Ah, this appears to have a little more information, thanks.

Hmm, so I wasn't able to find any technical information at all about the vehicle (engine specs, suspension, electronics...etc) neither on the linked page nor on their official website.

People interested in secure web development frameworks should definitely check out Ur/Web http://www.impredicative.com/ur/

Well, there's kinda an example in the docs [0]. Kinda related: this appears to be built on the Clack webserver and its homepage lists code snippets of Lucerne alternatives that are built on top of Clack as well [1].

[0] http://eudoxia.me/lucerne/docs/example--a-twitter-clone.html

[1] http://clacklisp.org/

Well, you can use this and not restart the terminal https://github.com/sos4nt/dynamic-colors

Yeah, the cure for AIDS and Hepatitis Virus C was a nice touch on top of that as well.

I am going to dump a list of related resources that some people might find interesting:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming

https://open.gl/

http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/

http://www.lighthouse3d.com/tutorials/

http://www.lighthouse3d.com/tutorials/glsl-core-tutorial/#

https://web.archive.org/web/20150309070928/http://www.arcsyn...

http://www.learnopengles.com/

https://www.npmjs.com/package/shader-school

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/opengl/cg_basi...

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/06/06/

https://github.com/zuck/opengl-examples

https://github.com/progschj/OpenGL-Examples

https://github.com/g-truc/ogl-samples

https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Computer_graphics

http://webglfundamentals.org/

https://blog.inovex.de/android-graphics-pipeline-from-button...

https://blog.inovex.de/android-graphics-pipeline-from-button...

http://www.tomdalling.com/blog/category/modern-opengl/

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...

Well, for starters, this doesn't say anywhere that the Saudi government supports ISIS. I keep seeing variations of this reiterated mostly by western political analysts but this only goes to represent to their ignorance of middle-eastern geopolitics, as a matter of fact, if anybody knows two shits about the middle-east, he/she wouldn't say something like that. To clarify, ISIS is in itself a threat to most forces that are currently in power in the middle-east. By ideology, ISIS considers most arabic governments to be infidels "Kuffar" and allies of the west "Dar al Harb".

Regarding private contributors, this is undoubtedly true but as clarified in the linked article, it's not the large sum currently. Why are there private contributors you ask? Because morons "Sunni" governments fund morons -like ISIS- to fight other morons "Shia" governmets e.g. Iran which in its own right funds some morons -Hezbollah and its ilk- to fight the original morons, in dreams of having a moronic sectarian consolidated power dream.

[Edit]: I originally put the phrases "Sunni" and "Shia" in quotes because they're usually misrepresented by non-muslims. There are different branches of Shia and different branches of Sunna "Sunni". There are newer terms like Wahabism and Ahmadiyya. Each of these terms can be interpreted in a number of ways, the "academic" distinction is quite clear but the reality is quite complicated -in short, several groups, members with different ideologies claim one of the aforementioned terms to be the one that identifies them and that they fit the most accurate description of that term-. Note that this is a gross oversimplification.