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thomasmallenon Proj: Simple project tool for Vim

Interesting...I use FuzzyFileFinder for finding the files themselves right now, but I can see the value in having a feature like that built-in.

thomasmallenon Proj: Simple project tool for Vim

> Is there any way to do this within Proj?

Nope, it's simple by design. Project.vim seems mainly for projects that need to pull in files from all over the place and probably fulfills that goal well. If I need to search the working directory, I'll use ':!grep -RI "term" .' (or vim's grep which is pretty nice).

I say that project.vim stinks because it's awkward and its usage is unclear. Maybe I've never "gotten" it, but I think there are many others like myself who really, really wanted to like project.vim but just couldn't use it.

I have my mind on other goals. One is to add a toggleable split that gives useful version control information by integrating with the VCS plugin.

thomasmallenon Proj: Simple project tool for Vim

Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of introspecting the directory names...I'll see if I can work that in there.

You have to put quotes because otherwise Vim complains about using undefined symbols (I don't plan on using the command interface in the long run; probably something more like what MiniBufExplorer does, or even FuzzyFileFinder's hack of the completion system). I agree that it's clumsy, but the command interface is limited, and can only accept paths with quotes omitted.

thomasmallenon Proj: Simple project tool for Vim

Please report any bugs and/or feature requests. Project.vim stinks so I'm set on finding a simpler path.

thomasmallenon The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG)

Yea, Scribd was aggravating enough in this case for me to return from a half-year hiatus...I imagine the demand is strong for such a thing!

thomasmallenon The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG)

Eh, why not. Pages took so long to load, so let's see if my host holds up to their unlimited bandwidth promise.

http://www.703designs.com/sites/default/files/article.pdf

Awaits threatening email.

If you read this comment after today, expect the link to be dead.

thomasmallenon How to Pick a Language

I know I signed that as my final post, but I feel the need to assure you that I wouldn't be offended by something so silly.

Sometimes you just get bored with a place and feel like moving on :^)

I think I'll spend less time on sites like these and more playing this fine Buffet clarinet I picked up on Saturday. It's been a while, but my embouchure's returning already.

thomasmallenon How to Pick a Language

Pick PHP if you want to use Wordpress, phpBB, Drupal, and a wealth of other great open-source web apps.

P.S. Final post; great community here!

thomasmallenon Wufoo Doubled this guy's number of RFP(Request For Proposal)s

Correction

Web Forms Doubled this guy's number of RFP(Request For Proposal)s

thomasmallenon When in doubt, turn to _why

Wow, let's hear it for being judgmental!

thomasmallenon Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

Unlikely. Those Seinfeld ads didn't actually try to sell anything. A bit of overpriced, mild brand reinforcement most likely would not have affected the company's short-term prospects.

By the way, what M$ is doing here is very screwed up. They're laying off the first batch (1400) immediately, but using the remaining 3600 as a threat to make competition cutthroat. I might just quit if I worked there.

thomasmallenon The frat boy ships out

Yes, incendiary unsourced quotes and all.

Karen Hughes, one of his closest advisers, "rarely read books and distrusted people who did."

Who knows where that came from. Gotta love billion-dollar words thrown in like "homunculi" and "ratiocination" instead of the clearer "cronies" and "reasoning," respectively.

I just can't help but feel that this particular analyst is strongly biased.

thomasmallenon High Readability for your Terminal.app

You're looking at dotfiles.com, but I was referring to dotfiles.org.

thomasmallenon High Readability for your Terminal.app

I don't know why people are putting this sort of work on GitHub instead of dotfiles. GitHub takes a while to load, and there are two wasted clicks here (the file in question, then "Raw"). At the very least he could have linked directly to the raw file.

I keep my Vim stuff on FreeHg, but that's because we're talking about possibly hundreds of files when you consider the color schemes, doc files, plugins, etc. More importantly, it's awesome to be able to quickly pull in all of my vim stuff onto any machine with Hg and I needed this setup to easily sync between work, the server, and home.

thomasmallenon Google AJAX API Playground

Is there a shortcut for "Run"?

thomasmallenon Obama makes Bush's record public

Obama may very well have entered this using FCKEditor himself. Evidence: The title:

    <strong>Executive Order -- Presidential Records</strong>

Empty paragraphs and all, this looks like most article content that gets spit out of a CMS. Of course, I have no reason to believe that it was Obama in particular, but you never know, it was his first executive order...

Also, a sign of things to come for lobbyists:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-Et...

thomasmallenon When in doubt, turn to _why

In our daily lives, we strive for quality in what we do. We cook aiming to make delicious food; we build to produce something durable and attractive. When I program, I aim to produce something of high quality: Performant, readable, simple, and reliable.

thomasmallenon Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything

Yep. See, we were overrun by the PC nuts in the 80s, but there are good parts. In the case of "waitress," I agree with them that the elaboration is unnecessary and pointless. So I value some PC when it delivers precision (but the arguments that certain speech is sexist seems far-fetched; "waitress" is not sexist).

thomasmallenon Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything

I think that the "ess" should only be added when sexual distinction is being communicated as well. Off the top of my head, I can only think of it coming up for very feminine nouns, such as "temptress" and "mistress." "Waitress" is still doable but discouraged.

thomasmallenon Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything

A word doesn't become proper by virtue of merely being defined...

For what it's worth, my comment was on a PC bent. Nowadays, "waitress," "stewardess," etc. are frowned upon, and your use of "authoress" needlessly draws intention to the distinction. It's a clumsy word as well, which makes it seem that you find this distinction notable enough to decide against the far, far more common "author."

thomasmallenon Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything

"authoress"

Seriously? "author"

thomasmallenon Old

Great, thanks!

thomasmallenon Old

There must be some reason that arrow keys and the space bar don't scroll on GitHub. It's probably not a very good one, though. This makes scrolling tedious for many users, including me.

thomasmallenon Ask HN: Please Review My New Site.

I think that no such message is necessary, period.

thomasmallenon All Souls: The toughest test you’ll ever take

"Now, if you look closely, inside this ivory tower you can make out an even smaller tower made of far choicer ivory."

thomasmallenon President Obama’s inauguration, as seen from space

That being said, you wouldn't need a satellite to take these pictures. Also, the Mall is under constant (heavy) surveillance.

thomasmallenon President Obama’s inauguration, as seen from space

It was so crowded that on WTOP by 7:30 they were suggesting that listeners stay home. There were already over 200k Metro rides by 7am which is absurd.

thomasmallenon The day the newspaper died.

Those stats are mixed. Paper, printing, and delivery are requirements exclusive to printed news. However, editorial and marketing are not. In any case, until an online resource can outcompete the printed edition of the Post, I'll continue to pay the $1-200/year to have it delivered to my door.