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vadskyeon Ask HN: Should I respond to unsolicited recruiting emails?

Makes sense to me - thanks!

vadskyeon Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car

Pedantic correction: The term is "eminent domain". In fairness, if someone exercises the power of eminent domain, the domain will imminently be theirs, but that's neither here nor there.

vadskyeon Vim for Humans

Completely agree. Personally, I'm trying to spread the One True Way of ijkl navigation, but it's slow going...

vadskyeon Vim Anti-Patterns

Speaking as someone with a similar setup, I've never had many issues with plugins assuming the use of hjkl. The only one I can think of offhand that has issues is indent-object.

The thing that really causes issues is my attempt to swap the roles of [ and {, using [] to jump between paragraphs and {} to do fancy function jumping. Vim plugins really don't like that...

vadskyeon Vim Anti-Patterns

Someone else has found the wisdom of ijkl! :D

My setup uses "u" and "o" the same way you use "h" and ";". I also extended it so you can use modifiers on I and K to get page up/page down behavior, or to navigate between indentation levels.

vadskyeon Show HN: how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal

"how2 -l cmd change directory" works for me. "how2 -l cmd enable tab completion" still returns nothing, though; I think that's just a query it can't answer. (A quick manual search returned totally unhelpful results, so I wouldn't blame how2 for that...)

vadskyeon The Elements of Python Style

Minor nitpick: I think you mean

   now = datetime.datetime.utcnow # no parentheses

More generally, I think the strongest argument for using "from" is when you're dealing with redundant "foo.foo.bar" names. Would you really be confused at seeing "datetime.utcnow()" instead of "datetime.datetime.utcnow()"?

vadskyeon I deduce you are studying logic

It's a reference to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic

vadskyeon Show HN: Emacs Mini Manual

I will look into that, thank you!

vadskyeon Show HN: Emacs Mini Manual

I would like to write something like this for Vim, but I don't know how to easily create animated screencaps like those displayed here. Does anyone know a good tool for that?

vadskyeon Babun – A new Windows shell

I've been using ConEmu [0] for over a year now, and it's miles better than the default console. I actually spend a majority of my time in Windows in the console now.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/

vadskyeon Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary

Sample size is already controlled for. See the second paragraph, immediately before the graphic: "I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake."

vadskyeon Wanelo: The First Million Users

The person at the LinkedIn link is Sarvjeet Ahuja. He claims [1] [2] to be a co-founder of Wanelo, and former CTO. I haven't found him mentioned in any documentation from the company, as opposed to just being from him - except one. In the company's CrunchBase profile, he is listed as being a co-founder back in 2009 [3]. I don't know enough about CrunchBase profiles to say whether this should be considered reliable evidence; can someone with more experience confirm?

Additionally, a VC report from 2011 talked about how "both founders have extensive knowledge of the high-tech industry" [4]. Another described Sarvjeet's extensive experience [5].

[1] https://angel.co/sarvjeet

[2] http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sarvjeet-ahuja

[3] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wanelo

[4] http://gecr.co.uk/file_download/45/

[5] http://tmtinvestments.com/i/pdf/Wanelo%20RNS%20(22%20Nov%201...