evanhanson

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by evanhanson 15y ago
Funny, one of the best things one can do to get faster with Vim is to switch CapsLock and Escape (though I know people who are still reaching all the way to that top left corner even after years of using it).
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by evanhanson 15y ago
I've been waiting a long time for the successor to the N900. It's sad it'll never happen, and that there's nothing similar on the horizon (especially with Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo floundering).
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by evanhanson 15y ago
I've long believed the master-apprentice system to be the most effective type of teaching system. Unfortunately, it doesn't scale.
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by evanhanson 16y ago
MathOverflow is a hosted instance of the SE stack, while the "Mathematics Stack Exchange" is part of the Stack Exchange network (started in their Area 51, "graduated", etc). The former is mainly for academics and professionals in the field,
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by evanhanson 16y ago
Question: why is everything greyed out on the site except for a Facebook "recommend" button?
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by evanhanson 16y ago
The complexity is actually one of the reason's I'm less attracted to American football than, say, soccer. In my experience programmers like simplicity and elegance, of which the NFL, with its large collection of seemingly arbitrary rules, h
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by evanhanson 16y ago
A wise man once said "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments." The reason _why (used as an example in the article) has the cult-like following he does is that he made fun, interesting things, not