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by hesitz 14y ago
Nice, great way to organize information. I would add that Orgmode in Emacs is used by many in nearly the same way. Freemind and mindmappers in general are basically just visual outliners. For me, you get enough of the visual aspect with O
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by hesitz 14y ago
Not sure, but I think jury nullification may apply only in criminal cases, essentially because of guarantee that defendant can't be tried more than once for same crime. With obvious misapplication of law by jury in a civil case I don't bel
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by hesitz 14y ago
I think the point is that it's harder to see what line number you want to jump to if you don't have line numbering on. . . .
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by hesitz 14y ago
I'm the main developer of VimOrganizer. I'm sure other people have had this reaction, but it mostly results from not fully understanding what Org-mode is and how it works. Org-mode is many things to many people, with a feature set that's
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by hesitz 14y ago
I agree EVIL is pretty good, feels much better to me than Viper/Vimpulse. One issue with any Vim emulation in Emacs is the need to create vim-like keybindings for add-ons, like Org-mode. If you don't do this, and if you use many Emacs add
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by hesitz 14y ago
Sounds fine, but -- to me -- like many of the other points in the piece, it applies equally both before and after graduation from college. I think a lot of college kids fool themselves into thinking what they do during college doesn't matt
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by hesitz 14y ago
I wish I understood what that sentence is supposed to mean. "Life debt"? It seems to be in code, or shorthand, or jibberish.
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by hesitz 14y ago
The problem is that these people (and others) don't know enough to realize their economic predictions are worthless. There is truth to the old saw, "Economists are good at predicting recessions. They've predicted eight of the last three. .
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by hesitz 15y ago
[edit: Not sure why the downvote, since I was just trying to clarify concepts. "Literate programming" was invented and clearly defined by Don Knuth, and it muddies the water to suggest that merely doing good comments is a "literate program
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by hesitz 15y ago
I think the better systems of literate programming allow you to change code in either place. I.e., you can edit the "literate code", which is "tangled" to create a directly compilable codebase. Or you can edit the "tangled" codebase, and
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by hesitz 15y ago
Where is the link between the graphical analysis (investors as a whole are bad at timing the market) and the subsequent quotes, (e.g., Bogle saying "I do not know anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. . . .") It is a far cr
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by hesitz 15y ago
I wonder if you got things fully figured out. What "verbosity" are you talking about: (1) words in non-source sections or (2) code in source blocks? The code in source blocks is basically identical to code you would have in a normal sourc
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by hesitz 15y ago
Please understand I wasn't necessarily defending SOPA as written; I was merely objecting to people who were naively saying, "This is what it says and there is no other way of interpreting it". (Mostly, perhaps, because I think it's dangero
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by hesitz 15y ago
thepiratebay.org is one obvious example. Although this would seem to be a foreign site, it is actually a "domestic internet site" and a "U.S. directed site" under the terms of SOPA. This is because the '.org' domain (along with '.com' and
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by hesitz 15y ago
It's impossible to completely avoid ambiguity and vagueness in law. Lawyers don't enact laws, legislators do. And lawyers don't "tolerate ambiguity"; lawyers exist in large part because it takes experts to know how enacted laws will be in
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by hesitz 15y ago
What do you mean by "not particularly limited" in scope? It seems to me the intent of the provision is that more is required to run afoul of the provision, e.g., that a site also be "designed or operated primarily for the purpose" of enabl
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by hesitz 15y ago
I agree. It's unpleasant to see him simply ignore the limiting language. He focuses over half the video on the "enables, or facilitates" clause, spreading the false impression that the provision says _any_ site that "enables or facilitate
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by hesitz 15y ago
In Vim there are many benefits from having multiple buffers open within the same Vim instance. Buffers share session data of the Vim instance they're in. This has a lot of different benefits, including automatically sharing whatever optio
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by hesitz 15y ago
"I've been contemplating a rather severe letter in response, but I haven't gotten to it as I don't believe anything I can say to him will be effective." I doubt whether anything you say to _him_ would be effective. But why not write a resp
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by hesitz 15y ago
To me the important issue in the 'mimic' thing is that the kid is not a one-in-a-million special kind of genius. (At least you can't tell that from the video.) Instead, he's just a smart sixth grader. I think this is important because we
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by hesitz 15y ago
I also don't like this, although it's no big deal, and it happens with a few other settings (e.g., 'number'). One way around it is to forget about using the 'set' command entirely and to assign all settings using the setting variable direc
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by hesitz 15y ago
What's more, you can press <ctrl-D> to view the whole list of possible completions at one time. For example, enter ':colo ' then press <ctrl-D> and you'll see a list of all the colorscheme names. (The space in ':colo ' is
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by hesitz 15y ago
Something like the 'NoSQL' project might be just what you're looking for: http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20P... This 'NoSQL' has absolutely no similarity to the 'NoSQL' databases of the last few years (and preda
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by hesitz 15y ago
I'm the author of that clone. I'm making progress, and it's building up to a fairly nice subset of org-mode, but it's not something that would satisfy any truly hardcore org-mode power user. At least not any time in the near future. The p
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by hesitz 15y ago
"org-mode developers, in turn, just ask a relevant big question: 'why use separate files when you can conveniently stick the stuff in one file, dammit?'" It surprises me that you could come away from org-mode thinking that the developers th
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by hesitz 16y ago
Don't the various methods of attaching to a remote desktop work well enough? I sometimes work in an IDE remotely on Windows using the native RDC or just VNC. Works great, smooth and fast, I would be happy to work that way for a couple of
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by hesitz 16y ago
This is a really great set of articles, top notch overview along with practical advice on idiomatic VimScript and examples that you're not likely to find anywhere else. I find something new almost every time I refer back to these. Just no
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by hesitz 16y ago
Off topic a bit, but for help on legal writing I think the work by Bryan Garner is the best I've seen. Simple, direct, full of great advice and examples. Great stuff: http://www.lawprose.org/bryan_garner/books.php
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by hesitz 16y ago
On a slightly different note -- and if your LaTeX needs aren't too complex -- I'm working on a clone of Emacs' Org-mode that runs in Vim. Org-mode has a kick-ass export to LaTeX/PDF that adds a good portion of the markup based on your outl
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by hesitz 16y ago
Very sorry, my mistake. I thought I had checked and confirm that it did appear to the right and I must have looked too quickly. No, I don't think there is a way to swap those columns. (At least not through Vim 7.2, Vim 7.3 introduced rel

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