helmut_hed
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Comment · 7 months ago
A story of doing the right thing for abandoned (and wannabe abandoned) packages
Comment · 2 years ago
Incredible contributor in both technical and organizational ways. And nice as hell too.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are a remarkable number of people attending our Emacs meetup who are under 30. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.
Comment · 3 years ago
I used https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook at one employer and it works quite well for Jupyter. Of course Org is great but if your coworkers are unfamiliar it's probably a non-starter.
Comment · 3 years ago
Re: the C code, Emacs will happily let you ignore your own config settings. Just turn off anything labeled "electric" and nothing will happen automatically. And don't press tab, that will reindent the current line.
Comment · 3 years ago
You definitely needed to be on evil-mode or a framework (like Doom) based on it. The key bindings with ctl, alt, etc. are the least important part of Emacs but sadly, the part everyone thinks of first...
Comment · 5 years ago
This really captures the power of Emacs for people with Lisp skills. For coders with strong habits of high-level thinking it's a real force multiplier. Why shouldn't we apply the same analysis and effort to our productivity tools we do to our "output"?
Comment · 10 years ago
It is probably easier to write correct concurrent code now, thanks to the new features he mentions. However, as always plenty of rope is provided, and the old programs are still valid (and have the same semantics). I couldn't say how it compares to Rust, but "better now" seems pretty accurate.
Comment · 10 years ago
Presumbly it is the American ones (such as myself) being referred to - separated from their relatives by more than a century and a half https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans
Comment · 10 years ago
Git submodules work pretty great for this IMO. Rather than incorporate a snapshot of the source, pick a commit hash. Still frozen at a point in time, but you get to move which one you're using (or point to your own fork!) whenever you like.
Comment · 10 years ago
I certainly like Jetbrains, but is it a "unicorn"? I doubt it has a billion dollar valuation - not least because it is a private company.
Comment · 10 years ago
I doubt anyone is willing to pay 2x performance for their C code to be more friendly. If they were, why are they writing in C?
To me this is the fundamental issue with the friendly/boring C proposals. The whole reason to use C/C++ anymore is for performance, in return for which you are responsible for certain things - like using only defined behavior.
If you are writing e.g. crypto code, why not use a higher level language that provides more checks and guarantees, and is generally easier to reason about? Or segregate the performance-critical "engine" type code into C++ and use something higher level for everything else?
Comment · 11 years ago
A commercial product covering similar territory is UndoDB http://undo-software.com/undodb/