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Why would you want to call me?
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What I don’t get it is why a person would rather sit on the phone for however long it takes – maybe 45 minutes!!! – rather than send an email and go about their life while it’s read and replied to.
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Emails can be printed out and saved. They can be sent to someone else who can chime in on th thread. They’re a historical document you don’t have to copy down hurriedly while information is spewed out to you. They can be sent quickly, tagged, labeled, archived. You can send an email whenever you want, there’s no business hours to abide by or schedule to confer with.
MacVim vs vim-cocoa - vim_mac | Google Groups
here's a list of things that MacVim does which vim-cocoa doesn't. In
short, MacVim offers more OS X integration and has many "small things" that make life easier
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you can hit ⇧⌘T
to open a file with a gui browser in a new tab -
MacVim includes its own font (well, the open source DejaVu Mono font)
that has an italic version, so italic text can be displayed. OS X'
default fixed width font Monaco cannot display italic text - 14 more annotations...
Django vs. ASP.NET MVC
"When I started looking at Django, there was a simple 4 step tutorial that I followed to get up to speed. I read through it and over the next couple days I got my simple app up and running. There is nothing like that for the ASP.NET MVC stuff"
JeffCroft.com: Django for non-programmers
Short intro for non-programmers focusing on the high-level building blocks of Django
Git's Killer Feature
"The Git index is the killer feature of git. Now obviously Git has many other things going for it, but I was searching for the real differences between Git and Mercurial and this appears to be the trump card of Git."
Rails is the best thing that ever happened to Python
"As much as I may like Ruby more as far as language design goes, not only does Python boast a very solid implementation, it has several advantages over Ruby that go beyond the interpreter."
Python All A Scientist Needs
"In this paper, we outline a recent comparative genomics case study where python and associated community libraries were used as a complete scientific programming platform. We introduce several specific python libraries and tools, and how they were used"
The only nonprofit that matters
"Kiva is a nonprofit, but it has the heart of a Silicon Valley startup.... Rather than tax-deductible donations, users pledge interest-free loans.... Kiva directs 100% to borrowers, thanks in part to free payment processing from PayPal."
Forget Cygwin and VMware, run coLinux
"I no longer have Cygwin on my machine, it has been replaced by Cooperative Linux ... a recompilation of the Linux kernel as a Windows executable.... you can boot your [Linux] distribution while in Windows without any binary recompilation a la VMWare"
clojure is the best lisp yet
"Besides cleaning up some of lisp's historic weaknesses, clojure provides several innovative new features. For example, the idea of data structure interfaces allows you to write code that can work the same on a variety of concrete types."
10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted
"Canada's system is not the same as the U.S. system. It's designed to deliver a somewhat different product [...]. But the end result is that the vast majority of Canadians get the vast majority of what they need the vast majority of the time."
Interview with Bob Ippolito, CTO at MochiAds
"[Erlang] was really easy for me to pick up conceptually. [...] it was really quick for me to build a prototype. When I did some benchmarks on it, it worked so much better than the Python equivalent that I thought it might actually be broken; it wasn’t"
Features of Common Lisp
List and explanation of 25 features that make Common Lisp uniquely powerful, including: Rich & exact arithmetic, Generalized references, Multiple values, Macros, Nonlocal control transfer, Functional functions, Multiple dispatch, Programmable parser.
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