I was interested in trying out fbs as I've always had many problems trying to get an executable build for Windows. I tried the simplest example he shows, but after running 'freeze' command I get a LookupError saying it can't find msvcr110.dll. Some investigation later, I install said dll from microsoft, and try again. It builds to exe now, so I go into the build folder and try to run it and just get a crash dialog.
The Goldfinch was fantastic, definitely in my top 5 favourite book of all time, if not top 2 along with the Empire Falls by Richard Russo and The Stand by Stephen King.
"Different Seasons" is my favourite collection, and out of the 4 total stories in it, 3 became movies (The Body became Stand By Me, Apt Pupil, and The Shawshank Redemption). Can't recommend this collection highly enough.
Serious question: how does this not just become a race to the bottom salary/compensation-wise the same way other remote sites like upwork have become? If I have to compete with others from all over the world who will settle for a lot less salary-wise, how do I even compete at all? I've got several years of programming experience, but I've never been able to secure jobs through sites like upwork because I'm unwilling to lower my rate to minimum-wage levels when I have a family and a desire to eat.
I feel the same way, but I feel like once you start learning Emacs, you reach a point (see 'emacs bankruptcy') where you just want to know what every single line of elisp is doing and start from vanilla.
I've been down the path of package managers, starter kits, etc., which can be good learning tools, but ultimately after a few years of using Emacs, you tend to abandon them for simpler solutions. I used to have thousands on lines in multiple org-files, but now I'm down to a single init.el file and keep it fairly simple.
Same here, used both vim and emacs for many years, reading all the books and customizing them both endlessly. Getting older now and tired of wasting time trying to get vim and/or emacs to work under a certain configuration/environment. Any good IDE has both vim/emacs key configs, which do me just fine, although they are never quite exactly the same, I can do 75+% of the vim commands that in JetBrains/whatever that I'd do in vim.
One issue I see with the nice flow chart is that OS X, and maybe others, look for .bash_profile, not ~/.bashrc as the flowchart suggests (Interactive -> Login Shell? -> "--rcfile <file> ?" -> "--norc ?" -> "/etc/bash.bashrc" -> "~/.bashrc"). The issue is discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18773051/how-to-make-os-x...
> Well, they're three times the price. That's a bit hard to swallow, honestly.
Exactly, people keep bringing up Garmin as a replacement but I don't think it is. I was into Pebble for the open C API and price, which did everything I wanted. The Pebble 2 was at the limit of what I would ever pay for a smartwatch, Garmin I just won't consider as I only want a few features.
I'm sad that it is almost certain that the Pebble/fitbit blend that we will see in the future will be completely closed/proprietary which definitely doesn't help me "make awesome happen".
I'll be sad to see them go too, at their price point they couldn't be beat. Unfortunately they have been treating their Kickstarter and pre-order backers poorly (as they did with their first Kickstarter) and there has been some backlash on r/pebble and their forums (basically, you can get a pebble 2 in retail now for cheaper than you could get it on pre-order, and many if not most backers/pre-orders have yet to get their order).
Using Helm is a joy, you will be able to find commands much easier than the vanilla Emacs completion system. Give it a try, I consider it essential now, and the fuzzy matching saves me daily.
Pretty much the same story here. Used Vim for years and even read a couple of the books out there on it, but I was always running into annoying little issues that drove to me to try Emacs. I stuck with Emacs for probably 2 months and ran back to Vim because I just didn't dive into it (learning elisp is crucial!). Fast forward maybe a year and I was ready to give Emacs another try. Once I overcame the initial hump, I was sold on Emacs. I still enjoy the Vi/m keybindings and use them in Firefox or the odd time I use Sublime. I haven't found anything close in Emacs to the concept of word-objects like in Vim: nothing beats the ease of doing "ci(", but I'll live without it.
Rolled my eyes at this line, took one look at the cover and the typeset, grimaced, and closed the article. Strange what passes for quality these days in publishing.
> Oh my goodness - it never occurred to me that a library could be scary
Me neither (probably doesn't help that I'm a trained librarian). I love walking into messy used bookstores too, where the books are piled precariously high and and stuff everywhere. I wonder if there's a 'used-book store anxiety'?
If you have the cursor just before the area you could do: 'dt)' meaning delete to next ), or 'ct)' to delete until next ) and the drop into insert mode. Learning word objects in Vim for me is one of the killer features, and one thing I miss in Emacs.