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"a2d3gE: Vim normal mode grammar

glts.github.io

3 pointsby _telemachus13 lat temu0 comments

Why Teach and Study English

newyorker.com

1 pointsby _telemachus13 lat temu0 comments

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_telemachus

12 lat temudiscuss

Let's assume your string struct is solid. Then does that mean you can safely use it with `printf, fprintf, sprintf` (e.g. printf("%s", string->value)? Or must you also write custom versions of those functions? How deep does this rabbit hole go?

_telemachus

12 lat temudiscuss

Good for laughs. Thanks. Now the serious follow up: Ok, what else should someone do?

Programs (often) handle text. Apparently, that pretty much means you're fucked. So what is a reasonable way to write such programs?

_telemachus

12 lat temudiscuss

Serious question: Aren't the C-based problems simply hidden from the programmer there? That is, the problems still exist, but you can no longer address them, qua Python, Ruby, Java programmer. That seems worse, not better.

_telemachus

13 lat temudiscuss

Thanks for the tip about railwaycat's fork. Note though that before you can run:

    brew install emacs-mac

you first need to run this:

    brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

Otherwise, `brew` won't be aware of that version. (Whoops. Noticed just now that someone said this earlier as well. Since the comments are all spread out, I'm leaving mine in case it helps someone see the issue faster.)

_telemachus

13 lat temudiscuss

> or sending e-mails

Better mail applications allow you to "send" the mail with no connectivity and then simply hold onto it until there's a network connection. At which point the mail is actually sent out. But for the user it's transparent. He or she hits send and (at some point), the mail goes out. I wish more phone apps did this (looking at you, Twitter).