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Lisp: no easy download
Over at LispCast, eric’s got a new post up called No easy download. In it he talks about the difficulty of being new to Lisp, wanting to learn, and not knowing where to start. He’s right. It’s way too hard … Continue reading
Smarter Git Prompt
After posting my git prompt shell snippets, someone pointed out on news.YC pointed out my daftness. All you need is the following in your .bashrc: PS1 = ‘$(git branch &>/dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "\[\033[00m\]{$(git branch … Continue reading
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debugging macro snippet
I wish I could say I came up with the below, and I suppose I did, but I more or less gathered two or three techniques I didn’t come up with into a few lines to code to make a … Continue reading
Picking up a Lisp
I’ve recently gone back to learning Lisp. I used it a little bit in graduate school to do some homework assignments in one of my algorithms class and learned some of the basics there, but since I started my professional … Continue reading
Useful Git Prompt
Here’s a snippet of bash script that I wrote to make my prompt tell me when I’m in a git repository and what branch I’m on. And to my pleasant surprise, the PROMPT_COMMAND mechanism will respect color codes, so if … Continue reading
More functional support in C++
Sutter just announced that C++0x will have support for lambdas and closures. It looks from the N2550 report that these things are motivated by a desire for some syntactic sugar to make using STL algorithms easier (which is understandable), but … Continue reading
New favorite quote
Charles Murray put it perfectly: “A meaningful friendship does not consist of sharing backyard barbecues; a satisfying marriage does not consist of two people living together; a vibrant community is not created by yard sales. All of these relationships are … Continue reading
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The Programming and Management Blog » Most Influential Programmers Results
The Programming and Management Blog » Most Influential Programmers Results Nick Halstead recently took a month-long poll over at his blog recently of what people consider the most influential programmers, and below is the result: 1st – Linus Torvalds 2nd … Continue reading
Best Programming Language Advice
The demons *must* be ice-skating by now. There was an almost wholly on-topic thread on /. The original article was an “Ask Slashdot” regarding programming languages. Below are some of the more informed comments (or so I thought), along with … Continue reading
Ok, I get it (or: Gtk+ is better than I thought).
In my last post, I kinda whined about the awkwardness of the Gtkmm API. At least, it seemed that way at the time. I toyed with libglade and Gtk+ for a while first and everything seemed very straightforward and easy. … Continue reading