Interesting links links for November 3rd through January 9th:

[Transcript] Richard Feynman on Why Questions – Less Wrong Discussion – Feynman on Why? Wondermark » Archive » #776; In which Toothpaste is made – Toothpaste Slavery Footprint – Results – How many slaves produce your goods? Slavery Footprint – Made In A Free World – It's the supply chain! HIVE 2011: Feedback Without Frustration – Scott Berkun – YouTube – Guidelines for getting feedback

Interesting links links for September 14th through October 18th:

QuantumLevitation « adafruit industries blog – Floating discs are cool Cool tech demo: match 3D models into archive photos | CG Channel – Even better than photoshopping Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once – Nice way to outfit a new computer with the programs you use Occupy George – xkcd: Working – Spending time to save money (or not)

Interesting links links for August 18th through September 12th:

Why all HDMI cables are the same | Crave – CNET – Don't waste your money on HDMI cables! Amazon is More Interesting than Google – Amazon vs. Google for empowerment and interestingness Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – How hard it must be to cheat on a chemistry exam Dead Man’s Switch – This is something I was thinking about making. Now I can just *use* it Dead Man’s Switch – This is something I was thinking about making. Now I can just *use* it

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Interesting links links for August 5th through August 17th:

Best optical illusion video ever? « Richard Wiseman’s Blog – Superb real-life optical illusion Find and Download PDF Manuals of Electronic Products using Amazon – Find manuals online with Google and Amazon The Internet is My Religion – The internet and faith — good video Awesome but often unknown Linux commands and tools | Anchor Web Hosting Blog – Some little command line gems Why We Believe – Perception is everything.

Interesting links links for May 16th through July 8th:

Quote: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. Y… – (37signals) – Motivation is the key to action The C Book – Table of Contents – A good C reference book freely available YouTube – Sugar: The Bitter Truth – Great presentation about the dangers of fructose and sugar defmacro – The Nature of Lisp – Learning Lisp through XML Command-Line Options – Standard command-line options across all programs

Recently, I found myself needing a solution for tracking issues and comments in source code during a review. Org-mode makes this task much better and easier overall.

First, let me explain how it is better. During a review, most comments focus on issues on particular line numbers. This means that the code needs must have line numbers displayed. That way, everyone can be clear about the particular line for a given issue. In emacs, this is easily done with linum-mode. This completes the first requirements of being able to view the code.

Setup

Now, a note-taker in the meeting faces the issue of tracking all of the comments and issues given by the reviewers. This can be a tedious task. First, get the line with … Read More »

These are my links for March 7th through May 9th:

The Unwisdom of Elites – NYTimes.com – Honest logos on the Behance Network – Thermochromic Urinal Makes Peeing Fun | Geeky Gadgets – XL8NF.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024×3236 pixels) – The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips – Password strength and password complexity are misunderstood. You have have a strong, easy to remember password if you want. Data Science Toolkit – Break open the web to extract raw data, convert formats, etc. WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts – Examine more weather data than anyone could possibly need. Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney | Video on TED.com – Very interesting video on how far we have come in organ transplantation.

On windows, many people use the built-in server and emacsclientw to make startup faster. The basics for this are discussed here. I have a slightly modified version that closes a buffer opened through the server mode. I often open up code through emacsclientw, edit, save then close. The following code helps make this a more automatic process and give the feel of opening the editor, editing and then closing through normal keystrokes. (defun bnb/exit () (interactive) ; Check for a server-buffer before closing the server-buffer (if server-clients (server-edit)) (make-frame-invisible nil t)) (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-c") ‘bnb/exit) While that code is great, it does not stop me from clicking the ‘X’ to close emacs. To ensure that this does not kill emacs, I advise the kill-emacs function. The advice … Read More »

Getting starting using emacs