Confession About VIM
I’ve gotta admit. I’m not as much of a Vimmer as I wish I was.
For all my lack of it, the Vim I use is more of a “modern Vim” where the emphasis is much more on the use of plugins to enable stuff to get done. (As an example, using the YouCompleteMe plugin to get some pretty [...]
Paradox of Fandom
I’d say I like reading. I read a fair number of books in a year. Too bad, though, that I can now kindof see why some of those folk on GoodReads would rate books much more harshly than I would have.
Because they’ve probably read many more books than I have, and didn’t enjoy the book as much as [...]
Thoughts on GitHub's Atom
Programmers love to discuss and argue over irrelevant issues. One such issue is “which text editor to use”.
Some folk side-step the issue with the pragmatic “use whatever works”, but that misses out on the fun. The current state of things is that for the hardcore, Vim and Emacs are the editors of choice. Sublime Text (ST) is also [...]
Shit Arguments
This came up on my newsfeed:
http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/ Those of you enamoured with the romance of “Oh, but the government is so shit” may enjoy it, I suppose. I myself don’t know much about economics.. but the above just seems a poor argument.
It draws those it disagrees with as ugly and stupid, and those it agrees with as [...]
Rainbow Six LV2
Just spent a good hour and a half playing co-op Rainbow Six: Las Vegas 2 (henceforth “R6LV2”). More specifically, “Terrorist Hunt” gameplay mode in that, which is just co-op team of two (or three or four) against some number of enemies.
There were about 25-35 enemies for the “Medium” number of enemies we played against. This can be set [...]
Questions About Things Which I'm Vaguely Curious About
Oh. If I enjoy a book, then I’ll enjoy the book and that’s fine. But it’d be good to have a proper view of the wider context, to see where my opinion lies. I dunno who the recognized authorities are, or if I should trust those.
But I wonder if there’s not a bit too much of some kind [...]
Nawwwwh, 'Jane Austen Book Club'
I liked this movie.
It’s about readers, kindof. In a loose kindof way, about books and writers and readers and the ethos and relationships and interactions these have..
Of readers and their passion, and their prejudice, their interpretation and projection, their snobby-ness or naivety, knowledge or ignorance.. - And I love that meta-shit like writers writing about writers, [...]
Installing Haskell Platform for Linux Mint 16
Computers are great when they work, frustrating when they don’t. – Probably a better indication of how “hard” something is to use isn’t just how simple/complex it may be when all things go right, but what obstacles there are when things don’t, and how easy it is to get around these. Installing the Haskell Platform, oddly, was much easier on [...]
Snark and Deep Philosophy and Shit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/why-i-try-not-to-write-bad-reviews.html Read the comments, too. (Except for the one about Obamacare? I’m not sure how that one got in there..).
If you have time, perhaps even go so far as to read the opinion piece about Scocca wrote. Seems to be quite long without saying much, though.
There are some interesting viewpoints.
It’s easy to agree (or [...]
Frozen
Frozen was a tease of a movie.
I mean the 2013 Disney-Animated-Studios ‘Frozen’. It seemed to me that the film had cynical undertones. The characters introduced are all deeply established by their loneliness and solitude.
Ice-Princess is alienated from everyone for fear of hurting them with her magic. (She goes on to protect people from her magic by [...]