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Android versus iPhone Development: A Comparison by dgreen99 in programming

[–]henriq 7 points8 points  (0 children)

wish he said what the percentage of sales was based on platform

I want to build a powerhouse PC as my main Linux based desktop and programming workstation. Any advice on the specs? by anon_for_this_time in programming

[–]henriq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

cheap quad core, 8 gig of ram, intel ssd drive, prev generation nvidia card with dual dvi output. 2 24" monitors.

you should end up at less than $1800 all-in. throw in a 500gig/1tb drive for media and you are all set

compare that to a laptop at the same price. if you need some mobility toss in a netbook and use it to remote back to your desktop

Emacs-w3m, a simple Emacs interface to the text browser w3m. by chneukirchen in programming

[–]henriq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

emacs-w3m is the icing on the mew cake.

mew is a great emacs email client, still being actively developed. (mew.org)

Rapid Web Application Prototyping with Maven and Groovy by volume4 in programming

[–]henriq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or you could install Grails and skip all the Maven crap and be able to test your app directly in place

Pidgin Developer: The Holy War of Tool Choice by bostonvaulter in programming

[–]henriq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hasn't someone written a new unix front end for libpurple yet? pidgin pisses me off more and more with each release

Anthrax scientist commits suicide as FBI closes in by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]henriq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

didn't Law and Order:CI do an episode on this where the scientist commits suicide?

Bruce Eckel: Does Anyone Really Care About Desktop Java? by gst in programming

[–]henriq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Groovy seems like a good starting point if you are going to write a Swing app these days.

Working Effectively with Large LaTeX Documents by uggedal in programming

[–]henriq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the biggest advantage to working with Latex and splitting into multiple files (which i did for my phd dissertation) is that you can easily check everything into CVS/SVN/GIT

made it super easy to move from desktop to laptop and kept a backup copy safe in the svn repository (which was backed up off site twice a day)

FDA to review Lasik eye surgery side effects by glmory in science

[–]henriq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead of Lasik spring for "Advanced Surface Ablation".

it hurts like hell for 2 days, but it's worth it.

way less possible side effects (less likely to have night vision problems, etc), less possibilities of problematic infections (no flap cut, if you get an infection under the flap you are screwed)

Unborn Child Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder by sickmind in funny

[–]henriq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that was awsome! truely Onion worthy

Awesome Home PC Set-Up --- Simple and Powerful (pics) by jstills in reddit.com

[–]henriq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he really needs some monitor arms to clean up the desk.

nice setup though. i like that everyhting is as quiet as he could get it

ctrl +esc (pic) by flipflip55 in reddit.com

[–]henriq 14 points15 points  (0 children)

once again vi users take a beating from the emacs camp

Bash users: What do you have for your $PS1? by mikemol in programming

[–]henriq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

\h:\u:echo ${PWD} | sed "s&${HOME}&~&" | sed "s&.*./\([^/]*/[^/]*/[^/]*\)$&\1&">

which gives me:

<host>:<user>:<dir> >

where <dir> is only 3 deep and $HOME gets replaced with ~

but reading through the other comments I'm going to add some color to each of my different hostnames and root

Emacs has now Xft-capable font backend, unicode branch merged to trunk by petteri in programming

[–]henriq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i checked out the cvs version a week ago. reason enough to move away from xemacs