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Re:Haskell Web Development: A Freely Available Book on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:38AM (#10500658)
There's also Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod by Michael Snoyman which is available from O'Reilly in dead tree format or for free in HTML format: http://www.yesodweb.com/book

It's a pretty good introduction to Haskell web development for people who are already familiar with both web development and Haskell.

Just make sure you have spacebar heating disabled.
Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:28PM (#9397004)
You'd have to either use :find-file or :e (Ctrl-r +).

You can switch between buffers with :switch-to-buffer, :ido-switch-buffer, :b, :bn, and :bp. It's not the same as tabs though.

Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:31PM (#9396229)
":" runs Emacs functions. Some commands from Vim have been added, but not all of them. If a function with the same name as a Vim command already exists in Emacs, it's not replaced. I'd imagine replacing the default Emacs functions could break things in weird ways.

:cd runs the Emacs cd function which behaves differently than Vim's :cd.

To get the equivalent of :tabnew, you'd have to use :buffer [name] and give the new buffer (Emacs's equivalent of tabs) a name.

Re:Friends don't let friends use Eclipse on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @12:52PM (#6719389)
There are a number of auto-completion plugins for vim. So even that isn't a loss. There's also Syntastic for syntax checking.

I found the biggest benefit of using vim is the fact that I don't have to switch between different IDEs for different languages. I can use vim for everything.

Re:The San Francisco Exodus on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:58PM (#6548947)
Manhattan and the trendier parts of Brooklyn have a rent problem, but most people commute from the outer boroughs, Long Island, and New Jersey where rent is much cheaper.
Re:Can anyone explain why Ruby is so popular? on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:38PM (#5784080)
I learned Ruby because of Rails.

If I need a scripting language, I prefer Ruby because I know it the best now. I'm pretty good at Python, but feel more comfortable in Ruby because I use it more often.

Some people like Android more. Some people like iOS more.