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Re:Proj: Simple project tool for Vim on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:00PM (#717164)
Interesting...I use FuzzyFileFinder for finding the files themselves right now, but I can see the value in having a feature like that built-in.
Re:Proj: Simple project tool for Vim on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @08:21PM (#717105)
> Is there any way to do this within Proj?

Nope, it's simple by design. Project.vim seems mainly for projects that need to pull in files from all over the place and probably fulfills that goal well. If I need to search the working directory, I'll use ':!grep -RI "term" .' (or vim's grep which is pretty nice).

I say that project.vim stinks because it's awkward and its usage is unclear. Maybe I've never "gotten" it, but I think there are many others like myself who really, really wanted to like project.vim but just couldn't use it.

I have my mind on other goals. One is to add a toggleable split that gives useful version control information by integrating with the VCS plugin.

Re:Proj: Simple project tool for Vim on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @07:19PM (#717027)
Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of introspecting the directory names...I'll see if I can work that in there.

You have to put quotes because otherwise Vim complains about using undefined symbols (I don't plan on using the command interface in the long run; probably something more like what MiniBufExplorer does, or even FuzzyFileFinder's hack of the completion system). I agree that it's clumsy, but the command interface is limited, and can only accept paths with quotes omitted.

Re:Proj: Simple project tool for Vim on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @04:58PM (#716853)
Please report any bugs and/or feature requests. Project.vim stinks so I'm set on finding a simpler path.
Re:The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG) on Friday July 03, 2009 @05:21PM (#686639)
Yea, Scribd was aggravating enough in this case for me to return from a half-year hiatus...I imagine the demand is strong for such a thing!
Re:The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG) on Friday July 03, 2009 @01:48PM (#686372)
Eh, why not. Pages took so long to load, so let's see if my host holds up to their unlimited bandwidth promise.

http://www.703designs.com/sites/default/files/article.pdf

Awaits threatening email.

If you read this comment after today, expect the link to be dead.

Re:How to Pick a Language on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:58AM (#446038)
I know I signed that as my final post, but I feel the need to assure you that I wouldn't be offended by something so silly.

Sometimes you just get bored with a place and feel like moving on :^)

I think I'll spend less time on sites like these and more playing this fine Buffet clarinet I picked up on Saturday. It's been a while, but my embouchure's returning already.

Re:How to Pick a Language on Thursday January 22, 2009 @10:02PM (#445850)
Pick PHP if you want to use Wordpress, phpBB, Drupal, and a wealth of other great open-source web apps.

P.S. Final post; great community here!

Re:Wufoo Doubled this guy's number of RFP(Request For Proposal)s on Thursday January 22, 2009 @08:54PM (#445785)
Correction

Web Forms Doubled this guy's number of RFP(Request For Proposal)s

Re:When in doubt, turn to _why on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:20PM (#445665)
Wow, let's hear it for being judgmental!
Unlikely. Those Seinfeld ads didn't actually try to sell anything. A bit of overpriced, mild brand reinforcement most likely would not have affected the company's short-term prospects.

By the way, what M$ is doing here is very screwed up. They're laying off the first batch (1400) immediately, but using the remaining 3600 as a threat to make competition cutthroat. I might just quit if I worked there.

Re:The frat boy ships out on Thursday January 22, 2009 @01:26PM (#445164)
Yes, incendiary unsourced quotes and all.

Karen Hughes, one of his closest advisers, "rarely read books and distrusted people who did."

Who knows where that came from. Gotta love billion-dollar words thrown in like "homunculi" and "ratiocination" instead of the clearer "cronies" and "reasoning," respectively.

I just can't help but feel that this particular analyst is strongly biased.

Re:High Readability for your Terminal.app on Thursday January 22, 2009 @12:29PM (#445074)
You're looking at dotfiles.com, but I was referring to dotfiles.org.
Re:High Readability for your Terminal.app on Thursday January 22, 2009 @12:20PM (#445055)
I don't know why people are putting this sort of work on GitHub instead of dotfiles. GitHub takes a while to load, and there are two wasted clicks here (the file in question, then "Raw"). At the very least he could have linked directly to the raw file.

I keep my Vim stuff on FreeHg, but that's because we're talking about possibly hundreds of files when you consider the color schemes, doc files, plugins, etc. More importantly, it's awesome to be able to quickly pull in all of my vim stuff onto any machine with Hg and I needed this setup to easily sync between work, the server, and home.

Re:Google AJAX API Playground on Thursday January 22, 2009 @12:10PM (#445035)
Is there a shortcut for "Run"?
Re:Obama makes Bush's record public on Thursday January 22, 2009 @12:07AM (#444393)
Obama may very well have entered this using FCKEditor himself. Evidence: The title:

    <strong>Executive Order -- Presidential Records</strong>
Empty paragraphs and all, this looks like most article content that gets spit out of a CMS. Of course, I have no reason to believe that it was Obama in particular, but you never know, it was his first executive order...

Also, a sign of things to come for lobbyists:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-Et...

Re:When in doubt, turn to _why on Thursday January 22, 2009 @12:05AM (#444389)
In our daily lives, we strive for quality in what we do. We cook aiming to make delicious food; we build to produce something durable and attractive. When I program, I aim to produce something of high quality: Performant, readable, simple, and reliable.
Re:Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @11:31PM (#444363)
Yep. See, we were overrun by the PC nuts in the 80s, but there are good parts. In the case of "waitress," I agree with them that the elaboration is unnecessary and pointless. So I value some PC when it delivers precision (but the arguments that certain speech is sexist seems far-fetched; "waitress" is not sexist).
Re:Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @10:17PM (#444283)
I think that the "ess" should only be added when sexual distinction is being communicated as well. Off the top of my head, I can only think of it coming up for very feminine nouns, such as "temptress" and "mistress." "Waitress" is still doable but discouraged.
Re:Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @07:07PM (#444077)
A word doesn't become proper by virtue of merely being defined...

For what it's worth, my comment was on a PC bent. Nowadays, "waitress," "stewardess," etc. are frowned upon, and your use of "authoress" needlessly draws intention to the distinction. It's a clumsy word as well, which makes it seem that you find this distinction notable enough to decide against the far, far more common "author."

Re:Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @06:39PM (#444042)
"authoress"

Seriously? "author"

Re:Old on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @06:15PM (#444000)
Great, thanks!
Re:Old on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @06:12PM (#443995)
There must be some reason that arrow keys and the space bar don't scroll on GitHub. It's probably not a very good one, though. This makes scrolling tedious for many users, including me.
Re:Ask HN: Please Review My New Site. on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @03:28PM (#443742)
I think that no such message is necessary, period.
Re:All Souls: The toughest test you’ll ever take on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @03:54AM (#442992)
"Now, if you look closely, inside this ivory tower you can make out an even smaller tower made of far choicer ivory."
Re:President Obama’s inauguration, as seen from space on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @11:06PM (#442781)
That being said, you wouldn't need a satellite to take these pictures. Also, the Mall is under constant (heavy) surveillance.
Re:President Obama’s inauguration, as seen from space on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @09:39PM (#442681)
It was so crowded that on WTOP by 7:30 they were suggesting that listeners stay home. There were already over 200k Metro rides by 7am which is absurd.
Re:The day the newspaper died. on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @09:25PM (#442661)
Those stats are mixed. Paper, printing, and delivery are requirements exclusive to printed news. However, editorial and marketing are not. In any case, until an online resource can outcompete the printed edition of the Post, I'll continue to pay the $1-200/year to have it delivered to my door.

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