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Cool historical concept of the {time_interval}: Phoenician
As I was reading one of my computer science textbooks on my laptop something made me think about languages in general and alphabets. The whole idea of an alphabet – symbols to represent phonetic sounds which can be re-used and combined to form words – all began with Phoenician. Phoenician is where it all began.…
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Great Blue Angels video
Love this video. It shows many if not most of their major stunts and formations. While this video is good its nothing compared to seeing them in real life, to things like seeing 5 or 6 fighter aircraft whip past the roof of your apartment only a stone’s throw away, or whip over your head…
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Amazing Vim tip of the {time_interval}: Commenting blocks of text
If you have multiple lines of code that you want to comment out, here is an easy and fast way to do it in Vim: From command mode, with the cursor placed on the first line of the block that you want to comment, type Ctrl-v to enter visual-block mode. Move the cursor down to…
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Ubuntu 16.10 “Yakkety” is coming closer, but…
Ubuntu’s next releast 16.10 “Yakkety” is coming closer. That’s a great thing, but I always like to wait a while after any Ubuntu release before installing it. It is likely that in the first weeks or even months after an official release there will still be a significant amount of updates. I like to play…
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Really cool Vim tip of the {time_interval}
I just discovered this today and its really useful when writing code. To indent multiple lines, from command mode in Vim just enter the number of lines to indent and then >>. So to indent 10 lines you would just enter 10>> At the beginning of the semester everyone was discussing what IDE they use.…
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I love Java so much I could cry
Its such a cool language. Its not just about memorizing syntax and names of components, but learning an entire architectural process to build and develop things. I’m also loving Python. After years of using BASH to do scripting, the ease, simplicity, and power of scripting with Python is like manna from heaven! I’ve been reading…
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KDE Plasma 5.8 has been released!
KDE Plasma 5.8 has been released. I don’t know if it will make it into Kubuntu 16.10 “Yakkety” but maybe it will at least be available as a backport.
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I feel sad for the trauma America is experiencing
This presidential election – stepping back and thinking about it – stepping back and feeling it, sensing its energy – more than anything I think its kind of sad, no matter what candidate wins or loses, its like America has already lost in some way. America is suffering over this. America is not happy. Americans…