Hacker News: nakkiel

New comment by nakkiel in "Vim Colors"

nakkiel — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:10:57 +0000

Here's the vim colorscheme I use:

http://vimcolors.com/?utf8=✓&order=relevance&query=monochrom...

New comment by nakkiel in "Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?"

nakkiel — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:02:30 +0000

I really don't know what to do with this. It's from a Spanish poet, I discovered it in French and got to prefer the Spanish original. I haven't been able to find the English translation.

    DEDICATORIA
    
    Más allá de donde
    aún se esconde la vida, queda
    un reino, queda cultivar
    como un rey su agonía,
    hacer florecer como un reino
    la sucia flor de la agonía:
    yo que todo lo prostituí, aún puedo
    prostituir mi muerte y hacer
    de mi cadáver el último poema.
    
    – Leopoldo María Panero

New comment by nakkiel in "Live Feed of ESA's Intermediate Experimental Vehicle Launch"

nakkiel — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:12:41 +0000

I can't warp my head around how quick Vega is to rise (ESA's new light launcher). Here's a video from its qualification flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IZ6d4wTCg

So far, everything is going well on the mission but I'm very anxious about the reentry of the IXV.

New comment by nakkiel in "Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis"

nakkiel — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 02:18:08 +0000

Did you read the article?

Quote from the article:

"Blood from a patient is drawn through microscopic channels where it then meets chemicals that react with HIV and syphilis antibodies to produce a color change. This can then be picked up by a set of photocells in the dongle, and the results are then sent to an app on the attached smartphone or computer."

New comment by nakkiel in "Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad"

nakkiel — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:17:54 +0000

I too posted Courbet's painting to Google+ a couple of years ago and it was removed. I contacted Google on the subject but never received an answer.

New comment by nakkiel in "Ello: an ad-free social network"

nakkiel — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 09:45:24 +0000

But it says it's "radical" mate! /sarcasm

New comment by nakkiel in "Iliad confirms its interest in T-Mobile US [pdf]"

nakkiel — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:58:48 +0000

Regarding the fact that they relied mostly on other operator's networks, I really don't see that as an issue (passed the initial technical glitches). It's business and as long as they sign agreements (and pay!) with other operators for their infrastructures, there's nothing to complain about. They essentially rent the infrastructure.

New comment by nakkiel in "What Paris looks like with an echo"

nakkiel — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:25:11 +0000

Sounds like decent as it is to me. I guess it all depends on your musical culture (not intended as a derogatory remark).

New comment by nakkiel in "Burger King's CEO Is 33"

nakkiel — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:51:44 +0000

There's the competitive aspect in economies where street-food is the norm but then keep in mind that it's dirt cheap to deliver there. In Thailand a delivery worker earns 220 USD a month.

New comment by nakkiel in "Why I can’t stop using Vim"

nakkiel — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:48:35 +0000

I usually use `paste` but I sometimes catch myself formatting just-pasted chunks of code. I'll watch out for this.

New comment by nakkiel in "Why I can’t stop using Vim"

nakkiel — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:45:34 +0000

Nah. I've had terrible and inconsistent results with this. I literally hate this thing so much that I've stopped using it altogether. It's most likely due to me not figuring out exactly what's going on but I can't be helped at this point.

New comment by nakkiel in "Why I can’t stop using Vim"

nakkiel — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:05:36 +0000

What's ^Home / ^End? If it's moving to the beginning / end of a line there are vi shortcuts for that: ^ and $.

New comment by nakkiel in "Why I can’t stop using Vim"

nakkiel — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:00:01 +0000

I think you're using the editor's modality wrong.

ESC is not used to exit from Insert mode. ESC is used to switch from any mode back to Command mode. In fact Command mode is also called Normal mode. You should spend 95% of your time in Normal mode and use the other modes when you need them.

I suggest binding `kj` to ESC since it allows you to quickly make a change and continue browsing your code. Take the following session:

* Browse and spot something that needs to be changed

* Type `ci(messages, callbackkj`

* Keep browsing with `hjkl` as you're in Normal mode

While it may seem weird, I've yet to find an occurrence of `kj` in a program in years of using this binding and my hands haven't left the keyboard. The cognitive weight is zero as well (at least after building muscle memory).

Now, I believe it depends on the kind of programmers you are. My coworker is the kind who types in a lot of code and rewrites a lot of stuff. I'm the kind of rewires things and make subtle changes after spending a lot of time reading it. In other words it works well for me but probably wouldn't for him.

New comment by nakkiel in "Today at 16:53:20 GMT, it'll be 1400000000 in Unix time."

nakkiel — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:33:00 +0000

And for those who don't get the other joke, "555" is the Thai equivalent of "lol".

New comment by nakkiel in "Bonjour, Entrepreneurs – Only you can prevent French-Bashing"

nakkiel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:44:31 +0000

Depends. France has the same sort of salary diversity as the USA. Paris vs. Bordeaux are almost two completely different worlds so while you have good engineers in Bordeaux, their price tag is probably about 3 times cheaper than their Paris equivalent.

New comment by nakkiel in "The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light"

nakkiel — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:49:17 +0000

You certainly know how to choose your battles..

New comment by nakkiel in "Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07)"

nakkiel — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:05:08 +0000

Honestly, BCC is kind of a mistery around here.

New comment by nakkiel in "A Grumpy Guy Complains About Complaining"

nakkiel — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:04:59 +0000

Hum wow. So there's at least one guy on the internet trying to make sense. And the pop-software culture thing also had to be coined.

New comment by nakkiel in "MAME 0.151 ROMs"

nakkiel — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:22:17 +0000

Very informative, thanks.

New comment by nakkiel in "MAME 0.151 ROMs"

nakkiel — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 14:55:35 +0000

Well, they put themselves in the same situation as other ROM distributors. They probably mention somewhere that it's illegal to "keep" a ROM unless you actually own the original game and pretend to provide them for the sake of "backup".