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Submission + - Seven habits of effective text editing 2.0

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mathgenius

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @06:36PM

mathgenius writes: "Bram Moolenaar talks about editing with vim at the Google offices in Mountain View. Seven tips from the master himself: watch at google video or download from a mirror (go to the /pub/vim/stuff directory). Bram is another guru now working at Google."

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Peter Naur Wins 2005 Turing Award 135

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday March 04, 2006 @04:47PM from the celebrating-people-who-deserve-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Dr. Naur's fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming. The Turing Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing, and a well-deserved recognition of Dr. Naur's pioneering contributions to the field."

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Journal Journal: Itanium lacking X86 support

Journal by hutchike on Thursday January 19, 2006 @07:34PM

News.com is reporting that Intel's upcoming Itanium Montecito processor will not have X86 support, except via Intel's software Execution Layer. They claim this pushes X86 application speeds back to current Xeon performance levels. Does this mean Sun's Jon

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Journal Journal: A new way to fight spam?

Journal by hutchike on Thursday November 24, 2005 @10:19PM

I recently spotted a site http://www.mail-filter.com/ that fights spam by providing email addresses like fred.amazon@mail-filter.com, fred.offers@mail-filter.com, etc. The idea is that you can "switch off" any address variation that gets spammed. Plus you can identify the web site that leaked your email address to the spammers. Seems like a nice idea - has anyone tried similar strategies?

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