marcmarc's comments

On: AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Conti...

[marcmarc]

I recommend watching the YouTube channel Asianometry. He's covering this topic and more.

On: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing i...

[marcmarc]

You can also achieve that with this uBlock filter. Just add the following to "My Filters".

  ! Hide w3schools from Google search
  *://www.w3schools.com/*
  google.*##.g:has(a[href*="www.w3schools.com"])

On: How People Get Rich Now

[marcmarc]

The Gini coefficient is a relative measure. It is possible for the Gini coefficient of a developing country to rise (due to increasing inequality of income) while the number of people in absolute poverty decreases. This is because the Gini coefficient measures relative, not absolute, wealth. In Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty is looking at wealth groups (top 1%, top 10%, rest of the population). And it paints a very different picture.

[danans → marcmarc]

Agreed. Admittedly upon reviewing the article, PG did use it as an effect, not an objective. But at the end of the day he's reasoning from rarified datasets like % of billionaires inheriting their wealth, vs using more broadly meaningful indicators like inequality in healthcare and education access, housing uncertainty, and others. That's what makes him so out of touch.

On: The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and th...

[marcmarc]

I use Emacs inside VSCode's terminal just for Magit. And I've configured Emacs to open directly with the magit-status buffer. It beats all the VSCode extensions I have tested.

  (when (string-match "code" default-directory)
    (magit-status)
    (delete-other-windows))
  (with-eval-after-load 'magit
    (define-key magit-status-mode-map (kbd "q") 'save-buffers-kill-terminal))

On: Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning

[marcmarc]

You can also use the Google Drive app. Touch the plus button and then scan. It is working decently.

On: The homogenization of scientific computing (2013)

[marcmarc]

The Kivy project seems to be making progress recently. However, I believe it still has a limited scope. It has poor support for native framework features/UI.

On: Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boi...

[marcmarc]

You can speed up the build time a lot by preinstalling Scala on the phone or emulator. This will allow you to skip the Proguard step. Here's how you do it http://zegoggl.es/2011/07/how-to-preinstall-scala-on-your-an...

On: Chocolat - the new editor

[marcmarc]

When you have 100 or more buffers open, you may have two files with the same name. Using uniquify (require 'uniquify) helps differentiate them. Instead of getting file<1> and file<2> you get file:"directory_1" and file:"directory_2".

[Ixiaus → marcmarc]

That's exactly what I use, Uniquify and Ido.

On: Quick Ref for Clojure Core

[marcmarc]

Very nice 2 pages cheat sheet by Steve Tayon http://clojure.org/cheatsheet and pdf http://cloud.github.com/downloads/richhickey/clojure/clojure...

[functional-tree → marcmarc]

That's quite a bit outdated, though.

On: Ask HN: How would you make Emacs do this?

[marcmarc]

You can control Firefox from emacs using MozRepl. This extension allows you execute code on the browser. For example, you can tell emacs to refresh a specific tab when an html file is saved. MozRepl is not the only extension doing that. There are 4 or 5 similar projects.

More info http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MozRepl