August 2010
5 posts
Kindle 3
It’s so thin and light, you’d expect to easily break it at first. But the casing is actually very sturdy.
Page refreshes are fast. With this and the excellent page-turning buttons, you’d have a hard time turning a printed page half as fast as that.
Resolution is impressive. In portrait orientation, testing with an almost-a4 journal article displayed full-page (ie at less than...
“If prostitution were a typical industry, it might have hired political lobbyists...”
– Freakonomics returns: vice work if you can get it
Vim's undo tree
See usr_32.txt:
If you undo a few changes and then make a new change you create a branch in the undo tree. This text is about moving through the branches.
I’ve been on vim for over five years now, and I just keep finding more gems every day.
James Gosling: The shit finally hits the fan.... →
Driver error caused Toyota's 'runaway' cars, US... →
In preliminary findings delivered to Congress on 58 incidents, investigators found that in 35 cases, the brake was not applied. In a further 14 cases there was only “partial braking”. In one case, both the brake and accelerator pedals were depressed and another showed evidence of pedals getting trapped in a floor mat. But the investigation found no evidence of any electronic problem...