Josh Deprez

Yesterday was the South-Pacific region event for the annual ACM ICPC. You can read more about it in general at http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc and our regional at http://sppcontest.org/. Every year, among the IBM-branded schwag that the members of competing teams receive for their five hours of keyboard-mashing, swearing, headdesking and facepalming, is a t-shirt. Shirts are also [...]

I realised yesterday that one factor consistently ignored in the old vi/emacs/butterflies debate…is how “ghetto” the method of text editing is, i.e. how degenerate given the available tools. Old terminal-based editors can seem quite ghetto compared to modern GUI-based ones, but after thinking about it you can do a whole lot better. There are many [...]