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Wincent
Personal blog · wincent.comprogrammingsystemswriting
Wincent is a personal blog at wincent.com about programming, systems and writing. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Wincent is a quant-based high-frequency crypto market maker trading $5B+ daily across 15+ exchanges. Deep liquidity, OTC trading, regulated in Gibraltar.
Most-linked posts?
- /products/command-t7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-09-13
- A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-09-05
- A Look Back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-08-13
- Searching for the Holy Grail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-20
- How to make a fast fuzzy search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-29
- Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-04
- Grieving for Apple2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-22
What Hacker News says?
I miss blogs too, not just reading but the writing of them. I've been trying to start up again, and recently wrote this take on Twitter's role in all this: > I turn to Twitter even though it is just about the worst platform imaginable for the exposition of ideas. In its favor: the barrier to publication is extremely low, and there is no shortage of engagement with others to be found. The negative: that engagement is…
Comment linking /blog/something-to-say
on “If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs”Submitted Grieving for Apple as a story · 129 points
HN discussion[Greg Hurrell]( https://wincent.com/ ) for Vim and Relay I wouldn't say closely follow, but I just really like the work he puts out there.
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds as a story · 118 points
HN discussionI always find these essays interesting, not necessarily because I agree with them, but rather because Paul has a very special way of looking at things. [...] being mean makes you stupid. Linus Torvalds is definitely not stupid, but I would not hesitate to call him mean [1]. But you can't deny that he's successful and certainly he's not stupid [2]. Business and open source seem to both center around the same things:…
Comment linking /a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/07/a_look_back_bra.php
on “Mean People Fail”Submitted A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007) as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI'm trying to work through this lately and finding it hard: findings so far — https://wincent.com/wiki/Modifier_keys Biggest hurdle is finding a clean way to do application-specific overrides, because even if you can get the general case working right, there is a lot of per-app variation.
Comment linking /wiki/Modifier_keys
on “I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager”Submitted A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds (2007) as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI was gnashing my teeth over exactly this last night — 26 years on a Mac for me: https://wincent.com/blog/grieving-for-apple
Comment linking /blog/grieving-for-apple
on “Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables”Submitted Betting on the wrong horse as a story · 42 points
HN discussionFor a free, cross-platform (and excellent) alternative to PeepOpen, try Command-T I used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead. https://wincent.com/products/command-t
Comment linking /products/command-t
on “Coming Home to Vim”Submitted A Look Back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe thing is that git is not supposed to be smart when it comes to merging. https://wincent.com/blog/a-look-back-bram-cohen-vs-linus-tor... At the end of the article: This is a clearly ambiguous merge and it simply wouldn’t be right for your version control system to try "resolving" it for you. So the strategy is that if there is any doubt you have to manually fix conflicts. This is by design.
Comment linking /blog/a-look-back-bram-cohen-vs-linus-torvalds
on “What comes after Git”Submitted Old Stuff That Rocks as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThanks, that Command-T seems promising https://wincent.com/blog/bringing-textmate-style-command-t-t...
Comment linking /blog/bringing-textmate-style-command-t-to-vim
on “Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?”Submitted A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2017) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you want to make it really fast you could steal some ideas from: https://wincent.com/blog/optimization (tales of many years of optimizing a fuzzy search implementation).
Comment linking /blog/optimization
on “Show HN: A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go”Submitted A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCommand-T[1] solved this 'problem' for me very nicely. [1]: https://wincent.com/products/command-t
Comment linking /products/command-t
on “Vim is hard, I just want to click around”Submitted A tale of three filter-branches as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInstalling command-t is fairly easy on windows. Just compile as instructed with latest ruby 1.9 + devkit and replace gvim.exe with the one specified in this page https://wincent.com/comments/6544 .
Comment linking /comments/6544
on “Plugins you should put in your vimrc”Submitted Why vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn the recent years the booster for me has been the "Command-T" plugin, which makes it super fast to open files. I can _highly_ recommend this plugin, even if it's a bit harder to install than most other Vim plugins. Check out https://wincent.com/products/command-t and http://amix.dk/blog/post/19501#Command-T-for-Vim-an-awesome-...
Comment linking /products/command-t
on “How I boosted my Vim”Submitted A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Command-T plugin [1] was a big help in switching from TextMate to vim. I have no idea how anyone can be productive in vim without it (assuming you're working on a multi-file project). 1. https://wincent.com/products/command-t
Comment linking /products/command-t
on “One with Vim”Submitted Radioactivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWith a few Vim plugins, there's nothing left to miss. One of particular note for TextMate users, Command-T: https://wincent.com/products/command-t
Comment linking /products/command-t
on “TextMate finally gets an update”Submitted A Look Back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFlashback: Discussion of merging 2009: Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505876 which refers to 2007: A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds http://www.wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/... which refers to 2005: Re: Merge with git-pasky II. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2153.html Where Linus says: For example, it seems like most SCM people think…
Comment linking /a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/07/a_look_back_bra.php
on “How well do various revision tools handle merge conflicts?”Submitted Searching for the Holy Grail as a story · 1 points
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