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Re: Google Docs Viewer helper for local documents

livibetter — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:38:02 -0000

I suppose it won't work if Mac doesn't use iptables to handle firewall.

If you happen to use Firefox as web browser, I suggest you use the built-in PDF.js. I also switched to MuPDF from xpdf.

I also left a comment for your comment on my video, but not directly since I can't reply to your comment for some unknown reason.

Re: Downloading only when modified using cURL in Bash

livibetter — Sun, 31 May 2015 22:17:07 -0000

Good catch, I'd never find that, because I probably wouldn't touch/edit the download files. I couldn't recall much of what I learned, so no resolution from me. But it seems that Wget doesn't have this issue.

Re: Generating Ishihara color test plate using JavaScript <<< $(YJL --verbose)

livibetter — Thu, 07 May 2015 03:00:33 -0000

@Stephen Smith You can have it. I am licensing it under the MIT License, please take care of the license file, the copyright year is 2010 with my name "Yu-Jie Lin"

Re: Vimperator goes dark <<< $(YJL --verbose)

livibetter — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:15:39 -0000

"Add colorscheme vimPgray to your ~/.vimperatorrc."

Re: karuibar, lightweight status bar

livibetter — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:17:17 -0000

Actually, this one was found by accident when I searched "status" using GitHub search function when I had no intention to find a status bar at the time.

Normally, I keep a close eye on GitHub Explore and cool GitHub projects on reddit.

Re: git commit --all --amend --no-edit

livibetter — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:37:34 -0000

Just remember, try not to amend commit is already go out into the public.
8 seconds, don't know anything about Emacs, but yours must really be needing a good cleaning. But if Emacs like Vim having a server mode, that start-up time means nothing much. I only launch once of my Vim every time I boot up my computer unless it crashes or I need to try out some new stuff with another Vim instance.

Re: CONTRIBUTING link in GitHub Issues

livibetter — Sat, 31 May 2014 02:37:17 -0000

No, you definitely have to help other people. I have done many times as small as adding code reStructuredText directive. Unfortunately, many repository owners are taking weeks even months to merge. I don't understand why those people both share their codes, when there seems to miss a the idea of open source in their minds.

Anyway, I can accept lacking of screenshots. But some README are just awful, the worst one I would say it's only including the name in the README and nothing else, you have no idea what exactly this project is, You would need to read the source code, and when you decide to do so and read them, you realize that you just waste ten minutes of your life because the code is so terrible.

Sometimes, I wonder if I should help that owner to learn the coding and I even did open PR a few times, although I never did explicitly mention that he or she should go back to the tutorial.

Bad code is fine, but inadequate coder is worse, however the incomplete README is the worst among all issues.

Let's hold our hands, pray, and motive ourselves to help other people for greater of good, amen!

Re: CONTRIBUTING link in GitHub Issues

livibetter — Wed, 28 May 2014 23:59:40 -0000

OMG! You forgot the most important AUTHORS, the backbone of a project, the engine of the mighty open source, the souls of... okay I will stop now. ;D
Now a bit of serious to the listing, I have seen INSTALL, RELEASE(something)? NOTES, USAGE, CHANGES, BUGS, IMPORTANT(something).
I think you can pretty much put and name and spell whatever the way you like since it's one's own project.

By the way, off-topic, I really don't like seeing "Readme" and some even have ".txt" after to make it worse. For some funky reason in me, they make me wanting to fork and rename them as a *fix*. Well, never did that, of course.

Re: Splitchar.js, splitting characters into 2 or 3 colors horizontally or vertically

livibetter — Sun, 18 May 2014 00:30:38 -0000

I knew it, there must be a connection. Good catch, @Pascal Borreli!

It's shame that development "splits" into two ways, at least two from that SO question page. If everyone can calm down and focus on joining effort to a single development, I wonder if that would lead to a even better result of these two combined.

I predict one of them will die of inactivity in just a month, or maybe even both of them, then others similar projects will or is being created for quick death.

Re: write good, Engligh language linter in JavaScript

livibetter — Thu, 08 May 2014 23:34:28 -0000

Suggestion by someone who has not actually run it.

I can tell it's good, but sadly it's not written in a language that I could run, or fortunately it's written in language most other coders would love to run. I think a lot of people have JavaScript engine.

"write good" seems like a good common name or porting name. I did think about port this JavaScript to Python and name it as "piegood" or "goodpie."

But discarded the thought since I probably wouldn't be able to maintain it properly.

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed Vulnerability

livibetter — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:11:10 -0000

Some additionally related links regarding this issue that others acted to it:

* Gentoo glsa-201404-07: OpenSSL: Information Disclosure
* GitHub Blog: Security: Heartbleed vulnerability
* Bitbucket Blog: Bitbucket’s SSL certificates are changing
* Mozilla Security Blog: Heartbleed Security Advisory

Re: My first GitHub trending repository

livibetter — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:58:21 -0000

I also tried to avoid Explore for some time because I knew I was wasting time for going through the list until I made the script. Now, I don't go to there anymore because I have a better source.

The "randomness" sounds like, say, expanding the top 20 to top 200, then randomly choose 5 or something from 200. It may look like getting new stuff every fresh, but I don't think you would see many new repository a week later.

Since I finished my script, I don't actually get many new repositories. I set cron task to run every 3 hours, most times, only five or less new repositories show up, sometimes zero. "New" means they have not been showed to me before.

And the result includes all + 3 languages, so really not many new repositories get into the trending list every day.

Re: My first GitHub trending repository

livibetter — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:15:16 -0000

That's why I made gh-trend.py, so I wouldn't have to eye-filtering same repositories over and over again.

But I am curious, how would you add randomness into "trending?"

Re: Custom date time format in Google Docs Spreadsheets

livibetter — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:07:50 -0000

Thanks for spotting that! I fixed the spreadsheet and the post, I made more than just :SS mistake. Day and minute were also incorrect.

Re: Tired of these CSS CPU suckers

livibetter — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:42:17 -0000

30 to 40 tabs, that's a lot and I don't think I have ever opened that many. Usually I only have one tab, unless I am searching for an answer for something, then I might have one tab for search results and the rest are the links from the results.

Maybe you should re-think why you need to open that many. I used to need to open YouTube for recommendations, GitHub for Explore, and many others, now I rely on cron tasks to get me the data. Also I check updates in terminal for Gmail, CommaFeed, new forums threads, Flickr, Google Code / GitHub / Bitbucket notifications. I only open a tab when I get an update from cron task or the checker in terminal.

I don't use browser to check up updates, however, it still sucks (a lot of resources).

Re: git commit --all --amend --no-edit

livibetter — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:02:06 -0000

I think it's a good idea to create an alias, only me who sometimes couldn't recall what I've planed to do just a few seconds ago. However, I did have ci and st aliases created, but that's because I have been used to them since subversion.

I just have a good idea for Bash completion. Since Git (and Hg) both could fill in new files when you press tab after add. If it could also do so after --amend -m and Tab key, automatically insert the commit message, that would be fabulous.

Re: git commit --all --amend --no-edit

livibetter — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:18:51 -0000

It looks like Git 1.7.10 in Debian wheezy (stable) and according to 1.7.9's release notes, --no-edit was added then, so shouldn't it be in manpage? Or Debian has different way to handle manpages? Never used Debian.

Re: git commit --all --amend --no-edit

livibetter — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:12:13 -0000

I did think about creating an alias, but dropped that idea, because I might forget what I name it, that happens to me all the time. It has to be something I use every single day, or I'd forget a week later.

Re: I’m an Enthusiastic GitHub user

livibetter — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:27:33 -0000

Actually, I didn't. Quite a pretty output, so colorful.

But the message for "Dear recruiters" is something I could relate, I did receive a couple of emails of that kind from headhunters.

Re: Ported my dzen status script to C code

livibetter — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 08:17:23 -0000

Third line of the source code, or just make.

Re: Aliasing Vim command

livibetter — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 02:30:25 -0000

ignorecase, good to learn about it. I know there must be an option of that. Strangely, when I googled the tab completion, that option didn't seem to show up anywhere.

No, that's not what I want to do. Like I can have set case-insensitive in less pager, but I prefer not to. I know the letter case 99% of time, just sometimes I am too lazy, in this case "Note."

Re: Aliasing Vim command

livibetter — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:36:52 -0000

That doesn't happen in my Vim, have you installed plugin specially for [Tab]? Or is there a special setting for case-insensitive tab-completion?

wildmenu looks nice, but not my cup of tea.

Re: Downloading only when modified using cURL in Bash

livibetter — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 07:50:38 -0000

Did you get status code 200?

If you read my post you would see the first time it will get 200, then 304, as it is supposed to be by HTTP specification.

Read carefully my post, see what the process really is. Don't just run commands when you are still not sure the whole thing.

You really need to give more complete information, post complete commands and outputs to pastebin or something, if you do actually want my help, or I will just wild guess what's going on.

Re: Downloading only when modified using cURL in Bash

livibetter — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 05:00:14 -0000

The first line of The Flow section is actually talking about this -z. Well, actually entire post is about it.

There will be warnings when first used, it may be the errors you are talking about. You need to post the messages so I can understand what you were seeing. Anyway, if you use the command and options I used in the post, the -z does work.

Re: Downloading only when modified using cURL in Bash

livibetter — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:34:27 -0000

First of all, I am not sure whose -r you are talking about, I checked ls, stat, curl, even wget. There didn't seem to be the one you are talking. But this sounds like a good idea, anyway. There is a -R as in --remote-time. However, from the description, it didn't seem to enable downloading only when the file gets updated:

When used, this will make curl attempt to figure out the timestamp of the remote file, and if that is available make the local file get that same timestamp.

So, it really doesn't help. IIRC, I did consider -R, and dropped it because it's useless for the need described in this post.

Besides, if choosing not to keep the file, even curl has an option to check timestamp and download only if updated. Since you don't have file, you need to keep the timestamp elsewhere.