Dont worry Jared is doing just fine!

Ever consider getting better eyesight?


In all seriousness though, emacs automatically converts tabs to spaces, unless you override it. It's also smart enough to backspace 4 spaces. Why wouldn't vim do this, and why wouldn't you set vim to do this if it is capable?

Ever consider learning how to type?

Visual Studio untabbify feature ftw

The Knuth book for Semi Numerical Algorithms has a good write up on how this kind of approach generates anything but randomness.

Are there a lot of things in that context that aren't randomness?

She uses spaces not tabs.

Not really. I just use chords and macros.

I'd seriously consider 1 space tabs if I didn't have to work with others. 4-space tabs looks like **** is just flowing out in space to me.



8 space tabs just blows my mind.

Right.

This is amazing.

Java folks use 4 spaces. Which makes 0 sense since the language is so verbose to begin with.

Once I went to 2 spaces I want to stab myself with anything else. I'm all about maximizing the amount of code I can see at any time - horizontally and vertically.

The thing is the guys who use 4 spaces also use Eclipse. So their code is in this tiny window that doesn't even extend across the window horizontally. So after a couple of indents you have like 10 spaces left for code in the window - and they're constantly scrolling right to left. It feels like looking at code through a periscope.

I know I know - good coders never have more than one indent ever and their lines of code should never be more than 10 characters long. So what do you do break up your ternary operators? That looks terrible.

i see my work here is done...

2 spaces for me as well. I believe that's from the Google Python CC or something. I picked it up I dunno how long ago and like it. More spaces seem wasteful but the contrarian in me wants to go with 3 spaces since noone seems to use an odd number of spaces. Whatever number of spaces you chose it has to be a prime number so that eliminates a few options.

In other news since I finally have a working pitop (pi3) with wifi I played around with ARM assembly a bit. I've decided the most interesting approach is writing a bunch of C-Code and seeing what GCC spits out (unoptimized).
I've also played around with radare2 which seems pretty amazing, why haven't I heard of it before. It lacks a fancy GUI but the text-based GUI is actually pretty useful.

[if anyone happens to know an good intro resource for ARM assembly that would be cool but the official docs and some random googling for short blog posts was already decent]

Is that like that recently pulled chrome add on that puts triple brackets around Jewish-sounding names or whatever?

No that's angular if it fails to initialize.

ooo kinda surprised cvs uses angular

I guess it could also be Ember, Polymer or Vue (?). http://jeffcarp.github.io/frontend-hyperpolyglot/

Most likely angular though.

Yes the ARM technical reference manuals are good.

This book is decent and you can find a PDF version for free pretty easily:

ARM System Developers Guide

Also surprisingly perhaps, this book his helpful:

Mastering Embedded Linux Programming

This gets into creating a C runtime environment from the reset vector through the to passing control to the boot loader.


Also read up on implementing a mutex for multicore ARM MCUs.

The ARM programming model is straight forward in reality. Lots of different flavors of ARM based MCUs. Mostly ARM assembly language programming skill is useful in implementing code to process the reset vector and setting up a C runtime environment. Compilers have really come a long way FWIW.

I'm more surprised anyone has an online CVS account. I could just see the marketing team trying to figure out how to respond to this one. "Is this Photoshop?"

Im on a windows machine and I want to start using github and bitbucket (both of them). do I need any special software or what is the "industry standard" for someone to use these kinds of programs on a windows machine? any good tutorials on the topic you guys can recommend?

Do you know git? Download git for windows and it has a git bash built into it that works fine and does most normal bash commands minus apt-get. Make it work on right click context menus.

I like SourceTree - mainly for the discard file feature which rolls back any unstaged changes. Also it works on windows or Mac, which helps because we have devs on both.