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If you're using OS X and have kinetic scrolling ("scroll with momentum") enables at the OS level, you can try disabling "Smooth Scrolling" in FF4 (Advanced -> General -> Use Smooth Scrolling).
SciTE is a fine editor; it was one of the only ones I liked before I fell under the emacs spell. Now I can't use anything else, but I can certainly second the recommendation if you're not willing to fully invest in…
I tried to like TextMate very hard. Coda is even better, like TextMate on PCP. Oh how I wanted to love Coda, but I just couldn't do it. It felt like having a one-night stand with the most beautiful 21 year old, all the…
This isn't a reply to this comment, this is a reply in general to any comment that says [deleted]: Being deleted only makes me want know what the comment was. It's like censoring books: it only makes them more popular.
Wow, I used to have own a fUnc Surface 1030 back in the proverbial day when I had time (an a machine that was able) to game. That was the best mousing surface I've ever used, hands down. I'd actually recommend it if…
I actually try very hard to do everything with the keyboard. I'm an emacs zombie, though I'm sure the vim-o-nauts would agree: mousing is just really inefficient. BUT! It depends on what you do. Occasionally I have to…
I second Euler's equation. Also, two books that really rocked my world (though I guess it's not really an answer to the question) were Dune and House of Leaves.
OR you can do: CTRL+e for beginning of the line, CTRL+a for the end, CTRL+k to kill from the caret to the end of the line, CTRL+u to kill from the caret to the beginning, CTRL+h to backspace one character, CTRL+w to…
Oh I completely disagree about the Spotlight menu being as fast as Quicksilver for launching apps but even besides that Quicksilver can do so much more. You can: set global shortcuts for damn near anything you'd want to…
I can't think of a single time I've ever used C-x C-i. I have my C-w bound to backward-kill-word, which I definitely wish every editable text area would obey. I find it's damn near always faster to kill the whole word…
Macbook Pro + Emacs (aquamacs) = Love. Anyone else find that they are absolutely bound to emacs and no matter what else you try to use, you find yourself, like a turtle returning to the beach where it was born, going…
And just why can't you give at least a vague sketch of your idea? Are you afraid us, the humble readers and commenters at Hacker News, will steal your idea when you plainly say that it took you 6 years of concentrated…
As tjr said, it would be helpful to know what sort of things interest you. My advice is to find an open-source project that you use every day or find technically interesting (firefox, amaroK, open-office, gaim...) and…
I signed into the wasteland that is HN to approve this message.
If you're using OS X and have kinetic scrolling ("scroll with momentum") enables at the OS level, you can try disabling "Smooth Scrolling" in FF4 (Advanced -> General -> Use Smooth Scrolling).
SciTE is a fine editor; it was one of the only ones I liked before I fell under the emacs spell. Now I can't use anything else, but I can certainly second the recommendation if you're not willing to fully invest in…
I tried to like TextMate very hard. Coda is even better, like TextMate on PCP. Oh how I wanted to love Coda, but I just couldn't do it. It felt like having a one-night stand with the most beautiful 21 year old, all the…
This isn't a reply to this comment, this is a reply in general to any comment that says [deleted]: Being deleted only makes me want know what the comment was. It's like censoring books: it only makes them more popular.
Wow, I used to have own a fUnc Surface 1030 back in the proverbial day when I had time (an a machine that was able) to game. That was the best mousing surface I've ever used, hands down. I'd actually recommend it if…
I actually try very hard to do everything with the keyboard. I'm an emacs zombie, though I'm sure the vim-o-nauts would agree: mousing is just really inefficient. BUT! It depends on what you do. Occasionally I have to…
I second Euler's equation. Also, two books that really rocked my world (though I guess it's not really an answer to the question) were Dune and House of Leaves.
OR you can do: CTRL+e for beginning of the line, CTRL+a for the end, CTRL+k to kill from the caret to the end of the line, CTRL+u to kill from the caret to the beginning, CTRL+h to backspace one character, CTRL+w to…
Oh I completely disagree about the Spotlight menu being as fast as Quicksilver for launching apps but even besides that Quicksilver can do so much more. You can: set global shortcuts for damn near anything you'd want to…
I can't think of a single time I've ever used C-x C-i. I have my C-w bound to backward-kill-word, which I definitely wish every editable text area would obey. I find it's damn near always faster to kill the whole word…
Macbook Pro + Emacs (aquamacs) = Love. Anyone else find that they are absolutely bound to emacs and no matter what else you try to use, you find yourself, like a turtle returning to the beach where it was born, going…
And just why can't you give at least a vague sketch of your idea? Are you afraid us, the humble readers and commenters at Hacker News, will steal your idea when you plainly say that it took you 6 years of concentrated…
As tjr said, it would be helpful to know what sort of things interest you. My advice is to find an open-source project that you use every day or find technically interesting (firefox, amaroK, open-office, gaim...) and…