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Entries from May 2006

Focusing forms on load considered evil

May 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I noticed a small change on the SweClockers forum. They have a search form a bit down on the page. That input-box gets auto-focused using javascript when the page loads.

That is immensely annoying. First and foremost, the search function is useful, but it is not what I use the most. Now, because my browser has [...]

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May 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I have my exam in Common Lisp tomorrow. While studying for it I looked out the window and saw this.

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Now it’s gone, it only lasted for a couple of minutes.

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Tags: Life

Editor wars

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments

For almost as long as there has been computers there have been some computer holy wars, Intel vs. AMD, Microsoft Windows vs. good operating systems or UNIX vs. ITS. But none of these are as debated as Emacs vs. vi. While I do prefer Emacs over vi, I’m not particularly fond of either of them. [...]

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Tags: Technology