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Ferrier on Agile
InfoQ has a nice interview with Nic Ferrier on good software and agile. Irreal has mentioned Ferrier several times: he’s a good hacker and someone who deserves to be taken seriously. Ferrier’s take is the agile is a way to … Continue reading
Support Melpa
I’ve said this several times but, really, MELPA is one of Emacs’ great resources. Think for a moment how important it is to your Emacs life and what you would do if it disappeared. How would you replace it? There’s … Continue reading
The Map Library
Recently I’ve written about Wilfred Hughes’ ht library for dealing with hash tables and Nic Ferrier’s kv library for dealing with alists and plists. Nicolas Petton commented that there is also the map library, which is built into Emacs as … Continue reading
The kv Library
The other day I wrote about Wilfred Hughes’ hash table library. In the comments, Noonian Atall remarked that Nic Ferrier also has a key/value library (kv) that’s worth taking a looking at. Whereas Hughes’ ht library is primarily concerned with … Continue reading
What is a Hacker?
That’s a notoriously difficult question. Nik Ferrier has his own answer, which seems to me as good as any other I’ve read. Hop on over and see if it resonates for you.
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The Case Against Agile
Back in early April, I wrote about Nic Ferrier’s take on agile. Ferrier understands it as a way of increasing communication in development teams. He makes a good case that agile is at worst benign and that in most cases … Continue reading
Sacha Chua and John Wiegley on Elisp Development
Sacha Chua has a great video chat with John Wiegley on Elisp development. If you work with Elisp, you really should spend the time to watch it. Chua and Wiegley start by discussing paredit and its capabilities. I’ve been using … Continue reading
Britain Too
It turns out that it’s not just the U.S. Britain, too, has bozos in charge of keeping us safe (via Nic Ferrier): Tories plan porn site age checks http://t.co/mftZlYDrHq <- more unicorn-farming fantasies from the techno-illiterate — Simon Phipps (@webmink) … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
The Stasi is a good point. The Stasi is what happens when a state tries to achieve total watchfullness. — Nic Ferrier (@nicferrier) January 18, 2015
Sleepwalking into Tyranny
Nic Ferrier has a few words of his own on government snooping. This time from a British point of view. We appear to be sleep walking into a world where MI5 can constantly watch us. If you don't think this … Continue reading