I write code mainly in R, and from times to times, in C, C++, SAS, bash, python, and perl. There are style guides out there that help make your code more consistent and readable to yourself and others. [Here](http://geosoft.no/development/cppstyle.html) is a style guide for C++, and [here](http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html) is Google’s style guide for R and [here](http://had.co.nz/stat405/resources/r-style-guide.html) read more
so i was trying to compile some C code on my server at school that involves the math and the GNU Scientific Library (gsl) libraries. that is, the source has the following lines: those link the header files. however, when compiling, gcc would complain that they can’t see functions such as sqrt, abs, etc, from read more
stumpwm is to window managing (tiling?) system what emacs is to text editing and conkeror is to web browsing. very cool. if i was on a linux laptop/desktop like i used to be, i would definitely use this. i’m even debating on quitting my mac os x for this (with emacs and conkeror). however, i read more
so im very used to emacs keybindings. i use it for emacs and conkeror so often times i hit M-w etc and these keys don’t work in mac os x. this sucks. i googled it, and found this and this. guess u can have emacs keybindings in mac os x…for programs that use the cocoa read more
so recently i’m learning how to compile and cross-compile R packages from source for windows machines, which means i have to create windows binaries. the first option is to build on a windows system, and the 2nd is to cross-build on an intel-based linux or mac system. i will outline my experience. Send it off read more
so i’ve been using erc for irc these days to get help on compiling stuff, eg, shell-fm and madplay. i usually just paste the errors i get which sometimes can be long. however, that is bad courtesy in the irc channels as that junk takes up a lot of room. jkramer from #shell-fm on the read more
as i mentioned before again and again, i’ve been working on to get shell-fm to record music from last.fm. originally, i was trying to get shell-fm pipe to tee to save the songs and play using madplay (or mplayer) based on this method. this worked. i just need to write scripts to post process the read more
so recently i compiled shell-fm, a command-line last.fm player. in order to record music with shell-fm, i can output the stream of incoming data into tee, which saves the data to a file and at the same time pipes it out to stdout, and have that piped to madplay, a command-line player. i had mplayer read more
i blogged recently that i couldn’t compile shell-fm on mac os x. hopped #shell-fm on the freenode, and talked to the author himself. the error i got was: he suggested i go to the source and do: that is, remove the main.c in the middle and libshellfm.a to *.c that did the work and i read more
in any linux gui environment, u can define custom keyboard shortcuts for anything, whether its executing a shell command to anything u can think of. i love my macbook, but i really hate how Apple WILL NOT let me customize things the way i want it. they really force you into their philosophies: we say read more
