Get your ZSH trash out of here. Stop customizing shit. Just get better at using the defaults. Vim bundling is annoying? What bundles do you need? Just use default vim out of the box. Change the font and colors, and you are good to go.
Has anyone migrated to using Atom as their primary text editor? I should probably also not be messing around so much during exam time but I want to try a few rolling release Linux Distributions, will probably start with Antergos or straight Arch.
Get your ZSH trash out of here. Stop customizing shit. Just get better at using the defaults. Vim bundling is annoying? What bundles do you need? Just use default vim out of the box. Change the font and colors, and you are good to go.
The only bundles I use are auto bracket closure, powerline to tell me what branch I'm editing and a nice looking UI. The last is just fonts and colours.
The fonts and colours originally were easy to use but most of them have moved to being setup for Vundle or another Vim bundle handler.
ZSH is objectively better than BASH, it does things that BASH should have implemented years ago but has stayed stagnant.
I'll look forward to installing both, just need to get past exam preparations. Mainly webdev people were recommending Atom to me to the point where I thought it was primarily for Javascript but only checked out the details last night.
Yeah, ash is better until something doesn't work because you changed your defaults. Also, just type faster. I've never found bash lacking. Change yourself instead of your software.
I'm with you on this, sK0pe; zsh is just plain better. It's ~99% bash-compatible, so all your existing shell knowledge and tricks will still apply. Any scripts you're running should be using a shebang anyway. I use both bash and zsh daily and am equally *capable* in both (largely due to many years of bash experience), but zsh feels much more pleasant to use. It's not that there are things I need to do that I can't do in bash, but that zsh iterates on subtle things that greatly improve my subjective comfort (check out its tab completion as a prime example). It's more of an ergonomic choice than a functional one.
What failure modes am I overlooking?
I also use vim daily for sysadmin stuff and am very comfortable/capable with it, but prefer Sublime Text for the bulk of my (mostly python) programming work, for similar (ergonomic) reasons.
Atom on the other hand...*fuck* this newfangled native app written in JS nonsense. Even if they refuse to learn vim, why can't the kids these days be happy with Sublime Text?
Atom on the other hand...*fuck* this newfangled Rock and Roll nonsense. Even if they refuse to learn vim, why can't the kids these days be happy with Sublime Text?
The Advent of Code is back for 2016. I'm going to do it in Python, which I'm mostly unfamiliar with.
I actually need to learn a bit of Python but at the same time get up to speed with just programming in general.
I tried doing some Python stuff and it feels so weird (haven't written Python for anything substantial for 2 years. I keep doing semicolons and the compiler doesn't like brackets at places where many other languages like brackets.
I think because I taught myself C++, I don't know how to deal with strings as easily as in Java and Python. I always resort to writing my own tokeniser (brought about by the first day's problem).
That's definitely a good one when separating by a single character. I don't think this approach will work if you have a string delimiter that is made up of more than one character.
I will remember your one for the majority of cases though.
They are all meant to be straight forward, I feel as if it's a refresher or trying out stuff that you're not great at. Like that dude who is doing everything as fast as possible in C++, mostly using multi-threading (and then getting destroyed by someone doing the same in Rust) with what seems like less effort.
The occasional easy one isn't too bad, it just helps me focus on mastering Python fundamentals. “Ok, a string is mostly like a list except when it isn't and also it's immutable.” “Huh, what's the quickest way to make a list of empty lists?” “This works, but is there a nicer, more Pythonic way to do it?” Stuff you really learn by doing rather than study.
The occasional easy one isn't too bad, it just helps me focus on mastering Python fundamentals. “Ok, a string is mostly like a list except when it isn't and also it's immutable.” “Huh, what's the quickest way to make a list of empty lists?” “This works, but is there a nicer, more Pythonic way to do it?” Stuff you really learn by doing rather than study.
Yeah usually I'll bang out the C++ solution in a few minutes but I'll fiddle around with the Python solution for a relatively long time. I'm still putting brackets and semicolons everywhere though . Although I/O is really easy.
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The fonts and colours originally were easy to use but most of them have moved to being setup for Vundle or another Vim bundle handler.
ZSH is objectively better than BASH, it does things that BASH should have implemented years ago but has stayed stagnant. I'll look forward to installing both, just need to get past exam preparations. Mainly webdev people were recommending Atom to me to the point where I thought it was primarily for Javascript but only checked out the details last night.
What failure modes am I overlooking?
I also use vim daily for sysadmin stuff and am very comfortable/capable with it, but prefer Sublime Text for the bulk of my (mostly python) programming work, for similar (ergonomic) reasons.
Atom on the other hand...*fuck* this newfangled native app written in JS nonsense. Even if they refuse to learn vim, why can't the kids these days be happy with Sublime Text?
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I tried doing some Python stuff and it feels so weird (haven't written Python for anything substantial for 2 years.
I keep doing semicolons and the compiler doesn't like brackets at places where many other languages like brackets.
Maybe I'll do every problem in C++ and Python.
Also that advent calendar thing is fun. I just finished the first day. I made a leaderboard. 111686-e01a629f is the join code
EDIT: I'm Cameron Neville in the leaderboard
I always resort to writing my own tokeniser (brought about by the first day's problem).
Is there a more efficient way than this -
https://gist.github.com/sK0pe/4321f15badec18d572874f4d9c4ad108
I know I can just use cin.ignore for comma delimited things, but that seems like a bit of a hack
I don't think this approach will work if you have a string delimiter that is made up of more than one character.
I will remember your one for the majority of cases though.
I'm still putting brackets and semicolons everywhere though
Although I/O is really easy.