Notices by ∑ XahLee (xahlee@noagendasocial.com), page 13

reminder to none coders: anything you type on twitter, can be logged, even before you send or cancel it. This includes any box on any site.

lol. the Associated Press. Eager to clickbait, got pranked by some 4chan guy, and now issue a retraction Friday Night movie time, and says “white nationalist” lied. No, you lied yourself.

context:
https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/964695749119193088

Practical Linux Tutorial. Learn #linux by command line, covering only commands used daily.
http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_index.html

for video lecture by historian Li Ao on Tibet, photos of its practice of torture, skinning in obedient etc, see
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/tibet.html

the dalai lama, is a conman. He is good at saying sappy emotionally pleasing things, equivalent to kitten puppy pictures, but solves nothing. The tibet buddism practices torture, slavery, cruelty, worse than christianity in the past, before the communist china abolished it.

context
https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/964616191024115712

unicode search tool
http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html

for another char example that crashes ios, see
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/blog.html

@johnww2 seen this?
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/02/15/picking-apart-the-crashing-ios-string/

@johnww2 prob emacs, because in browsers, it shows combined.

ok, i found a #emacs bug!
this sequence
U+0915 U+094D U+0930 U+200C U+093E
results in
क्रा
the last char does not combine in emacs!
now, crash your Mac!

#Emacs Xah Math Input Mode
now support U+ prefix, e.g. u+3b1 ⇒ α
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/xmsi-math-symbols-input.html

#Emacs learn all the useful Find and Replace Commands

query-replace 【Alt+%】
query-replace-regexp 【Ctrl+Alt+%】
dired-do-query-replace-regexp 【Q】

detail:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_find_replace.html

. @Lauren_Southern 's video's kinda annoying. Because in every one of them, she paints a picture, with kinda satirical overtone and facial expression, over whatever she's reporting. Stop that habit Lauren, if you wanna do documentary. We like your videos.

more realistic programer picture used in hiring ads. Applause.
Now, becoming common since @JamesADamore google memo lawsuit.

context:
https://twitter.com/StackDevJobs/status/964473550605312000

If you haven't read the law suit yet, here

James Damore vs Google Class Action Lawsuit
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/james_damore_vs_google_class_action_lawsuit.html …

1 example of pseudo-efficiency trumps language design is Bitmask Used as Boolean Parameters. See

http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/bitmask.html

typical hacker get confused by this, and defends it vociferously.

this happens for languages up to about 2005, but not after.

one of the example typical hacker get confused is Bitmask Used as Boolean Parameters. It's a example of pseudo-efficiency trumps language design.

Programing Language Design: the Hack of Bitmask Used as Boolean Parameters
http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/bitmask.html

this happens for languages up to about 2005, but not after.

#JavaScript in Depth: Learn ES2015 Map Object in 5 minutes
http://xahlee.info/js/javascript_map.html

Object Oriented Programing: is Object Data or Namespace?
http://xahlee.info/comp/oop_is_object_still_data.html
#JavaScript #ruby #python

@mattskala @wrenpile

might check out this article, more in detail https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/02/15/picking-apart-the-crashing-ios-string/