Yes, CtrlP is faster and easier to install because it's just a vimscript. It also supports all of Command-T's functionality, so it's pretty much just great.
Hey, what agscala says below is absolutely right. I tried it, but honestly, Sublime Text 2 is far superior. Even my Vim-core colleague to my right agrees. And thats saying something!
Edit: Scrap that, rush-read - CntrlP doesn't beat Sublime's Apple+P. Honestly, try it and you'll see what I mean.
I've found Command-T slows way down on large trees, causing a very noticeable interruption in my "flow" when I use it. Also, it's written in ruby which can be a bit more painful to get started with if your distro doesn't compile ruby support into vim by default.
Do you find that it slows down only the first time you use it within an editing session, or everytime you use it? If only the first time, I've got a fork which caches the files to disk, so that you don't hit that slowdown very often. The downside is that when you add new files, you have to bust that cache.
I honestly believe the current government is, in many ways, the best this country has had for the past 30 years (at least), even taking into account its many and very real shortcomings (the mangling of official statistics and the outrageous restrictions on foreign currency ranking very high among them).
I am obviously partial in the matter, but I also believe Argentina still has much going for it. The upper education system in particular remains very good in most places and is completely free. I attend the University of Buenos Aires and can attest to this, even though I'm by no means a top student. The resources aren't abundant, but the quality of the education itself is excellent.
Lastly, the government is forcefully buying the oil company that used to be state-owned until the early 90s neoliberal selling spree happened. It's not like it's arbitrarily taking companies by force. I think there's some kind of consensus in economics about oil being a strategic resource, so I'm not sure it's fair to extrapolate from this one data point.
> It's not like it's arbitrarily taking companies by force.
They took over the majority of the shares by force. Buying something is when you voluntarily agree on a transaction. When the government cuts off the communication to the head quarters as the nationalization is announced and then go with armed guards to escort the Spanish bosses out of the building. That is what's called "an offer you can't refuse".
Anecdotes are not data. The whole of South America is fairly mediocre vs. the world in education but Argentina doesn't seem to be ahead of Chile in a relative ranking. Chile has two unis ahead of your university, which is top in the country (although Argentina does make up some ground in the tail).[1]
The Spanish have a different story on the oil company. It's hardly an advertisement to set up a business there anyway, which is what I am talking about.
Finally, I don't think being the best government in Argentine history is a very high bar to reach. You were the 7th richest country in the world in the 1920s, with plenty of resources, and now a place starting poorer than you like Japan with hardly any resources (plus getting burned to the ground and nuked twice) is three or four times richer. There are tons of examples like that beyond Japan, the governments of Argentina have been a string of disasters in terms of providing for the people and not filling mass graves with them. Taking the current government though, I'd hardly say inflation three to six times higher than Chile is a great government. But when inflation in the past has been measured in hundreds of percent I concede that this could be a reasonable government when the only comparison is past Argentine governments.
In that ranking, they basically measure reputation, citations of papers in other papers and # of PhDs students. It depends how you measure quality.
Finally, I don't think being the best government in Argentine history is a very high bar to reach...
Yes, that's correct.
In a nutshell, when Argentina was rich there were very rich and very few landowners, who also controlled the goverment, and a lot of poor people that worked for them. It was feudal "capitalism". There wasn't much of a "middle class" or "rising middle class". Of course, a democracy can't work in those conditions. There were fraudulent elections, coups and, of course, the response of the mass of the poor was either following the few intelectuals of the elite that proclaimed comunism as the solution, or to cling to father figures in goverment(Perón). The people were slaves, treated as slaves, and then reacted as slaves.
Aggregate stats across a number of areas plus opinion is a reasonable measure, albeit imperfect. Again I have provided many stats and figures and nobody has provided anything contrary other than assertions (and in one case cast some doubt over the Internet penetration). One would suspect that if the education is so good in Argentina people would have better researched arguments (ok that's a low blow, but people are downvoting). Feel free to provide another measure though. I don't think the roles will be reversed, though it might come out even under another measure as they are close in this one.
My intention wasn't to provide another index, but to discard the index system as a mesure for something more than what the index actually mesures. For example: the abstract, subjective and esoteric education "quality".
I'm not the original poster, but MoinMoin is widely considered mature and featureful. I'm guessing they had a good reason not to use it; it may be worth asking them.
MediaWiki has been extended a whole lot for dynamic content in Wikipedia. That might be one reason for the author choosing it. There has been work outside Wikipedia in making content features more powerful, with Semantic Mediawiki and DBpedia.
I hope criticizing the link itself isn't considered trolling here (I'm still new), but what I see here is an article that is 90% a quote from a different article and 10% pretty uninspiring commentary. Why link to this particular site instead of the place where the actual content is in?
FYI, as the author of the link post, I agree - but there's not much I can do about people reposting my linked posts... (I don't think it should be reposted unless I add some insight, e.g. http://swombat.com/2012/3/10/frightening-ideas - and even then, I don't know...)
Pro tip: after you paste code, it might not be indented correctly in the new context. You can select just pasted lines and autoindent them with V`]=. This should fix the indentation in most cases.
A better alternative: issue the ":set paste" command just before pasting text. That way you keep the original indentation.
With the risk of sounding naive or out of place - am I the only one surprised at this idea raising $2.5m? Not that the site isn't cool and well done, but I can't figure out how developing and hosting a site like this, say for the next five years, may cost something in that range.
What would they possibly need that kind of money for?
Education is the next big thing. Recent public classes in databases, machine learning and AI from Stanford is proof enough that even the most traditional learning ops are looking at the Khan meme very seriously.
If anything , these guys have raised frugally and probably will be a big hit in approximately 24 months from now.
The difference, though, is that the money that Khan Academy has raised is donations. They're not investors who are seeking a (financial) return on their capital. Education is a tough space for startups trying to make money: http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startu...
Salman had options to go either way, he chose it to be structured differently due to philosophical reasons. There are other folks who are doing pretty well:
The greatest cost of any startup is going to be hiring and paying good people (and in Code Academy's case, perhaps teachers / education experts as well).
They are also probably raising more in order to weather out any possible drying up of VC in the future.
Thanks for the feedback! I fixed the handling of quotes. I'm not currently adding 'allintext:' to the search but I do add &nfpr=1 to the query string, which as far as I can tell from testing should be equivalent or actually cover more cases.
https://github.com/wincent/Command-T