Meeting Notes 2012-04-03

Setup

Mish put Google Analytics up last week. We've already gotten three visitors from Zurich.
Special thanks to Michael S., who accidentally left his (working!) power strip in the room.
A diagram of Todun's 555 project is on the whiteboard.
- The databases were once cylinders, as is traditional, but the need for more writing space transformed them into conical frusta.
The Box O' Sandwiches arrives, carried by John, Mish, and Rafe.
Zach and John discuss matters of the Haskell.
- Rafe complains about lack of purity in purity restrictions.
- Mish: These kids are Haskelling it up.
Happy birthday John!
- M-x animate-birthday-present
- The birthday present is martini-swan-dived, then dissociated.

We're all eating, so Mish does an Emacs tutorial.
Mish: It assumes you're smart, so that'll help.
Mish: Emacs is self-documenting. That's what makes it better than all the other editors.
In the midst of his presentation, Mish is chatted at.
- Lucy: MISH
- Lucy: CAN ALL OF MY BEST FRIENDS AT PENN JUST HANG OUT AT ONE PLACE
Mish: Up down left right those let you move around. You can also use C-f C-b C-n C-p.
- C-p C-p C-n C-n C-b C-f C-b C-f b a
Mish cascades frame-splitting infinitely.
- Rafe: I don't believe you can actually go infinitely.
He then cycles through the frames.
- Mish: The order is top to bottom, left to right.
- Andrew: Really? I always thought it was just random.
Finally, he kills the buffers.
- C-x C-b C-x o d d x y y
- Mish: The buffer displaying the buffers is also a buffer, and I can kill it too.
- Rafe: That's mean.
Mish: M-x shell is cool and handy if you never want to leave emacs. You should never want to leave emacs.

We browse the java flymake docs. Rafe didn't know that java had lint built in.
- Rafe: I'll run it on one of my students' files, see what kind of output we get.
- man javac: -Xlint Enable all recommended warnings. In this release, all available warnings are recommended.
- This isn't actually lint. This is disappointing.
yasnippit autocompletes defun for Mish. He tabs to the docstring line.
- Andrew: You can just leave it blank.
- Rafe: No, that breaks the invariant of emacs being all self-documenting.
Next week will include code style checking.
- Zach: All the cool kids are checking their styles.
John raises the blinds, singing the theme from 2001.
An hour later, Mish retrieves his dongle.

Author: Matthew Croop

Date: 2012-11-14 17:49:53 EST

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