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Meeting Notes 2012-04-10

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The Greater Emacs Community

  • Emacs is "this awesome tool that gets overlooked, like people have some amazing sword in their cupboard and instead hack away at zombies with spoons." - Nic Ferrier

Focus group: The Broken Windows Theory

  • John got yelled at for drawing on the Moore 100 windows with dry-erase markers (it doesn't damage the windows, but "we don't want to encourage it").
    • John: Just put up a sign that says to erase when you're done. And also have cameras and lasers.
    • John: Anyway, that ends the focus group discussion.

Focus group: The energy crisis

  • Gas is expensive in California, unless you have a Tesla.
  • Zach: Have you ever driven cross-country?
    • Mish: Not this country.

Focus group: Climate change

  • The Sky Lounge is a greenhouse.
    • Rafe: This is not an efficiently-designed room for the summertime.

Focus group: Rafe's Potbelly Experience

  • This isn't actually a focus group, it's just a survey thing they sent him.

Focus group: Time management

  • Rafe: I love how I can tell people I'm in a meeting when I'm here.

Focus group: Emacs 24

  • Zach: It works… most of the time. Which is also my experience with emacs 23.

Focus group: Emacs Uptime

  • Rafe: Unless you have legendary emacs uptime, that won't be sustainable.
    • Rafe's emacs uptime is 3 years.
  • Andrew: I get these popups that say "Emacs has crashed! Emacs has crashed!" and none of my emacs instances actually crashed.
    • It's the OS who cried SIGWOLF.

Focus group: Smex

  • Mish's video card is kablooey.
  • smex gives Mish some weird errors.
  • Mish reprimands Rafe for not having ido.
    • Mish: You needed to have that a long time ago.
    • Zach: A long long time ago.
  • M-x smex is fun to pronounce.
  • With his newfound autocomplete powers, Zach discovers the function icicle-doremi-increment-swank-prefix-length+

Focus group: Flymake

  • Andrew found someone who had the exact same problem he had with flymake, except when he did what that guy did to fix it, it didn't work for him.
  • Rafe: Who were you, DenverCoder9? What did you see?

Focus group: Music of the Spheres

  • The sun passes through the rooftop lounge of a different highrise from last time. The earth has rotated!
    • Rafe makes things up about astrophysics.
      • Rafe: The MOOOOOON!

Focus group: Backwards compatibility

  • Zach: They wouldn't take it out. It's a really useful feature.
    • Rafe: Stallman works in mysterious ways.

Focus group: Computer graphics

  • Rafe is impressed by the Electric Sheep.
    • Rafe: I'm glad I don't have this screen saver. I wouldn't get anything done.
    • Zach: Yeah, the first couple years you have it it takes up a lot of your time.
    • John: If you ever go to Brent Yorgey's office hours, distract him and then watch his screensaver. It's xmonad, so it's all Haskell people writing Klein bottle screensavers.

Focus group: Dongle

  • I have to leave early, but it is safe to assume a dongle reference was made in my absence.

Author: Matthew Croop

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

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