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Concision and Concinnity
Personal blog · concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.comprogramming
Concision and Concinnity is a personal blog at concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for practical tutorials: one post on upgrading bash on OS X and another on Vim plugins. The comments cite it as a source for those instructions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
to upgrade bash on OS X: brew install bash then follow directions at [1] [1] http://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/03/upgrade-b...
Comment linking /2009/03/upgrade-bash-to-40-in-mac-os-x.html
on “Apple’s great GPL purge”Submitted Notes on Teaching JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussiondbext - An excellent plugin to execute sql against a db server from within vim - works with almost every major db engine. snipmate - textmate like snippets. Works very well. NERD_tree: As others have mentioned. Not really a plugin but, this is useful for automatically closing your '(' and '[' and quotes etc... http://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/07/vim-part-...
Comment linking /2009/07/vim-part-ii-matching-pairs.html
on “Ask HN: What Vim Plugins do you use?”Submitted How-to: Simplify Python shell scripts with setuptools as a story · 2 points
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