Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won’t have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
— Ed Catmull
Via The Endeavor.
Author: grant
zk-phi releases two perhaps necessary packages for Emacs
You may not be totally sure why, but you will immediately feel like you ought to install the following two packages for Emacs:
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Problems installing (M)ELPA packages
In Problems installing (M)ELPA packages Sebastien wrote:
While using `package.el’ fulfills a long-awaited dream for easily adding and upgrading Emacs libraries, I now feel upgrading packages is much more complex than what I anticipated.
At least two of the packages I use daily (Org and Helm) require to be installed from inside a fresh Emacs session (emacs -Q), where nothing has been loaded.
I had wondered but never found out why one must follow this approach when installing org from scratch. Good to know!
Neelam – 2nd Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
Neelam – 2nd Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview was generously shared.
elpakit
Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful
Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful is a nice example of one approach to testing Emacs Lisp.
Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita
This authoritative translation and commentary makes a timeless Eastern scripture as useful today as it was centuries ago. Swami Rama draws out the psychological concepts of this immortal text and makes them accessible to all students. Spiritual seekers, psychotherapists, and students of Eastern studies will all find a storehouse of wisdom in this volume. This book deals with analyzing and training the internal states of the human being so that one can be active in the external world while maintaining a state of tranquility.
Be prepared before taking the challenge and keep at it no matter how it goes.
Celestial Song/Gobind Geet
Celestial Song of the Gobind Geet is the dialogue between Sri Guru Gobind Singh and Banda Singh Bahadur, two great leaders in the history of humanity and the Sikh tradition. This poetic interchange presents the ideals of Sikh dharma in a simple and lucid way so that they can be enjoyed, understood, and applied by all who hear them. A central theme of the book is that the spiritually aware have a responsibility to help those in the world – that selfless service to humanity is, in fact, a spiritual practice. To serve, to remember, and to love are the three essential aspects of the Sikh dharma.
Prepare to be amazed and inspired by these magnanimous souls.
tidyr: Easily tidy data with spread and gather functions for R
magrittr: magrittr – a forward-pipe operator for R
Provides a mechanism for chaining commands with a new forward-pipe operator. Ceci n’est pas un pipe.
This is a post from the most understated package definition of the year department. magrittr is, much like every Scheme library ever, deceptively simple in its power and ease of use that it provides.
The README, API documentation, and vignette are really, really great, too. Be sure to grok the order-of-evaluation when you’ve got normal functions on the right-hand-side.