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His kennyness

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Oct 17, 2010, 12:04:44 PM10/17/10
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Still some openings, esp. on the data mining/analytics side:

http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/

Permament/local preferred, local/contract second, telecommute/contract last.

Company is: http://www.mcna.net/

Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?

kenneth

Pascal J. Bourguignon

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Oct 17, 2010, 12:10:39 PM10/17/10
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His kennyness <kent...@gmail.com> writes:

erc / emacs / ubuntu, of course.

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Kenneth Tilton

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Oct 17, 2010, 12:41:10 PM10/17/10
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On 10/17/2010 12:10 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> His kennyness<kent...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Still some openings, esp. on the data mining/analytics side:
>>
>> http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Permament/local preferred, local/contract second, telecommute/contract last.
>>
>> Company is: http://www.mcna.net/
>>
>> Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?
>
> erc / emacs / ubuntu, of course.
>

I was going to ban suggestions involving emacs, but moved too slow. :)

Thx, though.

Good for Opera, it does it out of the box.

kt

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Mario S. Mommer

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Oct 17, 2010, 12:30:25 PM10/17/10
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His kennyness <kent...@gmail.com> writes:
> Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?

You'll like xchat. Erc/emacs is good, but way too much hassle to get up
and running properly, IMO.

Pascal J. Bourguignon

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Oct 17, 2010, 12:46:28 PM10/17/10
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Kenneth Tilton <kent...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/17/2010 12:10 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> His kennyness<kent...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Still some openings, esp. on the data mining/analytics side:
>>>
>>> http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> Permament/local preferred, local/contract second, telecommute/contract last.
>>>
>>> Company is: http://www.mcna.net/
>>>
>>> Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?
>>
>> erc / emacs / ubuntu, of course.
>>
>
> I was going to ban suggestions involving emacs, but moved too slow. :)
>
> Thx, though.
>
> Good for Opera, it does it out of the box.

Of course, it all depends on the definition of 'best', but for a
lisp programmer, which on a newsgroup like cll, it is the assumed
context, only an emacs irc client can be the best, since it allows you
to interact on irc with the lowest overhead and context switch cost.

You can seamlessly program, query emacs for documentation or irc for
help. It's alsmost if emacs suddenly has become intelligent and can
program for you!

Captain Obvious

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Oct 17, 2010, 1:26:35 PM10/17/10
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KT> Good for Opera, it does it out of the box.

Actually Ubuntu itself does it out of the box too -- it includes Emapthy IM
client which includes IRC support (as well as support for dozen other
communication protocols).

His kennyness

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Oct 17, 2010, 3:09:08 PM10/17/10
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Kewl, thx.

kt

blandest

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Oct 17, 2010, 6:12:49 PM10/17/10
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I love when people build cages around themselves :D

Kenneth Tilton

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Oct 17, 2010, 8:46:04 PM10/17/10
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You mean the "for Ubuntu" constraint? I already found a Windows client,
but my next universe might be wholly Ubuntu. Actually, starting to toy
with running the AG Server in an Ubuntu VM and developing on Mac OS X.
VMWare does awesome work.

Xah Lee

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Oct 18, 2010, 5:18:55 AM10/18/10
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Kenneth Tilton <kentil...@gmail.com> writes:
> Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Of course, it all depends on the definition of 'best', but for a
> lisp programmer, which on a newsgroup like cll, it is the assumed
> context, only an emacs irc client can be the best, since it allows you
> to interact on irc with the lowest overhead and context switch cost.

actually, emacs rcirc consumes more resource than a dedicate GUI
one the Colloquy. This was my experienc from about 2005 to 2008 on mac
os x
10.4. But also, emacs rcirc just flatly lost out on so many features
when compared to Colloquy.

i haven't used irc for like 3 years, but here's what i recall:

• emacs one doesn't auto connect when there's network disruption (very
common with wireless)

• emacs rcirc does not notify you if someone mentions your name. (you
have to install some external mac growler extra, but even still, it
sucks.)

some of these can be fixed but that usually means you spend few hours
to dig lisp code and result is usually not satisfactory. There's also
erc...

... quite few others. The only thing i like is that it's integrated.
That i can easily swicch to any buffer and do copy/paste or call any
lisp function such as insert date, link, or use my existing abbrevs
and unicode insertion etc.

Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/

Tim Bradshaw

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Oct 18, 2010, 6:19:35 AM10/18/10
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On 2010-10-17 17:04:44 +0100, His kennyness said:

> Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?

For what its's worth I used to use Chatzilla, which is a Firefox
add-on. I found it pretty pleasant and powerful and I'd probably still
use it except it looks ugly on the Mac. Obviously only useful if
you're using Firefox.

Giovanni Gigante

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Oct 18, 2010, 6:27:24 AM10/18/10
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> For what its's worth I used to use Chatzilla, which is a Firefox add-on.

It is also part of Seamonkey, the old beloved bloatware which is the
heir of the Netscape Suite (browser+mail+editor+irc+...).

Stanisław Halik

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Oct 19, 2010, 11:44:21 AM10/19/10
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2010-10-17 18:04, His kennyness wrote:
> Plus a question: best IRC Client for Ubuntu?

Irssi.

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