BBC News:
Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen has become the world champion, beating Indian title holder Viswanathan Anand.
Carlsen, 22, secured a draw to win the World Chess Championship in 10 games, with two left to play.
Carlsen won the match in Chennai, India, with a score of 6.5-3.5. The win means that Carlsen achieves the record of having the highest new rating of all time.
He could’ve easily become the youngest to secure the title, but you can’t challenge and get into a championship just like that. Congratulations, Carlson!
Update: Here’s a comprehensive list of games, their summaries and other stuff.
The Jenkins guys seem to have had a rough day.
yesterday something strange has happen to many Jenkins repositories on GitHub (more then 50 Repos)…
Luca Milanesio seems have pushed to many many repositories without really changing anything – at least I have not seen anything changed.
But the folks at github have helped by restoring the state prior to the force push into a separate branch. Good old git reflog to the rescue.
Typically recovering a force push is straightforward:
1. git reflog > look at the SHA-1 before the forced push
2. git branch -f <name> <sha-1>
As far as I know, bare repos don’t have reflog enabled by default. They might have turned on core.logAllRefUpdates for all the repos at github by default.
The days we had to remember dozens of ffmpeg flags has long gone. avconv is easy as easy could be.
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 libav-tools
To convert video.mp4 to song.mp3, all you need to do is,
avconv -i video.mp4 audio.mp3
It’s so easy it just hurts. 😯
You can of course give avconv a dozen flags to tune the output to your will, but you just need a simple conversion 90% of the time.
K. Mandla writes on false:
In fact, it’s anything but helpful. It won’t take help flags. It does what it’s supposed to do, but does it unsuccessfully, every time.
Even the man page tells you that. What’s false? Every time, that’s what. Hardly helpful. Hardly useful. Just … false.
It must be really hard when people expect you to be unsuccessful. 😐
ActualVim is a fucking brilliant project:
The goal is to use a hidden Vim instance to accurately manipulate a Sublime Text buffer as though you were editing the text directly in Vim. This has been accomplished.
It’s not simply a terminal emulator embedded in a text editor. Sublime is still in control of the text buffer. You will be able to use the entire native Sublime interface while in INSERT mode, including plugins.
IMNSHO, all Vim emulators suck. This freak of a project will surely make you feel you’re at home. Heck, you can use your complete Vim setup with this.
The only downside is (you saw this coming :twisted:), it does not work on Windows. On Linux or OS X you can simply use Vim itself, but the Windows version is ugly and Sublime is the best alternative out there. Perhaps I’m asking for too much. 😐
Anywho, this is wonderful news for Linux/OS X Sublime Text users out there.
The good old less command can be used to open more than plain text files. All you need is to set the LESSPIPE environment variable to pipe the /usr/bin/lesspipe script in your .bashrc or .zshrc file. In most systems, the lesspipe script is pre-installed. Otherwise you can download it from here.
export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s'
Now simply open your pdf files with less.
less abc.pdf
Besides from pdf files you can pipe in compressed files (like tar.gz, zip, rar, etc), ISO files and even .doc files. But who uses .doc files anyway? 
An year-old tweet from @paul_irish:
Beautiful!
