From 41f0ed8cacb2bc3a6dd60425736bf66b223189c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Kelling Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:23:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fix misspellings --- README | 3 ++- blog/2014-08-01-publishing-my-technical-notes.md | 2 +- blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md | 2 +- blog/2014-09-29-say-on2.md | 2 +- blog/2014-10-14-on2-vote-results.md | 2 +- 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 4aa8f6e..594e9dc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -43,12 +43,13 @@ comments. With one emacs command, you get a buffer of the new comments, with keybinds to mark them for publishing, moderatation, banning, and execute changes. -* Inspirations +* Other sites that are in some way interesting: http://blog.zorinaq.com/release-of-hablog-and-new-design/? https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com https://eduardoboucas.com/blog/2015/05/11/rethinking-the-commenting-system-for-my-jekyll-site.html +https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/concorde * License diff --git a/blog/2014-08-01-publishing-my-technical-notes.md b/blog/2014-08-01-publishing-my-technical-notes.md index bcb1a8b..7733f3c 100644 --- a/blog/2014-08-01-publishing-my-technical-notes.md +++ b/blog/2014-08-01-publishing-my-technical-notes.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ so there are a lot of existing sites and sources I am going to be offloading to But I also have a vision of a site for material which doesn't fit well in existing sources, about any free software, and has some -opionionatedness / style that official documentation does not generally +opinionatedness / style that official documentation does not generally afford. One very common and annoying practice of people who do good writing on technical topics is to use a blog or site which doesn't invite collaboration and improvement by others. So... I've started diff --git a/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md b/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md index 53db8e6..8564c2b 100644 --- a/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md +++ b/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comment_links: `setup.py install` is the base standard install method for Python projects. I found myself wanting to uninstall one of these projects the other day. Turns out it doesn't support uninstall, but Google's top result is a Stackoverflow answer with ~250 votes that says [it can be done no problem](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1550226/python-setup-py-uninstall). -What it doesn't say is that it will silently fail / delete the wrong files when filenames have spaces, along with other important limitations. I looked around at all the other answers and links from google and there was no better answer. How does this happen for a widely used package inluded in Python for at least [15 years](http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/61c91c7f101b/Lib/distutils)? +What it doesn't say is that it will silently fail / delete the wrong files when filenames have spaces, along with other important limitations. I looked around at all the other answers and links from google and there was no better answer. How does this happen for a widely used package included in Python for at least [15 years](http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/61c91c7f101b/Lib/distutils)? It’s pretty standard fair: uninstall has spotty support across a great many installation technologies. I won't try to draw some broad conclusion. diff --git a/blog/2014-09-29-say-on2.md b/blog/2014-09-29-say-on2.md index 34b769c..10b2119 100644 --- a/blog/2014-09-29-say-on2.md +++ b/blog/2014-09-29-say-on2.md @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ On2 = bnf_expand([O, of, ["n squared"]], [['quadratic'], O], print On2 ~~~ -The result is 92 terms which can work the same in a conversation (unless your votes/comments say otherwise). And that doesn't even consider whether to say someting _is_ O(n²), _has_ O(n²), or _is of_ O(n²). +The result is 92 terms which can work the same in a conversation (unless your votes/comments say otherwise). And that doesn't even consider whether to say something _is_ O(n²), _has_ O(n²), or _is of_ O(n²). The list is a bit long, so I put them in javascript and made some buttons. diff --git a/blog/2014-10-14-on2-vote-results.md b/blog/2014-10-14-on2-vote-results.md index 0d44d6f..09a0e57 100644 --- a/blog/2014-10-14-on2-vote-results.md +++ b/blog/2014-10-14-on2-vote-results.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Removal of "of" was slightly less popular (except for "order" which was basicall As I noted, opinions were split, with ~55% "sounds good", ~25% "sounds ok", and ~20% "sounds wrong or confusing" for each. For people who liked one of these four, they also had a preference for its minor variations, but felt average for the other three. -"big oh of n squared" did have an edge, which I think is at least partially due to the fact that I used O(n²) when writting about the topic. In a proper experiment, I would have interviewed people verbally and used a random term to introduce the topic. +"big oh of n squared" did have an edge, which I think is at least partially due to the fact that I used O(n²) when writing about the topic. In a proper experiment, I would have interviewed people verbally and used a random term to introduce the topic. There weren't any words that stood out as universally disliked, although a few awkward combinations rounded the bottom with 60% "sounds wrong or confusing." I would recommend using one of the above, or a variation, which is still about 20 options. -- 2.30.2