Hi,

I'm am using ST2 on mac with REPL and R. What I would like to do is open a quartz display (i.e. generate a figure) without having ST2 switch to a different screen. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

~Alex

Isn't there a good possibility to replace the regular expression engine with a faster one? I guess you use "re" from python, but there are faster ones.

Find/replace on large files is rather slow and could crash. For example:

a file of 1.000.000 rows with empty lines, replace "^\n" with "" (without the quotes), to remove the empty lines. This will take a while or crash.

This is because the "re" uses backtracking, which could be rather slow. But there are also regular expression engines which use finite state machine (FSA). You can see this page for more information: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Possible options could be (but not limited to):

• RE2 - http://code.google.com/p/re2/ 
  (with python bindings: https://github.com/axiak/pyre2)
• PIRE - https://github.com/dprokoptsev/pire
• Iregexp (regular expression engine of V8) - http://blog.quenta.org/2009/02/irregexp.html (but no python yet, as i know of)
• http://blog.errstr.com/2013/01/22/implementing-a-more-powerful-regex/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-27/creating-a-climate-change-garden/5119178

That's why Doug Rawlinson from Goulburn, in south-east New South Wales, has created a garden with a difference.

He calls it his "climate change garden".

"I've been in the horticulture industry for many many years and I've looked at the changes and as far as climate change goes, no one can really know what's going to happen," he said.

"Except I can definitely say there's extremes now."

The southern tablelands of New South Wales can be cold and windy, with very hot days in summer.

Mr Rawlinson says he's creating a garden that can cope with more extreme changes.

"There are about 20 raised vegetable beds, an orchard with about 25 different fruit trees, an experimental warm room with avocadoes and pineapples and about 30 different vines, including blueberries and boysenberries," he said.

Shade is an important part of the garden.

"In the centre of all my beds I've got independent, 75 litre planter bags with weeping cherry trees in them and that's going to give me the shade I need in summer because I've found in the past that most of my vegies have been crispy," he said.

"They've had wet root systems, (been) mulched nicely and the fruit on top is just baking in the sun, so shade is a very important part of a new climate garden system.

http://jerichoeholmes.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/gasification-technology-moves-lockheed-martin-into-waste-to-energy/

U.S. defense contractor, Lockheed Martin is moving into the waste to fuel gasification technology business, following a deal with LA based waste to fuels specialist, Concord Blue.

According to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) it will provide its engineering, program management, procurement, manufacturing and integration experience to apply Concord Blue's patented technology globally in the expanding waste to energy arena.

Gasification Technology Moves Lockheed Martin into Waste to Energy The defense giant said that advanced waste conversion is an emerging technology that uses gasification processes to convert waste products to electricity, heat and synthetic fuels.

Concord Blue has developed a closed-loop process that Lockheed Martin said is already commercially-proven to recycle waste into energy at virtually any scale.

For Lockheed’s part, it said that it brings high-level capabilities in complex systems integration, project management, information technology and advanced manufacturing techniques partnership.

"This agreement enables Lockheed Martin to combine our proven ability to meet complex project requirements and access to a broader, global market with Concord Blue's demonstrated technology, experience and global facilities," explained Paul Klammer, director of bio energy programs at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training business.

According to Klammer, Concord Blue's feedstock flexible technology combined with its ability to scale for smaller applications will enable the partners to waste disposal solutions for a range of situations, including those of industrial customers.