Xion

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by Xion 13y ago
Cool stuff! One suggestion: if the code wasn't changed yet, switching languages should adjust the syntax in the initial example. So the default `var foo = 'bar';` in JavaScript should become `foo = 'bar'` in Python, etc.
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by Xion 13y ago
> the UX is great. The UX is indeed very nice. Just a small issue: FF19 on OSX 10.8.3 displays a horizontal scrollbar. Looks like a margin or padding problem with the central feed element.
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SQL on Rails(sqlonrails.org)
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by Xion 13y ago
The default is All rights reserved, so you need to provide a license for anyone to do anything with the code of yours and sleep good at night knowing you won't exercise your rights through persecution.
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by Xion 13y ago
Well, about time! When I bought a Kindle more than two years ago, one of the first use cases I discovered was finding an article on the web, deciding it's too long to read on a glare screen and wanting to send to the Kindle's browser. What
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by Xion 13y ago
You might want to check YubNub [0], which is an enhanced version of this prefixes idea. If anything, you don't have to prepend your queries with ! there :) [0] http://www.yubnub.org
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by Xion 13y ago
> http://rubydramas.com You just made my day posting this. It's absolutely hilarious!
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by Xion 14y ago
As a member of Python community, I hereby congratulate Ruby for joining the ranks of pretty-cool-but-not-so-hot-anymore technologies. There are years of Getting Stuff Done ahead of you. Way to go!
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by Xion 14y ago
Honestly, that doesn't sound like a best practice and more like a convoluted performance hack. It's one thing to use a pre-allocated memory pool for speeding up the creation of objects in native language like C++. Having to the equivalent w
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by Xion 14y ago
I love how the closure of Reader reveals something about the tech journalists and "celebrities". They throw tantrums. They throws hissy fits. They scream bloody murder. They divine doom and gloom for Google about how severely this will affe
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by Xion 14y ago
Source? I have never heard that claim. And contrary to that, Go has facilities for implementing ORMs, like field annotations in structs for specifying column bindings.
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by Xion 14y ago
Remember that you still need to explain the Fermi paradox [1]. If you apply the above logic to life & civilizations in general, you conclude that it's actually quite likely for them to survive long enough and become widespread. Yet, our
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by Xion 14y ago
> #1 wouldn't be terribly interesting. The scary implication of #1 is that it updates our probability for long-term survival and becoming a technologically advanced, space-faring species: by _lowering_ it. That's because it pushes the p
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by Xion 14y ago
I think we all know what language (s)he meant. But about those dark corners, I guess the point wasn't to present any particularly nasty gotchas, but rather some precious little lesser known tricks. C has plenty of very well known features y
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by Xion 14y ago
Works for me now. Thanks!
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by Xion 14y ago
The Ballmer video on maintenance page more than makes up for any issues, though.
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by Xion 14y ago
> I see very little of this as having anything to do with Mayer-as-Mayer or Mayer-as-a-woman and almost all the reaction here having to do with Mayer-as-a-technology-CEO. And this, I must say, I like a lot. As IT industry, we might not
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by Xion 14y ago
Go fills the same niche as node.js: high performing API servers talking to some frontend: a "proper" webserver, thick in-browser webapp, a mobile app, etc. And it's a pretty damn good alternative when you compare the clarity of goroutines w
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by Xion 14y ago
There are certain ways to write Java that are both more expressive and clever (and therefore more fun), as well as more dangerous in terms of future maintenance. Various dependency injection frameworks - e.g. Guice - are known for introduci
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by Xion 14y ago
> (...) but Ruby is much more of a "hacker's language" and pushes you to more "lispyness" in spirit and practice! Which, I think, is one of the main reasons why Python is recommended more: it's simpler and has less sharp corners. The ot
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by Xion 14y ago
iTerm2 has few other fancy features, like horizontal and vertical splitting or Guake-like top-down terminal [0]. [0] http://ivanvillareal.com/osx/setup-iterm2-to-behave-like-gua...
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by Xion 14y ago
Wholesale this. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. will have no problems dealing with visa shenanigans if you get an offer from them.
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by Xion 14y ago
This sheds somewhat different light on the reasons why paid apps aren't that popular in Play market. It's not only about users being (allegedly) reluctant to pay for their apps but also about developers wanting to spare themselves the heada
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by Xion 14y ago
That's a bit ironic. I remember not so long ago I've heard many people who switched to Chrome were deeming Firefox "memory hungry". I haven't heard similar complaints about Chrome up until now.
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by Xion 14y ago
> Granted, ruby and python aren't as bad as perl, but they definitely aren't as regular as java either. I wouldn't mix those two when making a comparison to Perl. As an example, there are like four different ways to write a simple 'if'
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by Xion 14y ago
Right, but how big is the market for low spec laptop with good design? As you have pointed out, it may have trouble running Windows which excludes the vast majority of users right here and there. It might work well in conjunction with Ubunt
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by Xion 14y ago
From the cursory glance at landing page, I cannot really tell how does it work or what it is from user's PoV. Is it an RSS feed? An email digest? RSS-to-social-media feed converter? It could really use a more specific description, and maybe
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by Xion 14y ago
Looks like at least half of his alleged Mac benefits actually stem from ditching Windows and switching to Unix-based OS.
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by Xion 14y ago
Some Macbooks are a bit like that. I have the new 13" one and when looking at the screen, there is no branding nor anything that would distract me, unlike e.g. the "Macbook Air" label printed below the screen in MBA. I really like it. But o
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by Xion 14y ago
I don't understand this. Valve is already doing mile-length steps in terms of upending one of the Windows' biggest advantages over Linux: games. Arguably, Office is another, but this time it's supposedly Microsoft itself who is about to dim

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