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by blainesch 10y ago
I added the maintainer email address for the v0.2.2 deploy, can you confirm this is working for you now?
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by blainesch 10y ago
Hain is a great project, they launched a few months after I started working on Zazu! For comparison: - Zazu has a github based package manager - A dotfile for configuration (for backup!) - Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names
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by blainesch 10y ago
I haven't heard of lacona until you just mentioned it, but it does look nice. They also have plugins written in node, but offer a more "natural language" search, which Zazu doesn't. Zazu is also completely open source, b
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by blainesch 10y ago
In v0.2.2 it tells you when it's still loading the plugins. Feel free to try deleting your ~/.zazu folder and using this newer version!
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by blainesch 10y ago
Completely agree, and I can't wait to have one for Zazu! :D
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by blainesch 10y ago
The v0.2.2 I pushed the tag for, but didn't update the website. Sorry about that. Can you report the crash in the repo and attach the ~/.zazu/log file?
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by blainesch 10y ago
I would LOVE auto paste, but I've not found a good way to do this in Electron yet. ]: If you know how, let me know :D
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by blainesch 10y ago
Zazu does allow for keyboard shortcuts, and can do everything the Alfred workflows can, but does not currently provide a GUI for creating the workflows. The biggest difference for the plugins, is that they are written in Node so they can be
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by blainesch 10y ago
I haven't installed Quick Silver in many years, so my understanding may be dated, but at the time it didn't offer many intuitive actions, such as copying the calculator result to your clipboard. Alfred doesn't treat plugins a
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by blainesch 10y ago
Uh oh! Can you file an issue on github with the log file stored in `~/.zazu/log`?
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by blainesch 10y ago
I've been running it on my Mac, along with other electron apps like Slack and VSCode, and I've not noticed a drain on my battery. It's never come up in my "Apps using significant energy" in the battery dropdown.
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by blainesch 10y ago
It was implemented in Node and I've not benchmarked it on Windows, but it's probably not as fast. [:
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by blainesch 10y ago
Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It
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by blainesch 10y ago
I just installed on a fresh install of Ubuntu, but maybe this is debian specific. It looks like I just need to add my email address to the author field, I'll try and release again today with that fix and one other! :D
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by blainesch 10y ago
Awesome to hear! I hope this works well for you! [:
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by blainesch 10y ago
Oh yikes! I'll try and get this resolved.
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by blainesch 10y ago
I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!
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Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred(zazuapp.org)
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by blainesch 10y ago
This even force pushes! Your last hope is the reflog, which can also be pruned/deleted. Maybe that should be added?
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by blainesch 10y ago
> probably did nothing illegal, but rather they were trying to minimize their tax burden through (mostly) legal Mostly legal and nothing illegal are contradicting.
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by blainesch 10y ago
Do they not need permission from the nearly 500 contributors to do this?
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by blainesch 10y ago
Wouldn't this be considered an anti-pattern? Similar to switching to emacs just to make it work exactly like vim? Just use vim, or in this case, just use mercurial?
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by blainesch 10y ago
I think we missed the point here. The fact that it's 11 lines is meaningless, this could have been babel itself.
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by blainesch 10y ago
This is as much an alternative to writing tests as brakes are an alternative to a drivers license.
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by blainesch 11y ago
This feels like it builds off of the philosophy of not being a victim.. if you find a problem, just fix it. In these use cases, that is simple to do.
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by blainesch 11y ago
This forgot the 2 month waiting period between the onsite and the offer.
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by blainesch 11y ago
In the "why" section you list 3 reasons. > In case something happens to GitHub. More generally because keeping your data in the cloud and relying on the cloud to back it up is foolish I disagree, cloud backups are more reliable
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by blainesch 11y ago
I suppose with only 3 candidates, the democratic tweets won't have as much interesting data to show in this way.
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by blainesch 11y ago
This startup sounds like a horrible place to work. They should aim to use a carrot, not a stick. Every employee is rightfully scared, and is hopefully thinking of finding another place to work. If they offered incentives for meeting or pass
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by blainesch 11y ago
The book has negative reviews on Goodreads and no reviews on amazon.

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