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   by bozhidar 6mo ago

   Guilty as charged! :D Short essays are definitely not my forte. (and this one is definitely longer than I wanted it to be, but in my typical style I kept adding to it after I wrote the initial version, and I'll probably add even more c
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   by bozhidar 6mo ago

   Well put! To me - it always felt like this here. I have serious doubts that most people even read the articles linked to HN discussions.
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   by bozhidar 6mo ago

   Well, I guess that means I'm still a pretty poor writer. :D (I'm the author of the article) These days I do use AI to touch up my grammar and fix my typos, but I'm still write my articles myself and you feel that the article
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   by bozhidar 1y ago

   Great story! Thanks for sharing it!
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   by bozhidar 1y ago

   I think these days F# is probably a big more polished than what you remember, so perhaps it's worth giving it another shot. Being a hosted language always requires certain compromises (something that was also apparent in Scala). I used
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   by bozhidar 1y ago

   But it's Windows-only, so it's not an option for me.
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   Why F#?(batsov.com)

   447 points by bozhidar 1y ago|413 comments
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   by bozhidar 3y ago

   > "I'm gonna someday" is not "addressing" the complaint that things aren't documented, other than to make an excuse. By acknowledging a complaint as valid I'm kind of addressing it. :-) Some things are
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   by bozhidar 5y ago

   That's a fair point, although I can think of examples in the IDE reals as well - e.g. in the world of Java Eclipse and NetBeans were popular (and open-source), but gradually IntelliJ IDEA dominated them for various reasons. I also reme
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    by bozhidar 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing!
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    by bozhidar 5y ago

    Yeah, I mostly had in mind the first group you've described, but in my experience they are by far the biggest group. Truly "professional" recruiters are very rare. I agree that referrals often yield the best results, but that
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    by bozhidar 5y ago

    I guess for the terrible jobs they'll still have the benefit of a better pitch working better with the not-so-great candidates that'd be willing to do that job. :-) Obviously there's a limit to how much a recruiter can do in
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    by bozhidar 5y ago

    One can argue that things stay the same until someone (and by this I don't mean a single person) tries hard enough to change them - e.g. now there are dating apps where men simply can't start the conversation. Accepting the status
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    A Note About Recruiters(batsov.com)

    32 points by bozhidar 5y ago|34 comments
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    Back to Linux(metaredux.com)

    5 points by bozhidar 5y ago|0 comments
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    I'm always around! :D Thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Thanks for the kind words, everyone! They mean a lot!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    You're welcome! :-) Thanks for the kind words!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Thanks for your support! Much appreciated!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Fair point, although as others have mentioned Prelude does look like stock Emacs in many ways. :-) I'll put a note to record some screencast in the future, as I think it will give a better idea of prospective users about the nature and
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Great feedback about the bundled packages - I've mentioned a few of them on the homepage. Unfortunately I haven't had much time for OSS lately and I never got to writing proper docs. Future goals! :-)
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    You're welcome! Thanks for the kind words!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Thanks!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    You're welcome!
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    by bozhidar 6y ago

    Can't fit all the great books in a single talk, right? :-)
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    by bozhidar 7y ago

    Thanks, much appreciated! (RuboCop's author here)
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    Ruby, Where Do We Go Now?(metaredux.com)

    1 points by bozhidar 7y ago|0 comments
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    by bozhidar 7y ago

    Yeah, you're right. I was triaging and cleaning up the open issues prior to launching the new site. Now that the guide has more editors I'm optimistic that we won't end up in a situation with that many non-triaged tickets dow
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    by bozhidar 7y ago

    Then is also a keyword. :D As for hash literals - I didn't like the addition of the new syntax simply because it's limited to one type of keys. We had a perfectly good universal syntax and introduced a second one just to save up o