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by compay 5y ago
jEdit was my main editor for about two or three years. An excellent and in some ways very underrated project. I see that the original author is here in this thread - if you happen to see this I just wanted to say thank you for this editor t
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by compay 10y ago
I've been hoping to see something like this for quite some time. Kudos for a really cool project and for making it available for people to play with. At least for Spanish, it can pronounce some words fairly well. I wrote a Spanish orth
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by compay 10y ago
This project is the standard case I use when telling people not to choose project names in a language you do not speak. It means "booger" in Spanish.
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by compay 11y ago
I had the good fortune to study with Chomsky as an undergraduate in the early 90's and can confirm much of what the article says. To me he was always kind, accessible and warm, even though I was not a particularly promising student.
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by compay 11y ago
This was the first Linux I ever used.
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by compay 11y ago
I suspect people would end up getting a lot of repetitive stress injuries from such a device if used with one hand as pictured.
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by compay 12y ago
You could alternatviely use my tech industry "Bullshit Generator 3.0" for this: http://bsgen30.com/
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by compay 12y ago
Ok, I'll bite, because I like the Red Dwarf reference in your username. It's not about just honoring any random person. His work has had a big impact on the tech community. His articles about his daughter's illness and death
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by compay 13y ago
I'm 41. I also worry about ageism but so far I don't feel that it has affected me yet. > Do you have to go into management to continue progressing upwards in pay and influence? I know this isn't the case at some companies
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by compay 13y ago
Much respect. But please take a vacation some time soon! You've more than earned it.
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by compay 13y ago
If I recall correctly, the author of the article linked here apologized for its tone and removed it from his blog. It seems a bit of a disservice to repost it here without mentioning that context.
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by compay 13y ago
FYI `git reset -p` works the same way. Sometimes, depending on your work and workflow it can be easier to add everything and then just exclude a few of the changes.
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by compay 13y ago
I wrote an article describing this exact technique almost 2 years ago, but at the time the commenters on HN fell just short of calling me an idiot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3653540
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by compay 13y ago
"open source" != "open project"
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by compay 13y ago
I've heard almost all of the complaints before and had a few of them myself. But before tearing this guy a new one for rattling off a list of trivial-sounding complaints, be aware that the second half of the presentation extols the vir
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by compay 13y ago
Me too, but I'm not their target audience. I'd imagine the people who are likely to be interested in it won't read it that way.
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by compay 13y ago
> The ecosystem of Lua assumes you eat C for breakfast That's a bit of an exaggeration. There isn't anywhere near the number of libraries that Python and Ruby have, nor anywhere near the general level of quality, but you can do
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by compay 13y ago
Adobe Lightroom is about 40% written in Lua (the stat comes from Wikipedia). IIRC C and C++ are used for image processing and compute-intensive stuff, but the rest of it is all Lua. I believe that would be the most widely used app written m
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by compay 13y ago
Probably very few. The site is currently very, very difficult to use on anything smaller than a tablet.
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by compay 13y ago
Meanwhile in Argentina, to quit a job you are legally obliged to send a telegram, and people still send them to congratulate newlyweds on their weddings.
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by compay 13y ago
IIRC Unix systems were using "/opt" way before Linux was using "/usr/local". Cue the XKCD comic on competing standards: http://xkcd.com/927/
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by compay 13y ago
So far my experience has been exactly the same as what you describe. I just turned 40 and recently got the highest paying job I've ever had - writing code full time. I'm cautiously optimistic we can keep this up indefinitely.
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Haml 4.0 has been released(blog.haml.info)
3 points by compay 14y ago|1 comments
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by compay 14y ago
Cheers to them for all the publicity, I suppose. If I worked at a place that wanted to do this, I'd quit in a heartbeat though.
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by compay 14y ago
In and of itself, California is the 8th largest economy in the world. So I don't think having a population the size of California's is actually a downer. And Canada is one of the largest 10 economies in the world. That's not exactly insigni
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by compay 14y ago
Who would want to hire people who self-describe as mediocre? Probably a bully who likes pushing people around. Anybody with an iota of self-respect shouldn't respond to an ad like that.
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by compay 14y ago
> I think that over the next 50 years, various Chinese phrases, language quirks and usage will start bleeding into English Right on. That was one of my favorite elements of the Firefly TV series.
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by compay 14y ago
Despite our government's policies and rhetoric, the USA tends to trade with everybody - remember the Iran Contra affair? I'd imagine even if the leaks mostly incriminate Syria, our government may still be none too pleased to have the extent
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by compay 14y ago
I made a little practical demo about using Unicode with Ruby for a presentation a while back, perhaps of interest to some people: https://github.com/norman/enc/blob/master/equivalence.rb
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by compay 14y ago
The single biggest disadvantage of ORM for me is that in exchange for easier programability, they force you to learn a proprietary, arbitrary, ad hoc DSL that is less consistent, more complicated and less powerful than SQL.

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