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by nsmartt 12y ago
Some will say that it’s necessary to balance privacy against security, and that it’s important to find the right compromise between the two. Even if you believe that, a good negotiator doesn’t begin a conversation with someone whose positi
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by nsmartt 12y ago
You're being downvoted because of your tone and because you dismiss him by comparing him to authority figures.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Huh. I was basing my comment on the knowledge that Mozilla feared IE would become the way to browse the web. I should have double checked.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
> How can open source software be in competition with anything? Market share is power. Popular open-source projects can, and do, shape the industry. If you believe your trajectory is the right one for the industry, competition matters a
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Can now be found here: http://quantum-os.github.io/blog/2014/11/introduction-and-in...
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by nsmartt 12y ago
From the article: > The function is short enough to paste below. It is pretty unique to Neovim, as it was wrought for its brand new event-oriented nature:
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I didn't take your use of “documentation” to be so loose, but I agree that it should have an explanation for the use of “magical” in the title. The author has since added an explanation.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
There are 61 commits and only one contributor. This isn't a good complaint, and the snark makes it worse.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
The point of TL;DR is to summarize a longer piece. It literally means “Too long; didn't read”
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by nsmartt 12y ago
The name is temporary, and discussion about the name has been temporarily halted because there are more important concerns. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/272#issuecomment-370...
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by nsmartt 12y ago
That's a good reason to downvote or stop reading, but I question whether attacking the author for having the audacity to publish the post is a good move.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
People don't need to be experts to recognize flaws in tools aimed at consumers.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Writing bad articles is a great way to move toward writing good articles. Writing in the public view is a great way to get feedback on your writing and the subjects you discuss—e.g. corrections, further education, etc. For some people, it a
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by nsmartt 12y ago
It's a single file. It works with or without the ruby-dependent parallel plugin installations and upgrades. It allows for plugins to be loaded only when they're needed (e.g. only for JS files). That's minimalist.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I switched to vim-plug from Vundle a couple of weeks ago, and I'm in love. Lazy initialization and, if your vim is built with ruby, threaded plugin installations and upgrades. As a bonus, it's beautiful.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
It would be a shame for man-millennia of work to be lost, but it would also be a shame for advancement to be stalled by these kinds of concerns. Experimenting with new approaches and ideas, direct competition between projects, excitement ov
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by nsmartt 12y ago
It's possible to use Qt from Python, so I would think Rust could do it in one way or another.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
As a novice, it took several hours to wade through the configuration files when setting up an IRCd, and additional time to configure services daemons. I also continually run into issues with configuration decisions I made before using the d
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I assume the the people choosing the methods of communication for startups are capable of learning to use irssi or weechat, but both of those clients take quite a bit time to learn and require significant amounts of customization to make
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I wonder which title attracts a larger audience. Maybe confident developers would assume “five things every competent Javascript developer must know” would contain nothing new to them, while “5 tips to become a better Javascript developer”
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Improving education involves improving the approaches used by teachers, whether teachers already employed or new teachers. These kinds of things don't change overnight, but they can be changed over generations. Studies are, in theory,
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by nsmartt 12y ago
yarou's comment is in response to a presentation about unrelated features, and his/her response suggests knowledge that Mozilla isn't focusing on memory and performance problems. Many of the memory leaks have been fixed over
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Mozilla is comprised of a lot of different people working on a lot of different things. There are people focusing on various memory and speed issues, but they can't (and shouldn't) allocate all their resources to focusing on just
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Kiwi seems promising, but I've experienced a number of frustrating bugs
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by nsmartt 12y ago
What's your issue with Pidgin?
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I actually find that the changes in contrast have emphasized important elements of the page. As an example, the buttons and text on the front page will probably only need to be read once unless you're actively looking for them. The aut
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by nsmartt 12y ago
Has the DDG user experience suffered? If so, how? I much prefer the redesign, and I'm not yet aware of having lost anything in the move.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I had a discussion about this with someone on the Mozilla IRC, and the argument seems to be that users still have the option to add DDG on their own, so it's not being treated as optional. Users still have the option of switching. I&#x
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I strongly suspect moot posts anonymously on 4chan. Posting under moot would result in his dominating the conversation.
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by nsmartt 12y ago
I thought of it as being more akin to the programming mantra of “use the right tool for the job.” The part about the pendulum swinging back to some degree seems like a reasonable progression from flat design.

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