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First thoughts on OCaml(sdegutis.com)
2 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
This, plus the multiple-cursors package, can save entire minutes off tedious file-renaming operations. (That may not sound like a lot but trust me every second counts when you're just renaming files.)
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by penpapersw 9y ago
I can't help but wonder if the Fence comments had anything to do with my blog post last night. Kind of like watching social osmosis in action :D
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Age of the Polyglot (2014)(sdegutis.com)
2 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
On the flip side, as someone who's tried to change stacks or IDEs or other software a few times, there's something to be said for already having momentum using existing solutions. Sometimes alternatives can be a little better, but
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by penpapersw 9y ago
That's my same experience with programming. That's kind of what I was getting at in this article actually: that you get better by doing your best and making mistakes. Nothing beats hard-earned experience.
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Writing Clearly (2013)(sdegutis.com)
2 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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What I learned in 5 days of writing an experimental website(sdegutis.com)
5 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Yeah not saying Swift is simple. But its goal was originally (and may still be) to be Objective-C without the C.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Thus Swift.
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First thoughts on Haskell(sdegutis.com)
1 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Good point. You're right that passion helped me to gain the experience I have now. But at this point I can't lean on that same passion, I had to find another motivation. I wonder how many people hit this same point and just let th
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Passion in your field is overrated(sdegutis.com)
2 points by penpapersw 9y ago|2 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Meh, joke sites like this aren't nearly as prominent as sites for apps, I'd really like a .app TLD instead. That said, the distinction between app and service is blurring a lot, so Spotify and VS Code probably both qualify for .ap
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by penpapersw 9y ago
More details at https://reproducible-builds.org/ which is linked to at the bottom of OP's page.
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Passion for your job is overrated(medium.com)
3 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
You're right. I actually only had one or two people in mind when I wrote that comment, and I didn't even realize it until you pointed it out. Thanks.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
In the same way, I use VS Code mostly now (for node stuff) but I still load up Emacs and use Magit whenever I need to do serious version control, meaning basically anything more than just "glance at the changes and commit everything.&q
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by penpapersw 9y ago
In my experience having switched from using one IDE to another a few times, the difficulty for me is usually that both IDEs do 90% of what I need perfectly (after a few days of tweaking), but the other 10% feels is missing and feels critica
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by penpapersw 9y ago
I'm not that optimistic. In my experience, nightmare-level code will be written by the person who wrote it no matter what language they use. Rust doesn't look all that cleaner than C++, just that it has a few more safety guarantee
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by penpapersw 9y ago
I'm sure there's got to be a way of getting ahead that doesn't involve lying, cheating, or stealing, from anyone, no matter how much they deserve it.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Can confirm. I worked a pretty decent software job with lower pay than others make for the same job for the past 5 years. Could barely afford insurance for my wife and I. We actually had to just give up and not pay for it the first few mont
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by penpapersw 9y ago
It may not necessarily be in active development, but it's a project I'm very proud of. It's a legitimate text editor built from the ground-up in Objective-C including its own parser and lexer, and the ability to read theme co
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Show HN: Leviathan, a Clojure IDE for MacOS(github.com)
1 points by penpapersw 9y ago|2 comments
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How I created a lightning fast hero image, using good old fashioned ingenuity(medium.com)
2 points by penpapersw 9y ago|0 comments
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Huh. These actually sound like good arguments to switch to Firefox, arguments I've never heard before until now.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
To add to that, TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, whereas Kotlin is a new language you'd have to learn.
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Can't agree with you here. Your comment seemed to be saying "VS Code may be better than Atom in every way, but that doesn't mean we should keep bringing that fact up, or that anyone should switch because of it." It'
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by penpapersw 9y ago
> "you cannot currently use WSL to run persistent Linux services, daemons, jobs, etc. as background tasks." Still, this has me wondering if that's the ultimate goal here. Is Microsoft trying to position Windows 10 as a h
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by penpapersw 9y ago
Emacs + CIDER. It's extraordinarily fast, if you're willing to get used to Emacs :)

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