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Light Table (Kodowa) is hiring
- FredBrach 14y agoI wonder since a while what makes Light Table definitely better than emacs? edit: better or different.
- dmix 14y agoIt embraces this concept: http://vimeo.com/36579366 http://vimeo.com/36579366
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- dmix 14y agoAll ideas are evolutions (or sometimes rehashes) of old ideas. It's a part of progress.
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- ibdknox 14y agoLight Table will be released open source under the GPL - just like emacs.
- t_hozumi 14y agoHave you considered LGPL or dual license? GPLv3 will restrict even your own future work involved the product.
- simulate 14y agoI believe they must be planning on using using a dual-license. Quoting, "the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed source." Source: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers/ http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers...
- ibdknox 14y agoCorrect, it'll be dual licensed.
- dmix 14y agoHaving good competition is a necessary part of progress. You can always stick with emacs or the (entirely) OSS alternatives.
- FredBrach 14y agoHey thanx, it's a nice talk for sure :)
- batista 14y agoNot based on a 30 year old codebase designed in and for an era before color displays, mice, touchpads, graphics and unicode? Not using a god awful Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp) at it's base? Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured into the UI than the pile of hacks and over the year additions that drive Emacs? Having things more integrated than independent elisp plugins that hardly know each other and don't really collaborate? Rethinking the keyboard shortcut design?
- mickeyp 14y agoJust a few clarifications here... > Not based on a 30 year old codebase designed in and for an era before color displays, mice, touchpads, graphics and unicode? * That codebase also runs on: variety of UNIX/Linux distros and their terminal emulators; MS-DOS; Windows; etc. * Emacs supports mice: both scrolling; clickable hyperlinks; drag regions; buttons and other widgets. > Not using a god awful Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp) at it's base? * Touchpads? Do you mean tablets or laptop touchpads? That's a HID device and works the same as a mouse does... * Graphics? Yes, Emacs supports graphics and can indeed render PDFs/LaTeX documents using external programs; native image support is usually compiled into Emacs. * Unicode? Emacs has more complete unicode support than you'll find in any other editor out there. What editor let's you open up a subprocess to a commandline tool and have it set such that stdin is treated as UTF-8, but stdout is Cyrillic? > Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured into the UI than the pile of hacks and over the year additions that drive Emacs? * Emacs-Lisp isn't great, but Emacs and elisp is the closest most people will ever get to the spirit of a Lisp Machine. Elisp isn't perfect, but for many it gets the job done. It is also incredibly flexible and its "naff" implementation with dynamic scoping improves the spirit of hacking in Emacs by encouraging people to hook, tweak and inject into Emacs's core. > Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured into the UI than the pile of hacks and over the year additions that drive Emacs? > Having things more integrated than independent elisp plugins that hardly know each other and don't really collaborate? * Design could be a lot better, but that's what happens when you support the same product for a long long period of time. I know Emacs/Vim will be around in 10 years; will Light Table? Will TextMate? * Most plugins do integrate quite well actually into major modes (the programming modes) such as: Eldoc mode, find-function mode, TAGS support, Imenu, etc. -- it's not perfect, but then again: nothing is? > Rethinking the keyboard shortcut design? * That's just blasphemy. You should observe an experience Emacs guy using Emacs and I think you'll find they're more than capable of accomplishing what they want in few keystrokes. It's different from Vim, yes, but then Emacs isn't really modal.
- oxwrist 14y ago"Tell us a time you hacked a non-computer system to your advantage." Sounded like YC application?
- ibdthor 14y agoTastefully borrowed from it :). It happens to be a pretty darn good question - it's a good place to talk about an accomplishment, and provides some insight into the intelligence, creativity, and personality of the person who answers it.
- DanielRibeiro 14y agoAnd this is why I prefer this kind of job posts: it sets up a 2 way communication. Like HN job posts used to be back in the day.
- simondlr 14y agoWhat are examples of this? Working around social systems? ie, as an example, the white South African student that applied for a bursary for African Americans in America?
- bartonfink 14y agoIf I were to apply, I'd use my senior year in high school (oh, so long ago). I registered for 7 college-level courses that I knew were all going to be taught during the same 2 blocks of time. That meant that I only had to "go to class" for two hours a day, and could spend the rest of my time doing whatever I wanted so long as I kept up with the material on my own time and agreed that my performance on the AP exams would be my entire grade. My result was a year of college credit, better grades than I'd ever gotten before and maybe a third of the workload of those in class.
- genwin 14y agoIf you didn't have to attend the classes in person, why did it matter that they were taught during the same 2 blocks of time?
- austinlyons 14y agoThe idea of a reactive IDE just seemed so interesting that I downloaded Light Table last week even though I don't know Clojure. It's wonderful. I've started reading up on Clojure, which turns out to be wonderful too. And then I discovered Noir! How did I not know about this stuff before?
- zgm 14y agoSame. I've been playing around with Light Table for about a month now, and I'm completely hooked on Clojure.