Derbasti

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by Derbasti 8y ago
You know, I wrote a number of successful open source packages. By and large, feedback is positive, or at least utilitarian: bug reports, feature requests, questions. But there is also the occasional angry user, or, rarely, a simple thank yo
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Think of it as visual/poor man's macros.
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At least it's Source Accessible, though, Free to Use Noncommercially.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Let me fix that: Tidelift wants high-profile JavaScript developers to get payed. Their scanning process does not even think of anything non-web. Boohoo for us Pythonistas and Emacsens and Lunatics.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
I agree so much! It's good to remember that many things seem impossible until you do them! After all, if they were easy, someone would have done them already.
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About 8% of all males are color-blind. If you are a scientist, and want to publish your work, there's a one in four chance that at least one of your three reviewers is color-blind. Rainbow color schemes are ridiculously bad. One study
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Well, obviously I wouldn't go for the stock configuration. Seeing my needs, the top CPU, RAM, and GPU seem reasonable. But I really didn't check. The point is, the MBP's performance per dollar is ridiculous.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Evolution may not be pretty, but it works pretty well for Email, Calendar, and Contacts (assuming that's what you mean by PIM). Honestly though, email has lost a lot of utility for me in the last few years (privately; professional emai
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by Derbasti 8y ago
The exact same thing happened to me. Now I have a big tower PC for serious work (32 cores, 64 Gb RAM, dual 1080) plus a nice laptop (XPS 13), for a combined cost of less than this MBP. While the Linux software ecosystem is not quite as smoo
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Does this mean that I can write with file := open('filename'): data = file.read() instead of with open('filename') as file: data = file.read() I don't know how I feel about this.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Also, to world peace. And crime. And law enforcement. And... humanity.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
> And if I were hiring, I'd certainly think less of you for taking that stance. If you don't want to hire me because of this fact, I am perfectly fine with that. In fact, that is exactly what I and the OP would want. I do not b
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by Derbasti 8y ago
But that's exactly to the OP's point: You need to think about this. You need to figure it out beforehand. In Python, you can express this without that mental overhead--particularly while prototyping.
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And let's not forget that ObjC is downwards compatible with C. If you need a particular loop or function to be fast, you can write it in C, in the same ObjC source file .
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Simple: Swift is clearly fast for some applications, but slow for others. It is not a silver bullet. There are no silver bullets.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
This has been my experience as well: Python-style Julia code often does not run faster than in Python. Only of you rewrite it in C-style do you get C-like performance. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just an observation from me transla
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by Derbasti 8y ago
I wonder what kind of car Emacs would be... maybe an unimog? Or a VW bus. And what would Vim be? And NeoVim? And XEmacs? And Atom? JetBrains? Nano? Ed?
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by Derbasti 8y ago
"High-speed train" ... "runs at a top speed of 79 miles per hour". That doesn't sound right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
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by Derbasti 8y ago
This is what brought me to Emacs, initially: Having the same shell on Windows and Linux.
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by Derbasti 8y ago
Wow, you are getting downvoted. I 100% agree with you, though. I have seen too many proprietary text editors come and go to be able to justify building my work around a closed-source one. My text editor is absolutely fundamental to all my w
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by Derbasti 9y ago
I keep trying out Julia every year or so. And it has come a long way. Gone are the days of crashes, missing documentation, and terrible error messages. And yet, for my particular area (audio signal processing), Julia is just objectively wor
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by Derbasti 9y ago
I use a cheap Microsoft Surface clone as my main tablet. It is far slower than a current iPad, but also cheaper. Con: The app situation is dire. I generally use the browser instead of apps. Pro: It is an actual computer. You can plug in USB
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by Derbasti 9y ago
Simple: It is programmable, and built for maximal extensibility. I know of no other environment (including e.g. Python) that is as malleable as Emacs. In the end, this will lead every user to make Emacs their Emacs. It will become differe
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by Derbasti 9y ago
That's easy for you to say, as a (presumably) rich American developer. It's a different story in, say, India or Africa, or students or poor folks. $80 can be several days or weeks of sustenance.
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by Derbasti 9y ago
So, they replace backend JS with rust, and frontend DOM/CSS with WebGL. Then all that's left of Electron is the V8 JS engine for scripting. For the desktop, they could cut out Electron entirely and replace it with V8 and some mini
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by Derbasti 9y ago
Yes! Thank you for the correction.
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Very cool site. Just one nitpick: "Frequency" denotes the technical speed of vibration, as said in the article. "Pitch" is the human perception of how high or low a tone is. Pitch is a "quale", it is purely per
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by Derbasti 9y ago
Some kind of JSON over sockets (or MsgPack over pipes, BSON over ZMQ, etc.) works pretty well for these kinds of scenarios.
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Consider the following quedtions: Can they overload arbitrary key presses? Can they modify what is on the screen? Can they change the screen's content without changing the file's content? Can they call the editor's own editin
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by Derbasti 9y ago
How powerful are you planning your extensions to be? On a scale from Textmate (shortcuts that run shell scripts) to Emacs (you can implement Vim in Emacs), where would Xi's extensions stand?

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