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by Legion 13y ago
I don't think you're looking at the project the right way. Think about it like FreeDOS. FreeDOS facilitates running DOS software on modern hardware, and by its open nature, it can continue to evolve and make DOS software runnable
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by Legion 13y ago
> Learning Vim is a side project: something you do casually, slowly, until and if you are able to do the actual switch. No one appointed you the director of how one learns Vim. This is one of the most obnoxious parts of Vim threads: that
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by Legion 13y ago
Is it really preferable, hardware-wise, to something like the HTC One? That is, assuming the user is capable of flashing the HTC One with a third-party firmware to get a vanilla Android experience. Is there a draw to the Nexus in comparison
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by Legion 13y ago
One linking post is fine. Three comments full of Passenger links is pushing good taste.
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by Legion 13y ago
Worst work day. The post is clearly titled as such.
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by Legion 13y ago
Reading 24 books seems like an awful lot of time committed to doing something other than actually making a product. One of the books was marked optional, though, so there's that.
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by Legion 13y ago
> seeing a piece of code that was specially written for a very narrow and specific use case, and needing to extend it to some scenario that the original author did not envision There's pain in both options: making something specifi
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by Legion 13y ago
The problem with YAGNI as a development slogan is that it can be too broadly applied. I think a better wording might be, "don't increase complexity writing code you may not need". The issue is usually not the presence of ad
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by Legion 13y ago
Using Vim mode in other editors is like replacing all your silverware with only spoons. It's much nicer, shinier silverware, and everything's going great at first, until I subconsciously reach for a knife.
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by Legion 13y ago
Dokku has begat Flynn, aka "Super Dokku": https://flynn.io/
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by Legion 13y ago
Anyone interested in this kind of content should see Pat Shaughnessy's Ruby Under a Microscope book: http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope It's the closest thing we have to a new Ruby Hacking Guide. It
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by Legion 13y ago
I've become a fan of the micro-paywall. A one-time fee of $5-10 is an amazingly powerful filter. Metafilter, as you said, is one example. Another is the Ruby Rogues Parley mailing list (now Discourse site). I can only imagine what a HN
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by Legion 13y ago
I so badly want to learn how to really play roguelikes like DCSS. I've never gotten past the wander-around-first-few-levels of NetHack and DCSS. There's so much there!
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by Legion 13y ago
At least they live in a place not ravaged by war. I feel bad for the people stuck in war zones. At what point do we stop with the one-upmanship and accept that we can feel bad for people on various levels?
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by Legion 13y ago
It was a mistake to leave that bug unfixed for so long. I'm glad they came around to fixing it. Hopefully this is a sign of a team and project maturing.
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by Legion 13y ago
> But lead by itself can't be the major factor behind the crime drop. Countries such as Brazil have banned leaded gas even before the United States, and crime rates are still rising dramatically. This is not logically sound. Brazil
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by Legion 13y ago
What separates this from Nokogiri? (Don't take that as critical, more working code out in the world is better. Just wondering, as I use Nokogiri heavily for our company chat-bot, and couldn't tell the answer at a quick glance.)
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by Legion 13y ago
I think this observations was much more true of Rails 2.x and before than Rails 3 forward. People forget that "Rails 3" was actually Rails merging with Merb. A lot of hard-coded inflexibility of Rails 2 had to be extracted out, an
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by Legion 13y ago
> according to some opaque criteria that I don't get to define or tweak Exactly this. When I saw the tabbed inbox, my first thought was, "oh, this will be cool", followed shortly by, "wait, I don't get to control
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by Legion 13y ago
I for one would kill to see an ESPN that has to court direct subscribers. Getting people to pay to subscribe to you is a whole different beast from chasing ratings among an audience that pays for you either way. ESPN may get ratings doing e
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by Legion 13y ago
Just ignore him. I'm a little sad to see the comment get so many replies, instead of simply being downvoted into oblivion. I'd love if we as a community could endeavor to give troll responses like that as little attention as possi
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by Legion 13y ago
Neat. I like seeing people try new things with terminal emulators, even if a certain cluster of boo-birds shows up every time. I noticed that the terminal does not work well with my zsh right-prompt (ends up printing on the left and getting
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by Legion 13y ago
I use NeoBundle to run the YouCompleteMe module build upon installation. Works great. Especially since the build is triggered by a single simple command. (People really complain about that being hard?)
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by Legion 13y ago
The delay in leaving insert mode used to drive me nuts in vim-powerline. I posted an issue and the author pointed me to this helpful Vim config snippet as a workaround (original link gone as the vim-powerline issue tracker has been removed,
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by Legion 13y ago
Rarely am I so torn about a project's name. The play on PHP's name makes me cringe, but the (not sure if intentional?) play on the California Highway Patrol's acronym makes me thumbs-up.
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by Legion 13y ago
I would start with a provisioning process that isn't completely opaque about such things.
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by Legion 13y ago
To me, that's an infrastructure smell.
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by Legion 13y ago
Exactly. The web had to bend to IE, not the other way around. The fact that that bending resulted in IE6 still being able to mostly display websites today is not any sort of testament to IE6's quality as a browser.
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by Legion 13y ago
This capability is what took me from trying the Dash demo to paying for the app. Once the content became something I could use on all my computers and not just the Macs, it became worth the money. Being cool and cooperative with Zeal earned
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by Legion 13y ago
> Do you think it's possible some people just aren't wired like this? Absolutely. Well, maybe I wouldn't call it "wired", but no one tool is right for everyone, and no one should feel bad or wrong for using somet

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