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by actf 12y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic, but I disagree that the Go ecosystem has a good choice for pretty much any functionality. I think one major omission from the current Go ecosystem is a decent GUI library. There have been some attempts howe
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by actf 13y ago
I love how osx supports emacs key-bindings by default for any text field. I miss this feature a lot when I switch back to windows. I find myself pressing ctrl-n in my browser's address bar, expecting to view my URL history, and inste
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by actf 13y ago
Sublime is missing support for vim actions when used in combination with / or ? For example: d/abc (i.e. delete forward until the text 'abc') or c/abc (i.e. change the text going forward until the text &
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by actf 13y ago
Thanks, I haven't seen that yet. It does look promising. I was vaguely aware that work was happening on these features, but I wasn't aware of their current state. Unfortunately it doesn't look like these are available yet in
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by actf 13y ago
Very cool, QML is a very promising GUI development language. I'm a huge fan of declarative UIs, and QML is great for this. For those that have experience in WPF, QML is actually very similar. My main complaint about QML is that it real
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by actf 13y ago
These are really great - one additional test I would love to see would be Mono Asp.net MVC. I think it would interesting to see how it compares to the JVM.
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by actf 14y ago
> I thought one can write in Python and other languages for plugins now? Yes and no. Technically this is possible, but it's almost as unpleasant as just using vimscript. Scripting vim in python involves using the vim module, which provi
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by actf 14y ago
I really disagree that C# getters and setters are less readable than a public field. Compare: public string Field { get; set;} to public string field; I felt I had to reply to this comment to discourage this practice for a co
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by actf 14y ago
I'm not sure if you're being serious or just sarcastic, but no - that's not at all what I'm suggesting. OSX provides a POSIX environment, and OSX is obviously not a Linux distribution. In fact Microsoft already provides SUA (Subsystem for U
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by actf 14y ago
I agree completely. Lately everyone seems to be convinced that we're witnessing the death of the desktop computer, but I wonder if this could be partly due to the lack of options in this market. Apple and Microsoft have both dropped the bal
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by actf 14y ago
I disagree. This is one of the main reasons that drove me to switch over to OSX. I don't think I'm alone in this either. I have a number of colleagues that have switched from windows as their primary OS for similar reasons. I'd like to beli
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by actf 14y ago
Interesting argument, and I agree with you that the milliseconds saved are obviously small compared to the time it takes to design an algorithm, but I will make the following argument: It isn't only about shaving milliseconds off your codin
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by actf 14y ago
Has anyone else noticed that when you repeatedly click between the two different models in the play store, the seems to change randomly from "Coming Soon" to "Out of Stock"? As much as I want to like Android, this is the type of experience
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by actf 14y ago
I'd also add that outside of the US there's still a huge lack of content (i.e. movies, music), compared to what's available on iTunes. I'm not sure what the difference is like inside the US
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by actf 14y ago
Apple is still miles ahead when it comes to real time audio processing apps. The obvious example here being garage band, but on the less obscure side there are a ton of guitar amp/effects apps on iOS (which are awesome if you play guitar) f
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by actf 14y ago
This is entirely anecdotal, but I think a lot of people underestimate how important iTunes is to the success of the ipod/iphone/ipad. Speaking for myself, one of the main reasons I chose an iphone+ipad over android is because I love watchin
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by actf 14y ago
> To me, it's a matter of cultural differences. Think of it this way: a shell operates in two mode, script or interactive (the new fancy word now is REPL). How much time does your average PowerShell user spend in REPL mode? I realize th
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by actf 14y ago
Saying that, "the majority of them are soul crushing boring with no care or love for the developers" is a pretty strong claim, for which you've provided no evidence. Certainly some corporate jobs are soul crushing, but the "majority"? The w
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by actf 14y ago
You're right that autocomplete does exist, but in my experience it's very limited in dynamic languages. For example, the following code does not give me any auto-completion suggestions in eclipse or in vim: str = "hello" test(str)
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by actf 15y ago
As someone who loves vim I'm both surprised and curious that he mentions using vim to write .NET code While I love vim, I can't imagine using it to write anything significant in .NET - the lack of auto completion and an integrated debugger
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by actf 15y ago
> What bad performance? Did you miss the video in the article? - The one where the iPhone scrolls as smooth as butter, and the other phone scrolls slow enough to make me wonder - is it frozen? FWIW this has been my experience with Andro
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by actf 15y ago
A couple of observations and questions: I find it interesting that a lot of folks in this discussion seem to accept that an IDE is advantageous for cases involving a large code base or a statically typed language. Why is an IDE any less app
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by actf 15y ago
I'd also highly recommend the book "Shopcraft as Soulcraft" by Matthew Crawford. It's certainly not a classic like "Walden" or "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and found it very applicable to this t
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by actf 15y ago
He mentions he's fed up with the financial cost and the need to activate Windows, and cites these as reasons to use linux. He then later suggests running Windows in a VM to deal with "dodgy programs". At least I'm not the only one that find
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by actf 16y ago
Yes, it's absolutely still true, although certainly to a lesser degree than a few years ago. The obvious easy example is games. The number of AAA games available on OSX is still tiny compared to what's available on Windows.
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by actf 16y ago
I've never really understood the Windows/Mac analogy here. I think the main reason many people end up using Windows over OSX, or any other OS, has always been the availability of software. People use Windows because there is a lot of really
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by actf 16y ago
I think these results will be inaccurate. How can I answer this question if I run Windows 7 as my OS, but use a Linux VM to do development work? Does Windows 7 count as my primary development system? What if I run Windows 7 at work, but do
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by actf 16y ago
I think this depends a lot on how you define simplicity. If we define simplicity as: a plain text interchange format, then clearly by definition a text based shell is simpler. Piping objects instead of text allows a single command to do mor
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by actf 16y ago
it is the best at handling mathematical notation Honest question: What makes you say that? I've never completely understood why TeX is considered the best at handling mathematical notation. Personally, I've been very happy with the equati
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by actf 16y ago
Say that for Visual Studio or Eclipse which aren't as polished in some aspects, crash frequently, or run on platforms that crash frequently. (I'm not saying that VS or Eclipse share all 3 of those properties, and the crashing bit refers to

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