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by andyl 12y ago
Fred predicts Chinese companies will make a big entrance to the US market in 2015. At the same time, China restricts US companies in their markets (Gmail blocking being the latest example) Why do we (in America) allow this asymmetry? Is it
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by andyl 12y ago
"American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US." Clarification: can't find enough American programmers willing to work for low
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by andyl 12y ago
I want to patrol my own streets like I want to grow my own food, or supply my own home energy. No thanks. People who provide these services do a better job than I ever will. I'm thankful that they are there, so I can focus all my ener
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by andyl 12y ago
Rails4.2 the day after Postgres9.4. A great combination. Postgres9.4 has JsonB, Json, Hstore and Array fields. Rails4.2 fixes the dirty-tracking for JsonB/Json/Hstore. Thank you developers!
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by andyl 12y ago
This looks great. I'd like to know: 1) how does this differ from bootstrap? 2) why a whole new framework, instead of extending bootstrap?
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by andyl 12y ago
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. —Eliezer Yudkowsky
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by andyl 12y ago
It doesn't work that way for me - for some reason the syntax makes a huge difference in my productivity and level of energy. Coffeescript works way better than JavaScript, Elixir better than Erlang, Slim better than ERB. It shouldn&#x
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by andyl 12y ago
For web and mobile apps, you need programming ability and tooling (bug tracker, source code control, editor/ide, test/release system, etc.) With that, IMHO your job looks more like a writer than an engineer, and your product feels
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by andyl 12y ago
The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Is 'Mean People Fail' playing to people's fantasies? http://48laws-of-power.blogspot.com/2011/05/law-32-play-to-p...
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by andyl 12y ago
Is there any way create a Phoenix add-ons for my Rails app? It would be great to use Phoenix to handle the real-time parts of the app without having to walk away from all of our working Rails code.
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by andyl 12y ago
I've had my eye on OrgMode for awhile - it looks awesome. But I use Vim. Is there anything on Vim that compares to OrgMode?
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by andyl 12y ago
Check out Reflux - https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs - a slimmed down Flux implementation. Reflux is a great solution when you need to coordinate between multiple components.
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no it doesn't!
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> "The real issue, say Salzman and others, is the industry’s desire for lower-wage, more-exploitable guest workers, not a lack of available American staff. 'It seems pretty clear that the industry just wants lower-cost labor&#x
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Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’(spectator.co.uk)
4 points by andyl 12y ago|4 comments
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by andyl 12y ago
> Can you elaborate? I think all modern package managers (vundle/neobundle/vimplug) do a pretty good job. The fact that there are multiple package managers is a problem. There should be just one package manager, managed by the
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by andyl 12y ago
I love Vim and use it every day. But IMHO it suffers for a lack of a good package management system. I don't think VimL is up to the task. I hope that NeoVim will resolve this. The package management systems for new languages like R
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by andyl 12y ago
Everything I read about SystemD is negative. Negative on the technology, negative on the people who created it. Nothing positive. How is it that SystemD is about to dominate the market? Who is driving SystemD adoption, and why?
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by andyl 12y ago
It's unfortunate that Bram isn't more enthusiastic about NeoVim - it looks to me like they have made great progress and gathering momentum. NeoVim's support for Lua, Ruby and Python plugins, embeddable core would be a big st
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by andyl 12y ago
Not for me! Being able to easily swap rubies in production gives a lot of flexibility. I've found that Chruby in production has been very reliable and easy to manage.
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by andyl 12y ago
> Joan Clarke, Woman Who Cracked Enigma with Alan Turing Only - Joan and Alan didn't crack Enigma. Worked on it yeah. Made improvements sure. But cracked it - no. A child can learn in 2 minutes that the Poles cracked Enigma. Why
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by andyl 12y ago
Should have had support for Net-Neutrality years ago. Nevertheless glad to see it now. I hope it makes a difference.
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by andyl 12y ago
I'm watching NeoVim - they seem to be making solid progress and hope it will give us a scriptable/embeddable vim. Would be great to have 1st-class scripting support for Python or Ruby.
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by andyl 12y ago
I also like this translation. Some passages describe so well the people and situations that I encounter every day. Plus ca change...
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by andyl 12y ago
Intel NUCs are similar in size to Mac Mini - I've been using for small linux servers and dev boxes. NUCs can handle 16GB ram, quad-core, SSD, GB ethernet. Small and quiet - a great little device.
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by andyl 12y ago
"Runs best in Chrome", coming soon to a browser near you. The spirit of IE lives! https://twitter.com/jashkenas/status/525024739816116224
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Brave New World
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Is this you? http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/why-he...
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Is there an ETA for the production release of PG9.4 ?
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by andyl 12y ago
Yet another HN article that minimizes the perception that drugs can cause harm. Yes it is true that most people grow out of addiction. But many do not. In my circle I count four dead, many more damaged by drugs.

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