ar_lan

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by ar_lan 4y ago
Yeah, I guess it’s tricky. As a new parent I had essentially told my manager I wanted to put the brakes on career progression for one year, and he was very receptive. So I understand that perspective a bit.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> they might not know your career aspirations This is something I really didn’t understand when I started my career, and I realized I just got lucky with my managers for looking out for me. I still kind of don’t get how managers don’t as
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Good for you!
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I was wondering the same. Nothing against the project, but from reading about it I’m confused why I would choose this over my preferred OS (and therefore how it makes enough money). But then again there are so many distros it’s not that sur
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> It also makes it easy to think of those who don't know what is obvious to you as idiots. Honestly, if someone does this to me, I often think they are the incompetent one/idiot. Teaching and ensuring understandability is a cor
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Wasn’t the Model 3 the “low cost” one? Is there supposed to be a cheaper one? Cars are so confusing these days - $40k USD just seems like the average price now. My neighborhood has so many Tesla roofs I was actually surprised by your commen
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Yep. Looking on mobile Safari and it seems very buggy. But looks so cool when it does work!
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by ar_lan 4y ago
If your debugger implements the DAP protocol then Neovim is currently capable of a just-as-good debugging experience in my opinion. The sole exception in my opinion is remote debugging (it’s not too bad, but JetBrains really bootstraps this
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> that a person who is productive in VIM would be more productive if he used a proper IDE. What features does a "proper IDE" offer that, at least Neovim, does not or cannot provide?
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Neovim user, so a little different. I used to regularly use GoLand for ~3 years before I made the full switch over, and am a bit of an evangelist of it. I'm simply faster in it. I'd probably say the initial main attractor was moda
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by ar_lan 4y ago
This is not tribalism. I’m detailing a history of why I stopped using Windows, because the updates were frustratingly annoying. If it wasn’t every week, it certainly felt like it - perhaps it was every other week. But it’s not dishonest to
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Ooooh! I haven't checked on Proton in some time but this is exciting news! I'm going to check this out, thanks!
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by ar_lan 4y ago
There is always the option of writing your own derivation for specific versions too, however. I don't think mentioning Nix is meant to be sarcastic - this is a function the package manager has built-in by default, so it is worth mentio
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by ar_lan 4y ago
My previous experience with Windows (~3 years ago) was that every single update took ~2 hours to complete, and they were asking to update weekly. I used to game weekly with my friends, and because of the above problem, I would have to turn
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> and frankly I can’t understand people whose goal in life is [to find stable employment] I grew up lower middle class - first to graduate college in my family. Dad could never hold down a job for long. It was a very pressing need for me
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I was an ardent JetBrains user for years, and still enjoy their software. But I transitioned fully to NeoVim and there just isn’t anything I had to give up. It took a little more modification but the initial cost resulted in a much faster e
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Pinning package versions has helped me ensure a completely reproducible environment. I’ve not had any instability.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Neovim (different, sure) supports treesitter so syntax highlighting is no longer “less-than-elegant”.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I’ve found #2 is just not that practical. Too many plugins just aren’t that portable because they depend on underlying binaries (LSP support in Neovim for example). Maybe minified, portable vimrc but even then, it makes me wonder, why not j
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by ar_lan 4y ago
As someone who just honestly enjoys it, this has been painful to see. I feel so few people I can talk to who enjoy the craft.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I had a lot of conflicting opinions on this article. My upbringing is very similar (albeit 10 years later). But I did become a professional software developer. I even resonated with starting with wanting to make games as a kid! I don’t thin
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Not natively, but through a handful of plugins I have been able to go most days on my MacBook without touching a mouse/trackpad. There are occasional times I need to pull it out, however. But with Yabai + Vimium + terminal the majority
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I do love JetBrains products. But they were too memory-hungry for me. I stepped away from GoLand and into Neovim and it’s been by far the best experience the past year and a half. So far, there is not a single feature I miss or haven’t been
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by ar_lan 4y ago
In packer, at least, you can pin plug-in versions. I’ve never had the issue you describe - I suspect precisely because I keep my plugin count lean and pin each dependency so it’s always deterministic.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
This is like saying a library is incomplete because it does one thing well, and if it’s not a full-fledged framework it’s useless. I recommend learning about Unix and the associated philosophies - you sound like there’s a lot more growth in
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by ar_lan 4y ago
This just simply isn’t true. Neovim is perfectly capable of (and I would argue excels at) being a daily driver on large projects.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Are you using different OS? This sounds like the programs your NeoVim is calling is failing you - not nvim itself. _cough cough_ NixOS can help you out here
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Yeah - it's a specific implementation of the general idea. Chromebooks essentially fit the same bill. I just happen to have an iPad (and I do most arch design with a stylus so the Apple Pencil is fairly crucial to my workflow). I'
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I, and most of us on here, are likely power users of computers, and beyond my job, they are a big portion of my hobby as well. I acknowledge I'm in a unique situation where I run a home lab and so I have a local cloud, but because of t
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I thought the same exact thing, and had entered the article with a significant bias against the author based on the headline.

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