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by babarock 12y ago
Quoting the linked email: So if we go for Guile-Emacs, we'll be stuck with Guile, i.e. we'd have (old and new) packages that use Elisp, new packages that use Scheme, maybe yet other new packages that use, say, Javascript (
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by babarock 12y ago
Could this help us avoid the ugliness of nesting quotes and backslash-escaping hell?
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by babarock 12y ago
Advertisers want you to think of their work as information. It'd be more accurate to describe it as unsolicited information using gross exaggerations to build up a product and appealing to emotions not reason. I too care about cheap ra
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by babarock 12y ago
One thing worth mentioning for games is what Valve is doing with Dota 2. The game is truly free to play, and giving them all the money in the world will not give the player any in-game advantage. On the surface, the game sells various hero
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by babarock 12y ago
It's not necessarily part of OpenStack, but you'll most likely find it in every openstack deployment out there.
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by babarock 12y ago
Has anyone gone through their company being acquired by Red Hat? How'd it go? Any stories (you're allowed) to share? Full disclosure: I work at eNovance.
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by babarock 12y ago
I started using this a few months ago. It definitely helps a lot, but it can still break the workflow. Using OSX, when I click on a link inside Mail, it opens it in Chrome using the last used user. It's annoying when it's the wron
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by babarock 12y ago
A couple of questions pop to mind: - Will that affect the work of archive.org and the wayback machine? - Is it okay for a politician to "erase" something he/she said 10 years ago?
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by babarock 13y ago
I don't want pip and virtualenv to be constantly changing and evolving. We finally reached a stage where they're usable reliably. Some stability wouldn't hurt.
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by babarock 13y ago
Here's a good explanation of this technique: http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/python-3.4-single-dispat...
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by babarock 13y ago
If anyone's interested in testing out Asyncio/Tulip on Python 2, here's a mostly-compatible backport: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius/
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by babarock 13y ago
For those who missed it, here's what Linus wrote in the comments: "+Aaron Traas no, XML isn't even good for document markup. Use 'asciidoc' for document markup. Really. It's actually readable by humans, and eas
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by babarock 13y ago
Big mistake calling Gibran Syrian... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran Actually, even calling him American is wrong. From the Wikipedia article: > The young emigrant from Lebanon who came through Ellis Isl
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by babarock 13y ago
It matters to sysadmins and programmers.
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by babarock 13y ago
It fluctuates. At my current job, I've had 35-37 hours weeks and 50+ hours week. I voted for the second option, at the time of this writing: "I work 40-45 hours, and have no problem working a little extra when needed."
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by babarock 13y ago
I might start working remotely full-time in a few months, so I would like to hear about some of its downsides. Can you share stories of remote working that didn't go as wonderfully as described in this (promotional) video?
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by babarock 13y ago
Vaguely related, this wonderful article by Paul Tagliamonte on how pip coexists with distro package managers (in this case APT): http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/ Nice reminder that pip is a dev tool and should be u
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by babarock 13y ago
More importantly, it's nice to assume your users will have pip available no matter what (assuming we all move to Python 3. One day...)
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First look at upcoming Python Enum(tech-thoughts-blog.com)
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by babarock 13y ago
You're probably right, what do I know I've only been programming professionally for 3 years. However, I find that it's more helpful to have a positive attitude when reading code I didn't write. "Why did he write it
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by babarock 13y ago
And you shouldn't miss Bozhidar's blog on Emacs ( http://emacsredux.com/ ) where he explains a lot of the very cool techniques he included in Prelude.
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by babarock 13y ago
You can either resign silently, or step up and go talk honestly with higher management with the risk of getting fired. In any case, you shouldn't continue working like that. Finding a new job is easier than you think it'll be. Liv
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by babarock 13y ago
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm
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by babarock 13y ago
I know what I'm going to use it for. I work on an open source project and I've just submitted a patch. Tomorrow, I'm travelling to go spend a week with my parents, away from home. I don't plan on taking my laptop with me
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by babarock 13y ago
She's not complaining or asking to be handheld. She's warning her fellow students that working to make money will impact the ability to pay for school . It's counter intuitive. It's not obvious at all. It's barely
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by babarock 13y ago
I'm a huge fan of Github. I recognize the huge effect they've had, transforming the Open Source community, and I'm grateful for it. I also love how they run their company, how open and talkative they are about their organizat
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by babarock 13y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I wasn't exactly asking about child pornography prosecution (which quite frankly, I know nothing about and am probably the least qualified person on Earth to have an opinion about), but about its autom
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by babarock 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I never understood the obsession of legal enforcement with child pornography. Don't get me wrong, the idea of pre-pubescent children being exploited by pornographers horrifies me as much as anyone, but it always
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by babarock 13y ago
I never counted the hours I spend at my job. Not once. Lucky for me, probably, neither does my employer. I'm paid to get the job done, not to show my face at the office for a certain amount of time per week. Some weeks are more intense
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by babarock 13y ago
Reports suggest the app is currently making around USD$3.8 million a day or around USD$54 million per month. I don't get it. That's about 15 days per month. Unless I'm missing something?

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