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by batista 14y ago
While it has been positive indeed, I wouldn't say it "has been nothing but a huge positive". The closing down (of the JCP, the lawsuits, etc) in particular has been a little worrisome.
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by batista 14y ago
The text rendering looks extremely nice. Is this Java/Swing based, or does it use something else?
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by batista 14y ago
> But until that time comes, we have essentially the same input mechanisms that we had when Vi and Emacs were invented. Actually the mouse was not a big deal at all when Emacs and Vi were invented -- virtually not existent at the kind
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by batista 14y ago
Only the parenthesis in Lisp have to be like that to serve a purpose (data is code is AST, homoiconicity, macros, et al). They cannot really be changed much and still have a Lisp proper. Whereas Smalltalk IDE window handling could be improv
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, they also shared a belief that tea goes well with milk. Telling, no? As if an agreement in some "overview of political systems from 1000 miles above" stance, means anything... Not a very good idea to compare philosophers (or philosophe
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by batista 14y ago
Please. Rand is mostly popular in the US --where people don't have the background in the history of philosophy that they have in western Europe. Compared to actual philosophy Rand is like a tv informercial compared to a documentary.
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by batista 14y ago
Perhaps you missed the part of my comment where I SPECIFICALLY addressed that issue. That is, the part where I wrote: my argument was not about a "specific" language. It was about C-capability language gaining and Lisp-capability language
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by batista 14y ago
> and not many people would be flushing $15 down the drain to go see a 90 minute movie instead of buying a month's membership to World of Warcraft and getting tens or even 100+ hours of enjoyment out of it. So, playing some shitty game
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by batista 14y ago
> Why not price the coffee at $30 then for millionaires? That happens all the time, including for coffee. Coffee at a "high end" hotel / coffee shop etc does not cost the same as coffee at your local coffee joint --while the coffee its
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by batista 14y ago
> Why is a coin toss any more random than a specific language gaining traction? It's called "(extreme) sensitivity to initial conditions." Many of which are neither observable nor predictable. Because my argument was not about a "speci
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by batista 14y ago
> Where "various forces" is furious handwaving for the sheer randomness that made that set available to you. You keep using that word, random. I don't think it means what you think it means. A coin toss is random. C picking up for the
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by batista 14y ago
> In that regard I am just a lazy person and nobody cares about Python 3 YET. You'd be surprised.
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by batista 14y ago
> Because to assume otherwise that would imply that everyone knows every language and some are uniform winners over others. Do you know every language you have rejected? Heck, do you even know the general characteristics of Lisp, or Has
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by batista 14y ago
> If I have to have a deep understanding of the JVM's implementation details to do anything non-trivial I may as well just stick with C. The difference is that you have to have a deep understanding of the details to do even trivial thi
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by batista 14y ago
I don't think so. A proper solution for generics would be a "nearly perfect balance" in this case, not reflection or casting.
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by batista 14y ago
Vowels and frequent letters? For one I am a programmer, not a writer --my frequent keys are widely different than a typist's. Second, who said having the all on the home row is better? Studies --nit Dvorak's own-- have shown marginal or no
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by batista 14y ago
Troll? We're not 15 year olds, than you very much. Marco rights his opinion. He's pro-Apple to a degree I don't much like, but troll is a stupid accusation. He's not some teenage 4channer linkbaiting....
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by batista 14y ago
> Of course. The British led the world and did not offer (at the time) anyone the chance to be British either. In fact, they actively discouraged interbreeding. It is a dogma of the modern Occident that it is stronger to be multi-ethnic
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by batista 14y ago
> What kind of doublespeak is that? If there's a race, and you're the only one who shows up, you deserve to win, period. It's not doublespeak, it's common sense. If "you're the only one who shows up" it's not much of a race (or a victo
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by batista 14y ago
Dvorak superiority is actually a urban legend.
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by batista 14y ago
> Sorry, I didn't mean to attack you or anything. Oh, no problem, I didn't get that impression. > I'm just praising the model and abilities of open-source and how much power it gives to the user. Well, what I'm tried to say it tha
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by batista 14y ago
> "brilliantness"? Are you kidding? Have you worked with vimscript? Oh well, at the risk of feeding a troll... No, I haven't worked with vimscript. What does it have to do with anything? Vim/vi is a brilliant piece of editor software,
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by batista 14y ago
> This doesn't make much sense. You say it appeared at the right time and was pretty and native on OS X. What better editors deserved the success it had that were available when TextMate was popular? The fact that there wasn't another
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by batista 14y ago
> If your effort spent on tools speeds up your time-to-stuff, then the assumptions embodied in 1) are invalid. Effort spent on tools != effort spend on adding some feature I'd like on a programmer's editor. I could just switch to somet
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't get what you mean by "if there is still enough interest". If you wanted a particular feature or change, couldn't you just fork Textmate and then implement it? No, I could not. 1) I have other things to do than building my own
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by batista 14y ago
If we are completely honest, Textmate was always a sub-par editor. No Vim or Emacs style brilliantness, no BBEdit style tons of features and mature engine, no IntelliJ like, er, intelligence, no ST2 comprehensiveness, etc etc. Plus, the Tex
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by batista 14y ago
> Surely Samsung wanted to mimic that sleek smartphone feeling that was all the rage, but try to confuse customers with a clone? Confusing them with a clone doesn't necessarily mean having them believe they are buying an iPhone. It's a
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by batista 14y ago
> I hated Hemingway in high school. His book was like, "The army marched. And fought. And marched again." Or something like that. Finally, a very informative and intelligent literally opinion. /s > Hemingway is crap. Writing 101: A
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by batista 14y ago
No, it's a todo list app, period. It doesn't pretend to be something else or more, so the 'glorified' here is meaningless. That said, it doesn't matter what Cheddar is. He asks for that pay for iOS consulting in general, not for recreating
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by batista 14y ago
> The thing about TED is, wild-eyed though it may be, it's not a political agenda. Actually it very very much reeks of political agenda from miles away. There are few things more political (in that they have very specific political con

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