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by compay 16y ago
Textmate 2?
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by compay 16y ago
> I see it as a type of scam against the employer, though. That's definitely sometimes true. But it depends - when I was in college I used to go to a bar (Redbones in Somerville, MA) where the owner had a policy of letting the bartende
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by compay 16y ago
Well, AFAIK Cyanogenmod is the only way to run Froyo on the G1.
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by compay 16y ago
Perhaps it's because the heaviest drinkers spend many evenings safely at home passed out on the couch, while the abstainers are out incurring the normal risks of daily life.
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by compay 16y ago
Except when you're a buck novice it can be very intimidating and difficult to make a contribution among people who know WAY more than you. It's unfortunately very common for expert programmers to treat novices with disdain, and this can be
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by compay 16y ago
I would recommend in addition to contributing to other projects, to try to start something of your own. Find something small and useful you can work on, and release it. It doesn't matter if it's small - the experience you get maintaining yo
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by compay 16y ago
Until you see an obvious reason to convince you to upgrade your code, don't. I'm starting a couple of longer-term Rails projects for clients right now, happily using 3.0. But I'll be waiting a while longer before upgrading my existing sit
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by compay 16y ago
I'll miss him. He conveyed such incredible enthusiasm in his TV segments and brightened up so many of my evenings. He was an absolute, unabashed nerd, and I say that with the utmost of admiration and respect. RIP.
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by compay 16y ago
Command-T is a pretty popular new plugin for selecting files in and below your current directory; it makes heavy use of the Ruby interface. http://github.com/wincent/Command-T It also uses a small C extension to Ruby for speed, because fo
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by compay 16y ago
I have no idea what he was thinking about then when he took his stuff down, so you may be right. But having read his work for a few years I don't think it was spite; that just doesn't seem like him. He worked for years on code and writing
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by compay 16y ago
Sometimes I find it hard to believe that such a cheerful character has ended up being so polarizing. People both lionize and demonize this guy, and neither one is fair. _Why is not the greatest genius who ever lived, but he inspired a lot o
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by compay 16y ago
I agree to an extent - I just think it says a lot more about the individuals than the methodology. TDD doesn't magically transform bad solutions to good ones, and nobody should claim or expect that. It's a shame that what is really just a u
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by compay 16y ago
And selective quoting is never deceptive or equivalent to editorializing, right? :)
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by compay 16y ago
Simply put, when I first heard about TDD I got very excited and made the mistakes you would expect a well-intentioned but uninformed person would make: spending WAY too much time worrying about how to structure my tests correctly, which som
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by compay 16y ago
Yeah, that was pretty much my point.
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by compay 16y ago
Tests are of course very important, but when the coder begins to fetishize testing and write tests for the sake of writing tests, rather than to help pursue the project's goal, then it becomes a problem. I've been guilty of this earlier in
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by compay 16y ago
To all those who read the title and think "OMG Oracle is so evil," by "take it", he means "use it in compliance with its license and build business around supporting it." I'm not a fan of Oracle but the title given here on HN is kinda decep
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by compay 16y ago
Looking forward to playing around with the new Lua interface.
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by compay 16y ago
First: it's because it's making cultural observations about the people from both places, and trying to somehow say that this is reflected in the language. For the sake of argument, let's just assume the British are "less emotional" than the
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by compay 16y ago
I speak 2 languages fluently and a few others adequately. I definitely think my behavior is a little different when speaking Spanish versus English, but I don't think there are any deep-seated psycholinguistic reasons for this - it's more b
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by compay 16y ago
Everybody uses editors differently, and perhaps for your approach and workflow it doesn't make a significant difference. In my experience using vim has made my work day more enjoyable than other editors did, and while I don't think it direc
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by compay 16y ago
I'm a big fan of Postgres and have a hard time overcoming my visceral dislike for Oracle. But I suppose this makes perfect sense for them. Businesses protect themselves from real and potential threats. If I were an Oracle shareholder, this
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by compay 16y ago
So in a Terminator-like situation, the best bet would apparently be to head for Africa.
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by compay 16y ago
I hate to be "meta," but all of the articles submitted from this domain are basically just a rich guy complaining about his level of comfort and service received by those he deems to be beneath his station. I have no idea why they keep gett
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by compay 16y ago
When you have written lots of code, you remember some of the things you had to optimize in the past, and when you find yourself in a similar situation you're tempted to just do it now so that you don't have to do it later. The fact that som
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by compay 16y ago
I really enjoy working with Lua, though the opportunities have been infrequent. While Node.js looks like a wonderful piece of technology, every time I hear about it I feel a bit bitter that yet another opportunity to popularize Lua has been
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by compay 16y ago
I'd be convinced if I actually held one in my hand and could either reproduce or not reproduce the problem. I find it crazy how many people leap to either attack or defend Apple without having ever used one of the things.
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by compay 16y ago
Well, really any decision is going to leave them open to criticism like this. Given that Hindi has more speakers in India than any other language, and is not the only language that uses Devanagari I think it's a pretty defensible choice.
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by compay 16y ago
It will be interesting to see how this shakes out - the spec for Unicode 6.0 is due in September, theoretically giving them time to add it before the release.
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by compay 16y ago
I'm largely ignorant of commercial RDBMS's, having worked almost entirely with open source ones. So I had assumed that LIMIT was part of some SQL standard. Looking into it further, I realize that I've been wrong about that for a long time.

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