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by danneu 13y ago
What does a tiling window manager give you that you can't just replicate with keystrokes that resize applications to any quadrant/half of the screen?
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by danneu 13y ago
Collapsing becomes useful when nested comments have many siblings. It is indeed easier to collapse a tree of comments and read the next sibling than to scroll through many comments looking for a specific indentation level.
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by danneu 13y ago
For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly
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by danneu 13y ago
The world is flooded with low quality products. That just means that it's useless to browse your options in an alphabetical paginated view.
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by danneu 13y ago
A manpage doesn't help you arrive at a workflow or show the forest for the trees or give field advice from someone that uses the tool or reveal ways to integrate the tool with other programs.
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by danneu 13y ago
I'm having success introducing even my noob programmer friends to Clojure by directing them to install Leiningen (Clojure's build tool) and Lighttable (editor with integrated repl). Generate the project skeleton: $ lein new foobar
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by danneu 13y ago
The utility comes from the part that it's a remote box that's always on the internet, so it becomes a fun sandbox in that regard. My laptop on the other hand is only connected to the internet transiently.
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by danneu 13y ago
Yeah, that's better advice. The dropbox thing is a fun experiment, especially when the dotfiles folder is a git repo that sits in dropbox. It saves me from the git commit/push/pull loop when my dotfiles are in flux. I can add
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by danneu 13y ago
I feel like everyone who has responded to me so far plugged that coax cable from The Matrix into the back of their brain stem one day and just downloaded Everything Unix. I don't really relate to a single comment. I call it an incantat
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by danneu 13y ago
That's a good point that made me think for a second. In the end, even if I go back to Heroku, I'll have gone from Heroku -> VPS -> Heroku. But it's not full-circle or back-pedaling like it first appears. Rather, I'
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by danneu 13y ago
Yeah, that's true. My bullet point wasn't a very good one-liner. Aliases are nice because they're the most entry-level customization yet they solve the #1 thing I spent my time doing at the very beginning: hunting down magica
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by danneu 13y ago
I find that it's the opposite for me since my needs are so simple and I'm not logging hours into Linux cli every day. I simply don't use the VPS cli enough to retain everything and that just makes it frustrating. It's mo
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by danneu 13y ago
Everyone interested in web dev should own a VPS. After a year working at a Rails shop that deploys to Heroku, I decided it's time to learn some sysadmin basics. Here are some things I've done the past couple months that might give
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by danneu 13y ago
Yeah, tucking your thumb to hit anything left of the spacebar does not sound like a solid RSI-prevention game plan. Caps Lock to Ctrl (when pressed with another button) and Esc (when pressed alone) is one of the most efficient workflow opti
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by danneu 13y ago
You're responding to: > Clojurescript is the browser language I always > wanted. JS seems like such a hack. You're getting downvoted for reading into someone's enthusiastic personal endorsement and then en
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by danneu 13y ago
As usual, it's an enumeration of things that have nothing to do with your phone. The author paints a picture of a life of serendipity, surprise, getting lost in a quaint cobblestone village, giggling with strangers, discovering a hidde
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by danneu 13y ago
LightTable's trajectory is a bit different than what you're going to get with a monolthic IDE and the Clojure plugin that does its best to wrestle with the IDE. I also don't think LightTable's core offering is a huge boo
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by danneu 13y ago
It's easy to spark interest in other developers by converting their Ruby/Python code to Clojure. But LightTable has made it possible for me to recommend an editor that has integrated repl feedback and lets them hit the ground runn
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by danneu 13y ago
One of the main reasons I come to HN is to learn how other people feel about certain things, predominantly from the comments section. Else it's just me in my cave. It's obvious what point the slides were making. The important part
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by danneu 13y ago
Amphetamine isn't exactly a placebo and its effects aren't exactly unknown or disputed. Asserting the possibility of placebo is like wondering if coffee is really just dark inert water but we're all just idiots with no self-a
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by danneu 13y ago
Absolutely loved the first ebook bundle. This is a must-buy.
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by danneu 13y ago
> Many codebases are littered with them [null checks] and, > as a result they [codebases] are often very hard to understand. I wager they're referring to null checks complicating the codebase (introducing uncertain
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by danneu 13y ago
It's pretty much the same as this: (loop [n 0] (if (= n 10) n ; true case: return n (recur (inc n)))) ; false case: loop with n++ ;=> 10
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by danneu 13y ago
Clojure has most of the semantics you're used to in other languages. http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/let (let [username "prollyignored" karma 7] (println usern
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by danneu 13y ago
Clojure's namespace declaration: (ns my-app.my-namespace (:require [some-library.some-namespace :as foo]) is pretty liberating for me after working with Ruby for so long. Composition is tedious to reason about in Ruby wh
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by danneu 13y ago
I learned Clojure + Emacs + Evil-mode + nrepl.el at the same time a few months ago and haven't really changed anything about my workflow since then. This is how I start Emacs: * Open emacs * `c-x c-f` to navigate to and open
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by danneu 13y ago
> To test this hypothesis, we presented 118 participants with > 48 Swahili-English translation pairs for an initial study trial > and then three blocks of practice trials. I didn't get to study before my te
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by danneu 13y ago
I find that having to guess at questions I simply do not know the answer to can actually prevent me from retaining the right information. Because it forces me to rationalize and objectify my guess which will now have to compete with the rea
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by danneu 13y ago
> Dive into something that compiles. > If you want to continue web dev, Django, Rails, Play Framework, Node, and anything else... I imagine they're alternative options.
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by danneu 13y ago
Here's another recent Halloway talk: Concurrency in Clojure. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Concurrency-Clojure Great high-level explanation of the spirit of Clojure and how/why it transcends place-oriented programming.

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