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by djacobs 15y ago
How often is it that you want to perform this move (edit the character immediately above the cursor, but not in block mode)? If you're moving horizontally by a single space, you have backspace and delete for single-character moves (which ar
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by djacobs 15y ago
In my opinion, objects conflate entirely too much and lead to tangled code, especially if there is any data transformation involved. Have you seen Simple Made Easy? [0] [0] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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by djacobs 15y ago
> Except that beauty rarely scales. I completely disagree. Beauty scales best. It's almost always deadlines, and not complexity, that uglify code. In a culture that values business value over code extensibility and reason-ability (my wo
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by djacobs 15y ago
It would be awesome if HN kept track of new comments on a post. While I can tell which articles I've read on HN because of the a:visited color, I can't tell which comments I've read. As a solution, I'm imagining updating a timestamp each ti
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Grading Obama's foreign policy(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by djacobs 15y ago|0 comments
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by djacobs 15y ago
s/ghetto/standard/
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Scientists call for 60-day suspension of mutant flu research(nature.com)
8 points by djacobs 15y ago|0 comments
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by djacobs 15y ago
I think the primary reason I use Disqus instead of coding my own comment server is for its community. When you have Disqus powering your comments, you have two ways of contributing to this community: by commenting on other people's thoughts
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by djacobs 15y ago
It can do a lot more than that, but yeah that's definitely the first/primary job of a PCR machine.
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by djacobs 15y ago
Neither would I. I wish that had been the title.
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by djacobs 15y ago
Seeing as his philosophy degree had no place in the video and little bearing on the design, I would say that the title is framed the wrong way entirely.
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by djacobs 15y ago
In the Engadget video, they say that for developers it's $4000. If that's still true, they should probably advertise it better on the site.
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by djacobs 15y ago
So SwissVPN is a trusted way to go? I'll have to look into them. I thought the only secure option would be TOR.
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by djacobs 15y ago
While I'm very much interested in a technical solution/workaround to SOPA (with community support), I'm also liking this answer. I might have to look at doing the same thing.
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by djacobs 15y ago
His support for this claim is that he predicted the rise of "Linux in the cloud"?
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Ask HN: What if SOPA passes?
12 points by djacobs 15y ago|8 comments
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by djacobs 15y ago
I pair at least once a week with an Emacs user. Switching between Vim and Emacs is not a problem as long as both people are fast at file-switching.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I refuse to buy a Kindle. TL;DR: ePub > Mobi, I do not support RAAS (reading as a service) Don't get me wrong, I love eBooks, and I will probably buy a Nook or Sony Reader some day. (For now my iPad is a decent substitute.) Why does the
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by djacobs 15y ago
I think we need a little more context?
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by djacobs 15y ago
In addition to what tptacek said, viewing pricing through the race lens is grossly oversimplifying the state of the world. Copyright protection laws, cost of living, and other local market conditions are probably much more important than ra
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by djacobs 15y ago
These kinds of blog posts always forget the 's/S' (substitute) operator. I find it super-useful.
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by djacobs 15y ago
It seems like the dots are making sound when they hit the edge of the string, whether it's vibrating or not. This makes sound come out early from a string that happens to be vibrating in the direction of the dots, and the rhythm is un-natur
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by djacobs 15y ago
The things that I still don't like about Ruby's syntax & semantics (even though it's my second favorite language): - No keyword arguments - No good syntax for creating pure functions - Metaprogramming seems tacked on - HERE do
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by djacobs 15y ago
I've done Ruby for about 7 years and can tell you that after a while, things fall in place, including (most of) the syntax. For me, the most annoying thing is trying to create and pass around functions -- the syntax for that just isn't as e
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by djacobs 15y ago
Putting alerts in what should be a vaguely mathematical/functional construct seems very, very wrong.
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by djacobs 15y ago
I'm not sure that he broadly hates object-orientation as an idea. It's true, he hates much of the conflation that goes in OO (E.g., conflating classes with namespaces, objects with data structures, encapsulation with object ownership, and i
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by djacobs 15y ago
When Rich Hickey talks about code simplicity, he is referring to things that Ruby (simply) cannot simplify. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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by djacobs 15y ago
I find people who 'do' and don't 'read' annoying. They tend not to understand their current cultural and mathematical context and end up re-inventing the wheel in their products. These are the guys who tweet about 'this cool new language, L
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by djacobs 15y ago
I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say. Seems to me like you're the only one here assuming anything (or even caring) about his interests.
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by djacobs 15y ago
Heteronormative? I'm genuinely interested in how you reached that conclusion.

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