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by dljsjr 13y ago
I've never had to reinstall my *nix tools when using OS X. Where are you installing them? OS X respects all of the guarantees in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard so if you aren't installing custom-built binaries in /usr/local then the pro
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by dljsjr 13y ago
No different than Windows (Alt, Control, Shift, Windows Key, and fn on most laptops and modern multimedia keyboards), and on Linux the array of modifier keys can be dizzying (Super, Meta, Hyper, etc. GNU Emacs recognizes 5 modifier keys).
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I'm going to operate completely under the assumption that the library authors didn't choose the Unicorn name with intentional malice, and that their motivations were entirely benevolent. It looks like a nice enough library, congrats on all
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by dljsjr 14y ago
On the contrary, I'd argue that it's not true in specific cases . "Because it's hard" is a cop-out. "It's too hard to accomplish given constraint [X]" where X is a deadline, financial constraints, or other real/tangible resource limitation
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Portability, accessibility, etc. "Because it's hard" is never a good excuse to not do something.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
There are probably a lot of factors. I worked on CUDA code for around a year, and used to understand the landscape pretty well, but if I were to start a high-performance computing project today I'd probably take my lumps and go with OpenCL
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by dljsjr 14y ago
No, 5 minutes in Ruby vs < 1s in Go. OP's last benchmark was only for the iteration part. Look just above it and he posts the Ruby times at around 5m. Still, pretty drastic.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Definitions of obscure: 1. Not easily distinguished 2. Not readily understandable/expressable 3. Not commonly known I didn't see the author use the word "bizarro" anywhere, nor make any claims about any of this stuff being weird. He actual
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by dljsjr 14y ago
For me one of the draws to vim isn't vim in its bare state, but vim with my plugins of choice, and I have yet to find a vim emulation plugin that loads the vim runtime, with the exception being eclim for Eclipse; unfortunately, the vim-mode
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I guess if the dev in question is super lazy. Even with great refactor support, I never begin a refactor until the code I want to touch is covered by a test case.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I'm a huge vim fan myself, but I haven't thrown IDE's out of the window entirely. There are still 2 things that I can't give up that IDE's do better than vim (in my opinion): 1. Refactoring operations. I have yet to find a vim plugin that
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I'm not so sure that CoffeeScript is accurately described as "minor and esoteric" these days…
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Assuming that imgix doesn't have any Vanilla Ice and 90's era Mustang photos, then this offers infinity percent more Vanilla Ice and 90's era Mustang photos.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Edit: Parent comment originally said something completely different. My reply doesn't make sense but I'm leaving it up for completeness. This is not that new. Alton Brown has been publishing LN_2 ice cream recipes for ages; Dippin' Dots us
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Your use of live visualizations of the state of the repository is probably the single best part of the app. Seriously, very very well done.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Absolutely fantastic tutorial, but as most other people here have mentioned there should probably be some indication that you should type help to get started.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Except Vagrant is used to spin up small virtual development environments whereas it looks like this is used to actually spin up a physical machine.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Seriously? Every tabbed app I have responds this way. Safari, Chrome, MacVim, TextMate, iTerm 2, all off the top of my head.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Philosophical question: Is it really a bad "beta", or has your preconceived notion on what a "beta" should be been radically altered by the sheer number of startups that throw the word around now? Gmail was in "beta" for about a million y
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Jesus. Maybe OP doesn't like sci-fi, and so no he hasn't read any of those books. I'm a nerd and I probably haven't read most of the books that you were bouncing around in your head when you made this comment. And he never claimed to be So
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by dljsjr 14y ago
ROS is under the governance of the OSRF, has been since October when the DARPA Robotics Challenge started. ROS will be fine.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
As mentioned in the article, these projects don't "belong" to Willow Garage anymore, anyway. OpenCV is being overseen by Itseez, and ROS is being overseen by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. More to the point, all of Willow Garage's co
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by dljsjr 14y ago
You're talking about CES like it's a Clojure concept: > The "problem" is that they're talking about that "CES" as it was the one way to create games. But how many games written in Clojure have been shipped? Heck, how many games written
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I think it's pretty accurate to say that most questions are, since SO tends to lean towards people who are still learning. But the high-level questions are out there. Just gotta dig.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I use SO in a lot of different ways. I enjoy looking for questions that I can answer in any of the languages that I have experience with. I also use it as a simple search engine for inspiration; if I have an implementation task I'll often
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I participated in the survey, and I don't expect anyone from SO to actually read this posting on HN, but I did find that it was extremely biased towards the idea of people who work places actually ship software based products/services, and
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by dljsjr 14y ago
There is a link to the Vagrant docs on running chef solo at the bottom of the article. Not sure if it was always there or if it was a response to this comment because the author made no indication of edit or update.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell on Apple, 1997. If everybody just "shut it down" every time things went pear-shaped, we wouldn't get very far as a species.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Correct. Which is why I prefaced my observation with "if [...]". Obviously, if that isn't the case, then my point is moot.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I think my statement was poorly worded. "These folks" = the project people. In other words, they're obligated to refund $170k that they don't have anymore. I've edited to reflect that.

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