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571.
by dwb 14y ago
It makes total sense when you want to actually sit down and write something like this. The point is that this is an easy, quick-to-hack-together thing, not a big project.
572.
by dwb 14y ago
I use that screen behaviour for panes: bind C-a last-pane but last-window exists too.
573.
by dwb 14y ago
Yes it is a way forward, as explained in the blog post under the section "Why?". And there is clearly unintentional restriction, otherwise we wouldn't need this in the first place.
574.
by dwb 14y ago
Why not use Base64-encoded random bytes? You can fit the same amount of random bits into a smaller ASCII representation. Not a big issue, I know, but hey. Here's Ruby's: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/securerandom/rdo...
575.
by dwb 14y ago
I have the spacebar as my <leader>: doesn't clobber a useful mapping and much easier to hit than '\'.
576.
by dwb 14y ago
I can easily imagine someone saying that. What is happening to language? Only the same thing that has happened to it for thousands of years. Language changes and evolves – inevitably, constantly, and in my opinion, beautifully.
577.
by dwb 14y ago
It's not pedantry when a significant proportion of people on Earth are affected by at least one of these falsehoods. Obviously it's very difficult to design a system that doesn't fall foul of any of these, but we could at least strive for b
578.
by dwb 14y ago
A git repository doesn't have to be public, though you do have to pay for private repositories on GitHub. GitHub is great for the "network effects" of it having a lot of developers on there, maybe wanting to help out with your (public) soft
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by dwb 14y ago
The importance of source control (git, svn, mercurial etc etc) is not as keenly felt by a solo developer, but imagine doing what you do in a team of developers, all trying to SFTP their own copy of the code to a server. Unworkable. Once you
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by dwb 14y ago
The right answer I'd bet, is, as it so often is, "yes and no." Both this and "The Best" are extreme points of view, and extremes never strike me as particularly realistic. There's a happy medium for pretty much everything. I've never found
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by dwb 15y ago
If you steal an apple from someone, you are depriving the owner of that apple. If you, say, download a film, you are not depriving the copyright owner of anything at all – it is a copy of information. Whether or not you should have paid for