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by dwc 11y ago
It's been known for a long time that much of evolution happens in spurts. When the environment is fairly stable evolution is a slow refinement toward local maxima. When the environment changes there's much more selection pressure
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by dwc 11y ago
> RMS speaks to an older generation of hackers; even though he should be heeded by the young, I doubt he is. I'm part of an older generation, and I view RMS largely as a crank. Yes, some of his ideas are valid and some of his warnin
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by dwc 11y ago
I have not. I got interested in Light Table, but it quickly became obvious that their focus was too divergent from what I consider useful. I really have no interest in an editor built on web technologies. I find some things outright weird,
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by dwc 11y ago
> upload to a website not youtube I haven't dug into the details, but both the player[1] and the website[2] code are available so it should be possible to set up your own website if you like. 1. https://github.com/as
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by dwc 11y ago
> you can do it on the dark side of the moon Every time someone says dark side of the moon a lunar geologist kicks a kitten. Far side , please. It's only dark half the time, when the near side is lit. :)
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by dwc 11y ago
Agreed. Me, too. I just wanted to point out that customization is pretty much required for success.
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by dwc 11y ago
Like so many things, there is no single correct answer. For myself, if I focus on diet and not worry about exercise I find that I have to eat very little if I want to lose more than a few pounds. So little that I'm miserable all the
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by dwc 11y ago
Maybe it's going nowhere because nobody really wants to have all their things become agents working for someone else (best case) or be exploited and cause massive grief (worst case). I'd much rather have an INTRAnet of things, whe
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by dwc 11y ago
> getting started guides are excellent This is very true. I had just started playing with Elixir and had pre-ordered Dave Thomas' Programming Elixir and was going through the draft ebook, and I actually set that aside and worked t
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by dwc 11y ago
Takk
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by dwc 11y ago
Etter å ha lært litt norsk det plager meg også.
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by dwc 11y ago
Interesting observations. As a counterpoint, there are a couple of roundabouts between here (Phoenix) and Las Vegas, notable both because there's often fairly heavy traffic and that almost everyone on the road is from elsewhere (and th
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by dwc 11y ago
It does not have to be. Go ahead and use nice proportional fonts and never looks back. There are certainly no shortage of them that are high quality and easy on the eyes. But for the rest of us, having a fixed width font is as important as
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by dwc 11y ago
> Emacsophobia may be irrational I used emacs for about 10 years. Then I switched to vim, and I have no intention of switching back. It's not a phobia, it's a rational realization that modal editing fits well with how I do edit
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State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem(eudoxia.me)
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by dwc 11y ago
It's less about prescriptive vs. descriptive linguistics and more about people trying to make what they're doing sound more awesome than it is. The dilution of terms is an unfortunate side effect.
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by dwc 11y ago
Devolution/devaluation seems very common now. I'm not sure if it's my perspective or if it's really worse that it used to be. Some examples: * ROM: something you download and install on your Android phone (as opposed to
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by dwc 11y ago
I think reducing keystrokes is a proxy metric for reducing the time and cognitive load of accomplishing an editing task. It's easy to measure, and probably good enough to tell if you're getting anywhere, qualitatively. I don'
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by dwc 11y ago
I do play, though not as much in the past year or so. I think there's intersection between chess and programming skill sets, but not significantly more or less than anything else using logic and attention to detail.
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by dwc 11y ago
In my personal experience (fwiw), people who try vim and don't get it either 1) just don't want/need what vim offers, or 2) don't approach it with the "vim is an editing language" approach. If you're in th
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by dwc 11y ago
> or replaced it with git Thank you so much for that. The irony is delicious.
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by dwc 11y ago
> Sure, maybe desktops, but everybody I know has a laptop and uses them a lot for certain tasks (some of which have been superceded by their mobile, addmittedly). Exactly. Some few tasks have migrated to mobile, and more will follow. But
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by dwc 11y ago
More than that, I'm guessing that it also shone some light on those physical realities and therefore advanced the field in general. Maybe not in a big way, but much of science, technology and manufacturing is build of many small advanc
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by dwc 11y ago
As someone who made the switch to safety razors, I have to say that with practice the shaving time gets within a few minutes of cartridge shaving. Cartridge shaving was taking me about 5 minutes, and I've gotten safety razor shaving do
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by dwc 11y ago
I friend of mine who has dabbled in C for years is still pretty scared of it. He loves Go. He's gotten Go into production where he works. I think there are a lot of people like him.
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by dwc 11y ago
The way I read it, he meant that Go is not a great language. Go is "boring" as a language. However, it actually is a great programming tool. Great as defined by how long it takes to write module X, how well module X performs
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by dwc 11y ago
Not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about, but waaay back they did a license change for their language products that said something along the lines of anything produced with their compilers belonged to them. There was a
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by dwc 11y ago
Good advice, gramps! I've also been using vim for 10 or 15 years. I typically use a couple of plugins (1-3) and that's it. I leave the key bindings alone. I've never liked vimscript and have only done a few things there. Luck
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by dwc 11y ago
Hver gang.
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by dwc 11y ago
> I just read this stuff on Wikipedia. Same here. I've also read up on a lot of different designs, and have been paying attention for a while now. There are a couple of points that have occurred to me about wind power. 1) Most suppo

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