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by gecko 14y ago
Good news: the startup time is largely fixed on PowerShell 3 (Windows 8). Most of that startup time ends up being PowerShell trying to load all of the snapins on your system--and you can have a LOT of them if you're a developer, since ther
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by gecko 14y ago
His name is Taco. He's a very gentle dog, although (as my fiancée discovered) one who moves like a bullet if you happen to be holding a bagel and lox and let your guard down.
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by gecko 14y ago
Android support is on the way, and already in beta: https://trello.com/card/android-app/4d5ea62fd76aa1136000000c...
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by gecko 14y ago
If you're ever curious, the Trello board for Trello is public: https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa113... I mention that because a vastly saner export tool that's highly newbie-friendly is outlined at https://trello.
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by gecko 14y ago
It's going to be around in six months, things that are currently free are going to remain that way, and we're not adding ads; I'll let you draw an inference on the monetization. I actually thought the Trello team had made that clear, but I
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by gecko 14y ago
On OS X, your best bet for a newsgroup reader is Unison ( http://panic.com/unison/ ), which quite honestly beat the snot out of Thunderbird for that purpose a long time ago. I don't have good recommendations for the other two systems, t
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by gecko 14y ago
Could someone explain to me why NeXT Software/NeXT Computer is listed as a co-plaintiff, on a lawsuit that was only recently filed? Did Apple and NeXT not fully merge in some capacity? As-is, this would be like reading Attachmate, Inc., N
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by gecko 14y ago
The Python side's actually really easy and well-supported: Python can run code from a zipfile, so tools like `py2exe` or `pyinstaller` get you down to Python interpreter + zipfile. That's two files, but only two files. I don't know if the
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by gecko 14y ago
I love PowerShell dearly, and I miss it on Unix systems, but what this is trying to fix, and what still stinks at the moment, is the command-line editing situation in Console, which has nothing to do with PowerShell v. Bash v. cmd.exe.
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by gecko 14y ago
> > default to HTML escaping on output > ??? Is that a joke? Don't do that! That's just as bad as magic quotes. Microsoft's Razor and Python's Django templates have both shown that HTML-escaping-by-default can be c
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by gecko 14y ago
I don't think it has parity, for all of the reasons halgari noted, but I really don't feel that it offers much over F#, either. F# is a very solid answer to Clojure in all ways except macros: it solves similar problems in the same problem
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by gecko 14y ago
Got it. I misunderstood how the hybrid part worked.
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by gecko 14y ago
Well, they kind of are. When OS X came out (both the Mac OS X Server 1.0 and Mac OS X 10.0 varieties), the UI might have looked different, but you were basically running OPENSTEP 5 with a new coat of paint. Haiku could do a new theme fai
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by gecko 14y ago
No code was kept from BeOS except for a few high-level components that were open-sourced while Be was still around (e.g., the Tracker). I've general found the new code to be high quality whenever I've delved into it, but I have only ever r
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by gecko 14y ago
I don't quite follow your last point, unless you're mocking wxWidgets. Qt doesn't require you to jump to the C++11 bandwagon, unless you want to. In fact, that post even explicitly highlighted how the old signals and slots will continue
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by gecko 14y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to say that Microsoft has "screwed up" every technology they've had a hand in. Ajax, notably, is a Microsoft invention. What I do think is a fair statement is that Microsoft has historically been slavishly backwards
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by gecko 14y ago
It's a 2200-word document written by someone whose native language isn't English, and there is a single verb that doesn't agree with its subject. Since that's the only actual complaint you appear to have about the document, I'll assume you
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by gecko 14y ago
The first 80% of getting that working is surprisingly easy; the last 80% is surprisingly hard. I programmed in Smalltalk for years. Smalltalk has similar issues: dynamic typing, dynamic method generation/handling via #doesNotUnderstand:, a
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by gecko 14y ago
Learn Python 2 first, since it's vastly more supported right now, but know that it's very easy to jump between Python 2 and Python 3, and many people do. The decision of which to use on any particular project is basically: 1. Are you d
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by gecko 14y ago
That's also my guess, which I indicated elsewhere in the thread. I'm definitely withholding judgment until we get a wee bit closer to the release date and have a better idea what Microsoft's actually trying to accomplish here. The lack of
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by gecko 14y ago
Proposition E is actually in line with his point: if you read the article, WinRT development remains free. It's Win32 development only that now requires a paid Visual Studio license. So, in essence, what I read the original poster as sa
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by gecko 14y ago
If you read the article, you will find that MS is currently declining to ship compilers as part of the Windows 8 SDK, which is why Ars is so concerned. But I'd also point out that Visual Studio Express 2010 is indeed free, and far more fle
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by gecko 14y ago
I agree with Ars that the VisualStudio changes are bad, but is there any confirmation that the SDK change isn't temporary/won't have an official solution by the time of shipping? Microsoft has distributed the C++ compiler for years ; it'd
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by gecko 14y ago
.NET on Unix can be a really pleasant experience, to be honest (I'm even working on a blog post.NET on Unix), but as much as I think it could be awesome for a start-up, I do not currently believe that it's a viable option for a conservati
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by gecko 14y ago
There's a big difference, though: in C#, you can't accidentally mask a base-class function; you have to do so explicitly. If you fail to tell the compiler whether you're overriding, hiding, or replacing, then it's a compilation error. Tha
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by gecko 14y ago
On the one hand, I get that. On the other hand, many of the people who frequent the site where this is getting prominence use Vim, which is (admittedly indirectly, via vi) a 30-year-old product at this point. I'd hope that we could rise a
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by gecko 14y ago
Not really. StatusNet has (private, if desired) groups, photo uploads, events, URL sharing, and (on a local install, not on identi.ca) arbitrary-length status updates. I guess it's closer to the defunct Pownce than either Twitter or Faceb
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by gecko 14y ago
I don't get the fascination with Diaspora. StatusNet is distributed, open, easy to set up, established, and extensible, and already has a large number of users (e.g. on identi.ca). What does this bring to the table? Newness?
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Don't be a cargo-cult debugger(bitquabit.com)
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by gecko 14y ago
Could someone please summarize which of LibreOffice or OpenOffice is more useful to follow and why?

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