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by gecko 15y ago
As I said: I can understand Marco wanting to pay. I didn't like my meal, Marco did, and he should feel free to give a great tip. I'm focused on the people who are saying that Macromates should charge users for the upgrade they said would
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by gecko 15y ago
I have a lot of trouble understanding this mentality. I totally get paying when you don't have to in order to support fellow developers. I've got a nice collection of apps on my phone and desktop, all purchased, that I've acquired over the
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by gecko 15y ago
Those figures are being provided because they were measured, but they are within the expected experimental error for the device.
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by gecko 15y ago
And Xbox runs the Windows kernel and .NET on PowerPC.
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by gecko 15y ago
Just to clarify: my "it appears to be there" was in reference to the WinRT-powered DX11.1 in Windows 8. Your experience sounds exactly like why I wouldn't be doing anything vaguely low-level in C# in Windows 7 or earlier.
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by gecko 15y ago
I'm not a DirectX developer, but it looks to me like I've got huge swaths of DirectSound directly available from C#. I can check something specific, if you'd like.
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by gecko 15y ago
I think you're looking at it wrong. Let me walk you through what I see/saw as someone who's been an active Linux, Windows, and Mac user since about 1996. In 1993, I'd write a Windows 3.1 app with Win16, a Mac app with the Mac Toolbox, and
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by gecko 15y ago
IE 10 is a pretty solid browser. It's fast, it covers huge swaths of CSS3 including animations, hyphenations, transforms, and more, it supports HTML5 very well. In fact, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript are a fully supported way to write full-
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by gecko 15y ago
If it were me, needing to be at every location would have been a major factor contributing to this change. Part of Joel's shtick for DevDays was that he showed how proper project management and source control (via FogBugz and Kiln) could re
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by gecko 15y ago
The only thing I don't quite grok is that, as the complexity of a given bash script increases, it moves ever-closer to looking exactly like the well-written-by-90s-standards Perl I remember from when I was just learning Unix. Given that Per
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by gecko 15y ago
That is...really off-topic. For what it's worth: I agree. I hate the StackExchange, and I want to get rid of it. But our support team is extremely serious about fixing it, cleaning it up, keeping it up-to-date, and using it as a platform
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Let your interns do real development(blog.fogcreek.com)
5 points by gecko 15y ago|0 comments
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by gecko 15y ago
That's our hunch, at least for now. I doubt that the code screen is somehow gender-biased, but I'm certainly not going to reach that conclusion with a sample size of 21.
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by gecko 15y ago
The superficial answer is that Riak, unlike Redis, is a cluster, where you may wish to talk to multiple servers, and therefore having a single-string constructor makes no sense. I believe they're modeling it after the way you configure the
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by gecko 15y ago
The "--depth" argument to git-clone, as of 1.7, produces a read-only repository, which rather defeats the point.
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by gecko 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. There are a few schools ("good" ones!) that we get a fair number of applicants from where I've learned to just ignore applicants' GPAs when evaluating them, because they're inflated to the point of being useless. Th
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by gecko 15y ago
We've basically got it completely working without Kiln at this point. Just grab the latest Kiln BFiles version at https://developers.kilnhg.com/Repo/Kiln/Group/Unstable , and you play around and let us know what you think. Note that, whi
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by gecko 15y ago
...what? Moller got sued halfway to China, is bankrupt, and never shipped, and this is not Moller's car, nor does it use anything approaching the same design, nor does it share the same goal. Moller's car was about making flying as easy as
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by gecko 15y ago
I was wondering about that. But that's something Apple got right, and that HP needs to fix immediately: if your product demos--of great products, no less--are jittery and laggy, then you have a problem. Not that I honestly feel the situati
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by gecko 15y ago
Para enseñar se requiere de experiencia con lo que uno sabe. I assumed that the lack of experience with Node.js would at least somewhat preclude teaching its best usages. On the other hand, what the fuck do I know. I'm a Smalltalk develop
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by gecko 15y ago
Given that Khan is hosted entirely on App Engine, I wouldn't count on a Node.js-specific tutorial series starting any time soon, but JavaScript in general is possible.
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by gecko 15y ago
Fair enough, so let me remind anyone who wants a very thin OS for embedded x86 applications that FreeDOS ( http://www.freedos.org/ ) is a great DOS for the purpose.
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Cache me if you can(bitquabit.com)
33 points by gecko 15y ago|1 comments
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by gecko 15y ago
They've added lexical scoping in trunk in a fully backwards-compatible way; it wouldn't be hard to do namespaces and a "nicer Lisp" (by which I'm assuming you mean Guile?) in a similar manner. That said, the number of people who hate on Eli
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by gecko 15y ago
I'm with you. Making Vim look pretty involves adding ":color <whatever>" to your .vimrc. Making Emacs look pretty involves installing color-theme, hopefully compiling it so it doesn't take forever to load, editing your .emacs.d/ini
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by gecko 15y ago
Has anyone used this enough to tell me why it'd be a better pick than Lamson ( http://lamsonproject.org/ )? Web servers, unlike web servers, don't strike me as an arena where async is very useful.
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by gecko 15y ago
Oh, no question. That's part of why Mercurial is so close to Git in terms of speed, despite Git being hyper-optimized C and Mercurial being Python. But so far, this has always come up when I'm doing one-off, or nearly one-off, stuff. Gettin
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by gecko 15y ago
I think this may be specific to Google's situation--at least for now. PyPI may not be as comprehensive as CPAN, but it's rare these days that I can't "pip install" my way into having half the solution done before I start writing code. The
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by gecko 15y ago
I've been enjoying using Go as a C replacement when I need more performance than Python, but don't actually need to use C. It's been fine for that purpose. I would note that they do keep changing the syntax on a fairly regular basis, the
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by gecko 15y ago
Fossil's solution to that are private branches and stashes. That said, I'm with you in preferring rebasing for this kind of thing. (And I'm not even a Git user; I'm pretty wedded to Mercurial.)

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