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by gerbal 13y ago
Right now it seems like Nitrous's team is really focused on improving stability. And with the apparent rapid growth in scale, that's important. You are certainly right about the need to improve the editor. While the minimalism is
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by gerbal 13y ago
I think the strongest use-case is in education and for novice programmers trying to learn a language and a web-framework. Not for easing on-boarding in any size company other than a startup.
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by gerbal 13y ago
Nitrous used to be Action.io. The editor is still lacking features, but responsiveness has improved. Right now the Nitrous team seems more interested in expanding supported tool chains and languages than in improving the IDE experience.
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by gerbal 13y ago
I've been using Nitrous.io to teach an intro to python class for non-programmers (librarians, management, other "Information Professionals"). It's fantastic to be able to get everyone on the same page and same developme
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by gerbal 13y ago
As an American a strongly regional American Midwestern or Rural Canadian would probably be pretty nice. weird enough that it just sounds odd rather than machine-ey.
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by gerbal 13y ago
Is it really "now with pair programming" when the software hasn't been released? Wouldn't it be "Atom: Eventually with pair programming"?
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by gerbal 13y ago
Good, any incredible result should be doubted until it can be replicated.
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by gerbal 13y ago
Google became popular because of their excellent performance on the long tail. Yes ~30% of all queries are for the same 50 search terms, but 50% are unique or nearly unique queries.
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by gerbal 13y ago
Because even educated people aren't educated in every area of knowledge. Your average American newspaper reader doesn't know too much about Ukraine. That's not a good or a bad things, just a fact. Much like I don't expec
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by gerbal 13y ago
The government of Ukraine doesn't have enough money to pay its debts. It needs to borrow money to pay its debts or default.
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by gerbal 13y ago
I'd never though I'd say this, but 320x240 may be enough resolution. Especially at 3.5 inches and for hobbyist projects. All the projects I can think of to use this are for simple notification-style display and maybe one finger in
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by gerbal 13y ago
If you have the option writing it to look for instances of US blocking that only incidentally finds local censorship may give you some ass-coverage.
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by gerbal 13y ago
It's closer to 16% for the lowest quintile.
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by gerbal 13y ago
This guy seems like yet another smart person who assumes themselves supremely rational and really is just bad at coping with their emotions. As you said, running any successful enterprise depends on being aware of your emotions, your custom
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by gerbal 13y ago
Given that it is first and foremost my device, or at least a UI oriented at me, I shouldn't have to go inside my self to find my stuff. People centric design is great if all you do is communicate with a set group of people, however if
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by gerbal 13y ago
The Affordances of paper are quite significant. We're still years, maybe decades, away from digital technology as easy to use, as intuitive, and adaptable as paper.
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by gerbal 13y ago
Unless of course there are 10,000 Freds and only 1000 jobs like Fred's.
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by gerbal 13y ago
"To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape" * Sun Tzu(544-496 BC), The art of war. >This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object, as Tu Mu puts it, is "to make him believe that the
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by gerbal 13y ago
More than half of those are either totally gone or have been quietly rolled into other projects.
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by gerbal 13y ago
Jan 1 is a entirely arbitrary demarcation that's not actually terribly useful to the way we actually experience time and the year. IMO a better place would be one of the solstices or equinoxes (I'm partial to the spring equinox).