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by gkya 6y ago
That's supposed to have gotten better but yeah, IIRC I dabbled in Go about five or six years ago and that was one of the big headaches, together with the whole $GOPATH thing.
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by gkya 6y ago
D is featureful and harmonious but it's inevitably complex. With Go, you learn the grammar in one or two days and from then on almost all you'll ever need is the library docs. It has a Scheme-like quality in that aspect, but it c
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by gkya 6y ago
I find soft-wrapping code pretty tedious, so even with huge screens IMHO indeed breaking around 80-100 (accounting also for indentation) is nice. BTW I recently go a 24" screen (I was all about laptops, turns out I was torturing myself
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by gkya 6y ago
It's for organisation of information and it's an Emacs "mode". It's as much "emacs with some configuration tweaks" as VS Code is "chromium, with slightly improved <textarea>". W.r.t. the go
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by gkya 6y ago
It's cute how you resolve (!) a debate that encompasses linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, neurology, and maybe a couple other sciences with a single link to some TED talk.
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by gkya 6y ago
There's r/linguistics, tho quality content and well-intentioned participants are limited. Y'know, general reddit things. There are some other subdiscipline specific subreddits too, tho all fairly small. This is a multireddit
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by gkya 6y ago
I'm only a lowly master's student so I don't have a good hold of all literature, and pragmatics & discourse aren't really my forte, so I think I'd rather refer you to a great resource: the Handbook of Linguistic
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by gkya 6y ago
Linguistics explores these phenomena from many directions, via it's subdisciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, semantics, and even syntax. A couple well known things the field mostly agrees: there are no real synonyms, in the
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by gkya 6y ago
The primary intended purpose of a gun is to wound or kill humans or animals. You _can_ kill people with a kitchen knife, just like you can with a beer bottle or with your hands. Not exactly the same thing tho, is it?
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by gkya 6y ago
On top of what others said, I also like youtube-dl + mpv because it consumes a fraction of the memory Firefox + one YT tab consumes. My main browser is Qutebrowser where I don't login to Google stuff, for which I use a Firefox profile
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by gkya 6y ago
Something like Org mode is only possible in something like Emacs tho.
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by gkya 6y ago
> For one, all the keyboard shortcuts and commands that you have to learn > Second, it feels like you have to spend a lot of time to set it all up. You learn a subset that's relevant to you. Also there is which-key which helps _a
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by gkya 6y ago
My anecdotal 2 cents: I haven't learned about a single product by targeted advertising in a long long time, if ever. Vast majority, if not all, of targeted ads I've seen are about things I've seen already: I check some produc
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by gkya 6y ago
> Are they using machines from before 2010 and some system resources is a limiting factor? This is the most annoying thing with developers: many of them believe that a normal laptop from around 2010 is "underpowered" and everyb
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by gkya 7y ago
What are some good resources for a quick intro to modern C++? I'm somewhat interested in Qt development and C++ seems inevitable in that environment.
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by gkya 7y ago
I am sure an update will be pushed quickly. I'm waiting too, as a testing user. You can fix this temporarily via setting "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false. Toggle it back to true once update is released and you insta
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by gkya 7y ago
TIL, thanks!
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by gkya 7y ago
Use menus. The menus are really handy for discovery. Many I see disable them (the menu-bar-mode), but it doesn't take up more than about a line, and I go to it to discover what interesting bits a mode has or to find some functionalit
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by gkya 8y ago
I did not do that anywhere, especially in the comment you're responding to. It's Hickey who attempts to make such claim, not me.
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by gkya 8y ago
> you should feel bad > start with a little humility > Recommended reading Good god. I just remember why I stopped participating in this place. Please read that book you yourself first before name dropping it.
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by gkya 8y ago
I do not think it's fair or correct to confine Open Source to that definition the last paragraphy of your comment implies. It may only be a subset of Open source. ASF itself defines what it does as Open Source. What's described
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by gkya 8y ago
While the message is partially kind of correct, the delivery lacks everything that's humane. > The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement
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by gkya 8y ago
Add to that the fact that while the Unix way works well for connecting certain types of programs through pipelines and/or shell scripts, those programs themselves are written usually in C or Perl, Python &c, which are languages tha
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by gkya 8y ago
Yes, that's what I do, and thats what the word "but" after the part you quoted indicates. If gatekeeping is bad, not checking who's passing through those gates when they're wide open is worse.
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by gkya 8y ago
> Is it the Github-ization of package creation and maintenance? Is it the pervasiveness of left-pad style packages? Is it npm's governance? Is it the community's perspective and culture? A nasty combination of all of those, pro
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by gkya 8y ago
That's a big and totally objective reason to abandom the Node.js/NPM ecosystem, like its original author did. A language that doesn't have a decent standard library means that you'll have to use huge amounts of code that
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by gkya 8y ago
> Especially given that Dominic maintains hundreds of packages > maintains hundreds of packages > hundreds How can a single human reasonably and responsably do this? This number alone demonstrates how sloppy and inept the Node.js
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by gkya 8y ago
I use all of the three language in my day-to-day computer usage (i.e. I have scripts in each one of them), and I don't think Python or Ruby really replaces Perl 5 at what it's doing good: being a very powerful Unix citizen. Perl
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by gkya 8y ago
All of that hate and criticism was an idiotic logorrhoea fed by absolute ignorance of his art. Like him or not, Erdogan is a major phenomenon in contemporary Turkey, and every single person is affected by him; a photojournalist can't
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by gkya 8y ago
That's one of the most elaborate manifestations of ignorance I've came across on internet. Kudos for that! Apparently you don't even know what you're comparing. In none of MacOS, Windows, Android or iOS is there a sepa

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