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by goldfeld 13y ago
Free isn't cheaper than cheap. Framing it as "Scholarship" puts a very intentional spin that it's meant to support (or even invest in) people who need it most. Letting people set their prices would just decrease the serv
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by goldfeld 13y ago
cowcatcher, you're hellbanned. As for your question: "If you want typesafe functional programming on the JVM, why not just use Scala?" Well, because some people like Clojure and Scala doesn't have enough parentheses.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Perhaps it's something to do with particular makes of the drug, but I've also had my worst nightmares while on it, and the words GP used are spot on for me. My mom, aunt and other members of my family had similar experiences and w
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Yeah, that's like saying Python sucks for scripting because all your work in the REPL won't be saved. Goes both ways.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Just like the internet, right? A great philantropic endeavour planned for all. Get real, real research doesn't happen in a vacuum, it happens for profit or some advantage. And then it trickles down not because the research funders pass
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I have no problems with the GPL or releasing software under it. But if I'm also using MIT code, should I simply release the result as GPL? And could I upgrade that up to an AGPL (which the outliner could have used, being serviceable on
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I'm sorry but git is not "worth nothing," it's just that it's a public good and doesn't belong to anyone to sell, hence it has no market value. But consider how much software companies would pay not to have git
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by goldfeld 13y ago
You seem to be an otherwise great guy with insightful comments and writings[1] that I occasionaly see on elsethreads. But as soon as a vim post hits the frontpage here you are to rehash the same authority fallacies, brag about having used a
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I was about to use https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs to get cross-browser content script injection but it would not be in the least easy to setup for users. This completely supplants that need for my use case. I have be
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Haven't tried it yet, but this looks related to Firefox Junior[1] and the reason over which the product designer behind the initial idea got sued by Opera (since he came up with it while consulting on and off for Opera independently[2]
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by goldfeld 13y ago
There's also Chrome Packaged Apps.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Relatedly, I'm looking for Javascript checksum implementations, especially sum24 or any other good 24bit hashing algorithm, and I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know of canonical hashing implementations for CRC and checksum (
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by goldfeld 13y ago
"What's more, it's about the most portable operating system ever." So browsers and ECMAScript are the new EMACS. Looks about right.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think usually the draw of a nicer keyboard, if you do it right, is not in speed but in saving your hands from having serious problems down the road. Problems which could seriously end up costing you tens of thousands of dollars if you typ
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Yeah I'm sure the internet is a great place in which to plug our brains, what with all the collection going on. Last thing I want is for all this nightmare to become unopt-out-able.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Yeah calibre was a boon back in my Sony reader years. Plus Kovid (the project creator) is a really great and helpful guy. Dang it's been a while, good old times hanging around the MobileRead.com forums. The real shame is I've most
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I've been entertaining the idea of vim with Guile for a few weeks now, but I figure I need to compile it since I couldn't find any distribution for that.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Credit cards for sure, I suppose many are international too so americans can easily get our money. It's the other way around that's tricky, setting up a SaaS from here and getting a payout. PayPal is here so they work with Brazili
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Well it seems their "World" doesn't include Latin America, same as all the other shiny new solutions, so PayPal and BitCoin are still the only game in town down here in Brazil.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
If I have a VM in the browser can I run.. vim in the browser? My customized instance and all that? Or maybe this wouldn't be too feasible for io-heavy uses?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Any chance that is open source or at least you'd be willing to post a bit of a tutorial on your setup, on getting that up with node, nginx and redis? Maybe you're using containers? Nice job!
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I upvoted pretty much every other comment of yours, and the discussion thread is indeed good, but I downvoted the top-level because you decided to focus on certain aspects (mostly negative) and I disagree that such focus is warranted for th
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I downvoted you because though I think your post is helpful, there's a lot of unnecessary negativity and it overwhelms the good. Point being, this is a really interesting project and they are showing an implementation of Jekyll in node
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I have been wanting to keep daily portraits of myself but never get around to it because it seems like more hassle than good to insert yet one more habit into my day that I have to remind myself to do. This actually solves it brilliantly by
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I can completely see why Adobe (Edge Code/Brackets) and Mozilla want this. It's a missing piece for coding completely in the browser. But I think it goes way beyond this, and once people start playing around with having git sandbo
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by goldfeld 13y ago
That sounds enticing, but I think you could never rewind the state of the Earth without considering the variables external to it. If you couldn't also simulate anything that could alter the course of events, such as exposure to the Sun
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by goldfeld 13y ago
On the Great Filter, there was a discussion here about an excellent essay on the matter by Nick Bostrom, which I summarized in a comment[1] and extended the thinking. Still haven't read the one linked this time. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Still, and I don't mean to bash your work, I think this is a disservice to the internet because it perpetuates cloud tools and keeps the state-of-the-art even for something as personal as journaling in the cloud. That's a very, ve
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think I should actively play out my brain's "grass is always greener" mechanism against itself more. When I'm working out I also keep having ideas about work and wanting to work, and when I'm sat down I feel like
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I rather prefer the idea of unplugging from the internet once a week. Some of my best hackings have been done without internet access. Aboard a flight comes to mind. Just me, vim and the terminal. But then of course, either a deep knowledge

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