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by gravity 18y ago
I'm in the process of switching from vim to emacs right now. It's frustrating, although viper-mode takes a lot of the pain away, and to be honest I find it a really nice combination to have the vi editing modality readily available within t
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by gravity 18y ago
Pick one that's generally associated with web stuff. That's pretty much Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, and PHP these days. Take a look at all of them on the surface level to see what's interesting to you, and just pick one and go. Given that you
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by gravity 18y ago
The comments show that the article author presents a false dichotomy. All the data collection and analysis depends on models. Then from that analysis you get new models and do new analyses. This is how science works, whether you have tons a
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by gravity 18y ago
My girlfriend bought one when the price fell also. She adores it. It's been practically glued to her hand for the past few weeks.
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by gravity 18y ago
OSX would fail completely without free software. BSD is the subsystem, their browser is based on konqueror's html engine, they rely on cups for printing, samba for file sharing with windows... the list goes on and on. What's important about
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by gravity 18y ago
It's actually a very difficult space to compete in. Having worked on major desktop-related infrastructure for a major linux distro, I've got real experience on this one. It's a decidedly non-trivial task. Back when linux was "cool" (when wa
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by gravity 18y ago
Nothing has failed yet. You act like the project is over and done with. It's not. Linux has conquered pretty much every single space but the desktop. This is a huge success, especially when ten years ago it was exciting to read about any co
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by gravity 18y ago
Not yet, I've looked at it a bit but haven't looked in to browser compatability at all.
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by gravity 18y ago
Is there any word on whether other browsers will be implementing this in the future? It's what's keeping me from using canvas today, and partially what's keeping me from writing a certain app I've been thinking about for a little while.