ibdknox

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Light Table is in YCS12(chris-granger.com)
401 points by ibdknox 14y ago|96 comments
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Done. :) It'll go out before the kickstarter is done. I'm trying to finish it up in the next 10ish days.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Yeah, no money is actually exchanged until the funding period closes.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
I'm inclined to agree. You cannot beat Vim and Emacs as editors... the key is to play a game they can't. I mean to show some examples of that with the next demo :)
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by ibdknox 14y ago
It will absolutely be open source. You just didn't read the FAQ ;)
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by ibdknox 14y ago
We'll definitely be working something out with him. :)
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by ibdknox 14y ago
I've been a little quiet lately as I've been working on the next demo before the end of the Kickstarter. Based on the reactions I've gotten so far, I think you guys are in for a treat :)
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by ibdknox 14y ago
even with Light Table it's been a bit of a battle fighting that mentality. I think that's why the physical products are doing so well - it feels like a natural "shopping" experience where what you get is tangible.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
I actually did that the day after it was launched :)
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by ibdknox 15y ago
The backends can be written in any language that has support for TCP and JSON. :) Forcing people to write parsers/analyzers/etc in a language other than the host is bound for failure in the long run. That, however, is a subject for a later
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I'm curious myself... I didn't do it.
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I agree. My first proof point is getting to where I'm moderately productive writing Light Table in itself. That should provide the bare necessities and ensure that I'm focusing on the right things instead of features that happen to seem coo
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by ibdknox 15y ago
Dynamically multilingual is a good way of putting it. Editors can, for the most part, serve a single set of features to many different languages, but something like an environment has a much harder time doing that. Context matters. Really t
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On concepts and realities(chris-granger.com)
168 points by ibdknox 15y ago|40 comments
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by ibdknox 15y ago
yeah, It's not clear to me what their criteria could possibly be. Their own employees seemed to have scored decently well, while heavy weights did terrible. I didn't even make their first tier at < 10k
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I'm a huge vim guy, and killed me to use the mouse as much as I did in the video. The real thing will be shortcuttable to your heart's content :) And all the standard things you would expect to work (like the ones you describe) will definit
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I've also sent KS mail about seeing if they can merge the rewards. We'll see what happens.
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I agree - I'm pretty disappointed in kickstarter's tools. Here's a rough guideline: Earliest access - August 2012 Pre beta - October 2012 early beta - Decemeber 2012 Official Beta - late January 2013 Launch - May 2013
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by ibdknox 15y ago
Just added this update: EDIT: Also, these changes will take effect for everyone who has already pledged at these levels. Though if you could, please switch - if the old ones have 0 pledges I can delete them. Unfortunately I can't change the
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I would argue few are as ambitious either. To put this into perspective, the VS team is numbered in the thousands. We're talking a small team, but a team nonetheless, and it's hard to imagine being able to keep a team together for a year at
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I couldn't change them even if I wanted to now that money is involved. But I think looking at this as buying something is also inaccurate. Ultimately kickstarter is a way of helping things turn into a reality - not a place to shop. It's bas
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by ibdknox 15y ago
I just added this: And why should we believe you can deliver? I've been programming professionally for 8 years, during which I've built websites large and small (puma.com, newbalance.com, etc), helped design the future of Visual Studio, and
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by ibdknox 15y ago
Python will come in at $300k, but one thing to keep in mind is that it is a highly extensible and completely open platform. There's no reason we have to be the ones to add support for all languages.
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by ibdknox 15y ago
Clarification on the closed source plugins: That bit of text was misleading, the plugins that would be closed source are not the ones that would result immediately from this project, but instead domain specific plugins that wouldn't have br
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by ibdknox 15y ago
Just added this to the description: If we hit $300k, Python will be the third language to be supported out of the gate.
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by ibdknox 15y ago
It is all of those things :)
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by ibdknox 15y ago
It'll take more than just me. It'll be a team effort.
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by ibdknox 15y ago
It'll support windows/linux/mac
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by ibdknox 15y ago
It is - look at the questions at the bottom.
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by ibdknox 15y ago
This was the thing I was worried about. Both in terms of the cost in time, shipping, and materials. That being said, if people really want t-shirts we'll find another, better way to make that happen :D

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