irahul

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by irahul 14y ago
> You've quite obviously never tried to code anything in vimscript, have an axe to grind with Python, or are Tim Pope All your claims are preposterous. I have coded in Vimscript, I use Python and have no axe to grind; and I am not Tim P
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by irahul 14y ago
> So what kind of stuff do you program inside of it? What kinds of problems do you solve? It's not always about programming. It's about configuring and extending to suit it to your problem. Pylinting and running python code. ,c(mapped t
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by irahul 14y ago
If you are familiar with vim, install gundo.vim and enjoy traversing your undo tree.
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by irahul 14y ago
> You can use proportional fonts (I use Verdana) Vim uses what my terminal uses. No ideas if my terminal(terminator) allows proportional fonts, but I always have used monospaced. Proportional looks ugly to me when it comes to code. &#62
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by irahul 14y ago
> Everyone who has used vi(m) has copied and pasted text in while in command mode and done who knows what. If you are using vim, you should play per vim rules. When you are entering text, you enter insert mode. When you are done, back
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by irahul 14y ago
> You can, it just makes some of Rails' niceties unnecessary. Views and "Controllers" are handled up front by backbone. You just need routing and models from Rails. backbone.js sends CRUD requests to rails app which are handled by the c
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by irahul 14y ago
> Gosh, I don't recall saying that he was my bitch. Really. Can you point out where I did? >> He wrote the first 3 books of his 7 book series at a normal pace, about every 18 months, but then slowed to a crawl for book 4 - somet
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by irahul 14y ago
> I can understand 0 and 1 being frequently used. But I wonder why 5,6 & 7 seem to be under-used compared to the other numbers? The heat map isn't accounting for shift. 5,6,7 also include %,^,&
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by irahul 14y ago
I guess all kind of publicity is good publicity, but I would count as early adapters and after reading 2 blog posts(this one and the one posted by them) and exploring their site, I have no idea what they do. I still don't see how "collabora
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by irahul 14y ago
> In fact, I sincerely think that Vim is the most efficient text editor out there. Nothing else comes close. The thing is, me personally, I am having more fun elsewhere, for reasons that have little to do with text editing performance.
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by irahul 14y ago
> Yea, tabs are a very useful feature in vim that many people don't seem to use. I know people that use the panes. I don't use tabs because I don't find them useful at all. If I need to see 2 files at once, split panes it is; if I am sw
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by irahul 14y ago
> can you include a glossary that connects all the marketing-slang to the common concepts that they represent? What you are calling "marketing slang" are actually "common concepts". The definition of common is highly context dependent.
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by irahul 14y ago
Injection by parameters(setters, constructor and simple params) has been in use much before DI became a fad. void qsort(void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, int(*compar)(const void *, const void *)) Here, `compar`
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by irahul 14y ago
> Was referring to urban ills rather than antiquated modes of transportation. I don't know if you are being sarcastic, or you are misinterpreting what I said. >> Yes, it does get worse than Chennai. Bullock cart might be the fas
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by irahul 14y ago
> Having stayed in Chennai and beyond, I can vouch that it can get a lot worse than Chennai. Yes, it does get worse than Chennai. Bullock cart might be the fastest vehicle in your village, but that isn't a compliment for the cart or the
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you are a girl from the north-east, India's capital is not a friendly place. Barring north-east, there aren't many places safe for north-eastern folks. At best, they deal with implicit and explicit harassment; at worse, violence an
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by irahul 14y ago
I was in Delhi a long time back(9 years), and when I came to Chennai, the Delhi buses started to look pleasant in comparison. The only buses which ran on the route my college was on were skewed to the side owing to the hanging passengers. I
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by irahul 14y ago
> Come on, that picture is more exception than the norm. The norm isn't too far from the exception. I spent 4 years in Chennai, and this was a common sight. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-4o_J8R8OVg/TIy3nfGUzdI/AAAAAAAAAo... Though I have
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by irahul 14y ago
> cleanliness, serving speed and courteous behavior. The author's definition of courtesy is very different from mine. When I am dining out, here are my expectations: 1. Let me settle down. Do not shove the menu in my face as soon as I p
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by irahul 14y ago
> Because gays suddenly want to take part in the antiquated, religious inspired ceremony of marriage? How about gays/lesbians want a part in health insurance, inheritance, and non-harassment for them and their children?
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by irahul 14y ago
>>Since most benchmarks are unscientific, this one is as good as any.<< >1) You seem to be using "unscientific" as a nothing more than an insult. More like preemptively declaring I don't want to deal with HN crowd replyi
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by irahul 14y ago
>> If they liked PHP so much, they would have used it. > Or they got tired of being bullied by people like you. Or they really aren't a fan of PHP? http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo...
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by irahul 14y ago
> I guess since benchmarks are not completely worthless, The original keeps getting re-iterated: http://programmingzen.com/2007/11/28/holy-shmoly-ruby-19-smo... The original author, on a basis of a fib benchmark, concludes ruby 1.9 is
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by irahul 14y ago
> I suspect that parent was referring to the python 2.x branch, which has been catching up with ruby 1.9, but on most benchmarks started at ~ 3x slower and are now ~ 2x slower. Citation needed again. Ruby 1.9 is slower than Python 3, an
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by irahul 14y ago
You are deliberately trying to miss the point. But in the off chance that you don't really get it, the point is quora, asana were started by early facebook programmers, and they didn't use PHP. If they liked PHP so much, they would have use
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by irahul 14y ago
Citation needed. Both CPython and MRI are slow - if you need computational speed, use something else. But when your are comparing them to each other, CPython is faster. I don't know where you are getting that significantly faster bit from
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by irahul 14y ago
> You can do the "1 file thing" with either. The GP was referring to bottle.py being one file and one import, not about the ability to have the whole app in one file.
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by irahul 14y ago
> At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor. Configuring my text editor isn't the main thing
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by irahul 14y ago
> I am worried that Python is slowly turning into Java. Instead of simple text/string for everything, now Class for everything, with nauty weird ill-defined Exceptions. The example your are pointing out is for the module ipaddress which
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by irahul 14y ago
VimClojure https://github.com/vim-scripts/VimClojure is something similar for vim. LightTable seems to focus on showing execution trace which isn't always desirable(a function that delete files, gets file over the network, does a length

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