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by joemi 10y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but isn't that pretty aligned with Libertarian views? You might not need to start your own party.
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by joemi 10y ago
Not that Google definitely won't decide to shut down their services (I still remember you, Google Reader!), but I'm extremely hesitant to commit to some alternate services. I've been burned so many times when thinking "a
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by joemi 10y ago
Loss of selling privileges can be a big problem too, and incredibly hard to fight. The store I work for once lost selling privileges for spurious copyright claims regarding books we had bought directly from large established publishers. Eve
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by joemi 10y ago
I don't need pixel editors a lot, but I've definitely used Piskel a few times in the past for making some simple icons. It's not perfect, but works well enough for me.
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by joemi 10y ago
There's an onion icon next to the FPS slider... Is that what you're looking for?
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by joemi 10y ago
All the small businesses I've worked at have another huge factor to consider, when it comes to new tech: Will the tech be supported long enough for it to be worth dealing with? Anecdotal example: A few years ago, my workplace at the ti
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by joemi 10y ago
> Then again, would we believe it if he published a photograph of his degree? I don't think that's a valid wikipedia citation. From Wikipedia's Verifiability page [1]: > Base articles on reliable, third-party, published
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by joemi 10y ago
That original post on cytora seems quite a bit better to me than the github link since it gives more context. Thanks!
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by joemi 10y ago
To be fair, Dash was announced as CEO just a few days ago.
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by joemi 10y ago
Old-timers please correct me if I'm wrong, but modern-style full-coverage tests of code weren't trivial to write or add to fortran projects on dec10's...
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by joemi 10y ago
I'm not so sure I'd say that's an App Store problem. There are ways around requiring purchases sight-unseen. Unless I'm mistaken, you can have a 'lite' version as a separate app, or you can have in-app purchase
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by joemi 10y ago
Does anyone know why "xxxxxx;"? Seems like that would make an invalid call, so wouldn't it make more sense to replace it with some sort of no-op? Or is xxxxxx sql's way of doing a no-op?
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by joemi 10y ago
I'd add another advantage: The physicality of it all. That was what drew me to it. It's kind of related to your advantage #4 and advantage #2, but it's more than that. The physical nature makes it easier (for me at least) to
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by joemi 10y ago
Unless Apple made an iPad SSH client I don't know about, this sounds like you were just using a bad app. The first two that popped up when I just googled for "ipad ssh client" clearly have control keys, as seen in their scree
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by joemi 10y ago
I think you're missing my point. I wasn't arguing against more feature-filled package managers. I was answering cjhveal's genuine curiosity about why you'd really want native package loading in vim.
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by joemi 10y ago
Reading that made me not want to read the rest of the article. I'm glad that they realized it was wrong and admitted that, but still, how much stock can we really put in their judgement if that's a realization they had to make?
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by joemi 10y ago
Personally, none of the bullet points you mentioned matter to me at all, so I'm glad about the improved native package loading. Plus, I've always found it weird to need a package in order to load other packages (in a remotely sane
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by joemi 10y ago
If you've been running bare vim, then using either will be fine. Unless you're planning on turning your bare vim into a rather heavy IDE, you're not going to really experience much difference between vim 8 and neovim. Edit to
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by joemi 10y ago
> Abrahamic religion explored the alternative intelligence problem in great depth over two thousand years ago. It's a pity the results have been lost to Progressive axe grinding. I'll take the bait: What in the world are you ta
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by joemi 10y ago
Vimtutor was all it took to get me both hooked and proficient enough to not feel hopeless. That said, I get why it's not the same for everyone.
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by joemi 10y ago
I can't tell if your comment is sarcastic or not, but I, too, would love to read that.
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by joemi 10y ago
I'm still a bit confused. Are you implying that Bloomberg and Twitter are in competition? I'm not so sure they are, really, in any sense.
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by joemi 10y ago
I forget where I read this, but someone once talked about how a new standard can't just be "better". Instead it has to be _a lot_ better and probably even bring a lot of really good new stuff to the table, otherwise not enoug
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by joemi 10y ago
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but I think you're considering Twitter to be a media company, like a newspaper company? If so, I don't think that comparison is accurate so there'd be no conflict of
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by joemi 10y ago
Ha. Sorry, it was a long day at work today... Forgot about the Apps For Business (or whatever they've changed the name to) issues I had back in the day when I had to set it up for the store I work at. Not nearly as mind-bogglingly frus
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by joemi 10y ago
Fair to guess, but I doubt that's it. The store I work for has been selling on there for almost a decade (it was selling since before I was hired), steadily, with very high customer feedback.
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by joemi 10y ago
To clarify, I didn't mean pulling the app, or anything app-related at all. I just meant Amazon and Google both can have such Kafka-esque "you're not allowed to appeal" responses to issues. I've personally experience
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by joemi 10y ago
> there are tens of stories like this every days (maybe even counting only those that hit the HN frontpage) As someone who comes here every day, I don't think tens (or even ones) of this type of story hits the frontpage every day. I
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by joemi 10y ago
You're of course correct that it doesn't justify the questionable actions. But it shows that it's a much bigger problem than one company... Is there some reason such issues happen all of these multiple companies? Can we do an
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by joemi 10y ago
For what it's worth, both Amazon and Google can be the same way. (I've had to deal with such from both of them before.) That said, it's not always that way with them, and I suspect Apple is similar. We always hear about the r

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