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by justinmk 9y ago
You shouldn't feel compelled to switch, Nvim is intentionally user-compatible with Vim. But these days it also makes sense to ask instead "why should I use Vim?" The version of Vim that you actually use probably wasn't i
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Every Neovim release is considered stable. The leading zero means we may break backwards-compatibility in some cases (but we rarely do; we are considering 1.0 after 0.3 is finished).
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Newsletter will be published in a few days.
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> For new home buyers lower prices is great Increases taxes to "lower" the price doesn't lower the total cost of ownership, it just hides it by reducing the potential gains (which are _priced into_ the sale price). I wonde
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by justinmk 9y ago
> the solution to high house prices is ... tax capital gains, limit leveraging ability, implement a land based tax Your solution to high real estate prices is to make the investment less attractive by increasing taxes? What does this gai
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There's a lot of engineering in Vim as well. E.g., Vim's completion system is actually real cool once you learn it (it "clicked" for me after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TX3kV3TI
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by justinmk 9y ago
dirvish.vim is my attempt to adapt dired to the Vim philosophy. It doesn't attempt to "DWIM", but provides :Shdo which allows you to script file operations using your shell. https://github.com/justinmk/vi
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Not "absolutely everything", but certainly many things. It's on you to make the case that "saving a drug user's life" is achieved by sending them to the worst place on earth.
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> On the other hand, there are tons of overdoses from prescribed opiates, which are legally obtained; So what ? Nothing is worse than the prison system. Literally, nothing. Risk of death by overdose does not justify shoveling people int
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JIRA could benefit from this. After their big fancy redesign, I was shocked to see that they had re-arranged the old pile of shit into a new pile of shit.
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> A distributed web with many small nodes would still be hard to control and police effectively. I would guess that today's distributed web (IPFS, etc.) has more content, and users, than the "wild web" of 1992 or whatever
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> Taxation could be used as natural pressure to correct market failures. Taxation isn't natural. By the way, I'd like to remind everyone: when the state taxes something, the state now depends on that thing for its budget. >
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Yes, or hire some entity to manage it. Which is quite different than waiting for it to be managed. Not to mention the scale of rural communities makes the task proportionately less complicated. Scale matters very much. For example, if you
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That is how things are supposed to work. Communities and individuals should not expect "someone else" to manage their affairs.
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by justinmk 9y ago
This racket msgpack implementation may be helpful: https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/MsgPack.rkt Though someone got started on elisp as well. https://github.com/kleesc/msgpack.el/blob/master&#x2
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> The world would be a much better place if every person living in a developed country were forced to spend a year living in a different one Not unless they also were forced to earnestly interact with the different culture. May also need
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funcref() is in Nvim 0.2. Old versions of Vim also don't have funcref() ...
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> neovim doesn't try to keep its fork compatible with vim. Nvim tracks all Vim patches[1]. _Only_ the job-control API differs. All other Vim patches are merged into Nvim reguarly, including new Vimscript features like partials, lamb
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by justinmk 9y ago
The "so they could serve ads" meme is facile, reductionist, sophomoric. Actually, the fact that Google et al. were able to identify a profit function that could be optimized to fund the last 15 years of technology is an incredible
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by justinmk 9y ago
Neovim has a go client[1] for nvim's RPC API. Vim doesn't have bytecode to speak of, so of course there's no transpiler step. But it removes the friction of integrating between nvim <-> go, and that is "useful when
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by justinmk 9y ago
Urbit is designed in theory so that proportionate incentives exist at each stage of adoption. Initially it will be curios only, like the interwebs in 1995. If it gains value then applications will be built on it. Even if urbit fails, the th
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by justinmk 9y ago
It exists everywhere, but usually the State claims it. In Texas an individual may be able to claim it. "Corporations are people" if the corporation is the State, it seems. Michael Badnarik gave a good presentation on the subject:
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IPFS https://ipfs.io/
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> I didn't know that no-arg functions in C are implicitly variadic! That's bizarre. I would have expected modern compilers to disable that by default, but I can't get Clang to warn me about it even with -Wall. Try -Wstrict
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Sure. Let me know if you find a reliable source of data. Our ice cream is great though.
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Homebrew also just started publishing their stats: https://brew.sh/analytics/ Neovim is about as popular as emacs now (backhanded compliment?). We just released Neovim 0.2 (now supports Windows) a few minutes ago, so i
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by justinmk 9y ago
Backend and SRE/devops engineer, also interested in leadership/management role. 10+ years of experience. Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Optional Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C#, Java, GWT, Python, Lua, ASP.NET, bash
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by justinmk 10y ago
> Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas” Shouldn't it be: > Anonymous: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”
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by justinmk 10y ago
> benchmark comparison here [0], rust wins, the fastest boost program is c++ g++ #3 and takes 8.5 times as long With PHP at #2? Doesn't seem credible, or the thing being tested isn't meaningfully language-dependent.
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by justinmk 10y ago
GVFS, or something like it, is an important development for git. Facebook already implemented something similar for Mercurial[1]. At a glance, GVFS hints that git has become more extensible than it used to be. The merits of a "monorepo

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