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by lparry 15y ago
Wow, first time I've ever heard someone say that. Most people I know think XML is horrid to read, myself included. I'd take json or yaml over XML any day
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by lparry 15y ago
I havent tried Vundle, but looking at their github the search and installation stuff looks pretty cool. I'll probably stick with Pathogen though since it's already setup and working. I just feel really bad for anyone who hasn't started usin
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by lparry 15y ago
I love vim to bits, but can't believe that plugins are still such a mess. Why haven't they just rolled tpope's Pathogen into the standard vim distribution yet?
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by lparry 15y ago
you shouldnt need to sudo "brew install" commands. if you do, you've messed up the permissions it's setup. there's a part in their faq about why they believe sudo is bad https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ
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by lparry 15y ago
well if someone else already tried, I guess there's no point. It's not like Apple has ever entered into a market segment already entered by rivals who are doing poorly and shown them how it's done. Oh wait, they did that with the iPod. And
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Five iOS Features That OS X Needs(tuaw.com)
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by lparry 15y ago
PHP is great! It's like flypaper, attracting and trapping mediocre devs, keeping them from writing their terrible code in nicer languages
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by lparry 15y ago
And if your user visits more than one page on your site, you've successfully killed asset caching. More data for your server to send _and_ a slower experience for the user, losses all round
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by lparry 15y ago
Go and read about what a paragraph is and how you should use it
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by lparry 15y ago
You're bias is showing when you refer to it as "your" lane. if they're in front of you, in that lane, it's actually _their_ lane.
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by lparry 15y ago
Wasn't Access a part of office?
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by lparry 15y ago
The iPhone client handles groups to an extent. You can pick one group to see a status update, but can't pick multiple groups, exclusions or custom on-the-fly groups
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by lparry 15y ago
I see they're using their 'winning' wave strategy again. 1. launch a social platform, but restrict signups to the point where nobody with access has any contacts on the service 2. keep it locked down until the buzz/hype is all gone 3. open
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by lparry 15y ago
You're obviously a windows user (and a flash "developer"), because for people on every other platform it's flash that chews up 80%CPU time and runs dog slow. Maybe if adobe hadnt give every other platform such shitty implementations, there
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by lparry 15y ago
It sounds like a bunch of people who havent experienced the difference first hand, trying to convince themselves that they dont care.
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by lparry 15y ago
Back in first year uni, when I felt like everything I was supposed to be learning was a bit of a walk in the park I'd program in my free time a whole lot. later in uni when I was swamped with engineering maths and compulsory management subj
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by lparry 16y ago
diaspora came out with a bang? heck? is it even out? if it is, it's "coming out" was more like a wimper
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by lparry 16y ago
did you ever stop to think what positive impact the deletion of these articles actually makes? I cant come up with any positive contribution you're making, but I can see that if I saw one of these languages mentioned somewhere (hacker news