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by lucajona 2y ago
For context, I started an open source project that is arguably 10x more popular than Nutjs (20k stars on github vs 2k). I also gave up on maintaining it, but others stepped in to take care of it so it's still running. The parallels bet
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by lucajona 5y ago
Mirror: https://archive.is/aAf3K
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Psychedelics Are a Waste of Life(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
3 points by lucajona 6y ago|1 comments
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by lucajona 10y ago
I don't understand why the media and Silicon Valley seem to be gleefully awaiting the downfall of Uber. If Uber's business model is not financially viable then the free market will take care of that. But promoting the view that th
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by lucajona 10y ago
Okay sure, I made a bad generalisation. Some true statements can be uninteresting. The point I was trying to make was more that the parent commenter was making a true statement about epistemology that is relevant and useful to the discussio
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by lucajona 10y ago
Those "anti-intellectual slogans" I think you mean can also be seen as arguments for a return to enlightenment values instead of an entrenched, elitist dogmatism. Behind those slogans is the idea that intellectual life doesn'
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by lucajona 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to call a correct statement vacuous. More nuanced than it appears, and easily misinterpreted maybe. I think it's fair to point out that peer review doesn't determine scientific truth, because th
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by lucajona 11y ago
Good point. But if the only way you can avoid malaria is if someone gives you a bed net, then your ability to improve your own circumstances is still close to 0. You're still impoverished and powerless, you're just not dead. And n
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by lucajona 11y ago
This hits on the problem with "Effective Altruism" — it is exactly the bad form of utilitarian thinking. It seems purely about reallocating some wealth from the rich to the poor. That's nice, but it's only treating the s
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by lucajona 11y ago
... and then read Pinker's reply http://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/comments_on_taleb... TLDR: The book’s structure was lost on Taleb, who blends the different chapters and then criticizes his ow
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by lucajona 12y ago
You're right, I think we should believe him when he says that he was tortured. It's the part where he claims that it was at the direction of the FBI that needs proof. And I agree, I don't think the UAE cares about Portland. T
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by lucajona 12y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted, it seems like a valid question. I suppose I will get downvoted too, but I think it's worth discussing this now, since it's made the front page even though it probably shouldn't have.
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by lucajona 13y ago
Yep, Scoop has Rust 0.9 now.
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by lucajona 13y ago
Thanks!
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by lucajona 13y ago
Thank you so much! I've seen that before but assumed the /a 'administrative install' meant UAC popups. Just tried it now (with /qn though) and it's UI-free. Very cool!
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by lucajona 13y ago
Yes that's true for common programs like less, tail, grep, awk, and sed. I do think Scoop can give you better support for ln and sudo though. Then on top of that, Scoop lets you install Ruby, Postgres, Figlet, Go, Vim etc. For a lot of
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by lucajona 13y ago
Good question. I think you'd want to pick Cygwin when you want to be able to compile and run POSIX apps on Windows without having to modify them too much. However, if you just want a better command-line experience on Windows and want t
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by lucajona 13y ago
I totally agree. Self-contained installs without side-effects are the goal for Scoop, and it's almost there. Scoop extracts NSIS/NullSoft and InnoSetup installers already, and if all goes well it'll extract MSI installers soo
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by lucajona 13y ago
The 'extras' bucket for Scoop is a good fit things that aren't open source command-line tools, but are still useful dev tools. Teamcity should fit well there: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras
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by lucajona 13y ago
If you read HN and your organisation treats you like 'Joe user', I'd say you probably feel pretty oppressed. Scoop is aimed pretty squarely at HN readers, not so much at people that are ok with working at an organisation that
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by lucajona 13y ago
You're going to have to set-execution policy yourself—I highly recommend it though for a useable shell ;) So far there are 59 apps in the main bucket: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/tree/master&#x2F
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by lucajona 13y ago
Author here. I use Chocolatey too, although not so often recently. Scoop is more focused on open-source command-line developer tools. I expect Scoop will appeal more to cross-platform developers, those who appreciate a bit of Unix philosoph
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by lucajona 13y ago
Fortunately, it's much easier to write packages for Scoop (aka "app manifests"). You only really need to know JSON, whereas with Chocolatey you need some Powershell and Nuget chops. There's a simple example app manifest
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by lucajona 13y ago
My condolences to anyone reading HN who works for one of these organisations. The iex [remote-script] probably will run in that case actually, just not the 'scoop' command. Which shows what a farce the PS execution policy is.
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by lucajona 13y ago
Powershell really is crippled by default, unlike bash. Your equivalent is only equivalent (the sudo part) if you start powershell with 'run as administrator', which you probably shouldn't, but it's quite common practise
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by lucajona 13y ago
See "Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You" by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
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by lucajona 13y ago
Or Scoop at http://scoop.sh (I made it).
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by lucajona 13y ago
>> Are you saying that the Pen Register Act is on par, morally, with Jim Crow? No.
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by lucajona 13y ago
>> You can't wave off court orders just because you think the Internet is some kind of libertarian cyber-paradise where mortal laws do not apply “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sudo for Windows(lukesampson.com)
1 points by lucajona 13y ago|0 comments

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