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by madhouse 15y ago
For the record, I'll state that I do not run a startup, nor have I influence in any larger business, so my comments should be read with that in mind. However, the company I work for, does release open source software, and it's licensed und
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by madhouse 15y ago
I'm a big fan of git, and the branching model explained here: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ The closest thing I use to see stats-like output is the Impact graph of github, but even if I look at that graph, it's m
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by madhouse 15y ago
Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-CA ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ) comes closest, I believe, even closer than the GPL, but it might not be as good for software as the GPL is (I've never used a CC license for software). Other
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by madhouse 15y ago
While I'm not an autotools fan by far, after reading through the linked post, I could only cover my face with my palm. There's quite a few things he lists as autotools shortcomings that's not it's own fault, but that of badly written config
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by madhouse 15y ago
There is no single code or project that I could name. Not because there are no open source codes or projects that weren't worth reading, because there are thousands of them. I couldn't name any, because people are different, and what one fi
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by madhouse 16y ago
Hardware: Your average desktop PC OS: Emacs Boot loader: Debian stable Languages: C, Python, JavaScript, Perl (and various others from time to time) Other tools: git (along with git-flow and git-annex), zsh, gnus (mail reading; emacs), erc
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by madhouse 16y ago
FireBug is an excellent tool, that is not available for Chrome yet (at least, not with all its bells and whistles, lasts I checked). That's the single reason I still have Firefox installed.
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by madhouse 16y ago
Probably the lack of a single sound format that is supported by all popular browsers on most platforms. And because animations can be easily done with JS/CSS, and that doesn't require all that much bandwidth or space, while good quality sou
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by madhouse 16y ago
There are exceptions, of course. Try imagining Twitter, Facebook or any of the other popular (not-such-geeky) sites without javascript, or any client-side scripting for that matter. (FYI, HN has an onclick='return vote(this)' on votes, so i
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by madhouse 16y ago
Whichever your friends or family know best (or lacking that, whichever you find the most readable / enjoyable documentation for). You can't really go wrong with either of the mainstream languages, so I'd advise you to have a look at the doc
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by madhouse 16y ago
The problem is, that with every new development comes new risks. We could go back to living in caves and bashing animals with clubs, and cooking them over fire we set with a bunch of rocks and wood. That would be a lot safer than cycling to
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by madhouse 16y ago
I would recommend PhantomJS: http://www.phantomjs.org/ It's not a crawler per-se, but you can fairly easily build one based on it. It supports everything that modern browsers do - it's a headless WebKit, driven from JavaScript, after all.
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by madhouse 16y ago
As mentioned before, the load time is awful. Furthermore, the white text with a glow effect hurts my eyes: it's very hard to read. The logo is cool, though. Can't say much more at this time, since all that there is is a signup form.
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by madhouse 16y ago
If you'd 'fix' javascript, you'd still have to wait for browsers to support the new version, and they would have to support the old js until there are pages out there that use it. Which means pretty much forever. At which point, the fixed l
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by madhouse 16y ago
I respectfully disagree. Web browsing is just fine in Emacs (ezbl - uzbl embedded inside a slightly patched emacs - is sweet). And the best and most scalable mail reader I have ever encounter just happens to be Gnus, which is also an Emacs
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by madhouse 16y ago
That depends: if they will need to write C code, then of course, they need to know the language. But if all they're gonna do is write Haskell, Erlang or Lisp, what's the point of knowing C? I do know a lot of people, who are excellent progr
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by madhouse 16y ago
There's flot: http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Raphael.js (along with gRaphael): http://raphaeljs.com/ jqPlot: http://www.jqplot.com/ I'd recommend flot out of these three, had the best experience with that one so far.
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by madhouse 16y ago
Even a short "about" would've been nice, even if it's closed. Knowing that it's a decision making site already tells a lot more than one could figure out just by visiting it.
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by madhouse 16y ago
There's a market for all three. Personally, I'd advise you to look at a few code examples, and pick the one that 'looks' best. If you need to, have a quick glance at a few tutorials, and decide which one you like best. You can't misfire all
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by madhouse 16y ago
What exactly is the site supposed to be about? I'm not going to sign up to any beta on a site that tells me nothing about itself. No, "Ask, Decide, Repeat" doesn't tell me much. Also, the logo being an image, I couldn't even copy & past
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by madhouse 16y ago
Which libraries did you check, that did not fulfill your requirements, and why? I've used both gRaphael ( http://g.raphaeljs.com/ ) and jqPlot ( http://www.jqplot.com/ ) before, and found both to be at least decent (though, I had a few issu
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by madhouse 16y ago
External mouse + keyboard helps a lot. Though, I hardly ever use a mouse, so I only have to carry an extra keyboard. Thankfully, my keyboard is small, and isn't that much of a problem to carry it around.
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by madhouse 16y ago
I'm in a similar position, except that instead of adapting my keyboard-use to the average keyboard, where the enter key is out of the normal finger path, I bought a TypeMatrix 2030, where the enter is in the middle: I can reach it without m
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by madhouse 16y ago
Yes. ezbl (emacs + uzbl) works pretty darn well without a mouse. (I DO have a mouse, and use it when absolutely needed, but thankfully, such cases are fairly rare)
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by madhouse 16y ago
None. I'm not a pointy type, I much prefer navigating with the keyboard.
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by madhouse 16y ago
I have a better solution, which saves me from crashes, and allows me to use the browser of my choice: I don't have flash. Problem solved!
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by madhouse 16y ago
Last time I met him (though, it was a couple of years ago), he smelled like any other ordinary human being. A random suit after 8 hours of office work is far worse.
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by madhouse 16y ago
Plenty of mailing lists here (including some high traffic ones like LKML). I use OfflineIMAP to sync my mail. This results in pretty fast gnus startup times. But then, I only start it up every once in a while when I have to reboot due to a
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by madhouse 16y ago
GPLv3, mostly. I've used the Apache License and 3-clause BSD aswell in the past, when those fit my needs better.
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by madhouse 16y ago
I'm using Gnus, problem solved. Only 4 separate mailboxes, but it could scale to any number of sources, without trouble. The UI is the same as the rest of my environment, fits in perfectly, it's flexible beyond imagination, and tailored to

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