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by masukomi 8y ago
where would it store your plugins? this is vim running in your browser, not some weird hybrid server-side vim thing that stores all your config files and plugins server-side in a per-user account but then transpiles them to wasm (regardless
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by masukomi 8y ago
if your leg suddenly started hurting badly you would go see a doctor. If your mind starts hurting you (this is arguably hurting you) why wouldn't you do the same thing? Only in this case it's a doctor of the mind not the body. I.e
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by masukomi 8y ago
yeah, that's been written about before. It's a false belief based on info that's not applicable to current devices. It is just baseless superstition at this point. Unfortunately, everyone believes it and makes their lives far
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by masukomi 8y ago
> What if you design a web browser that just ignores most blobs of CSS/Javascript and renders content in a very different way. that describes every command line / terminal web browser.
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by masukomi 8y ago
Would that be the deprecated 2.x with OS X or 3.x which has been available for years? To put it another way, you've replaced sed incompatibility with python incompatibility. It's not really a win. I'm not saying Perl is the b
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by masukomi 8y ago
um. no. it.... no. That.... no. It may help you avoid logging in to a page again, but it will _not_ help load/pull the page faster. In fact, it will load it slower, because now there's more data to download, read, and process.
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by masukomi 8y ago
why, in the would, would i need JavaScript to tell people I don't use cookies?! Why not just a note at the bottom of the page with no banner that needs to be closed. It's frustrating enough that I have to do it on the cookie sites
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by masukomi 8y ago
Given the styling I think the subtitle should be "Ultimate workstation for male programmers" because really, how many women do you know who would look at that and say "oh I definitely want to sit in something that looks like
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by masukomi 8y ago
Pharo is a Smalltalk distribution. I believe it's based on Squeak.
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by masukomi 8y ago
agreed. 100%
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by masukomi 8y ago
it should be noted that the code to do this is actually part of matplotlib now. The author comments about it here http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matpl... and refers to the code in
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by masukomi 8y ago
> Tabstops were placed every 8 characters. A tabstop is simply a way to "type" 8 spaces with one keypress. tabstops were _not_ restricted to 8 characters. In many systems different tabstops were different widths from their pred
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by masukomi 8y ago
the fact that most editors use mono-space fonts by default and hardly anyone is clamoring for the ability to use proprotional fonts seems to argue against them being particularly important to readability, at least as far as the community se
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by masukomi 8y ago
> but this is a hill I’m willing to die on: please don’t line things up visually in your source code, beyond standard indentation. what's the argument against this? There are many arguments for how it can improve readability and spe
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by masukomi 8y ago
> would that be sufficient to cause a switch to try out an alternate provider? yes, OMG YES. i get _at least_ 5 spam calls a day. It drives me mad. PLEASE let me whitelist. I'd still need comparable coverage and pricing, and be able
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by masukomi 8y ago
if you find this interesting Joey (the creator) is regularly posting updates on this and his other off-grid projects, as well as working through the core ideas with others on Scuttlebutt ( https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ )
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by masukomi 8y ago
pretty sure he makes money when folks pay him to have the site cache the pages you bookmark in case they go away. Also allows you to search the content of the bookmarked pages, not just the stuff you typed in when bookmarking it. I don&#x27
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by masukomi 8y ago
can't tell that from the outside... and if you're looking for people who are trying to hide illegal activity you actually care about prosecuting, I'd bet there's a higher overlap with the tor users than non-tor users. Ev
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by masukomi 8y ago
yeah, as a ham i was pretty interested in what he had to say, but that's the point where i said "fuck this noize", skimmed a few more paragraphs to confirm suspicions, and wandered off.
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by masukomi 8y ago
you mean, like they do in almost every single retail establishment you enter? Or do you mean like on the streets? do you realize that your statement also implies it's "rude" and "unethical" to take a photo in a publ
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by masukomi 8y ago
i'm a hobbyist, I've been slashdotted, front page of hn multiple times, and on other high profile sites that sent _lots_ of traffic. bandwidth cost is simply not an issue unless you're self hosting video files or some other o
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by masukomi 8y ago
in addition to what m4x said, radio has some HUGE benefits over cell in a marathon scenario. If the person you need to talk with is on the phone with someone else you can't get through. With a radio you can. Additionally, everyone (ter
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by masukomi 8y ago
pretty sure public service bands don't overlap with ham bands so a ham license wouldn't help even _if_ a license was required for this
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by masukomi 8y ago
i'm a CERT member. I use it to help local police. I use it to help manage safety at running races (marathons, 5ks etc.) I would also use it to help if called out on a search an rescue. These frequently involve multiple police departmen
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by masukomi 8y ago
looks good, but when comparing it to CommentBox.io I have to say that their blurb of "No ads. No Tracking. Just Comments. Hosted commenting that's painless to embed, a pleasure to use, and a breeze to moderate." is _exactly_
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by masukomi 8y ago
doesn't matter if we are contractually allowed to run them or not. The dynamic IPs of consumer ISPs are all blacklisted by the spam blockers. So, you could receive mail, but no-one would ever receive yours.
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by masukomi 8y ago
i think the macros make life easier, and if well written make the code more maintainable by simplifying the code you're encountering most of the time. for me the "rope" was the ridiculous complexity of things like the "l
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by masukomi 8y ago
... maybe this is crazy, but why not just name the script r and do away with the alias? that way your shell can let you know "hey that's not an executable in this dir" if you ever try and run it somewhere it isn't instea
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by masukomi 8y ago
> I was really excited when Perl 5 came out, but ugh. I wound up writing about 10,000 lines of it at a dotcom, and it was so, so ugly. All the stuff that made 50 line Perl 4 beautiful made 10,000 line Perl 5 an unreadable mess. I find th
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by masukomi 8y ago
> It just takes practice. Lots of it. Lots of trial and error. Lots of screw ups. And just embracing/loving the process. > ... > So just go out there and fiddle with your instrument and play along to stuff you like! yes. that.

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