mattdawson

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by mattdawson 14y ago
But I can't really get behind the author's stance that it is wrong for people to have preferences (even strong ones) about which javascript frameworks they like to use. Exactly. As a developer, I can appreciate that every framework has di
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by mattdawson 14y ago
I'm not sure if this is something that could be helped with some doc changes, but it took me awhile to figure out that pubsub is exactly what Backbone.Events gives you. And even then, I only figured that out from reading tbranyen's code.
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by mattdawson 15y ago
I clicked into this thread specifically to see if someone had cheekily added emacs as an option. Color me disappointed. ;)
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by mattdawson 15y ago
This. I worked in DC at a PAC for 3 years, and I can confirm that, without a doubt, lawmakers in Washington vote where either a) the money leads or b) the most ruckus gets stirred up, at least 90% of the time. Every congressperson has their
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by mattdawson 15y ago
Right, I understand that. But it seems irresponsible to suggest - as I think this site does - that the entirety of AWS has the uptime you're advertising.
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by mattdawson 15y ago
How on earth is this number actually being calculated? I'm an AWS customer and all of my ec2 EBS instances are up and running - and that's in us-east-1b, which is IIRC where this outage occurred.
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by mattdawson 16y ago
IMHO, it's not. I'm working on a few relatively complex web apps where the CSS download time don't come to anywhere near that size. In my world (mobile devices, in particular) 320k would be totally unacceptable. 100k is about the point wher
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by mattdawson 16y ago
I don't wholly disagree with you, but Python developers are more prone than most to name their packages with at least a py prefix, if not something punny like this.
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by mattdawson 16y ago
I'm a bit late in responding, but yes, it's a native vim extension. To make sure your plugins are loaded automatically, put filetype plugin on in your .vimrc.
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by mattdawson 16y ago
Or, if you only want to use these settings for python files, create a ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim file. Mine looks like this: setlocal tabstop=4 setlocal softtabstop=4 setlocal shiftwidth=4 setlocal textwidth=80 setlocal smarttab
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by mattdawson 16y ago
Is there a way to "complete" a project? Am I missing something?
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by mattdawson 16y ago
I would also love to know how you do this. I like being a good irc citizen, and I'm always forgetting to set my status. [edit: see here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781074 ]
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by mattdawson 16y ago
Thirded(? Sorry, that's probably a bit too reddit-ish for HN.) I've been developing with Django for the last two years (a screencast series by ericflo is actually what got me started), and I just recently started work on a major Flask proje
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by mattdawson 16y ago
Link to the first HN thread discussing this blog: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1530914
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by mattdawson 16y ago
My first reaction when I saw these pictures was "Holy crap! Apple went and built a danger room![1]" I can't be the only person who had this thought. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Room
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by mattdawson 16y ago
Ahh. Well, nevermind my other comment in this thread. If he's ripping off WP core code, then yes, Thesis should definitely be GPL'd.
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by mattdawson 16y ago
maybe Wordpress themes are much different than normal themes, and are much more tightly coupled? They can be made to be tightly coupled, but they're not necessarily intended to be. A lot of themes override core WordPress functions via a f
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by mattdawson 17y ago
Python, for one, doesn't help to make the matter any clearer. In fact, Python makes it look like pass-by-reference is used, even when it isn't. For a better explanation than I could ever come up with: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9
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by mattdawson 17y ago
FWIW (which may, admittedly, not be much), Gruber thinks it's not. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/11/06/openofficemouse
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by mattdawson 17y ago
Up voted for introducing me to Brainfuck. Hi. Larious.
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by mattdawson 17y ago
In my experience, yes - it's a huge resource hog. Up until recently, I'd leave iTunes open all the time. After a couple days of being open without a restart, iTunes would have claimed ~1.2GB of memory. Pretty ridiculous. It's even worse i
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by mattdawson 17y ago
One usability detail you might consider: I like how you follow HN's lead and make read content headlines a lighter gray. But there's no corresponding effect for the screenshot slides. That definitely reduces the usefulness of the read state
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by mattdawson 17y ago
I have a lot of respect for Pownce. I had an account, even if I didn't use it as much as Twitter, and I was really disappointed when they closed down. So I want to be excited about this, but I find the "community microblogging" idea reall
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by mattdawson 17y ago
Not directly related to the article, but still on topic: Does anyone else have an opinion about this practice of putting a skeleton project inside a packaged app as Simon is doing with most of his apps? I ask because I've been moving toward
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by mattdawson 17y ago
Yeah, but I can almost guarantee that anyone using Cream will think "How is this any better than <GUI editor of choice>?" In my opinion, the only way anyone new to vi is gonna be sold is by struggling through the learning curve. The
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by mattdawson 17y ago
Well, Arch Linux for one. At least until you upgrade it yourself. I can't imagine that Arch is the only one either. Xubuntu, anyone? Ubuntu comes default with some strange flavor of vim that I can't stand, so I always install vim-nox ASAP o
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by mattdawson 17y ago
> I haven't tested a Vista machine, I've never seen anyone run one. I'm a designer and programmer and was stuck on Vista for a little over 3 months after starting my current job. Photoshop required at minimum two reboots a day. Absolu
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by mattdawson 17y ago
What's so bad about using eval in this context?