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by mcantor 14y ago
Well, maybe. If you can put paint on a paintbrush and transfer it to a canvas, are you suddenly a "painter", or just a guy with Cadmium Yellow smeared on his shirt?
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by mcantor 14y ago
Recording macros correctly and quickly is an art. Text objects help immensely, since they can handle a lot of edge cases in different places across your code.
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by mcantor 14y ago
I opine that we're more productive with our tools of choice because we chose them. And that's perfectly fine. We can claim that everyone else would be more productive if they used our unique cocktail of tools and techniques, but the
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by mcantor 14y ago
No! No, no, no, no, no. The best programmers use whatever they use . You are making the same mistake as the guy you're replying to. There is no one best way. We need to get over this mentality as a community. I don't mean to pi
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by mcantor 14y ago
Trivia: This is written by Bram Moolenaar, maintainer of Vim (the trivia part is that he maintains Vim; hopefully it's quite clear that it was written by a guy named Moolenaar).
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by mcantor 14y ago
I know this is bonkers, but maybe some people are more productive with GUI IDEs and some are more productive with vim and a terminal multiplexer.
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by mcantor 14y ago
Most command-line junkie types actually use vim, not vi. vim is quite practical for editing an enormous variety of file types at breakneck speed, and this is coming from someone who used to exclusively use environments such as Eclips
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by mcantor 14y ago
Passion only burns out if you consistently fail to pace yourself, or if it wasn't really innate passion in the first place.
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by mcantor 14y ago
'"terawatts", not "terrawatts"', not '"terawatts", not "terawatts"'.
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by mcantor 14y ago
I'll be explaining it over and over An ironic plight.
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Method_missing considered harmful(thingsfittogether.com)
2 points by mcantor 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
Go read "On Writing" by Stephen King. It will make you a better programmer and a better writer.
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Postmortem: Team Meat's Super Meat Boy(gamasutra.com)
49 points by mcantor 14y ago|14 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
I believe he mentions in the article that it's somewhere in the ballpark of a smooth $10,000 USD.
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by mcantor 14y ago
The more you know!
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by mcantor 14y ago
You're not damaged goods. Since you're not being burnt out by your day job, you should keep a humble personal project going to keep yourself sharp. Also, it gives you something to talk about during interviews. "I've been working on this x
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by mcantor 14y ago
Guido Van Rossum posts to the same group a few messages later.
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by mcantor 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it's because I submitted it. I don't have official confirmation on this, but experience has led me to believe that deep within the heart of the HN source code lies a cruel logic branch... (if (eq username "mcantor") set
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United Airlines Killed Our Golden Retriever, Bea(beamakesthree.com)
41 points by mcantor 14y ago|21 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
Sometimes I wonder if there's an unusual third path to take in situations like this. As I read Jacques's story, I found myself wishing he would take the CEO aside and say, "Excuse me, but did you know that you have been coming off as quite
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by mcantor 14y ago
Both statements do completely different different things, although they look very similar. This is true for both CoffeeScript examples he gave and their resulting JavaScript.
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by mcantor 14y ago
And at exactly that point (but rarely before), a good "product developer" puts on his "software developer" hat, and executes his finely-tuned JIT learning subroutine. He Googles "[framework] profiling", spends a week collecting information,
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by mcantor 14y ago
What's wrong with making money by providing a service to someone happy to pay for it?
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by mcantor 14y ago
What's with the dangling , {} on your first example? I can't tell if it's a typo or a weird wrapped line rendering issue or something. I hope that's not considered idiomatic CoffeeScript.
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by mcantor 14y ago
To make things worse, the experienced person hesitates before wading into an Internet debate, while the inexperienced fanatic takes typing classes so that he can reply to everyone within 6 seconds of their posting a comme
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by mcantor 14y ago
Seconded. Having a demo that you can immediately start playing with is absolutely vital for gaining traction with a novel app.
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by mcantor 14y ago
At the moment, I don't have the cycles to join the group and follow up on getting it resolved. But FWIW: The installation appeared to proceed successfully, but when I started emacs, I got errors about "ignore-errors" being void, and there w
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by mcantor 14y ago
This looks cool, but I spent 20 minutes trying to get it running and couldn't make it happen. Maybe the next time it gets posted on HN, the installation process will be a little more mature!
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by mcantor 14y ago
I'm not an audio guy. Can anyone explain like I'm five why this new codec was needed? How does it affect me as a consumer of audio? Who out there was saying "Gosh, I want to do X, but it's really tough because existing codecs force me to ch
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by mcantor 14y ago
Makes a handy shortcut if you want to link lots of people to it.

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