moconnor

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by moconnor 14y ago
From his perspective he was, perhaps, correct. Do "peasants moving around" increase the rent on his land in real terms?
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by moconnor 14y ago
I've spent the last decade writing debuggers; they are anything but omniscient. It's a miracle that they work at all, frankly. In principle gdb could look at everything that's going on, but in practice doing so would (a) hit a bug in the
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by moconnor 14y ago
I just watched this right after reading Bret Victor's Learnable Programming essay ( http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ ). The dissonance between Bret's visions and where even a quite progressive modern IDE is at disturbed me deeply
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by moconnor 14y ago
That's not quite my understanding of the paper's results: "As can be seen, the time to reach level one is comparable for the two algorithms, but the GA is much faster at reaching levels 2 and 3. Further, the GA discovers level 3 approximate
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by moconnor 14y ago
That sounds like the same process (desktop -> laptop -> tablet) rather than the opposite to me.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Several people have told me they do the same. It might not be thousands, but there are programmers out there working like this. It works for programmers because the iPad isn't your workstation, it's just your connection to a remote workstat
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by moconnor 14y ago
That's probably what Microsoft were thinking when they designed the Surface. We'll see how well it works out for them.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Join a startup as the 3rd employee and spend the next decade building their software from the ground up to a profitable product that leads in its field. Then move to Germany.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I use a fairly large font because readability is important to me, so I get something like 85 x 60 characters on the screen. Width-wise, that's fine (and I set Vim to wrap long lines anyway). I also would have thought I'd miss that wider ove
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by moconnor 14y ago
Not really. You could certainly do the same with one of those and connecting through to a remote server. A netbook without a remote server wouldnt' be powerful enough for my work. Once you've got a quad core server doing the heavy lifting,
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by moconnor 14y ago
No, but Munich is a pretty safe and affluent place. Also, what're they going to do? Run away in front of hundreds of witnesses while I video them with my iPhone and call for the (ever-present) police?
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by moconnor 14y ago
I throw it all in a rucksack. The keyboard + iPad are lighter than any laptop I've seen that I'd like to use, but it's purely a matter of taste. Having a keyboard that's not joined to the screen has been convenient a number of times though
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by moconnor 14y ago
I skype through my iPhone while coding on my iPad all the time. The browser is the weakest part of the iPad experience though, it's true.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I've only had bad experiences with Prompt + 256-color vim/screen, but I've hear it works better with tmux.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Have you looked at ultrabook-class laptops with removable battery packs? Might work out for you. How was Istanbul?
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by moconnor 14y ago
My friend Matthias (wiemann.name) does that with his MB Air and he's totally happy with it. If you need web inspector, an iPad really isn't an option. I'd still recommend trying out a remote server, it's fun.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I use vanilla SSH and GNU screen. I have a ping of 150ms to my Linode at the moment and that's absolutely fine. I think above 300 it starts to get a bit hairy. The Vim movement commands are extremely tolerant of a laggy connection, which he
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by moconnor 14y ago
I have a love-hate relationship with iSSH. I use it every day and don't have any problems with graphical glitches, despite using screen and a 256-colour Vim scheme. I'm not using a retina iPad though; maybe that's related. I'd love an actua
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by moconnor 14y ago
Mobile Safari is a bit of a pain for frontend developement. There's the javascript-based FireBug but it's a far cry from the real thing or the Chrome developer tools. Of course, you don't need to do it all day every day - you can use your l
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by moconnor 14y ago
Well, I plan to use a Surface as a client but my development will stil be on Linux, of course. The whole no-browsers-except-IE-on-a-surface might be a real killer for anyone doing web development though.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Yeah, I love Vim as an IDE, but there are a features I'd want to import from other IDEs if I had a magic VimScript wand... Edit: correction - I love Vim as an editor with incredibly powerful macro and scripting capabilities. That makes up f
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by moconnor 14y ago
OP here, I'm happy to answer any more technically detailed questions; I had to cut a lot out of the blog post!
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iPad and Linode: 1 Year Later(yieldthought.com)
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by moconnor 14y ago
Get two dishwashers and put your clean dishes in one of them. Put a sticker on it marked "clean". Need a plate? Take it out of the "clean" dishwasher. Got a dirty plate? Put it into the other dishwasher. Other dishwasher full? Turn it on an
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by moconnor 14y ago
I edit and compile code all day long on a Linode 512. It's always responsive. I actually think most other people at this tier level aren't using their CPUs (or, probably, servers) at all.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Smooth and slick on my iPad; depends on support for hardware transforms.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Most of those quotes don't come from downvoted comments...
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by moconnor 14y ago
A great idea - it looks similar to the excellent NodeBox for Python ( http://nodebox.net ). I'm very much in favor tools that make experimentation faster and easier, for all the reasons that Bret Victor explains so well in Inventing on Prin
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by moconnor 14y ago
Thanks for this, there's some beautiful clojure in there.
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by moconnor 14y ago
You might want to check the image magnify links on your home page, Chris: http://www.psd2html.co.uk/screenshots/3.png goes to a css-free html page instead of an image, for example. Edit: also, the unthemed "Error - Login - Paypal" link fr

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