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by phowat 13y ago
Although I haven't tried myself, I've heard good things about VimOrganizer: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
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by phowat 13y ago
Another thumbs up. I'm currently in the process of migrating away from CFEngine to Ansible and it's been a breeze.
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by phowat 13y ago
Did you guys consider doing something like Simple English Wikipedia instead of a different language? From my experience ( I know, I know, anecdotal evidence) with non-native english speakers using english they seem to be most worried about
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by phowat 13y ago
If you're a programmer and you're not comfortable with english, you better become. Fast. There's just no way around it and I think it's a good thing, it means less fragmentation of knowledge. Remember when Nginx document
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by phowat 13y ago
As someone with a considerable amount of nodejs code in production, this kind of behavior makes me really worried about the project's long term health.
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by phowat 13y ago
I wrote this a long time ago when I was beginning to learn webrtc. It's really straightforward and has examples for voice+video chat and voice only. https://github.com/phowat/simple-webrtc-chat . Feel free to drop
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The danger of "language" in programming (2009)(loup-vaillant.fr)
34 points by phowat 13y ago|56 comments
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by phowat 13y ago
"Unofficially, someone's put a lot of work into the country’s telecommunication infrastructure, with the result that Romania now has a faster download speed than any G20 nation." So, low cost of living and great internet infr
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by phowat 13y ago
Mozilla has a considerable stake on WebRTC's success, and a good way for them to push it's adoption is to help make useful web apps which rely on it. It would be counter productive, and a huge amount of wasted work, for them to su
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by phowat 13y ago
Exactly, they will probably change the rules to forbid this particular hack for the next season. But there is absolutely no cheating involved, and there will be no punishment for Red Bull this year.
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Paul Graham and YC Alums featured in Vanity Fair's "The New Establishment 2013"(blog.ycombinator.com)
37 points by phowat 13y ago|4 comments
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by phowat 13y ago
Also Please, Release Opera 16 for Linux already. As a long time Opera user I feel completely abandoned.
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Sprayable Energy. Caffeine based topical energy spray.(indiegogo.com)
1 points by phowat 13y ago|0 comments
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UVB-76(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by phowat 13y ago|0 comments
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Phonebloks. A phone worth keeping(youtube.com)
1 points by phowat 13y ago|1 comments
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by phowat 13y ago
You can use the arrows in vim by default, no problem with that. For example, all my current co-workers use vim and I'm the only one who navigates using HJKL. With that said, I really really recommend any vim user to at least give a sh
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1st Time in 35Years A New Carnivorous Mammal is Discovered in American Continent(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by phowat 13y ago|0 comments
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Mailpile. An experimental indexing and search engine for e-mail(github.com)
2 points by phowat 13y ago|0 comments
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TextNow launches the U.S.’s first VoIP-only mobile phone(gigaom.com)
1 points by phowat 13y ago|1 comments
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The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth(siberiantimes.com)
132 points by phowat 13y ago|50 comments
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by phowat 13y ago
Mine's a Sony Discman D-E200 ESP2, not really THAT old. But still, not many people walk around with cds and a discman anymore.
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by phowat 13y ago
Curiously, they had this tumblr clone called Yahoo! Meme ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Meme ). Which, IIRC, was developed by Yahoo Brazil and I guess marketed mostly in the south american market. I guess it didn't get anywhere si
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Google announces Asm.js for V8.(twitter.com)
7 points by phowat 13y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 13y ago
I thought the same at first. But as I was checking out the language, I simply created keybindings in my .vimrc to both characters. Now if I press ALT+f, I get the ƒ character. Less key presses than any other function definition keyword from
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Reddit's DDoS dossier(reddit.com)
7 points by phowat 13y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 14y ago
I clicked the evilhub.com link out of curiosity and it redirects to a porn-youtube kind of site. Just a heads up to people browsing this from work.
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by phowat 14y ago
True, I know a guy who just bought his driver license. He paid some cash ( If I remember correctly something around 3000 BRL ), they took his picture and information, made a similar silicone finger from the described in the article and afte
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ZX Spectrum console emulator discovered as easter egg in GoldenEye for N64. (kotaku.com)
1 points by phowat 14y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 14y ago
As a programmer doing more and more managerial work (but thankfully not 100% of the time yet), I try to keep my knowledge up-to-date by working on side projects. May not be the perfect solution but it sure helps.
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by phowat 14y ago
I didn't think of that, I agree this is more likely the explanation.

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