phzbOx

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by phzbOx 15y ago
"When you're paying developers $$$, you don't want them to be setting up IRC servers." Fair enough but still if it takes 1 hour to set it up vs paying 50$*12. (But I get your point, that's why I said I found it a bit risky in another post..
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I'm really happy for @leah and that pivot. I've used convore a lot but was also wondering where they'd make money. Grove.io is a sweet spot for me as I'm a big fan of IRC and I believe lots of programmers are. Still, I find it somewhat risk
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by phzbOx 15y ago
tl&dr: switch for performance but miss Ruby
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I went from "Terminal" to "screen" to "tmux" to "stumpwm". Baiscally, what I really liked of tmux is the way I could frame my terminals logically or fullscreen easily. I also really enjoyed the fact that I had multiple "workspace". Basicall
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by phzbOx 15y ago
This example also stress the importance of checking assumptions as fast as possible. With a really badly done prototype, you could have found this problem 5 months 1/2 before. I think this is a huge lesson to learn from that. And if you did
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I wish more "library" would be written that way. I.e. make the 80% use case as simple and clear as possible, and let the programmer change it if needed.. instead of providing hundreds of useless configuration (knowing exactly that you'll en
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I really like! 3 small suggestions: 1- At the top, "Curate your own group" -> Create 2- There's only 2 groups on the front page.. try to create a couple more (Even if they are fake) so you can generate traction. 3- The yellow backgroun
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by phzbOx 15y ago
"This social pressure keeps everyone focused and accomplishing what they say they will. It also fights scope creep, because someone in the group will surely notice when your spell-checker starts turning into an OS." -> I Lol-ed in publi
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I'd rather have a Emacs on JavaScript; with a possibility to be run from the browser. (Yes I know, that'd mean rewriting everything. Not the end of the world, it'll be fun time.)
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Didn't know about that algorithm, pretty cool. Also, the way the author explained it made it a joy to read.. clear, simple examples, meaningful graphics. Can't wait to start reading the previous blog posts (About other cool algorithms).
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by phzbOx 15y ago
It's hard to work remotely if the company is not willing to adapt to it. In my experience, remote working is better when lots of employees are doing it (like github for instance).
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by phzbOx 15y ago
The way wtn said it might be a bit provocative, but here's the last paragraph of the post: """ I don’t think you should refactor all your code to be sure you have strings of length 23 or less. That would obviously be ridiculous. The 50% sp
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by phzbOx 15y ago
IIRC, we use this Idiom in SICP while doing symbolic algebra. For instance, when we have x+y=z and know only x and z, we need to reverse the equation to have y=z-x. The system was built on nodes which would propagate change (a-la events). I
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Can someone explain me why is it useful? I.e. why not using underscore or whatever library provides map and filter?
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I've been arguing for ages about that on #python/freenode. Otherwise, I don't know. Different attempts have been made to include lambdas but it always feel wrong and unpythonic. I believe it's not so much about multi-lines but more about ho
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by phzbOx 15y ago
What I miss the most with python is multi-line closures and "can't put statements in lambdas'. For instance: # Not valid. my_button.on('click', lambda x: raise 'unimplemented') my_button.on('click', lambda _: some_var = 'clicked')
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Yeah, exactly. It's good for mothers and no tech people. But for hackers, I'd use something else.
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I don't agree with wordpress. Wordpress is like a middle-ground with 'lots of features' vs 'easy to use for no tech people'. If you want something really simple to get started, tumblr rocks (You'll have something running in minutes). If you
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by phzbOx 15y ago
For me, it's because it's a one time deal. I buy the domain, set the nameservers and never go back. But I'll still move them to name.com later on.
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by phzbOx 15y ago
In that same vain, I would love an emacs in a browser based on the Javascript language. So, a base API to create new buffers/windows. Ideally a theme manager and a plugin/extension system. The goal would be to have this app open 24h/24 on a
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Which is fair IMO. I wouldn't want to provide domains for highly immoral websites.
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Well whatever the language you want to use, you'll have minor installation/configuration to do. For real beginners, the teachers can do it for them. So, if they use Eclipse for instance, the IDE can be configured to automatically use JSlint
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Also, as stated by John, JSlint will be used. That by itself avoid the big majority of JS' gotchas. And IMO, C++ has way more gotchas than Javascript and that doesn't stop universities to teach it as first language. In fact, I think the fir
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I remember a place where I worked where they'd show users a big table with dozen of statistical numbers and percents everywhere. I kept saying to just show one number (The relevent %) because users didn't care about all these numbers. In fa
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by phzbOx 15y ago
And be wary of people who say they are great coders and designers. In most cases, it's more half designer and half engineer; meaning you'll have an ugly design and a messy code.
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by phzbOx 15y ago
There is also this: f = lambda: g();g=(f) Which produce a 'RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded'; But that's only because my computer is not powerful enough :)
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I had this (with 8 characters): );g=(int giving: f = lambda: g();g=(int) f() -> 0
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by phzbOx 15y ago
I'm surprised nobody talked about Wombat. It's the theme I use everywhere I can. It's on a dark gray background. Here is a screenshot: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...
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by phzbOx 15y ago
Although I understand what you mean, I also understand the author's point about 'being zelda-ish'. I.e. I really like Zelda (I'm currently playing the last one and really enjoying it), but I'd enjoy any other games based on Zelda's principl
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by phzbOx 15y ago
The fun part about CS is that it's widely use and is thus a great success. The sad part is that it's nearly impossible to change the language without breaking the backward compatibility.

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