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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I'm a Sublime Text 2 owner, but the continued lack of a Linux/ARM build nor any announced plans for the same mean I won't be upgrading. Damn! There goes the whole of the Linux/ARM community!
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> As someone who only used IDE debuggers all his (short) programming career, I was wondering, how do you debug without a visual debugger? I'd ask the reverse of you. Why do you spend time in a debugger at all? For 99% of the bugs logic
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Are these changes really worth the "3.0" tag? Absolutely. > Goto to symbol is great, but all other bullet points taste like what I expected 2 to have once it left beta (basically, speed and not letting plugins crash my session).
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Wow! Does that man ever sleep? And I thought 2 development has slowed down after release (sparse new dev builds etc). We'll have Sublime Text 3 before Textmate 2 beta 2.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Some of these programmers are terrible. Some are awesome. I dare say, just like in NYC? :) Only with a different percentage of terrible and awesome. > Do all Indian/Pakistani/Egyptian/etc. hackers deserve to be painted with the s
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
You probably missed the "kidding aside" part, where I write in the middle of my comment "KIDDING ASIDE".
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The vast majority of mankind do not have safe and enjoyable life. My sentiments exactly. > The reason for that is not enough progress. No, the reason for that is not enough political action for solving that. It's not like we don
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> So now you vote for stopping progress forever for the fears of safety? Why not? Because you believe in "progress" as in an inherently good metaphysical entity? I'd take safety and a better life for the vast majority of mankind over p
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Trust in a US justice system where my data might be? Well, we've seen that plays out. The US justice system scares the hell out of me. So much so that I personally avoid everything I can that might bring me with in the orbit of the US
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
People try to use a Desktop OS like OS X like a development workstation targeting Linux and the full Linux userland and then complain. Go to any developer's conference and it's 80+ MBP and Air's with OS X. Do you hear them bitch? Use a Virt
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> When I used Mac OS X, everything was very shiny, but also not fully there, functionally. You almost had everything you need, but those few packages that needed to be manually built. It seems like you wanted to use OS X for something
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Any specific problem with it? A lot of people complain about the Finder because other people do so. I've used Unices since Sun OS days. I've used Linux for 15 years (from RedHat 5 and Mandrake to Ubuntu 12.04). I've used Windows for 6 years
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I think he's saying that he replaced Ubuntu 12.04 with OS X. Now he's using the same software, but the command-line tools have fewer features and it costs more money. Right, because all you use your desktop computer for is command-li
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Yes, it's "Linux done right". "Y is X done right" is a common idiom. It doesn't imply that Y is a variant of X. E.g in the case he means OS X is a unix-clone (actually a fully certified UNIX) that has made the right choices, Desktop wise, u
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Having a Desktop that works 99% of the time, and isn't made by amateur hour volunteers that either let things stagnate for ages (GTK+), or change their ideas every second month (from UI direction to media framework), is not "GUI frippery".
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Seems like I've been "slow banned" for the above. Taking people's money and giving the job less that what you promised is apparently OK, but scolding someone for doing it is to be frowned upon.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
I don't think denial is the best way to cope with the news. Last time I checked C++11 has been an ISO standard since last August, with MS and Clang ramping up their support for it.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Sorry, but I'm not a native english speaker, so the joke went over my head. (And while I now recognise "wither" I didn't knew at all about the "wilt" word)
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> This guy has worked on all sorts of awesome shit that he gives completely free to the community. Wasn't those things sponsored by his employeer, Engine Yard? He worked on them on their time and dime.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I initially anticipated that I'd be able to spend a number of full-time months on the work. I ended up being able to allocate time on a less consistent basis So you pocketed money from Kickstarter contributors to do something, and th
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Damn it gets even more amusing! A Google search for "Wilt Wither 2003" doesn't return anything relevant (at least in the first 2-3 pages).
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
I'm amused by the above comment, and all the wild assumptions it makes. Whereas a Bloom filter is relatively well known (in compsci circles), how many people know: 1) Who Wilt and Wither are? 2) What they "described back in 2003"? Are they
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Anonymity and cruelty are orthogonal concepts - there is nothing about anonymity that implies or requires cruelty You'd be surprised. Do you have anything to validate that statement? Because the empirical observations of anybody on t
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I think it might be fairer to look at AMZN's price to revenue ratio and compare that with other big companies which have margins AMZN might reasonably have when they start trying to make profits. There is no indication that they will
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
This looks like a goofy amateur science thing. > "The CymaScope is a new type of scientific instrument that makes sound visible." Really? Because we have been making sound visible for centuries. I have around 40 plugins in my Logic Pro
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> You are talking about how currently HTML5 is implemented, but there is a long road of optimizations, HTML is a new technology and HTML5 is not yet here What exactly makes a "long road of optimizations" incompatible with having one en
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Let me guess: for some BS superficial reason, like: 1) Getting the chance to switch to Android which is, like, soooooo much better (and "open")? 2) Getting the chance to live life without constant connectivity, and appreciating the small th
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The arguments to common UNIX commandline tools like sed or xargs are without doubt going to be longer-lived than the arguments to your helper script, likely even longer than the language your helper script was written in, and maybe ev
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I think it's a good statement. But I also recognize a dangerous dystopian world with only one render implementation. The competition between Trident/Gecko/Webkit/Presto pushed the web forward, not a single one of them — the whole proc
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> urrently rendering HTML5 and its transformations is a complex subject, without competition we don't know if there are better ways to accomplish this task. Why, did anyone told you that the various engines differ in how the go about t

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