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by pronik 10y ago
ThinkPads are well-designed and do not feel cheap. There are just two things they are not: extra-thin and shiny.
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by pronik 10y ago
I'm an avid Midnight Commander user ;-)
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by pronik 10y ago
I suppose someone has written this already, but today's presentation made it more than clear that it's indeed for (aspiring) professionals, but not for fully-fledged IT professionals. So a musician, artist, photographer, writer et
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by pronik 10y ago
His surname is also visible in one of the screencaps.
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by pronik 10y ago
Do you have a problem with Chinese adopting a "western name" ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chinese_name#/Western_name )? This has been going on for a long time, the basic idea is neither new nor has anythi
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by pronik 10y ago
Which only means it will be stuck on Marshmallow, not Lollipop -- until Fairphone releases a core module with another chipset on it ( https://shop.fairphone.com/spareparts/coremodulefp2.html ). At least that is the promi
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by pronik 10y ago
Meanwhile elsewhere: Fairphone 2 is available, is modular and user-repairable (iFixit: 10/10: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+2+Teardown/52523 ). Ara looked cooler, but I guess I should cease any hig
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by pronik 11y ago
The funny thing is: most languages have a development philosophy completely opposed to TIMTOWTDI, so they are all trying to write a tool for the one perfect formatting style, not a universal tool with enough flexibility for the different st
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by pronik 11y ago
That's why Perl 5 is still an unbeaten champion in terms of managing the complexity of legacy code. Perl::Tidy (and Perl::Critic) is a super-configurable beast to the extent I've not yet seen in other languages.
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by pronik 11y ago
Having programmed in Perl for a couple of years and later in Python and JavaScript, I really started to appreciate sigils. There is literally no ambiguity about what's a variable name and what not. Things like reserved words (think Jav
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ListenBrainz: Open-Data AudioScrobbler(listenbrainz.org)
4 points by pronik 11y ago|1 comments
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Launchpad adds Git support(blog.launchpad.net)
5 points by pronik 11y ago|0 comments
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by pronik 12y ago
One of the ideas I liked most during the inception of Python 3000 a.k.a. python3 has been to rename python3 to blackadder. Another snake, another great british comedy.
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by pronik 12y ago
I never understood why you would name a package index after something that's literally got nothing to show... I know the reasoning, but it still feels strange.
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by pronik 12y ago
A naive approach could be defining that the software stack to use is under /opt/twitter/ and everything under /usr/bin/ and /bin/ is just a honeypot, so any legitimate developer using those would also
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by pronik 12y ago
A stupid 1am question: is it common among ops teams to replace these "common" binaries by a honeypot-like wrapper which notifies the security team immediately, just in case of a complete meltdown on the web developer side?
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by pronik 13y ago
> I wonder if it's even possible to have a system that doesn't reward power grabs and pyramids at a certain company size. Somewhat related: I used to believe that if some company could manage being a BigCorp and still keeping t
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by pronik 13y ago
The point is: I don't have to think at all. Reformatting code with Perl is a matter of a save hook in the editor or a pre-commit hook in your VCS. No thinking necessary, it just works.
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by pronik 13y ago
> 2) When you copy-paste Perl (or C, or Java, etc) code, do you not reformat that code anyways? Yes, with Perl::Tidy and one keyboard shortcut bound to it. With Python I have to manually and very carefully block-indent the pasted fragmen
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by pronik 13y ago
Just a small notice: NewsBlur is actively hostile to power users. 1. There is a hard limit on a number of unreads per feed, which is pretty low (100-500 depending on a feed): https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics&
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by pronik 14y ago
Seeing that picture of a "computer guy" I see my opinion confirmed that notebooks have killed more health than they brought productivity. Get a docking station, a good display, some good input devices and your posture will improve automatic
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by pronik 15y ago
It's about JSMin, not JSLint. Crockford has actually several products ;-) And JSMin is IMHO not really opinionated.
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by pronik 16y ago
Essentially it's "an open-source project is just as good as its BDFL is". Which is, judging by different projects, true.
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by pronik 16y ago
> In an ideal world, the user and the developer are one in the same. I have always understood this freedom as "You are free to find someone you like who'd be able to change it and not be forced to make use of your expensive support cont
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by pronik 16y ago
My experience might be dated, but I remember having a Windows desktop around 2000 where each and every application tried to introduce "skins" to look distinctively not like a desktop application. Remember WinAMP? There were tons of applicat
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by pronik 16y ago
What scares me about this question is that such easy and popular questions (and answers to them) mean a lot of karma points to all of the participants before it goes into community wiki mode, while folks who actually can google their proble
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by pronik 16y ago
A note to all the readers: the history part of the article is good, the technical Perl part is very ill-advised, partly due to when it was written (1999, prior to Gettext's plurals support). Please don't follow those advices if you are writ
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by pronik 16y ago
http://michaux.ca/ http://www.cinsoft.net/mylib.html Both are experts on JavaScript and while David Mark is controversial, Peter Michaux is not. If he is hating jQuery (and he is not the only one, about 75% of that JSMentors list consid
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by pronik 16y ago
Am I missing something, why does it have to be either Python or Lisp? After all I know, Peter Norvig has embraced Python in addition to Lisp, rather than switched completely as in "no more Lisp". Same goes for everyone else -- some tools ar