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by slurgfest 14y ago
Flexibility doesn't cause bad design. If you want an iPhone and a tightly regulated app store because only an Apple-type platform is acceptable to you, you will still be able to buy an iPhone.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
In a place where phone sales are not based on contracts, the commitment of the operator is meaningless. On the other hand, it is not really necessary as it would be in the US.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Different languages have different kinds of issues, and these have different levels of importance for different projects and audiences.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
What made the passionate programmers awful?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
There's little easier than starting projects. That doesn't really require advice (and the article also suggests doing things which are interesting). However, the article is mostly about finishing projects, which is harder to do: e.g., stayi
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If someone is competent and underrated, it seems particularly heuristic to conclude that something must be wrong with them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone who can't get hired can't get hired because they weren't hired by others be
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by slurgfest 14y ago
It seems to me that YAML does this better already (with parsers which are already high-quality). If we want simplicity, then why not make sure it is a subset of YAML?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If that's so, it doesn't mean Axelrod is wrong, but that his results depend on the timescale. Which is one of many parameters...
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by slurgfest 14y ago
To be honest, a link to Google Code is not much different from a SourceForge link by now.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If SourceForge is friendly to anyone, it isn't end users. There is a lot they could do.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
The meeting in the fictional example isn't necessarily scheduled, so there is no way for him to be aware of it. Also, in the example, it may be that the employees griping about Bob are not even going to try to notify him. I agree with you t
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Or a person can use a grenade launcher
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Or an iPad which cost over $1000. Google isn't really unique here.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You have multiple good points. But I don't think that writing really requires Windows, that is a pretty extravagant claim. You can write with a typewriter or a text editor, it's not DTP. And I don't see how someone whose job is to operate s
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You are right, the burden is on those taking investment to make sure it is good for them. On the other hand, there may be negative externalities to a mutually beneficial deal between an investor and a founder, for an early employee.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Amidst all the discussion of limited time, ability, etc. you seem to have left off one of the big reasons, which is that people mostly don't want your pull requests with typo fixes or different opinions on project direction - and frequentl
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Same. Nobody gives a shit about your open source stuff on Github unless you are known for some other reason already. It's worth commenting on because of how often job seekers are told "do Open Source," as if this were an actual advantage in
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Can you be specific on how this is incompatible with RESTful bullshit?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Is there any objective basis for saying that Clojure is "better" than Scala?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
To be fair, if a framework was totally uninterested in fast iteration or couldn't even remotely claim it, then they would simply say nothing rather than offering "slow iteration".
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Can you provide any specific, actual, practical evidence that it is a bad thing to use a dynamically typed language to write a web app? Or is this just a personal prejudice?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I'm a big Python fan but that closing remark is just an incredibly obnoxious thing to say and is only going to feed the Python haters
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Why not, specifically?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You seem not to be aware that there are also several GUIs for git? The pain here is not because git is inherently harder, but because you'd gotten used to svn (including your conflict workaround) and I guess nobody wants to do the same lear
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Coming from svn, the skepticism here is really about distributed version control, and being heavily involved with the vcs at all. (Being heavily involved with svn, like setting it up and administering it well, is really not that easy compar
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You won't see the 'indexing' as much if you keep indexes between runs of vim: let g:ctrlp_clear_cache_on_exit=0
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Try using Vundle to add one plugin at a time!
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Yes.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Was NERDTree making you unproductive? How?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
have your terminal map Ctrl-Z to fg, and you can cycle in and out of the shell almost instantly from vim with that key.

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