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by tdavis 18y ago
In that case, if you have a widescreen you can have two :vsplit going; on fullscreen there probably won't be enough columns for that. FWIW, my personal preference is having vim full-screen on one of my widescreen monitors which is rotated i
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by tdavis 18y ago
No sane person would use a fullscreen laptop, unless perhaps their ONLY task was programming. Even then, it makes more sense to me to have my vim window take up half the screen and something else relevant, say a browser, take up the other h
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by tdavis 18y ago
Andy sums up my opinion on this pretty well: http://www.andyrutledge.com/blind-leading-the-blind.php
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by tdavis 18y ago
That was, without a doubt, the most inefficient, obtrusive, annoying way to display a simple table/spreadsheet I have ever experienced. I was so annoyed by all the crap on the screen that I couldn't bring myself to read the list itself.
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by tdavis 18y ago
But he's #1 in "tech", Owen!!!!11
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by tdavis 18y ago
I seem to recall most exchanges going thusly: pg: Robert, do you have anything to add? rtm: No. Though he did talk during the interview. In this age of Twitter he's my hero.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I always figured people didn't keep jellyfish because it wasn't popular for whatever reason, not because of technological limitations; that's quite interesting. Jellyfish are more problematic than their chill demeanor suggests.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think you paint an overly-rosy picture of the usefulness of microblogging. There may be value in the posting of these minor notes -- people in general seem to be narcissistic enough to confirm that -- but I have yet to find much value in
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by tdavis 18y ago
I feel so very ashamed, being a complete grammar nazi. I guess I just never use that phrase.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I don't specify the recipients when I send an email to a mailing list. It goes to whoever is subscribed to the list, similar to how twitter messages go to the users who are following the person sending (or how it would go to a "group" in Ya
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by tdavis 18y ago
Look at the Yammer feature list; microblogging isn't marginalizing email, it is pretending to be email. Behind the firewall installation: Yes. Public notes: Mailing list. @replies: Reply. DMs: Standard email. Groups: Mailing l
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by tdavis 18y ago
Personally, I far prefer lxml to BeautifulSoup. The latter is incredibly slow and leaks memory like a sieve unless you manually tear apart object trees. Although, BS is easier to write in many cases. Just don't use it for any heavy work.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I like products that make money because it feels to risky to do otherwise. Places like Digg have almost no hope for making money at this point outside of an acquisition, never mind the crazy amount of dilution all the VC money brought them,
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think this bottleneck is easily (and still amazingly) noticed when storing things in RAM rather than on disk. For instance, immediately after a restart of our production database it can take up to a minute to run certain queries. Give it
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by tdavis 18y ago
Perhaps boring was the wrong word... "stuffy", maybe? Look, I love HN as much as the next guy; it's the only link aggregation / commenting site I visit. And there is indeed a lot of good content here. The site lacks personality and that's p
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by tdavis 18y ago
I fail to see at which point I recommended HN be comprised of "quip after quip". Or you've assumed that there is some sort of all-or-nothing requirement between quips and intelligible comments.
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by tdavis 18y ago
To be fair to them, this place is really boring, can't take a joke to save its life, and is often filled with the same sort of stories... but the major alternatives are so much worse by comparison that it's all worth it. To quote myself fro
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by tdavis 18y ago
If Python were made to look like Ruby, I'd have to find a new language. I don't want to do that. Luckily, this will never actually happen.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I read (most of) that and, to my own surprise, actually understood the principle behind it. I recommend it as well.
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by tdavis 18y ago
You can't really have it both ways, though. Twitter wants to be the next big thing; they want to be mainstream. With that comes marketers and other people who's only intention is to use Twitter to make more money. I've grown to hate Twitt
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by tdavis 18y ago
The argument wasn't that he hadn't done anything wrong, it was that he was not informed what he had done wrong. He admitted to violating the ToS.
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by tdavis 18y ago
...Take off every Zig?! You're making this really complicated. Just flag everything with a linkbait title. If enough people do that, it will get an editor's attention, and they can (hopefully) determine the reason for all the flagging is th
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by tdavis 18y ago
Twitter also happens to be 95% noise. At least if someone is rambling in a mailing list, I know they're rambling on-topic. The tweet that made me stop opening my Twitter client entirely? "Just saw dog poop in the street."
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by tdavis 18y ago
Funny, I've been calling it a poor man's IRC from the start. I'll still take good mailing lists over Twitter any day, though.
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by tdavis 18y ago
For as much as I dislike TC in general, I can't help but feel a little sorry for Michael... the man looks like he's aged 20 years since he started TC and I think that "constantly plugged in" thing is a big part of it.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I realize that, and I can empathize with your plight. However, just as one would cull a herd or prune flowers, that cruft must also be removed sooner or later, else it will end up killing the entire system. Would this be a plausible explana
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by tdavis 18y ago
What bugs me is that in the case you link to, they've added more crap in an effort to support drivers which weren't written properly in the first place. Windows would be a far better product if they hadn't decided to adapt to so much improp
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by tdavis 18y ago
I've never seen my perceived view of marriage so succinctly summed up with stick figures.
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by tdavis 18y ago
My workout guarantees I am perpetually sore. It sucks for a couple weeks, but after a few months you get used to it and you actually do have more energy... though paradoxically require more sleep to recharge. As long as I hit the minimum nu
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by tdavis 18y ago
The real trick is to never have to get out of bed in the morning.

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