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by tych0 14y ago
The thing is, he didn't when the iPod came out. There were a million other MP3 players; the market was well saturated and everyone had their favorite which was not an apple product. Nobody was waiting in line.
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by tych0 14y ago
I think "A variable name's length should be directly proportional to the size of its scope" is a healthy mantra. As other comments have pointed out: in anonymous functions and other obvious contexts, short variable names are often more clea
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by tych0 14y ago
Cool, thank you very much!
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by tych0 14y ago
Wow, this is pretty cool! Could you give a few more examples to get a feel for what kind of results you get (and inputs you can give)?
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by tych0 14y ago
I wrote a nice long response to this, but HN apparently ate my comment :-(. Here's a second try. > can someone explain what the advantage of a tiling wm is? here people talk about not using the mouse, but i don't use the mouse with kde
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by tych0 14y ago
What kind of performance benchmarks are you looking for? There used to be some memory leaks in xpyb (the X interface qtile uses), but 1.3.1 addresses most of those I believe. Other than that, I'm not sure anyone has ever reported any perfor
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by tych0 14y ago
Hmm, ok. I guess I hadn't even really considered that this was a mistake people would make. Thanks for the input!
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by tych0 14y ago
That's a good point - you can script saving/restoring your windows, do your xrandr stuff, and restart qtile and it should work just fine. Admittedly not ideal, though.
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by tych0 14y ago
I can comment to say that nobody has really looked at it, so it's unfortunately probably still broken :-(. Patches are definitely welcome, though!
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Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM(github.com)
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by tych0 14y ago
> This I disagree with. Why else would they made it available for download? (They might not be marketing the software, but they are marketing something -- e.g., their coding skills.) Speaking as someone who has developed and released op
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by tych0 14y ago
Sure, but there's no reason you can't offer a non-monthly plan at the true operating cost * 1.(your markup). It might be slightly (or vastly) more expensive per request than the monthly plan, but guys like me would still buy 20 or 30, inste
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by tych0 14y ago
Hi, looks like an interesting service! I've already sent it to a bunch of my friends who I think can get a lot of value out of it. Unfortunately, I don't think I could extract $25/mo out of the service myself. Do you have any plans for alte
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Are there? If I knew something had a backdoor, I'd always wonder who else has figured it out.
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> too critical operationally to leave This seems odd to me. If the guy is really that much of an asshole, why do you care if you leave him holding the bag? Maybe he'd learn something from the experience. The financial investment I total
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by tych0 14y ago
Perhaps he is interested in spreading knowledge. His post is basically identical to this one, but this one got selected. It's natural to want to understand why, rather than simply giving up. Indeed, if he comes to understand why, then kno
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by tych0 14y ago
http://git-scm.com/ works pretty well.
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by tych0 14y ago
Hi craigc, I'd be interested in using this, but (and yeah, this is terrible) I need some sort of "scoping", i.e. hotkeys would dispatch differently based on what element is highlighted. I realize I could achieve this by making my bound func
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by tych0 14y ago
I was afraid of this too, so I just bought an unfinished door from home depot (for $22 oddly enough), and some crappy filing cabinets from the local university that were the right height. Set door on filing cabinets => done. I could bol
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by tych0 14y ago
It's a bad question, though. Either you know the answer, or the peephole optimizer will do a better job than you will, and therefore you should use what's most readable. I agree with GP that these kinds of questions are unfortunate noise at
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by tych0 14y ago
> Facebook levels of load would be a great problem to have. Until then, who cares? Good question, why did he bring it up? As others pointed out, it doesn't even make sense: your data store is where you have to scale, not the language it
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by tych0 14y ago
1. Until you hit facebook levels and have to write your own interpreter. 2. Sure, but your code will also suck and be hard to maintain. 3. Nonsense. You might as well say that everyone should use C because it was the first language with a T