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by uvtc 8y ago
Never heard of the Ergodox EZ. Looks great. Neat that you can replace entire switches with no soldering. Most of my typing is done with my Kinesis keyboard on my lap. Doesn't look like the Ergodox can go on your lap, which is a dealbre
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by uvtc 8y ago
Ah. Ok. Thank you. I see my reply was sloppy --- sorry. It seemed to me that you were suggesting that being open source plus being productized was required for project success, and my thought was: 1. wait, there are more axes than just lice
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by uvtc 8y ago
> I have learned the hard way that "open source" is not sufficient, it should actually also be a product (meaning the owner cares a lot about external opinions). There are open source projects that succeed because, aside from b
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by uvtc 8y ago
> If you're looking to rewrite a lot of code and pay off technical debt anyway, {snip} Also if you're writing something from scratch. I see four of these statically-typed better-than-JS languages with familiar syntax that, whil
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by uvtc 8y ago
You'd only need to install Haskell if you wanted to build Pandoc. Pandoc the executable is a binary. I install it on Debian via: `apt install pandoc`.
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by uvtc 8y ago
Nice. I wrote up a tool as well, with navigation and prev/next links: http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/sw/rippledoc/index.html
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by uvtc 8y ago
Yes! It's great to be able to put LaTeX-formatted equations directly into your pandoc-flavored markdown source file. Incidentally, I really like the thoughtful syntax additions Pandoc makes over olde Markdown (eg., tables, definition l
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by uvtc 8y ago
> - an OVERVIEW/INTENT page/paragraph. Yes. I wrote a little tool ([Rippledoc]( http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/sw/rippledoc/index.html) ) for processing a docs directory of markdown files into a nav
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by uvtc 8y ago
I buy from ThinkPenguin and am very happy with them, but I don't know how their GPUs compare to other systems. They sell fully-compatible systems. I don't recall where I first heard of them, but I see they're listed at https
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by uvtc 8y ago
> If you're paying that premium in hopes you'll get a fully working system without quirks, be prepared for disappointment. I have had better luck with simply buying the most popular laptop since it's more likely to be work
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by uvtc 9y ago
I think the problem is that the Python docs often put the examples at the end, when they should be right at the top.
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by uvtc 9y ago
I think a big part was the licensing issue. Before April 2017, the official compiler back-end was some non-open-source license (dunno which). In this day and age I couldn't see using a compiler that wasn't free software. But now t
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by uvtc 9y ago
From what I've seen so far (just getting started with D), I like D a lot: * compiled, statically-typed, GC'd * _very_ fast compilation (this is DMD; haven't tried the other two implementations (one on LLVM, the other on GCC))
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by uvtc 9y ago
> A lot of people like the Python syntax. Of course. > It has to be about the most readable of all computer languages. Quite readable, sure. Though my point is that curlies and semicolons are more familiar to many (and easier to edit&
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by uvtc 9y ago
> I'd love for these to be the reasons but somehow I doubt any of us are that thorough. Hm. I think there's a difference between reasons for trying out a language for some random task versus staying with it. I've bounced
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by uvtc 9y ago
> Looking forward to the "why" post. Glad that they mentioned that they'll be publishing that soon. I think the "why" is because, for many users: * they want a small and easy, dynamically-typed, garbage-collect
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by uvtc 9y ago
> why do people always use "not recommended" when they actually mean "do not ever do this or you'll end up the laughing stock in the tech press" For the same reason they say, "non-trivial" when they rea
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by uvtc 10y ago
These look nice! Are they belt or chain drive? Wow. Regen braking too. What does one of these weigh?
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by uvtc 13y ago
If you want it to run free software, have a look at https://www.thinkpenguin.com/ . I've had good experiences with them, but it was for a mini desktop, not a notebook.
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by uvtc 13y ago
If you prefer a more traditional-style desktop, Xfce is very nice.
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by uvtc 13y ago
One thing I'm not too crazy about is that, AFAICT, it seems that you need a Google account in order to upload packages to its cpan-alike, http://pub.dartlang.org/ . Can the Dart package management tool fetch/install packages which are not
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by uvtc 13y ago
> sadly, this doesn't seem to support any sort of multithreading Maybe multithreading is just not yet implemented? > So that kills one of the main reasons to use Clojure in the first place. I could see ClojureC being very useful for
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by uvtc 13y ago
The readme for ClojureC says it's still experimental at this point. I'm not sure how far along it is. You might poke around its tests to see what it does so far.
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by uvtc 13y ago
> ..argh, installing that on ubuntu that requires 110 packages. All that just for a build system? Don't install lein using the OS packaging system (apt, rpm, yum, etc.). Instead, just grab the `lein` script (linked to from http://leini
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by uvtc 13y ago
My hands feel so much better using the Contoured. Especially when you include: * a trackpad you can mount in the middle of it, and * a footstool so you can place the keyboard on your lap.
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by uvtc 13y ago
Step 1: Get one of these http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm along with a trackpad http://kinesis-ergo.com/touchpads.htm which you can tape down to the keyboard in the middle. Step 2: Posture. Sit up straight, and type such that your
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by uvtc 14y ago
Installed on Xubuntu 12.04, using dual-monitors. "f.lux indicator applet" shows up in my Accessories menu. First time running it I gave it latitude & longitude. It starts up (its icon shows up in the tray), but it doesn't seem to have a
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by uvtc 14y ago
I don't know about BitBucket's particular flavor of Markdown, but for a full-featured Markdown, see [Pandoc]( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ ). It supports the elements you're probably missing, ex. definition lists, tables, LaTeX math, f
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by uvtc 14y ago
If you like the ease-of-use of Ubuntu, but don't like Unity nor Gnome 3, just use Xubuntu (or Lubuntu). Xubuntu in particular provides what I think of as a regular no-surprises desktop --- exactly what I want and expect from a desktop OS.
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by uvtc 14y ago
> I'd be genuinely interested in reasons why I should learn Perl? Perl 5 is handy, putting oft-used tools within arms reach. There are a lot of useful and mature Perl 5 modules available (at CPAN). The language has some warts you'll hea

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