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by vvillena 8y ago
I had a Lumia 920 for years. More than being fast, it felt fast. The animations were placed to make all the load times consistent. When you get used to a specific timing, the device always feels right.
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by vvillena 8y ago
The Perl 5 core is hack upon hack, to the point that it's been mostly abandoned due to how hard is to change things without breaking anything. Perl 6 was born as a specification, which allows for a "first make it right, then make
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by vvillena 8y ago
If only we had an open specification for formatted documents already. It could be based on text, and ideally there would be lots of different implementations, so it isn't hostage to a de facto master implementation. We could call it Op
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by vvillena 8y ago
Hot standbys work well in Postgres. As OP said, the issue is clustering, not replication.
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by vvillena 8y ago
It's been just 3 years since the first rocket landing, and we're so used to it to the point that today's mishap will get more coverage than yesterday's achievement. Seeing the renewed speed of the space launch industry p
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by vvillena 8y ago
It's true that tabs would be nice sometimes, but usually Emacs users have lots of files open all the time. The usual open-edit-close workflow doesn't really apply to Emacs sessions. An Emacs tab bar would resemble that of a browse
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by vvillena 8y ago
Does IntelliJ support the Jai language? In any case, "M-x helm-projectile-find-file" is the Emacs equivalent of IntelliJ's shift-shift. It's nicely bound to "SPC p f" if you use Spacemacs. You can also search t
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by vvillena 8y ago
Lots of editors out there are nicer and friendlier than Emacs. Most of them eventually fall out of fashion. I was using Emacs when Textmate was the hot new thing. The Sublime came around. Then came the first Electron-powered editors like At
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by vvillena 8y ago
Firefox/Chrome: You can right-click any search field on any web you visit and add it as a search engine, with the keyword of your choosing. I've been using "w foo" to directly search on English Wikipedia. It's half
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by vvillena 8y ago
Lots of people actually expect that. It's how phone apps work. There's no concept of "closing an app" in the iOS and Android guidelines. You just get the app out of the way. I think the lack of improvements in desktop UX
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by vvillena 8y ago
When I notice a difference in responsiveness between Chrome and Firefox, it's usually due to the webpage being Chrome-optimized. I don't know why: maybe it was developed and tested under Chrome, maybe it uses features that work be
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by vvillena 8y ago
Does Apple provide a correct specification for implementing overflow scrolling on custom window controls? Or is a default behavior that only Apple-blessed graphic components have? Failing to follow the Apple guidelines would be bad for Fire
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by vvillena 8y ago
A 20 year old BMW is a beater car that can be bought easily for less than 5000 EUR. Banning old cars is the way to drive those cars out of the market. If a poor person needs to replace a broken car, the new laws will limit the valid options
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by vvillena 8y ago
All good-natured CoCs boil down to "don't be a dick". Trying to push a patch that changes all uses of a swear word into another word that turns the comments into nonsense is destructive behavior. It's being a dick. The p
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by vvillena 8y ago
That's how you end up with an unhealthy neighborhood. All modern "let's give houses to poor people" program learned this lesson the hard way, and the current, better method is to ensure the recipients of these welfare pr
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by vvillena 8y ago
IMHO any non-trivial codebase will be awful in some parts. Codebases tell only half the story, and a programmer needs to also inherit the mindset that resulted in the code. Until that happens, there will be a research phase that will result
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by vvillena 8y ago
Discovering a dead end is not pointless from a science point of view. It's bad return on investment, that's for sure.
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by vvillena 8y ago
Awesome post! 1870-1970 is an era of amazing core discoveries! At the same time, it's amazing how computing is helping every single field there. Even if the core discoveries are already made, the efficiency gains in the recent decades
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by vvillena 8y ago
The Impreza is a compact hatchback, like a Ford Focus. I think there's a wagon version too, which isn't a SUV or a crossover.
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by vvillena 8y ago
Surviving crashes is nice. Avoiding them is even better, and that's been the main safety development between 1940 and now. Better tires, way better brakes, better suspensions, dramatically improved handling, hydro-assisted braking, ABS
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by vvillena 8y ago
Not every academic system allows to freely drop classes, to drop a class without an economic penalty, or to drop a class without falling behind in your studies.
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by vvillena 8y ago
There are exploits written in Javascript that run on a browser.
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by vvillena 8y ago
That trend is worrying. Old-fashioned ID cards are awesome. They uniquely identify you, so you don't need to give outrageous amounts of data everywhere you go. And that's about it.
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by vvillena 8y ago
Maybe because using such taxes in a smart way is a smarter way of giving the money back?
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by vvillena 8y ago
At this point wars between powerful nations are almost impossible. Proxy wars are the current fashion, and those tend to be controlled in scale by the puppetmasters behind it. I'm more scared about a great civil war in a powerful nucle
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by vvillena 8y ago
As a user of both (I use IntelliJ for Scala development and Spacemacs for everything else), I'd say Evil is way way better. The IntelliJ vim plugin is awesome, but it will never feel as integrated as Evil does. Emacs is way more extens
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by vvillena 8y ago
And Rails could have been written in C. The reason why it wasn't should be clear. Different languages enable different ways of thinking, and what is hard to express in one can come out easily in another. This is valid for both programm
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by vvillena 8y ago
American cities aren't optimized for navigation, they are optimized for sales. A parcel of terrain is easier to sell when it's not that different from the one alongside it. Selling a house is also easier when there's no quirk
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by vvillena 8y ago
This article is awesome. It shines a light into the different types of racing overtakes, and how both cars must cooperate in a way so the racing is clean. It also shows how some drivers try to keep to the rules but not to their spirit, caus
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by vvillena 8y ago
But they are Java apps. I use IntelliJ daily (for Scala development) and I'm happy with it, but it doesn't feel lightweight or snappy.

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