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It may have to do what ST3 did and queue loading of plugins after startup, instead of all at once before the editor is "usable". If they do that it could start up nice and fast in theory, though we obviously don't know what else it's trying to do yet.

True; but if you were making a text editor today, with the whole flat UI trend and minimalism being so prevalent, the sublime UI is actually very intuitive. It's just that sublime got to it first, in my opinion.

Me too! I'm a big Sublime Text guy, right, but simply put sublime is lacking, especially in UI flexibility and advanced IDE features, like intelligent autocomplete, type checking etc.

If this thing delivers sublime-tier quality code editing in the browser and desktop AND commands a big enough community to allow for even more features (due to being open source), perhaps even IDE tier features... Sign me the fuck up. I'm tired of using closed source crap, patiently waiting for the dev to get off his ass and build more API functionality.

Interesting. The whole Sublime Text theory takes another buff.

The tmLanguage syntaxing, while limiting, is still pretty damn easy to create and edit, thus I approve. The idea that you have to learn a new way to build new syntaxes for every editor out there is a big issue for me as if you're going to be on the edge using new templating syntaxes, flavors of other languages etc. you just have to be able to fiddle with syntax highlighting, especially with new editors with poor/incomplete syntaxes and few user created syntaxes to fill the holes.

Ugh, /g/ is pleb-filled unfortunately. The majority of the threads illicit facepalms because the crowd there, while not as bad as Redditors, politically, are quite shallow in their expertise. Simply put, a lot of nerds who don't really know a lot, especially when it comes to what hackernews specializes in. It's likely due to it being the only place on 4chan people feel their desktop/tech support thread fits on.

While I mostly agree with you, one could also argue that there is a meaning to life and that is not to be happy but is to instead do all that one can do to further human survival (or whatever we end up turning into). One person providing some obscure service eventually bubbles up to the guys colonizing other worlds.

There is a default meaning to our life, and it's merely survival. I believe there is a balance between giving into ones emotions and not; doing many great and small things which accumulate into mattering in the grand scheme of it all, determining ones worth.

You're lying on your death bed and you ask yourself; how meaningful were my actions to this universe?

>It doesn't matter whether I download 18GB from http(s) or from a torrent, the data remains the same size

Incorrect. For starters, torrent overhead is much higher than http traffic and so the transfer is actually cheaper for http. More critically is the fact that high connection count, as associated with torrents, results in connection saturation on 90% of consumer routers thus crippling all traffic, especially sensitive stuff like gaming, for everyone involved.

Other than that yeah, but this isn't for people like us. This is actually perfect for people like my father; he comes around every week to grab TV and Movies off me. I could remotely manage his account until he figured it out himself.

The thing that could make this service much better would be a feature to LAN sync content, so that one doesn't need to pull down from the internet when the file is avaliable over the LAN. Kind of like how Dropbox-esque services do it.

>Why not offer separation or the current solution for all users, although I think that it would be hell to manage two very different ideas.

Don't be an apologist. This is Microsoft. They have the resources out their ass to commit to this and it still wouldn't even come close to registering the tiniest blip in their budgets.

MS needs to git good and do what the post suggests, in that they need to seperate touch and desktop interfaces for Win9, or else Windows is dead to me and many power users alike.

Yeah, meanwhile Skype is just removing features. The other day I had this Skype followup job interview and I realized I should change my display picture or better yet remove it because taking pictures of ones self is tedious. They removed the ability to remove your display pic. What the fuck?

Would love a proper open source Skype replacement. Something that meets all of the features in a similar or better interface, while also being pro-privacy pro-encryption. Kind of like the Firefox of communication clients. I don't think it's plausible any time soon as you can only Skype fellow skype users. People need a reason to switch and stay there, thus approaching Skype levels of a userbase. Maybe if Firefox itself integrated a powerful addon that could compete with Skype, which would allow for a huge userbase. Heh, one can hope.

I'm with you on the quality thing though. So. Many. Times. Have I had to deal with cumbersome upload speeds for either person thus degrading audio and video to the point where they look like blobs or I do. Sometimes it happens no matter what the user's connection is like. Then there's the whole auto background noise amplifier that kicks in when you're not speaking for a period, to conveniently transmit your TV or aircon at ear shattering volumes. And once again you can't turn that off!

It's just, like, these people developing apps like Skype don't care about making it a great application. How much does it really cost to put in a few critically useful features? Are the devs not passionate? Is there too much bureaucracy? Why is "it works" an acceptable standard? How the hell can you be a devloper for something that is literally used by so many millions of people and yet feel no urge to make that software the absolute finest possible?

So I visited html5up.net and none of the demos want to load in firefox or chrome. Is it just me? Some of those templates looked quite usable :(.

>I thought I could get away with calling my post "White Power."

See, you just gained respect from me. I suppose it's all about the community in the end. If you linked that article on /g/ or /prog/ it probably would have resonated.

It's too bad most people are such slaves to political correctness.

Im one to agree. I can see how a woman would be pleased by seeing this, but, when I scroll up and notice it's a "Nick" who wrote the article, all I can think is; huh? Is this guy trying to be edgy? So I re-read, like you said, and there is no mention of a she.

It's just awkward, please stop with the forced gender equality if that's what that is. If it's just being playful then I guess you can shrug it off.

Thanks!

I wonder if the delivery industry is only going to get bigger, and actually employ more humans, considering scenarios like yours. I guess with drones and self driving cars it can be utterly automated, but really that won't happen for at least 5 years and only in top tier cities.

I've always respected the delivery/transport industry. It's just so utterly necessary and will always be such.

>for a USB cable

And selling it to you for literally +2000% on cost. Seems these days things like cables or headphones are ridiculously marked up. You visit dealextreme and suddenly you realize; yeah, I've been doing it critically wrong.

>I remember reading somewhere that in ancient times they would memorize lots of data by imagining walking through a house.

Sherlock makes use of this as well :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

It actually seems quite legit. I'm tempted to attempt it. I wonder if I could imagine my code/project in this way. To visualize each file, each function, each block as physical objects in a mind palace.

LightTable is written in clojurescript and it's a first-class language for the IDE (The core devs prefering it I guess).

Id like to use LightTable but I'm more of a CoffeeScript guy and CS isn't built in yet. Apparently to add support you pretty much need to know ClojureScript to create a plugin, or something around that. I'll gladly write the CoffeeScript syntaxer, highlighter and a theme, as I run my own flavors in Sublime. Just need the integration to be there.

Someone help! (Please go learn ClojureScript and PR to LightTable immediately OP)

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/458 :)

Interesting point. The plot thickens further, to the point where in one day I've gone from respecting Joyent (for their support of node contributors and thus node itself) to; I really fucking dislike this company, their people and the way they think. Equating lack of empathy (as quoted by your parent) to technical incompetence is just mind bogglingly infuriating.

This politically correct at all costs way of thinking needs to be bludgeoned to death.

Well promises are suppose to be compatible with one another due to adhering to rules. Should be A-OK. Bluebird is just, at the moment, the most performant Promise library, and they seem to be building their API as close to what native Promises will be like. You could really use any promise library and it wouldn't matter much, perhaps use the one that mongoose uses if it's an issue.

All I have to say guys; promises + generators. My god, it's absolutely delicious.

Seriously, just learn it. Get your --harmony flag on. It will be in browsers soon enough as well. It's literally the future of javascript and having converted some of my codebase to promises + generators instead of just promises. Wow. It felt amazing. Suddenly everything doesn't look like spaghetti.

I use bluebird for promises and a custom dev fork of Coffeescript that allows for generators. You do have to wrap your anonymous functions with "Promise.coroutine", but thats really it. You could always just not even use promises, and go plain generators too.

Wow, that is actually disgusting. How far up their own asses are Joyent?

I've had this discussion in other threads; but, how wise it is to use these instead of vanilla JS in a project you want contributed to?

I personally find CoffeeScript very useful, and believe it's sufficiently widespread and mature as to be viable. All of these others though, I can only see it as increasing the learning curve on a project. I want to use IcedCoffeeScript (Oh, am I tired of Promises) and some of the JS extensions but I can't justify it. It's like a cake that I know I can't eat.

Exactly. Additionally, it's very easy to implement a single-page-app-esque page button that simply hides one page to make room for another, then allows you to return to that page without loading any more data. Considering how rediculously easy that would be, I'd personally build it in as an option. I do realize though that it's trendy these days to simply omit all options and preferences in favor of keeping it simple.

It is if you run it on node.js, as it is when you run it on node.js -> node-webkit silly :).

So, okay then, it's about 12 weeks away from hitting stable. Took em a while but I'm glad it's finally being fixed.

The design is overall asthetically pleasing. I just can't fucking take this trend of fixed bars molesting my vertical resolution and screwing with my habitual behavior of scanning from the top of the page down as I scroll. This site's top bar on single pages is so edgy that it's not even at the very top (a concept I've at least gotten acclimated to) and manages to blend into the actual article content due to low contrast.

Please just stop doing this, everyone! We do not need a bar following us everywhere by default. As long as it doesn't cause render lag, fixed elements are fine when they're small buttony icons that expand.

At least they've gotten the snap-back right. Some sites, when scrolled to the top, do this awkward infuriating stuttery clip-in nonsense where the scroll position changes as the menu fits back into the content. Just stop.

Also IcedCoffeeScript

http://maxtaco.github.io/coffee-script/

It's just CoffeeScript with await and defer keywords, essentially. I personally would never touch toffeescript/coco and friends as they differ too much for CoffeeScript, which already segregates the JS userbase enough. I figure IcedCoffeeScript is the lesser evil for compile-time control flow as it's not adding a bunch of other changes to the language that users have to understand to contribute to a project written in it. Another issue with these CS spinoffs is; what if the main contributor says "Fuck it" and bails? CS itself is big enough to have a lot of talented contributors. What happens when CS moves over to CS 2.0 ie. coffeescript redux? Do these spinoffs need to recoded?

That being said I probably won't use Iced either, as much as I want to... Maybe I'm all wrong about this? Maybe this userbase segregation crap is not as big a deal as I may think.

I'm implying that no real hacker sees such information as "off limits", especially when it's in such a readily, publicly available form.

>Why would you want this information? >Hacker News >Hacker

This reminds me of that Sono device, which seems more convenient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6sBuwzLhk http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/06/sono-window-noise-cleaner-...

Haven't read up on whether it works as advertised. Anyone have insight?