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devth··on Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'
The comment is irrelevant.
devth··on Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'
Oh Really? Let me troll my friend in peace.
devth··on Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'
I could write Steam in Lisp in about 10 minutes
devth··on Heroku is down again
My app with 2 dynos is down.

Their status site is running fine altho it's not reporting errors: https://status.heroku.com/

Their Helpdesk is down: https://api.heroku.com/helpdesk/login?timestamp=1341025835&#...

Devcenter is down: http://devcenter.heroku.com

AWS isn't reporting any errors: http://status.aws.amazon.com

devth··on Vim clutch
If you know vim I'd assume you already know the answer. If you know vim and don't know the answer, I guess vim just doesn't work for you. But for many others, it does. I'm not going to enumerate what's already covered in endless blog posts, SO answers, books, IRC logs, and .vimrcs.
devth··on Vim clutch
I think you're missing the point that many developers choose vim over "modern" editors because of its highly efficient text-editing capabilities. The same points could be made about emacs.

As to "user friendly" - depends on who the user is. Yes, this text box is infinitely more user friendly than vim when your mom is using it.

That a foot-pedal might make vim more usable has nothing to do with vim being outdated or unusable. Is your operating system broken / outdated because one might find a food pedal driving "alt-tab" more usable or fun?

devth··on Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet’s reaction
HHOS
devth··on Supporting IE Is Too Much Work
If you want to test multiple versions of IE, you need to do some time intensive VM cloning to trick VirtualBox into thinking they're actually separate images. Then configure and install IE's debugger tools for each image. Then, when the VMs expire in a few months repeat that process.

Add to that the problem of VMs booting slow, running slow, and consuming tons of memory on my otherwise-fast dev machine.

devth··on Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics)
Maybe she was referring to generated or combined code (common in JS projects).
devth··on Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996
Me too! How strange. Sadly, SouthBeach/Breakers/3015 is no longer around.
devth··on GitHub adds a dashboard showing all issues for all your projects
exactly.
devth··on Show HN: TidyFinder
Pretty cool.

Make the price adjuster control move in increments of at least $10 (maybe $100).

devth··on Vim is hard, I just want to click around
That's your decision. But it's also why you think it's clunky.

It's an awesome text editor. Who said anything about religion?

devth··on Vim is hard, I just want to click around
I actually don't have any .vimrc config for PeepOpen. :cd into your project directory and use the shortcut (I changed my shortcut to cmd+t).

In MacVim preferences, I set "Open files from applications" to "in the current window / and set the arglist"

devth··on Vim is hard, I just want to click around
PeepOpen is the main reason I use MacVim. So excellent.
devth··on Vim is hard, I just want to click around
It's only clunky when it isn't second nature. If you invest the time required to use it without thinking, you'll find it's quite elegant.
devth··on Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
Not at all. The things discovered are unessential to getting things done. It's usually just a nicer way or more of a "wow, I can't believe they thought of this crazy edge case".

A few examples: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/400/got-any-mac-os-...

devth··on Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
This prototype is a failure of both design and usability. It's an offense and a joke against anyone who expects to be able to interact with a machine in an efficient and intelligent manner.

- It's ugly as hell

- A beginner is bombarded with way too many things to click on

- An expert is annoyed by useless buttons and waste of space

Sure, you can turn it off, but who wants to configure and reconfigure UI preferences for the rest of their lives (sidenote: reminds me of eclipse)? Sensible defaults, please.

Contrast this with Apple, whose designs often define what good design and usability means. In their apps:

- The appearance is simple, well-designed, elegant

- The only actions present are those deemed most necessary to the user

- Tons of functionality is hidden under shortcut keys, modifier clicks and context menus for expert users (after years on OS X, I still discover hidden elegance as a result of their zealous attention to detail)

devth··on Heroku for Java
beauty and the beast
devth··on What's Special About Lisp?
I'm learning clojure, and find it has a certain elegance, but I don't fully "get it" yet.
devth··on What's Special About Lisp?
Really like this counterpoint after all the LISP elitists so often snub other langs. The Ruby version is much more elegant and readable, in this little example. Would love to see more comparisons, specifically hacking around the lack of macros in other langs.
devth··on Chocolat - the new editor
Every time I see a new shiny text editor for mac, I'm like "meh". I would have been excited in my pre-vim days, but now? Nothing touches vim, unless it improves on vim.
devth··on I don't know how to IE6
Um, guys, no one supports IE6 anymore. The question is whether we should be supporting IE7 (answer: no).
devth··on Agility.js - Javascript MVC for the "write less, do more" programmer
Agreed. This is the second time this has happened to me in the last few months. Using GitHub repo followers as a spam list is unacceptable and makes me immediately dislike the project that the spammer is trying to make known.
devth··on Git Reset Demystified
I second that. Pure excellence at http://progit.org/
devth··on Sam Stephenson on Pow, CoffeeScript, and the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
awesome, thanks!
devth··on Sam Stephenson on Pow, CoffeeScript, and the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
One thing that wasn't mentioned was template bundling with sprockets. A hack/workaround was posted at https://gist.github.com/989891 but I would really like to know if there is or will be a recommended way of doing it.