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Maybe this is an easier to grasp phrase

Probably depends on the crowd. I mentioned this before during a local Python meetup (a few years ago) and I got the same reaction with your "streetlight" metaphor.

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One of my favorite pieces of software ever was UserLand Frontier which combined an outliner like this with a scripting language and object database.

I guess this is where Dave got the inspiration for his outliner projects (Fargo, Little Outliner)?

isxekon A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

Are there similar guides for those of us wanting to try a dual-boot setup between PC-/FreeBSD and Windows? I remember not finding any straightforward guides more than a year ago when I decided to move away from Windows. I'm on a Linux distro now, but if I can find a suitable guide, I will try it (probably on a VM first).

isxekon The Philippines is in the midst of a brutal war on drugs

> There's a documentary video where the head PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) said that are ordered not to arrest drug pushers even if they know who and where they are.

Any links to this video?

isxekon The Philippines is in the midst of a brutal war on drugs

If Duterte did not won, we are in status quo right now.

I don't see how the current situation is any better. I can certainly see how it would look like Duterte did more than the other presidents, though.

isxekon Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as Linux?

This sums up my experience. I still have an ISO of FreeBSD 10.1 sitting somewhere on my system just waiting for me to copy over to a USB drive once I work out how to set it up on a dual-boot system along with Windows.

So far, all the guides I've seen for dual-booting have been for Linux, and they've all been straightforward.

isxekon Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

If you have any reason to have a blog, you should have an email list.

Is it better to write posts for a blog than an email list, then? I feel it's better for someone relatively unknown to start out with a blog, then perhaps switch to a mailing list when you're better known. (Case(s) in point: you, Jason Calacanis, etc.)

isxekon David Schaff’s Quest to Predict Earthquakes Using Ambient Noise

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12092154

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Discussion from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374003

isxekon My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project

...which is probably why it's a better idea to keep those projects in private repositories outside of Github. Yet somehow, people keep forgetting there are other project hosting options (Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc.).

isxekon Write self-destructing blog posts

Do the blog posts eventually get deleted at some point? It sounds like they will only be made "private" in a certain sense after the time has lapsed, but not completely removed.

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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11923933.

isxekon Xonsh: a Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt

Fairly recently discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672023.

isxekon Blocklist of all Facebook domains

Not sure if this list is included here, but here's something a friend has used:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

isxekon Microsoft finally agrees to stop forcing win10 upgrades

Interestingly enough, Steve Gibson updated his 'Never10'[0] tool to detect downloaded Windows 10 files on a system and provides the user the option to delete them via CLI arguments.

[0]: https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

isxekon Ask HN: Has all interesting desktop software already been written?

For finding files within Windows, there's Everything[0], which is pretty fast and small (just one .EXE file).

[0]: http://voidtools.com/

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Essentially a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744990

isxekon Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley

I'm eagerly awaiting for someone to add Stanza to the myriad languages at https://learnxinyminutes.com/. Cheers!

isxekon The Little Programming Language

See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11530097

isxekon Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

Ha! I'll be checking that out in Freenode now. (Wonder what mpm would say after all this time...)

isxekon Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

As someone who's also read about how Git and Mercurial started (and how Bitkeeper is involved in it), I'm interested in seeing how it will play out. I hope it does work out for you and your team. Thanks for getting it out there.

I'm also interested how open-sourcing BK will improve the other systems, too.

isxekon Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?

You can meet new people at meetups etc, but it takes a lot of effort.

I'm running up against the same walls, too, when I go to local user group meetings. Then I also find out my interests are mostly different from theirs.

isxekon Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?

I would have made a case with my parents for pursuing either a Computer Engineering or a Computer Science degree, and graduated with one, no matter how many years it would have taken.

I would have also pushed them further to purchase even a mid-range machine to learn all this on, despite our financial difficulties back then.

If I made these decisions early on, I know I would have taken a different path. At least, it wouldn't be the mess I'm in now.

isxekon Being a Developer After 40

Slightly disappointed about the post not being about how they became a developer at age 40, which was what I initially thought it was.

I started my career as a software developer at precisely 10am, on Monday October 6th, 1997... I had recently celebrated my 24th birthday.

isxekon Circumventing Ubuntu Snap confinement

And, IIRC, Wayland isn't ready for primetime yet. Thanks for replying. I guess I'll stick to updates through good old apt then.

isxekon Circumventing Ubuntu Snap confinement

If I avoid using/installing Snap packages, do I avoid the security issues the author is alluding to in his post?

isxekon Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language

Thanks for open sourcing it! I'll start building syntax highlighting for it for the editor I use. Should be easy enough since it's based on C.

isxekon Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language

The envy is actually directed at your co-workers/employees: they get to work on something that has almost completely no hope of becoming commercial :).

I understand why you did it with your VCS, but with a scripting language? I would have made it open source sooner, too. Then again, as the business owner, there are always other angles that need to be considered.

isxekon Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language

While some of us could switch from C to Tcl easily, our pointy-haired boss could not, he's mostly C and would lose about a half a day to get back into Tcl.

He did what every crazy boss does, he funded a programming language.

These bits made me laugh (and feel some small amount of envy). Is it correct to presume they're referring to you here?