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mklappstuhl

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mklappstuhl··on Lovable incident report: Recovering from being taken down by GitHub
I read you migrated to an S3-based git backend — would love to hear more about that story and how you managed the migration. Did you migrate all repos at once or on demand?

Also chapeau for the quick turnaround, I logged into lovable and saw the incident and you didn't let GitHub slow you down :-)

mklappstuhl··on Show HN: Postleaf – Open source blogging platform
MobileDoc might be interesting to you: https://github.com/bustlelabs/mobiledoc-kit
mklappstuhl··on [dead]
user: Siimteller created: 1375 days ago karma: 394 about: Marketing @ Wire.com

lol

mklappstuhl··on Exposure to Ideologically Diverse Information on Facebook
Here's a PDF version http://cn.cnstudiodev.com/uploads/document_attachment/attach...
mklappstuhl··on Exposure to Ideologically Diverse Information on Facebook
Is the actual paper hidden behind a login? o.O
mklappstuhl··on GitHub Launches an Engineering Blog
Why not a proper github.com domain? First moment I saw the URL I thought "fake".
mklappstuhl··on Feature Macros, an Alternative to Feature Expressions in Clojure
I'm curious what problems came up in your conversation?
mklappstuhl··on Feature Macros, an Alternative to Feature Expressions in Clojure
Does this also affect the #_ discard macro? And what about anonymous functions like `#(+ 5 %)`? Since those are reader macros I assume yes?
mklappstuhl··on Why Boot Is Relevant for The Clojure Ecosystem
I wasn't aware that this is discouraged. Is that part of the guidelines? I couldn't find the relevant section at brief skimming/ctrl-f.
mklappstuhl··on Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?
I would implement cassowary (the constraint solving algorithm) in Clojure/Clojurescript. And then I would try to find a good way to make it usable for layouting in React-based environments. I think it could be done in a shorter timespan.

Anyone interested in pairing on that?

mklappstuhl··on Emacs and Vim
Agree. I'm using projectile[1] for now but that somehow messes things up with caching files so that I actually cannot search my project files. I assume that might be a fault on my side though.

Have you tried projectile? From reading the Readme this was exactly what I was looking for as a Ctrl-P replacement.

[1] https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

mklappstuhl··on Forbes: What is the most valuable programming language to know for the future?
Actually thats "What is the most valuable runtime to target for the future?", right?
mklappstuhl··on How every smartphone platform gets the alarm clock wrong
Interesting observation but why should you just closely model the physical inspiration when creating applications for screens? Snooze is actually not very helpful even though it feels good in that very moment [1]

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/06/health/upwave-snooze-butto... (I'm sure you can find better sources)

mklappstuhl··on Hiring Developers in a Remote and Distributed Company
Polish language as a requirement is a big blocker I'd assume.
mklappstuhl··on The Death of Twitter
Twitter is big and I personally don't have that problem. So I'd guess that this is more of an issue related to the people you follow instead of Twitter itself.

Unfortunately Twitter can't know which content you'll like so there is some work required to build up a feed that continuously delivers this content.

This seems to be one of the major issues when it comes to joining Twitter nowadays too.

PS: Title feels very "sensational"...

mklappstuhl··on Dropping out is probably not for you
This is interesting. I just read four points and was completely like: "Not me, not me, not me, not me."

Then I read the fifth point and just thought: "This more likely me. Except for the savings and the acing of exams without learning."

I was a little confused about the "Do it" since all other points ended with "Don't do it" but it has been fun.

Thanks for this article.

PS. I am about to pause studying for half a year to one year and than continue to study. I am 19.

mklappstuhl··on Microsoft to acquire Skype
I'm curious to see what Microsoft will do with the more or less unmaintained Linux version of Skype.
mklappstuhl··on [dead]
Where is the original post w/ comments?
mklappstuhl··on Joel Spolsky: Lunch
Well, when I read the Twitter headline I was sure that this is a link I'd like to share with my coworkers. After reading it however it seems not to have much of content.

Some other reasons beside the obvious social ones:

1. If you aren't working on the same project you can use these lunch-discussions to generate ideas.

2. You can ask for feedback on any descision from people that are not actually involved in your project.

3. If you are working at a company where you can actually influence the company's principles, rules and processes you can make your job even better by improving the company's behavior. Which is far more fun if you are not doing it alone.

There are probably more reasons. This article is really missing some substance beside the psychological impact of social interactions. Common lunch can also provide value to the company itself.

mklappstuhl··on An Architect Squeezes 24 Rooms Into 344 Square Feet (Video)
I'm also curious what the amount of money he invested was like. While I really like the hack I think it was a quite expensive one.

With a certain amount of money you can do nearly everything. The art is to do it with less.

mklappstuhl··on Mark Bao tracks down his stolen laptop and has the last laugh
Am I the only one that thinks that this could be a contrived story?
mklappstuhl··on Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser
It's a kind of a Javascript framework called Cappucino, I assume.
mklappstuhl··on Ask HN: Why should I study computer science?
Everything you said sounds to me like parts of higher semesters (6+).

We never did analyse an algorithm. We were never encouraged to find better ones. "Designing a fault-tolerant distributed computing system" – I wish there were a course like that.

Maybe I just don't see the relations to real world because they teach basics first. But what do I need an engine for if I don't know that I can combine it with 2 axis and 4 tires to make it drive.

Short story:

I have on course in which we actually program. We are programming in a bad documented functional programming language. This language only works on Linux. When I asked my tutor why this is as it is and that I'd like to try to get it working on Macs he didn't encourage me to do this at all. He already worked a bit on this but had no time at the moment to proceed his work. He could have just send me what he has done and maybe some known problems and maybe I'd have been able to get it working. But he didn't. (Why?)

mklappstuhl··on Nexus S
Since it has bascially the same specs as the Galaxy S it would be really nice if Samsung would stop all there closed source/custom (Bada+)Android stuff.

I always waited for the opportunity to use a stock Android on my Galaxy S. Hopefully this will be possible soon.