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JNRowe
7,426karma·1,207submissions·February 3, 2014
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There is some reasoning in the syndication section¹. While we may not agree with it, Manton has clearly put some thought in to Atom for this use case. I'm personally a little unconvinced by js…
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Ooops, thanks!
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People looking to break out some nostalgia for the original while they wait can use the excellent engine rewrite reminiscence¹. The author also has a really cool JS implementation for the cutscenes² l…
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A discussion¹ of an earlier related post² from the same author brings up a lot of the
— sometimes subtle — problems with relying on here documents/strings in shell scripts. ¹ https://…
20 pts
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I've spent a little time wondering if it is acceptable to push emacs as a runtime lately. For example, I've convinced a few co-workers to use magit, and they're comfortable with it whe…
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I've attended a few Haskell conferences over the years and the make up tends to be fairly evenly split between PL researchers, defence, aerospace, and finance. I recall the food stop after an ev…
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The announcement mentioned in the article was discussed here¹, along with some interesting user perspective². ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31151591 ² https://news…
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I'm one of those weird users who works in both, and I've also never really understood the need to pick a side. I initially used emacs for years, and now I've used both for years. I al…
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Lots of commentary from a couple of days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200989
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Lots of commentary from a couple of days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200989
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Excellent, thanks! I'm purposely being careful too. Big backoff on any error, curl's --time-cond from git commit timestamp, etag where possible, etc. I'm not particularly concerned a…
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Slightly tangential to this post, but related to the series. Have you had any pushback from the sources you've been scraping with actions? I can't imagine how lightly hitting GitHub from th…
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Given developers testing against shells that implement the spec, and a solid spec, and a variety of implementations that correctly implement that spec then I'm in full agreement with you. Howeve…