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Comment · 13 years ago
The source is available if you build it yourself: https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/releases. The binaries should be coming soon.
Comment · 13 years ago
I agreed with the people saying that a confirmation before uploading would be helpful, so I went to file an issue.
It turns out there is one there already. You can weigh in here: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm/issues/12.
EDIT: A follow up: It turns out that there is a slightly hidden and indirect way to abort uploads. Start the program as `showterm -e`, and it will offer you a chance to edit timings before uploading. (This is intended to give you a chance to trim out long pauses.) At that point, if you can cause your editor to abort with a non-zero status, the upload aborts. For Vim users, the gem's author points to exiting with `:cq`.
See here: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm/blob/master/bin/show...
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm not sure you finished the piece. The author says this:
Luckily, Twitter has an amazing feature that will
instantly remove negativity from your stream. It's
called UNFOLLOWING. The next time something feels a
bit too snarky: Unfollow that user. Before you know
it, you'll have a really nice place where people have
interesting and quirky conversations.
To me the larger take-away points are these:
1. We should not idolize these people.
2. We should try to be better ourselves.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm guessing he had in mind this (very controversial) feature that was proposed for Ruby 2.0 and then scaled back: http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-refinements-an-overview-of-a-....
Comment · 13 years ago
Yup. I do this since I'm used to za in Vim for toggling folds:
# Collapse all threads by default, except if
# there's new mail in one.
unset collapse_unread
folder-hook . "exec collapse-all"
# Toggle collapsed threads with za, like in vim.
bind index za collapse-threadComment · 13 years ago
I also don't know the psych lingo, but I thought right away of the anthropological distinction between cultures of shame[1] (external disapproval from other people) and guilt[2] (internal disapproval from self). On that score, either could work: shame is certainly appropriate here since devs shame each other all the time.
Comment · 13 years ago
This reminded me of a favorite story of mine about Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon: Pynchon was a student of Nabokov's when he was at Cornell. Years later when Pynchon himself became famous, Nabokov told interviewers that he had no memory of Pynchon as a student. But Vera remembered Pynchon's handwriting. She really was the "course assistant" as this article mentions: she must have done the grading too.
Comment · 13 years ago
I have a PhD in Classics. My focus was on ancient philosophy, in particular on Epicurean philosophy, in particular on a Roman Epicurean named Lucretius, in particular on Book 3 of his De Rerum Natura, in particular about his arguments against the fear of death in that book, in particular about the structure, formal & logical analysis and evaluation of his argument for the thesis that "death is nothing to us" in the later portion of Book 3. (De Rerum Natura is a Roman philosophical poem from the mid-first century BCE. Lucretius and his poem are getting a lot of press recently because of a book called The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt.)
The linked guide to PhDs made me smile, and it rings true to me for non-sciences. As an undergraduate I was a Comparative Literature major with lots of credits in Latin, Greek and Philosophy. Once I got to graduate school for Classics, my studies became increasingly concentrated in smaller and smaller areas of an already small field (Greco-Roman antiquity).
tl;dr I think literature and philosophy PhDs are also pimples of knowledge.
As for whether or not we expand human knowledge, that depends on how you define "human knowledge" and "expand", I suppose. I think it's charitable to say that (many? some?) people produce PhDs that expand human knowledge of Homer and Dante and James Joyce and Plato and Nietzsche and so on and so on. But of course if your definition of "knowledge" only makes room for numerical or quantifiable or experimental subjects, then you may disagree. I arguably expanded the world's knowledge of De Rerum Natura. My work has been cited at least once that I know of in subsequent work on the Epicureans, and not by me. (That's not just a joke: I remember reading that a large percentage of all research across disciplines is only ever cited again by the original author. I find that depressing.) I've also met a handful of people who tell me that it helped them in some other study.
Comment · 13 years ago
They don't "creep in". The site is designed to let duplicates in after a certain amount of time.
Comment · 13 years ago
> Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.
I believe that's wrong. From what I've seen, I think that that time is also a factor. After some amount of time, you can repost things with exactly the same link and title. And I believe that it's deliberate (the posts are likely to be new to many people since the population turns over to some degree after x amount of time).
Comment · 13 years ago
> If I want an app, I download it. If I don't want it any more, I move it to the trash. If I really don't want it anymore, I use AppZapper. Can someone explain to me why the issue of package managers comes up so often arouand these parts and why they're so important to people?
You're talking about apps in a relatively recent sense of the word: a wholly self-contained piece of software that you drop into the OSX /Applications folder.
Package managers, in the relevant sense, are for installing software (often called 'packages') into places that OSX normally hides from its users (/usr/local for example). A lot of this software is command line software, though on other operating systems, a package manager would also manage GUI packages. (On OSX there is this somewhat artificial distinction between /usr/local and /Applications.)
In any case, the kind of software pkgsrc, MacPorts or Homebrew installs requires more work than just "download it". You can download the source code easily enough, but you can't simply download the precompiled software itself, unzip it and drop it somewhere. You have to build it, and this will require lots of other packages and also a whole bunch of knowledge and or scripts to configure and build it correctly. Package managers like pkgsrc help to automate and simplify all of this.
If you've never needed anything like this, no great surprise, and likely you never will. But if you do need these things, then OSX poses some extra challenges. (Although as far as that goes, every os has its own issues, no doubt.)
Comment · 13 years ago
Since a lot of the comments here about the case-sensitive file system, note this comment on the blog[1]:
> pkgsrc hasn't required a case-sensitive file system for some years now. If you've run across documentation that told you otherwise, could you point me at it so it can be fixed?
Assuming that's correct, then using pkgsrc on OSX is very simple: simply download pkgsrc, bootstrap it and then use it.
[1]: http://www.eliteraspberries.com/blog/2013/03/pkgsrc-on-os-x....
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