zephod

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Founder of http://datapress.com.

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Comment · 6 months ago
Thanks for the reply! I gave it a solid week at the start of this month, about 3 weeks ago.

The only other thing I didn't like (and this is subtle, but I had not realised that I took it for granted): In Cursor, you can close and reopen a tab, and the undo history is kept. Working on a large repo, this comes up surprisingly often.

Save -> Close -> Assume everything is fine -> Do something more -> Oh no! That was a mistake! -> Cmd+Shift+T -> Undo. Cursor will comply; Zed says there's nothing to undo. So you're back to reverting chunks of code in git.

I will try Zeta again shortly. The biggest thing I'm looking for is that I can move between files and the context of recent changes persists, and the assistant treats it has highly relevant. Comes up a lot when refactoring.

Comment · 6 months ago
I tried Zed for a few days and loved it, but had to switch back to Cursor because I've become dependent on Cursor Tab.

The problem is that Cursor Tab seems kinda psychic, and I didn't realise how conditioned I'd become to just expressing a few keystrokes in the right place and have Tab pick up my intentions. If you're refactoring, you can move between files and it'll remember what you just did in a tab you just closed, and work out how to make the same changes here.

It's also really good at picking up patterns and the right imports from the whole repo. It seems to be working with a much larger, more persistent context.

I tried Zed AI, Copilot, and Mercury. All three seemed forgetful after a year of Cursor Tab. I wish there was a fix because literally everything else about Zed was an improvement.

Comment · 1 year ago
This lends even more weight to the theory that Massive Attack’s singer is, in fact, Banksy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I have many happy memories of weeks at Herrang. In fact I got offered my first job in open source there after a chance meeting, and my first startup can trace its origin to some conversations with other hackers in between dance classes.
Comment · 8 years ago
Let's be clear - this affects client-side apps which include the template compiler (ie. the full vue.js bundle). Right? So apps built with Webpack, and using vue.runtime.min.js should be safe?

I'd imagine that represents the majority of Vue apps in production, but I might be wrong.

Comment · 9 years ago
I think virtualization is a fancy word for cloud.
Comment · 10 years ago
$3.8B? The average subscription amount is slightly less than $10,000/month...
Comment · 10 years ago
What was it?
Comment · 10 years ago
Offtopic, but does anybody know how the diagrams in this article were generated? I'd love a simple piece of software to generate beautiful, straightforward pictures like this to explain architectural problems.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'd like to listen to this as a podcast later -- any idea how I can get hold of it, without running a Flash video player in a desktop browser?
Comment · 10 years ago
My feeling is that a simple revenue multiplier doesn't work as a seed stage business valuation.

For example, how does this work for pre-revenue SaaS startups valued $1M-$5M during seed? Even if they've started generating revenue, much of their value comes from the long-term network effects and potential to create a market (right?)

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
What data do you need? This is empirically observable. Half the people in this thread are giving you examples.

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