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Re:Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @07:56AM (#3186257)
I went to Sublime Text because now I can have one great text editor where everything I learn applies to my Mac (home) and Windows (work) environment.
Re:Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:16PM (#1148795)
For those of you comparing git and hg, I would suggest that they are actually quite similar. Check out this article "Mercurial for Git Users" here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts

It answered many of my questions on the nuances of Mercurial. The branch model, bare repositories, and command equivalence table were especially helpful for someone like myself who has used both systems but never fully understood the distinctions.

Re:Building 64bit NumPy/SciPy/PyLab on Snow Leopard on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @09:55AM (#825782)
I was looking for exactly this. Thanks for saving me the research time...
Re:Ask HN: What editor do you use? on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @02:13PM (#414539)
The thing I like about Komodo is the graphical debugger which even works for threaded Python. As an editor, it is okay and has the useful feature that it's interface is very similar on Windows, Mac, and Linux (it's built using Mozilla's XUL).
Re:Finally, IMAP for GMail on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:13AM (#72084)
Not showing up for me yet.