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Re:Victor Mono Typeface on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:34AM (#38334254)
I've been using it for months and I love everything about it. Thanks Rubjo!
Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:59AM (#33149279)
Played around with a bit. In my experience compared to a configured vim:

- once you have your local language servers available it works quite nicely out of the box. syntax highlighting, file finder, lsp navigation, formatting, etc. just works

- its fast

- i really like having the order of selection->action instead of action->movement

- im still missing some features like a navigation tree and a quickfix list or something to do project wide find/replace.

Re:2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:41PM (#13015774)
I've been a mac user for 12 years, have my current retina macbook for 4 years, consider myself a pro user and want to buy a new "mobile computer". I'm no longer considering buying an apple macbook. OS X is great but with these prices I can no longer validate it's value anymore and looking into buying an xps.
Re:My time with Rails is up on Sunday May 22, 2016 @01:28PM (#11749419)
For me as well. It becomes unresponsive so I can't even debug why it's so slow.
Re:Why .NET? on Friday December 11, 2015 @05:36PM (#10720620)
Were doing a coupling to a soap backend. It has been 7 years since I last did .NET and now I've decided to never go back.
Re:Flexbox Adventures on Monday December 22, 2014 @07:54AM (#8782906)
This makes doing layouts in css so much easier. I can't wait until we can drop al the grid frameworks and use this instead.

Another good explanation on CSS-Tricks: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Browser support: http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

Re:Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want on Friday October 03, 2014 @05:16AM (#8404795)
i drew a penis and got the "male sign" :-)
Re:Roda – A new Ruby web framework on Friday August 08, 2014 @08:37AM (#8152473)
I'm very fond of his sequel gem. The source is really great just to browse through and learn from.
Re:Common Species Of Code on Monday November 11, 2013 @08:31AM (#6711459)
A CS 101 student apparently writes the most readable code.
Re:Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon on Thursday October 17, 2013 @07:31AM (#6564666)
And when including timings you could easily calculate and optimize build orders.
Re:Want good programmers? Then pay them. on Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:10AM (#3923203)
As a 28 year old, developing part-time since 15, full-time since 22, and always self-learning in my own time i've seen lots of people in other industries with just 4 years full-time experience, not self-learning, doing nothing in their own free time getting offered a lot more for job positions. The strange thing is, often these people have trouble finding work as most industries aren't as easy as ours. I guess supply and demand is just skewed in the jobmarket. I also guess it-work is under appreciated but it's all our own fault. B.t.w. I started as a freelancer so I have only myself to blame for my income.
Re:Free beautiful UI elements for developers on Thursday April 19, 2012 @05:07AM (#3862043)
I'm never that enthusiastic about these kinds of ui element designs. Maybe it works in flash but the user experience when translated to html/css/js is really hard to get right. Just look how much effort bootstrap is taking.

The icons etc. are great though.