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Have you tried Dave Winer's Fargo? http://fargo.io

Also, don't forget corruption.

And if your editor is Emacs, you can use this: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el

My impression is that Apple II/VisiCalc were used by small/personal business and Lotus 123 was for big corporations/industry. But I might be wrong since I wasn't even born on that period.

So why you moved to Python?

I use 2 languages with the stock 4.2 keyboard just fine. Changing via spacebar.

So much better now. My only complain is that when you shrink your browser window you lose the interests section, which I visit all the time for specific news.

SAGE is pretty cool too! http://www.sagemath.org/

Very enlightening. I always thought that the "financial world" were locked into Fortran/COBOL.

They also have Xbox.

No, really. Use what you like/know. I hate posts about "you should use X because I like it".

So what's wrong with this? People are not being forced to do anything.

The lack of notification (my dock is permanently hidden and the app doesn't have a menubar icon) is such a deal breaker for me.

So what? My point is that Siri doesn't apply as a valid/common "person" name in some languages and used the meaning in portuguese as an example.

Siri in portuguese is crab. So the "People feel they are talking to another person" doesn't apply everywhere.

Brick (2005): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393109/

Since Light Table relies on CodeMirror (AFAIK), will some amount of money go to Marijn Haverbeke, along with other kinds of contributions to his project?

So you force a behavior through your browser but when it doesn't work you blame the site? Ok...

I wonder how much awesome free/open source tools/services would benefit from a clean, good design like this.

I use and like Alfred but I think most of the people here are comfortable with terminal and uses it a lot. The touch command is way more easier, fast and "portable".

I can't express how much I want to be ruined like Google.

The only thing about it that I really dislike is that there's no option to delete or cancel your account (a trend with startups). I don't fall to the silly excuse that it's in beta or that they'll have such options "soon". This should be there since day 1. Shows respect for the user/tester and sends the message that your information/data is yours to keep/remove whenever you want.

Keep in mind that this is not a criticism towards Prismatic (which is really cool and well done), I just used them as an example to a common startup practice.

Does your blog post deliver value for Hacker News? The answer is simple: it depends on the reader.

I'm puzzled that Mint is on the list, which is a 1GB download and Arch Linux isn't.

But these days it's so misused that most people see it and dismiss as a "catchphrase" to lure people. Even if it's accurately used. So, it's better don't take the risk.

I closed when the first thing was to me chose a "weapon" (seriously?) of choice instead of giving me whatever the site's offering. What if I like Ruby AND Perl AND Node.js?

Edit: I know that Perl is not an option there, it was just for showing how a more "open" approach would be better. Also, the name implies that is a tool for people who likes/uses Ruby (gem). So people would dismiss it based only on the name, not visiting and seeing that there's more options.

My intention was to mention You and Cooper McHatton but Hacker News have the title limited to 80 characters. Also, such a cool site! I'm planning to write something as soon as I get some free time.

It's just me or it's really strange that he's "moved" from Perl to Python because he doesn't like the fact that there's a preferred (by some people) way of doing things. Which, again, for some people, it's the "advantage" of Python, where there should be "one true/simple way" of doing things which, AFAIK, is summarized at PEP8.

Edit: grammar correction.

If you're a programmer using Emacs/Vim you really don't care for trackpad or mouse for the great majority of your computer needs.