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_virtu

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    At least for me, I pirate music, but I make an effort to contribute directly to the bottom line for artists. This is best done by buying overpriced merch at shows or donating direc…

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    Comment #47736522

    Have you tried reaching out to people who have installed your app and asking what they did and why they did it?

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    Comment #47736482

    Why does the JavaScript ecosystem pride itself in not having a framework? That’s the very thing that drove me out of the ecosystem. JavaScript was my first professional language of…

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    Comment #47734177

    I came here thinking that there would be more comments discussing this. This seems like the wrong direction to go for fixing the comfort problem. Tilting your wrists down like that…

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    Comment #47551843

    Thanks for the rundown. I just started using cmux and the pane behavior you’re describing is my biggest gripe. I’ll check this out.

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    Comment #46950395

    In my spare time https://bookclub.cloud . It’s a tool that leverages your drm free ebooks to help manage your book clubs. The epub file offers more rich info such as: - word counts…

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    That's not the only reason I was using the tooling at the time. Specifically everything else regarding the JetBrains ecosystem kept me hooked, but when I was looking to replace wha…

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    Comment #46406233

    Remember this type of comment. Never let yourself fall into this type of thinking when trying to understand what your users want. Instead of passing judgement on why someone values…

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    Comment #46363135

    What’s stopping you from using it in the terminal view of VSCode? Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your comment so please forgive me if I am. Maybe you’re saying that you wish VSCose i…

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    Comment #46361829

    The commit workflow was what kept me locked in to the ecosystem for so long. LazyGit was so good that it convinced me I didn’t need JetBrains anymore. If you love the workflow with…

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    I’ve been a JetBrains toolbox subscriber for over a decade. I used to run trainings for new hires to get them up to speed on the eco system as our team would provide licenses. I sa…

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    Hey OP I’m building a bookclub app. Do you happen to have an api I could plug into? I’d love to add this to our member suggestions section.

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    Comment #44405807

    First I’d like to state that if you look at my post history I’ve been here far before the bleed in from Reddit. Your whole response is pretty cynical and leads in the negative dire…

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    I mean the grandparent poster isn’t wrong. This whole system is stacked against us. It’s difficult to keep moving knowing that we don’t have the ability to opt out of the way our w…

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    Comment #42995933

    I’m currently building something like this. It comes at the problem from a different angle though. The app uses the book to aid discussions for the current reading sections. Fun to…

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    > ORMs are the devil in all languages and all implementations. Just write the damn SQL I was agreeing with most opinions and then I saw this one. Having used Ecto from the elixir e…

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    Thanks for your recommendation. I ended up not putting it down because of this comment. :)

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    I will say that it’s nice that you need explicit imports in Gleam. Elixir does not require this and a lot of code in our codebase suffers from unspecified imports which can be diff…

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    Comment #40655032

    It doesn’t right now, but it will. Jose and company have been working on a gradual type system. Elixir 1.17 recently released the first typing features.

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    Comment #40578316

    I watched it. Thank you for the recommendation. Sounds absolutely fascinating. I just started the second Hyperion book, but I might have to put it down to prioritize this. It does …

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    Comment #40575873

    This is hilarious. I bought the book after watching Blade Runner 2049. There's a scene where some of book was being recited as part of the protagonist's anti-empathy test and I fig…

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    Comment #40429996

    - The identity trap: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712961/the-identity... I really like "The identity trap" it's one of the few socio-political books that helps to make …

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    I'm curious as to why. I finally went all in on neovim about two years ago and have been having an amazingly stable experience.