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balac

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About balac

http://github.com/balaclark balaclark (at) gmail (dot) com

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    Comment #24652594

    Not for the same quality though. Ikea is convenient, but most items won't last.

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    Comment #22167762

    Yeah, it works because a lot of motorways in Spain have two lanes, and people like to drive fast, so lane hogging isn't tolerated.

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    Comment #19680945

    It was, as was Dreamweaver. Their point may be that those were WYSIWYG editors primarily, whereas Coda was a more pure "editor".

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    Comment #19450232

    I did the same as you, initially reach router seemed like a great alternative, but it really doesn't feel finished, updates are few and far inbetween, and there is a large backlog …

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    Comment #18987414

    I'm using nave, also with no issues. A "why fnm vs nvim / nave" section in the readme would be useful.

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    Comment #18864051

    I wonder why Linux users would want to use Homebrew? Are the packages not available via the normal Linux package managers?

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    Comment #17708010

    This is a Show HN from the founder, so whilst is a repost, it isn't exactly the same thing.

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    Comment #15611910

    That works as long as you share rent with 2 other people and have no kids, try supporting a family on that and things change.

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    Comment #14245269

    vim 8 also now supports asynchronous plugins (not sure how many have been upgraded though).

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    Comment #13938209

    I've also been using DownThemAll for a very long time, it does an excellent job and is one of the main reasons I still have Firefox installed at all.

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    Comment #13839567

    Yes, these type of services help get around the headache of supporting multiple platforms / versions of the same platform, and their different notification APIs.

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    Comment #13669777

    The arguments seem pretty clearly presented in the article. What part do you disagree with?

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    Comment #13571386

    Yeah, I use https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum to auto save sessions, and https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect to restore them when tmux is started.

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    Comment #13568928

    Sessions are the killer feature for me. I have a session for each project I work on and can have all my tabs, panes, vim, etc set up and switch between them at any time. Sessions c…

  15. story
    Ask HN: What is the best Chromebook for Linux 2017?

    I'd like a Chromebook to run Linux on, this will be used for light web dev with node, vim, etc.

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    Comment #13279772

    > If a user denies the notification request then the site is never allowed to ask again Sites will start doing what apps have been doing for a while on ios, use a custom dialog to …

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    Comment #13221697

    There isn't a compelling reason imo, you get a dark console theme, slightly nicer / slimmer browser chrome, and a newer version of FF than the normal stable release, I'm not sure m…

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    Comment #13221683

    He is likely referring to: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/?v=a This is a developer focused edition of FF and shouldn't be unstable.

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    Comment #12989640

    what dock do you use?

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    Comment #12836409

    That is actually pretty neat, I've been wanting a macbook dock for ages and this is almost that...

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    Comment #12742709

    GitUp is a good GitX replacement.

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    Comment #12742705

    I have the same workflow as you and GitUp works great.

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    Comment #12693235

    Then got a refund from google.

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    Comment #12441478

    Shouldn't you already have the source videos for you channel?

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    Comment #11760513

    I use :input ( https://api.jquery.com/input-selector/ ) occasionally