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brunjact

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About brunjact

Long time Lisper which recently made a hard turn to became a Rubyist.

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    Been using it for 6 months! No issues so far, nor do I miss feature _X_ from previous readers I've used. I don't use the Importance filters.

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    Comment #17708262

    Never though someone would actually prefer a command line image editor over a GUI equivalent. Now I know a faster way to convert or resize images and I don't even have to leave the…

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    Wow!!! I had no idea. Thanks for the link. :-)

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    Indeed. As for space exploration goes I don't remember if it was The Martian or Interstellar which mentions Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). And from there I found this nice articl…

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    SISCOG [1] uses on all their products. Actually they use Allegro CL from Franz. [2] The main reason (for still using it) being that it all started out as an end of college project,…

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    Ask HN: Microsoft acquisition goes beyond GitHub (the platform)

    …it also affects Atom! (the text editor) Finding an alternative to GitHub is easy-peasy. An alternative to Atom may not be so easy. Several years ago Oracle got hold of MySQL and O…

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    The Medium is the Message

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w5fhn «Marshall McLuhan was the first great prophet of what would become digital mass media and indeed the global media village - a thinker and w…

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    Diceware and Passwords

    https://youtu.be/Pe_3cFuSw1E Never have I heard/read about diceware. I can't see how can this be an improvement over passphrases. Nevertheless I find it super easy to type it in on…

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    Comment #16340014

    I wasn't aware Sublime has a trial period thus I included on the list. I edited the post a bit to accept non-free editors as well.

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    Ask HN: A (free) Rails editor for newcomers

    I recently made a career move and ended an eight year run of Lisp development. As you might have guessed I used Emacs exclusively. On my first week in Ruby I've been trying out dif…