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I was a philosophy dropout software engineer who worked on the other side of the country and was aggressively recruited by Palantir a few years back (I passed, mostly not wanting t…

I thought we resolved this with hackernews.el - why would you read hackernews with anything but Emacs? IT MAKES NO SENSE>

Is AltaVista going to do an IoT pivot next? Maybe Pets.com?

I covered evil-mode in my previous post[1], mostly advising new converts not to rely on it, but just to take the Emacs plunge completely. [1] http://decomplecting.org/blog/2014/10/…

Definitely! Angel List has a really simple REST API, it shouldn't be hard to do. I used it with my (fake) EdTEch Startup Generator[1], to check if my fake startup is actually a rea…

I love that Solaris is such an essential target... Oh, how I miss you, Sun...

Even in C, always remember the rules of Macro Club[1]: 1) You do not write macros. 2) You do not write macros that violate expectations of normal code behavior. 3) If this is your …

> I agree on the point of frameworks. I don't like any that exist so I made my own Rails-inspired one. With blackjack and hookers? Please say with blackjack and hookers.

I'd actually be okay with this if they also stopped using LaserShip. They're part of the reason packages take "significantly longer than the advertised two days" to arrive.

"Thou shalt not take the name of root in vain."

I use a Mac for work. Mainly (sadly) because XCode. But other than XCode crap, I could do everything else on Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. I'm not completely against OS X... until they…

Without jailbreaking?

You can develop for Chromebooks, on Chromebooks, for free, and it's one-time $5 to distribute. That's what. The point is about access to the tools, the skills, and the ability to s…