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jEdit was my main editor for about two or three years. An excellent and in some ways very underrated project. I see that the original author is here in this thread - if you happen …

I've been hoping to see something like this for quite some time. Kudos for a really cool project and for making it available for people to play with. At least for Spanish, it can p…

This project is the standard case I use when telling people not to choose project names in a language you do not speak. It means "booger" in Spanish.

I had the good fortune to study with Chomsky as an undergraduate in the early 90's and can confirm much of what the article says. To me he was always kind, accessible and warm, eve…

This was the first Linux I ever used.

I suspect people would end up getting a lot of repetitive stress injuries from such a device if used with one hand as pictured.

You could alternatviely use my tech industry "Bullshit Generator 3.0" for this: http://bsgen30.com/

Ok, I'll bite, because I like the Red Dwarf reference in your username. It's not about just honoring any random person. His work has had a big impact on the tech community. His art…

I'm 41. I also worry about ageism but so far I don't feel that it has affected me yet. > Do you have to go into management to continue progressing upwards in pay and influence? I k…

Much respect. But please take a vacation some time soon! You've more than earned it.

If I recall correctly, the author of the article linked here apologized for its tone and removed it from his blog. It seems a bit of a disservice to repost it here without mentioni…

FYI `git reset -p` works the same way. Sometimes, depending on your work and workflow it can be easier to add everything and then just exclude a few of the changes.

I wrote an article describing this exact technique almost 2 years ago, but at the time the commenters on HN fell just short of calling me an idiot. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

"open source" != "open project"

I've heard almost all of the complaints before and had a few of them myself. But before tearing this guy a new one for rattling off a list of trivial-sounding complaints, be aware …

Me too, but I'm not their target audience. I'd imagine the people who are likely to be interested in it won't read it that way.

> The ecosystem of Lua assumes you eat C for breakfast That's a bit of an exaggeration. There isn't anywhere near the number of libraries that Python and Ruby have, nor anywhere ne…

Adobe Lightroom is about 40% written in Lua (the stat comes from Wikipedia). IIRC C and C++ are used for image processing and compute-intensive stuff, but the rest of it is all Lua…

Probably very few. The site is currently very, very difficult to use on anything smaller than a tablet.

Meanwhile in Argentina, to quit a job you are legally obliged to send a telegram, and people still send them to congratulate newlyweds on their weddings.