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Something I've used time and again when I was still primarily using Windows: Jarte ( https://www.jarte.com/ ). It's small, portable, and works well with RTF files. Apparently, it c…

> Michael Fogus (blogger, Closure book author, and all around language nerd) wrote a fascinating article called "fleunpunkt lisps" (forgive spelling) Was it "Fluchtpunkt Lisp" ( ht…

Not sure if these fit what you're looking for, but there are a couple of disassemblers for Z-Code files: - Disinformation: http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/tools…

> I use Thunderbird - The only desktop client which has both Windows/Linux versions (with identical UIs) There's also Sylpheed ( https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ ) and Claws Mail ( h…

Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13462788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11767300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6873386 https://news.ycombina…

Indeed. The submission's title should then be changed perhaps to "Bato - the Ruby programming language in Filipino/Tagalog," or perhaps "Bato - Ruby made Filipino/Tagalog."

Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15051645

Hear, hear.

Until you start hankering for "rebase" or any other history-altering commands. However, if you don't generally use them, Fossil should be able to suit your VCS needs well enough.

Veracity[0] also had the same "distributed bug tracking" feature built in. Too bad the Sourcegear guys gave up on developing it further. [0]: http://veracity-scm.com/

Looks like the blog post you linked to has been removed...unintentionally. See this screenshot: https://s32.postimg.org/c88tck939/derp.png

Yes and no: the project had a lot of technical debt, but by the time I left the company, the project was still barely alive.

I can't remember which podcast episode it was, but I do remember him mentioning a professor in South Korea had once told him he was using his blog posts for his CS classes.

Some of them do.

Could be Tree Style Tabs ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ) or Tab Tree ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-tree/ ).

What relevance does a monkey have to this programming language? Is the idea that it's so simple a monkey could do it? Possibly: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Zimbu+The+Mo…

Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934074 Similar submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585987 ht…

the key mistake in the transistion to Python 3 that generated this huge divide Here's how Aaron Swartz (and probably others as well) thinks the transition to Python 3 should have h…

There is, if you use an RSS reader. There are feeds associated with each tag. Try clicking any tag, and you should see a link where you can get an RSS feed of all the new questions…

It also makes sense, I think, considering that Git consists of small tools interacting with each other, while Hg is written as a whole application/system by itself, which can then …

Thanks for this. I've seen the "CONS should not CONS" paper somewhere, but skimming over it never really got me anywhere even close to this explanation. I always thought it was som…

If you means something that searches for files within any directory, I think the best so far I've used was Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ). Lightweight, fast, and really …

Not to mention the internal "world model" has been more-or-less fleshed out throughout the years (see http://inform-fiction.org/manual/html/ch3.html ).

Are there really more? Some similar projects like Monotone and Bazaar are no longer being actively/regularly developed IIRC, and the number of hosting services for something as wel…