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Despite the apparent lack of popularity, Groovy with the Grails framework is certainly better suited for web development than many (I would dare to say, most) of the programming la…

> Take the Google homepage. It’s a one liner text field and two buttons. It weighs in at a whopping 1170 kilobytes! That’s more than a megabyte for what technically should not take…

I second this! Tree Style Tab is one of the few addons that I cannot live without. Heck, it is one of the reasons why Firefox is my primary browser. This feature should be made nat…

I think the submission should link to the actual press release: http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2015/07/cerns-lhcb-e...

True, but this could be a feature of the mobile app. Nevertheless, I guess many of us (at least here on HN) leave their computers on all night, so this is not a problem.

Superb! I like it a lot! A timer for going to sleep would be awesome. Towards the end, the volumne should decrease slowly. I think an alarm function for waking up would be a nice f…

The website seems to be back, but the pushes via SSH are timing out for me.

Interesting! I wonder what drove their decision to use rational number representation. Is it possible to turn this feature off and use floating point instead (for performance reaso…

You are right. From reading the comments on the issue [2], this seems to be the reason why it takes so long. Although I have now idea of how fonts are made, I think the work needs …

My favorite is Source Code Pro by Adobe [1]. I use it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu. On Windows I have to use Consolas, because SCP does not render well in gVim for Windows (at least not …

I like the idea of an intermediary step between textual programming and visual programming. However the author only discusses how the symbols are rendered. What about input methods…

I really wish Mono would gain more traction. C# (3.0 onwards) is one of the nicest programming languages I have worked with (despite its warts). I also heard a lot of good things a…

This is awesome indeed! I've just thought of two features that would make it even more awesome. Every plugin could have the following two lists: 1. Known to be incompatible with 2.…

Numbers is one of my favourite Vim plugins! Looks like you are the author. Thank you so much for writing it!

You should give a try to VsVim [1], a plugin for Visual Studio that provides Vim emulation. It supports a lot of features [2] and settings [3] and, most importantly, it is Open Sou…

Same here. I have been using Ubuntu One file services extensively on a free account while at university to backup my assignments, projects and whatnot. I used the service because f…

Too bad that there is still no client for Linux. Last time I checked, the alternatives (Everpad, NixNote, or running under Wine) were nowhere close to the Windows client. Does anyb…

Yes, I agree. But I'm not sure that for a doctor or a lawyer there is the same pressure to "give back to the community" as for a software developer.

Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume. While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone. Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projec…