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My mother has a doctorate in social work, they have an idea in her field of "Critical Reflexivity". The idea being that theory and frameworks are vitally important to learn, but at…

One of my weaknesses is being terrible at writing :-) I am trying to get passed it. Thanks for the feedback, I think I fixed them all.

For me personally (working at a ruby startup in Toronto), this is the breakdown of people currently working in dev 1 white female 3 chinese canadian males 1 japanese canadian male …

I know of a handful of non white male programmers who are vocal and prominent members of the community, they exist, but they are hugely in the minority. That is the problem, what y…

you could probably just precompile your extension

vims extensibility is a commonly cited positive, but I totally do not understand it, since pretty much every editor imaginable is extensible in similar fashion, and pretty much all…

out of curiosity, is js going to be your "elisp"?

It is a special case in other languages, in lisp it is one of a very few highly consistent rules

>How do you modify small chunks of templates and then check how it looks in the browser without leaving your editor https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup >and how is that a propert…

When was the last time you ran your web server through erb, and modified small chunks of code, then checked how they worked without leaving your editor? I'm a professional rails de…

I think 10% is pretty generous. More like 0.005%, maybe.

IMO if you are going to learn vim or emacs, you should drop the training wheels like janus/prelude/esk once you start getting comfortable with things.

IMO the only great vim emulator is evil mode for emacs :)

Text objects are the core of editing though, stuff like z or all the g commands are more situational. I replace the contents of a string (ci"), delete a word (daw), copy the conten…

IMO once you get past knowing the core stuff on an editor, the next frontier is scripting. If you would consider yourself advanced in vim, I would suggest starting to learn VimL

I think the eventual consistency is what narrows riaks use case. Only heard good things about it though

Schemaless would let you add/remove a field easily. What is hard is if you need to restructure things, which is also probably a more common occurence in a document db then a relati…

What surprised me was the whole node thing. Js in the browser being super hot was pretty predictable

"no schemas" means "schema in the application layer". sometimes its nice for the additional flexibility, but its never as reliable.

Perl and Python are both in the "pending someone mentioning something they did that noone else has done before" part of the page, they aren't considered part of the list.

beyond that, children really don't have a sexuality until at least puberty. There is no such thing as "voluntary" pedophilia.

its not an allegation when you link to richardstallman.org. What he said was "Dutch pedophiles have formed a political party to campaign for legalization. I am skeptical of the cla…

if comma first confuses a dev more then half a second or so, they really aren't that good. First time I saw comma first was from a DBA about 10 years ago who swore by it, and it ha…

It's not about omitting semi-colons, it is about treating special cases as special cases. I just wrote something about the goals of NPM style, and how it can help debug those nasty…