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I am a PHP programmer looking out, thanks to the HN community. Out of Python / Ruby what would suit my need of developing web apps at the speed of my current PHP speed of developme…

I get an additional speed in Linux and Linux appears to be honest in file copy operations than Windows, which appears clever. Windows based activities are no match in Linux, especi…

I have seen many posts that malign PHP for its language problems to the extent that people tend to leave PHP and go for Rails, Python etc. But I was surprised when I filtered the l…

Any industry with productivity disruption

Useful. Please share if you have such gems.

Get me block level (vit, cit ...) commands in ST2 and I will switch. They are done very well in Vim.

I use HP Pavilion for 2 years and X220, which works on Ubuntu 12.04. On HP, the hardware support for some key aspects keeps dwindling and that is a concern. I suspect the same with…

I use a diary to maintain the tasks for any day. If the tasks are not done on that day, very rarely they are done in a single day, I write them on the next day's calendar page. I a…

I would like you to add a facility to let us see the linked web page on the right hand side.

We need to think beyond mind maps. Not everyone is able to understand it.

Good for yEd find.

I am using Linux for more than a year now and feel liberated from the Windows trap. Lately, Windows has become too slow in terms of even copy operations. Looks to be a long reading…

It does not support Vim's wonderful vit, vat tools. Perhaps none supports like Vim. My fav for HTML/div editing.

No reasons really. I have found Vim better at tweaking. None can match that.

I would like to yet see a todo list software that sits on the neck on the user to complete the task he himself has entered. I need an outliner with following abilities: Expected re…

I would like to yet see a todo list software that sits on the neck on the user to complete the task he himself has entered. I need an outliner with following abilities: Expected re…

Todo lists are a great utility for people like me who are obsessed with exploring ideas and forget rudimentary tasks like paying bills

Great observation.

The guide could be great, but the JavaScript based shell takes a life to open up and kills the experience. Why not use Linux on a Linux machine than a VM, JS shell etc? This makes …

I finally dropped my Blackberry and took Android. I was cautious while I moved on and use a $140, unlocked phone from a company (Karbonn) nobody knows. But Gingerbread works fast a…

it is already a complete tool to create websites. what else do we want?

We have lived with the Windows and OSX aps looking the same but offering different functionality. Why can't web apps do that, and be more functional?

I was checking a G+ page on android. I am shocked to find it does not support Android screen size. Android does not support the Reader functionality or double touch functionality o…

I have been thinking about the app that brings the pending tasks back to the To-Do list. Any takers?