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Naming projects without any collisions is really hard to do, unless you like names like 'e31239'.

I was fascinated with Brooks' proposed "head surgeon" solution to the coordination problem for large projects - basically (and forgive me if my summary butchers this a bit), instea…

Fred Brooks wrote about the organizational complexity around larger projects in one of those books many cite but nobody reads, "The Mythical Man-Month." For example, he highlighted…

I built a pretty comprehensive database of text editors and IDEs (with a ton of data on each one) and then exposed a subset of that data from this little one-page webapp, in order …

It looks like there is a lot of demand for --make/--remove options to vex so I will do those (and that should nearly approach the end of the new features I will do on vex). Probabl…

You aren't, I do it all the time. But it does get slightly tedious to type out the whole path. (when switching virtualenvs frequently, unlike your use case) What I use that is anal…

I did not know about invewrapper, thanks. pew is another decent name. edit: after looking at the doc, my impression is that invewrapper seems to follow virtualenvwrapper's design m…

Awesome, thank you for trying this. Please make a github issue or email me if you have any suggestions informed by the experience :) edit: That one feature reminded me of Kenneth R…

I do sometimes, more as a matter of muscle memory than volition. I'm going to make a try to use your tool as a replacement for a while and see if I can generate any issues for you …

Ah, discovering it from the directory. I considered this in analogy with the way vagrant works.

Yes, there CAN be a way :) but would you do me a favor and write a spec for how you want that to work and jam that in a github issue? https://github.com/sashahart/vex/issues

Fully agreed, and the README for vex suggests this if you are worried about overhead from the wrapper especially for non-interactive purposes where you are repeatedly incurring pyt…

What is truly horrible is that I wrote my shell function, named it ave, thought it was a great name and then months later (edit: after I released vex) realized you had written a pa…

This is based on my personal experience with tools for using virtualenv. virtualenvwrapper is very powerful with all kinds of hooks but I just never used all that power and needed …

I'm curious about 'field helpers,' can you point to a page or briefly describe the difference?

No one wants to be the person who implements an elaborate system for recognizing cat butts.

I think it's more like a descendant of Artillery and a sibling of Scorched Earth and Worms.

And Dawkins was probably an atheist when he was young too. So what? I have never made a generalized claim about all scientists so you are beating a straw man. I have mentioned a ce…

There are many editors which will do the job, it is a matter of taste. If you break your terminal by some obscure action, then fix it rather than choosing your entire toolchain aro…

I think my underlying point is that it's fine to learn ed, but if the problem is that you are borking your terminal then there are actually ways around that. These days it should a…

Chomsky isn't going to get a lot of power from anything at this point, he hit his stride politically some time ago. If you have read Chomsky's work from early academic stuff up thr…

Chomsky is old in the same sense that Dawkins is old and many others are old, namely that they are retired famous scientists who made their name a long time ago and now mostly focu…

You said he was a linguist. I said that he hasn't done a lot in linguistics for many years now, which is true. I wasn't picking on Chomsky for being political. Even much of his wor…