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The source is available if you build it yourself: https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/releases . The binaries should be coming soon.

I agreed with the people saying that a confirmation before uploading would be helpful, so I went to file an issue. It turns out there is one there already. You can weigh in here: h…

I'm not sure you finished the piece. The author says this: Luckily, Twitter has an amazing feature that will instantly remove negativity from your stream. It's called UNFOLLOWING. …

I'm guessing he had in mind this (very controversial) feature that was proposed for Ruby 2.0 and then scaled back: http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-refinements-an-overview-of-a-... .…

Yup. I do this since I'm used to za in Vim for toggling folds: # Collapse all threads by default, except if # there's new mail in one. unset collapse_unread folder-hook . "exec col…

I also don't know the psych lingo, but I thought right away of the anthropological distinction between cultures of shame[1] (external disapproval from other people) and guilt[2] (i…

This reminded me of a favorite story of mine about Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon: Pynchon was a student of Nabokov's when he was at Cornell. Years later when Pynchon himself became fa…

I have a PhD in Classics. My focus was on ancient philosophy, in particular on Epicurean philosophy, in particular on a Roman Epicurean named Lucretius, in particular on Book 3 of …

They don't "creep in". The site is designed to let duplicates in after a certain amount of time.

> Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once. I believe that's wrong. From what I've seen, I think that that time is also a factor. After some amount of …

> If I want an app, I download it. If I don't want it any more, I move it to the trash. If I really don't want it anymore, I use AppZapper. Can someone explain to me why the issue …

Since a lot of the comments here about the case-sensitive file system, note this comment on the blog[1]: > pkgsrc hasn't required a case-sensitive file system for some years now. I…

s/callous/callus/ # damn brain-fart Things like this really make me wish I could edit HN posts without a time limit.

Unlike fogus, I am trying to glorify writing by hand in some contexts at least. (The proviso is important: I don't think that writing by hand is always better.) I believe that writ…

I love that he talks about writing with pens and paper. Too many people overlook how useful this can be, I think. When I was writing my dissertation, I followed this cycle: + Morni…

Whoops. I tend to rely on the site itself to block (recent) dupes. I guess the different title threw it, though I would have expected the identical URL to get caught.

The complaints I recall about Ruby keyword arguments were on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brixen/status/281180931950264320 https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/2811811227365826…

I don't work with MySQL or Rails, but I read this all the way through, mostly because the story was well told. Strikes me as a perfect example of a culture that works hard and enjo…

At the end of the post, the author says: "this issue wont be fixed for now." I asked on Twitter for more details, and this was his reply: > response was roughly like "We might chan…