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zenspider

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About zenspider

ruby hacker

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    Comment #4531582

    I have a TODO in omnifocus to fold those in. It's a shame I didn't do that earlier.

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    Comment #2069400

    and freedom: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27958/freedom

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    Comment #2026224

    I would like to like riot, but not creating a new test instance per test is a Bad Thing™. I just can't abide by it despite the speed boost.

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    Comment #2026219

    You forgot the most important part... They're MUCH MUCH faster so you get a wonderful productivity boost, esp when you run your tests with autotest.

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    Comment #1323031

    SHIFT-JIS is important because ruby is a japanese language with a huge foothold in Japan. A lot of SHIFT-JIS gets processed by ruby.

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    Comment #1184652

    you _do_ know you can customize emacs with ruby, right? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispForRuby

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    Comment #809931

    I dunno what you consider reliable, but I don't trust git in the slightest. 3rd link down on a quick google search shows an august 2009 date (1st 2 links are both from 2006 on the …

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    Comment #794339

    Doesn't build for me either right now (NativeRect array problem in nsterm.m), but I'm guessing it doesn't for him either since there hasn't been a build for 2 days. I've always bui…

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    Comment #740063

    Not a stub, a bridge. As you can see in the readme, there IS a php runtime embedded in ruby. So that covers your redundant requests for interpreter and runtime. Compiler? Why? Embe…

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    Comment #664120

    HOLY SHIT! YAY! I knew if I just waited long enough someone would finish this off for me! Wonderful! What do you think about folding this into sexp_processor? I should prolly actua…

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    Comment #304250

    that is CERTAINLY some of it... wtf were they thinking when they decided to take the regular find-file TAB key and replace it with RET??? to answer the question above: it is VERY i…

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    Comment #303556

    I'm thinking more like cpan than mozilla...

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    Comment #303554

    Dave Winer has been bitching about apple for years and years and years... it is his favorite hobby.

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    Comment #303519

    Someone is always going to bitch about apple. period. Hypothetical example: What if apple is already working on a better podcasting app that works on the iphone, yet they _don't_ r…

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    Comment #303517

    "He doesn't really mention in his post the fun fact that you've got to pay a fee so Apple can review/reject your app. Definitely not feeling warm and fuzzy about the investment so …

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    Comment #303399

    I'm still not sold on ido... I'm trying it out again, but thus far there are enough annoyances that I don't think I can activate it full-time. I may, however, use their completing …

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    Comment #300924

    I was in the 80% case when I wrote vlad. cap does NOT work fine. It is a steaming pile of intertwined crap... imhfo. We got the 80% usage case of vlad covered in about a 3rd( ) of …

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    Comment #300645

    yes... and they're great. Esp for situations like the OP was describing. Fire off a ton of incredibly lightweight threads and they'll quietly sit waiting for IO... perfect.

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    Comment #300642

    they certainly didn't work fine when I tried to use them... after they'd gone into production releases of perl, the canonical demo/example scripts that were out there all crashed t…

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    Comment #300607

    Just to add to the blog post a bit: those flog scores interpretation are ONLY valid if you use them on a per-method basis... on a per-file or per-project level they're completely i…

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    Comment #299782

    I'm much more familiar with threads in ruby. It would actually be a real boon to this project imo. I don't have as much experience with python threads as I do ruby. I've toyed with…

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    Comment #299658

    perl threading was (and I'm sure still is) absolutely horrid. I'd be interested in seeing the results of a rewrite not to C, but to python or ruby where the threading support is mu…

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    Comment #298638

    I was going to say roughly the same thing as swombat... you need to distinguish more. In particular, you seem focused on the fact that your app stays in the background. OmniFocus d…

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    Comment #297034

    It'd be nice if the graphs did more than just master. In particular, rubinius has a lot of activity going on in the 'cpp' branch and none of it is visualized anywhere that I can fi…

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    Comment #293633

    gimmie! I'd love to see what you use...