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Re: 20×10%

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Post by e3bc54b2 »

andorsk wrote: post #44
zasdffaa wrote: post #27

Heh! He closed one of mine! Emacs bugs I've reported can vary from "I'd like this behaviour" to "something ain't right here" to "docs are borked on ". Emacs is so stable there's not many crashing bugs to report. Emacs devs are great btw, tolerant of occasional n00bishness and very responsive.

hmmm. I'm a regular emacs user w/ Doom configuration on top of emacs. I love emacs and I use it exclusively, however it does crash sometimes for me. It's enough to notice, but not enough for me to care.

As a fellow doom user, Emacs became lot more stable (and faster) after disabling bunch of default doom packages and modules. In its default config, doom really is intended for use on semi-modern processors with SSDs.That fancy modeline et al come at a cost.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by withinboredom »

lupire wrote: post #47
withinboredom wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was on a team that did three week sprints separated by a one week “do whatever you want” while the manager and tech lead planned the next three week sprint. I lived for those weeks! It was great for fixing bugs, refactoring for the hell of it, or adding new internal features. I probably learned the most during those one weeks, because someone would inevitably refactor something and we would all learn from the appro…

How awful were your main sprints that were foisted on your without you being involved in the planning?

We were involved in the planning, but the tech lead and manager were dealing with the details and priorities from stakeholders. So the last/first couple of days were usually us giving feedback on their plan. But it actually worked out quite well. We were a small team (4-5 of us total), so there was constant communication and no dictation, but someone had to order the cards around and keep things organized.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by roflyear »

andorsk wrote: post #44
zasdffaa wrote: post #27

Heh! He closed one of mine! Emacs bugs I've reported can vary from "I'd like this behaviour" to "something ain't right here" to "docs are borked on ". Emacs is so stable there's not many crashing bugs to report. Emacs devs are great btw, tolerant of occasional n00bishness and very responsive.

hmmm. I'm a regular emacs user w/ Doom configuration on top of emacs. I love emacs and I use it exclusively, however it does crash sometimes for me. It's enough to notice, but not enough for me to care.

What surprised me about the article was how many features emacs has. Seems they want to do a lot outside of text editing?

Re: 20×10%

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Post by rvba »

I really dont like the first chart that shows only data between 1900 and ~2600. For me it is "lying with statistics 101".

I much prefer the full chart. Of course one could say that they dont see the details in the full chart, but it is not the situation here.

Also good work.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by pram »

lupire wrote: post #48
sloucher wrote: post #43

Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst kind...

It's an IDE not a text editor.

It's an operating system not an IDE.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by zasdffaa »

roflyear wrote: post #53
andorsk wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmmm. I'm a regular emacs user w/ Doom configuration on top of emacs. I love emacs and I use it exclusively, however it does crash sometimes for me. It's enough to notice, but not enough for me to care.

What surprised me about the article was how many features emacs has. Seems they want to do a lot outside of text editing?

If you impose structure on text you can do stuff like org-mode.

If you allow networking, you can do emails like gnus.

If you allow pictures and HTML parsing, you can do a web browser like eww.

I guess you don't have to add too much to get a new domain.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by bluedino »

sph wrote: post #21
e19293001 wrote: post #4

I didn't know this person before: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/ A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs. I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.

I imagine a director-level tech executive at a bank or other slow-moving industry to fit one of two possible archetypes: 1. A suit-wearing person that's so far removed from technology he's just a glorified manager hunt-and-pecking in Outlook all day. 2. A suit-wearing person with a permanent PuTTY window connected to the ageing AS-400 system still running in the basement.

Putty? You mean iAccess!

Re: 20×10%

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Post by hammock »

once_inc wrote: post #2

My previous employer used to plan "express checkout" weeks for developers. In between two larger projects, you'd get the chance to spend two weeks doing nothing other than picking low-hanging fruits off the bug-tracker tree. It worked miracles, with minor-but-irritating bugs getting solved much faster, and with features for niche groups getting implemented as opposed to laying in wait for a bigger project it would th…

Love this idea. How many total weeks of the year be spent in such a way on average?

Re: 20×10%

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Post by tmtvl »

awestroke wrote: post #58
pram wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an operating system not an IDE.

In that case, VS Code is also an operating system

I think Emacs goes a little further than VS Code, I don't think it has an X11 window manager, for example.
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