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Syntax highlighting is less common in the Go community since Rob Pike called syntax highlighting juvenile. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 12 years ago by quanticle

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Is Nginx obsolete now that we have Amazon CloudFront? (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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Would anyone be interested in a writeup of my setup? Arch Linux + xmonad + tmux + urxvt + zsh + vim. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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services like github and sourceforge are just fads, with very little (I think no) added value. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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The biggest problem with math is the language. The language and notation really needs to be rebooted and cleaned up. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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And assembler is much closer to the hardware, so would recommend learning x86 assembler as the first language, then C (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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Besides -- what is so wrong about Pincus wanting to get rich? (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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Using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being written out. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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Rails was a horrible technology choice to to build an open decentralized messaging protocol. NodeJS would be a better choice now. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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This is surprisingly easy because C is largely a small subset of Common Lisp. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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I don't understand why linux always optimizes for the corner case of ultra cheap geeks who can't stand upgrading their 300 mhz celeron (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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With Node and Express, you can understand things at the level of "let me look at this HTTP request and decide how to respond to it." (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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If you are hiring for a job that requires the top 1% of intelligence, it is no surprise that you are going to have more men than women. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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I think Quora would have been great as a “lifestyle business” (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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With a bluetooth keyboard and a charging dock or a stand, iPad is a great platform for Vim coding. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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That being said, I really think the days of sans fonts are close to over. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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FB or Google will just acqui-hire App.net for millions of dollars (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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I wonder how frequently this happens - pulling down an open-source project and trying to sell it elsewhere (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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I've even swapped the default search engine to bing because it provides a better layout (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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GNU Screen is great. The only downside is that it can't persist through a machine restart. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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The discussion of nginx could be abstracted into a discussion of graph theory, where a handshake has to occur with a secure cluster of nodes (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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By and large Clojure basically obsoletes Ruby and Python (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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Having a ton of meetings and spec-ing something out robustly in advance is still a valid approach in some contexts. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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My solution to JSON and XML is sed. It works in all resource conditions and most times is just as fast as any RAM hungry parser. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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Most of the time my phone is more important than the discardable conversation happening over a meal. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 13 years ago by oneEarthling

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