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Dean Kamen must be sitting out on his private island asking himself "WTF???".

I'm not really making a point. Making comparisons like this or the OPs flagrant political comparison is silly at best and completely dishonest at worst.

Seems weird to start a post with a disclaimer that it's not political and then make a clearly political point...

Maybe people just REALLY hate working... https://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/us-unemployment-r...

Yup, Microsoft bought Github for 7.5B to shoot Atom into the sun.

> Popular packages get featured, so you can hear about things you wouldn't even know to ask for. Instead of static code, you get free updates whenever they're available. The code in most packages is tested. All the information on how it works is in the Readme.

Sure, and Emacs has this with MELPA (And Atom with... whatever they have). It's great paradigm and all editors should have it.

But I'm not talking about thousands of lines of copied elisp. I'm thinking about molding your editor to fit your needs. Here's an example:

We use hosted Gitlab at work. I like to highlight a line in my editor, call a command in the editor and get a URL for that line in that file in that branch on our internally hosted Gitlab server (with a custom path segment prefix). This is literally maybe ~40 lines lines of very compact elisp in a global configuration file. It would probably be less in JS because I'm better at JS than elisp. It's very specific to my circumstances and doesn't really need to be generalized to anyone else.

There are ~5 different plugins in the marketplace that purport to do this, but none of them fit my use case. Which is fine, I can do this myself...

However to do this vscode I have to create an extension, edit the package.json to register the command and few other things (this is tedious, believe me), re-read/remember the plugin API, re-read/remember how to build vsix files for production, install that plugin with the command line tools, reload vscode.

If I need to make a change, do it all again. But there is no reason that the Emacs behavior couldn't be included in vscode. And maybe some day it will. But the idea that not having it and claiming that is a _feature_ or (as others have done) claim that emacs is losing to vscode in configurability misses the multitude of use cases that emacs users have benefited from for decades.

As far as testing and code quality goes, I can't really argue with that but neither can vscode users? Do you know what all your plugins are doing in the background? All of these centralized plugin repositories are significant attack vectors. Which language do you think the first big own will be written in?

Have you looked at the VS Code marketplace? It is not great. The LSP modes are great and then here and there you get interesting extensions, but a bunch of it I would not call higher quality by any means.

(I use vscode all day for my work projects and generally enjoy it and am not trying to drag it, just trying to be honest about this aspect of it.)

vscode can only be customized by an extension. There's a bunch of one off plugins you have to install to get little bits of functionality that you can get by pasting 15 lines of elisp from the emacs wiki. If no one has built that extension yet, you have to learn to build one yourself. You could always create private "personal" extension and keep it local, but that workflow is tedious.

I'm not saying vscode is less extensible or customizable though, I'm saying there's a barrier to ad-hoc personalization that's will keep it from ever being more easily customized (unless you and I have different definitions of what is "easily customized").

Script Commands[1] is an interesting plugin that attempts to address this shortcoming, but I'd like to see something official at some point.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mklouber...

Nah, this works the same way pharmaceutical drug development works: US citizens pay and everyone else gets the benefit.

Folks can data dredge and present their results as significant. Lay people trust the conclusions. They had the data, but they didn't understand that the data presents a narrow view. They trust it blindly.

Worse are the people that treat conclusions drawn from polling and surveys as scientifically rigorous.

Happens all the time with Vox, NYT, Quartz, you-name-it articles. Policy is enacted from information like this.

What gives you the right to be so imperious about this?

Was hoping for the update too. My personal is a 2011 11" and am waiting for the update to 12" to upgrade.

The competing chips on y'alls shoulders really illuminates how useless this discussion is.

> There's nothing more annoying than a web designer saying "I know better than you" and re-implementing features. Because they're usually wrong.

It's not just that they are saying "I know better than you", they are saying they know better than HCI teams that have spent years tuning interfaces in response to actual research and testing. Most of the web and app designers I've worked with have never watched a person use their designs, much less considered their work in the context of the entire OS experience.

I have been a fan of Evan going way back to the early Rails days. Congrats on the launch.

This is like saying dog turds are really just stardust and no different than the Pleiades in this regard.

Are you coding javascript in a variable width font?

This does more than proxy, the genius proxy alters not just the underlying code that makes the content, it alters the way the content is intended to be consumed.

For one, the Genius proxy server violates copyright and does not provide an opt-out.

Some people like to use shorthands that are common in DC. This is why you'll hear people enunciate POTUS as "POTE-US". Additionally you will occasionally hear people refer to Obama as "44"... if you are looking for the merger of these two, see President Obama's new twitter handle: https://twitter.com/potus44

People on internet message boards like to use lingo. I don't know how many times I've seen people use journalism lingo on HN, dek, graf, kicker, etc. It's not usually necessary but I think it makes people feel cool or send some signal...

Here is more info regarding the granddaughter. I would encourage anyone to read it as this situation is more complicated than it seems: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wealth-buffett-idUSN204043...

45th president

If you embrace what PHP is good at, which to me is fast, easy to understand code that is dispatched once per web request in a shared nothing state, PHP is great. When you have to deal with PEAA style PHP, things start to go off the rails in both speed and simplicity.

I happen to like PHP's standard lib: it's big and addresses a lot of needs in building web apps. But you don't really see tons of new high quality bindings or libraries being introduced at the rate that, say, Go is getting them.

If someone told me I had to build a product from scratch in PHP, I would probably start here: https://github.com/exflickr/flamework/blob/master/docs/philo...

If this comment is satire it is very good.

Wow the black bar settled it for them, huh?

Maybe an argument would be that, on balance, illegal immigration keeps cost down in the service industries. Those savings are realized at the local, neighborhood level in NYC (think your local bagel shop or bodega), while tourism and AirBnB tend to have less of a broader, distributed effect on commerce throughout the entire city. That's just one point. I guess on the other hand there is a cost of social services for illegal immigrants that would have to be quantified to make that argument. I don't know, it's complicated.

Maybe put another way, illegal immigrants are part of the community, so their presence in the housing market must be balanced against their role in a more complex system.

But if you are just asking about the nature of Justice, I don't have any thoughts on that.

No one cares whether you are a checkout charity monster or not.

> I feel like WF is trying to tell me that those guys are not working here, they are just super cool and they are helping the distribution of organic food which is good for my health and important for the well being of the world.

> The two options available are looking like a monster to the people in line behind

Sure or maybe you are paranoid.

> Have you tried some more affordable "normal" supermarkets like Key Foods

I think this is what the parent is saying: that, for the price, these places have inconsistent quality and selection. This has been my experience as well. And if you live in the outer boroughs, depending on the neighborhood, these stores can be outright disgusting.

But I'm also not originally from NYC and when I go back home to visit, I'm reminded how ubiquitous cheap and high quality grocery shopping is for pretty much the rest of the country.

OP, if really high quality produce at a surprisingly reasonable price in Manhattan, you might be surprised at what Eataly has to offer. For me Fresh Direct and Food Kick are where I go for consistency.

One day when I was a teenager I was in the backyard and stepped off the sidewalk and onto the grass like I had done a hundred times before. After taking a couple of steps I froze with an uncomfortable feeling and turned around to see that I had stepped over a very large cottonmouth viper. There wasn't any standing water near the house so I guess it had gotten lost or was sick and wandering. I've always remembered how seemingly automatic my reaction was, like I was controlled by some other thing.

FWIW I've always hated snakes.