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itry

488 karma · joined September 3, 2012

Intelligent but bad at communication. Trying to improve my communication skills.
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itry··on VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
Sure. But I want to close the buffer AND the tab. :bd only closes the tab if there are multiple tabs open. It does not close the tab when its the last tab before the file explorer:

1) in the shell run "vim ."

2) hit "t" on a file

3) type ":bd<enter>"

You still have 2 tabs open. One with the file explorer and one with an empty file. Probably because the file explorer has type "nofile" or something, so vim things the buffer you just closed was the last one. Im not sure why its not closing the tab. It might be a bug.

Is there a way to tell vim "When I type :bd close the frickin tab, even if its the last one!"?

itry··on VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
Problem with ":bd" or ":bdel" is that it leaves open the last tab:

1) in the shell run "vim ."

2) hit "t" on a file

3) type ":bdel<enter>"

The tab is still open.

itry··on VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
Does anybody know how to really close a tab in vim? When I type t on a file to open it in a tab and then type :q, it looks like ist closed. But when I type :ls I see that its still open.
itry··on How my startup got to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News
> Getting to #1 of any link aggregator is pure luck

Then you could submit a random page every millisecond and be on #1 with one of them all the time.

itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
> I listed multiple real world examples.

I see no URLs in you text.

> THEN you need code to trigger that

I didnt't say you never need js code that reacts to input. I said: does anybody have real world examples where this type of library is useful?

Because most of the time I get along well with sending input to the server. And in the few cases I needed js to deal with user input I got along nicely with simple event handlers.

itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
Im sceptical. You know why? You wrote all this text instead of giving me a real world example and said "look, this would be shitty without a 2-way-data-binding-library".
itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
Well, you can argue if 5 dependencies and 123 kilobytes of code is much or not. But what does it bring to the table? Your "sub-total" example would just need a normal javascript event handler. Lets say we are uber lazy and use jquery. Then it looks like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/La93vk4q/

How does the way.js version look like? Im sceptical it makes it more elegant.

itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
> One possible use case

Sure, one can think up use cases. But I never had one. Thats why I asked for real world examples where 2-way-binding libraries are used.

itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
Is it really more painless to add way.js and its dependencies (jquery.js, underscore.js, underscore.json.js, form2js.js and js2form.js) to your page then to simply add a plain javascript eventhandler to the field you want to validate?
itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
> allowing users to enter a filter

Wouldn't it be enough to add a keydown event to the field?

itry··on Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
Does anybody have real world examples of websites that use this kind of thing?

Im always under the assumption that the old "post data to server, save it there" model still works best. Am I missing something?

itry··on Satoshi's Hashrate
Or simply run the application only a certain number of hours per day.
itry··on Satoshi's Hashrate
Indeed. This is one of the most unreadable pages I came across in a while. The sidebar also creates a ton of problems. It interferes with my navigation habbits. When I use the cursor keys to move around, suddenly some other page loads.
itry··on Amazon Local Register
Plus you will advertise Amazon with their logo on the device :-)
itry··on Amazon Local Register
> they will than attach reviews to your shop

They will come and stick reviews on your window or what?

itry··on New Facebook messanger has only one star on the app store
How do they ask for that permission? With a popup like the one asking for sending you notices? I thought apps are allowed to do anything on ios. Can't remember skype asking me for recording permissions.
itry··on “Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap
"Yesterday" has suffered greatly lately:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=yesterday

itry··on “Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap
Thats clever! The longer a year has gone, the less likely you will say "last year", "one year ago", "two years ago" and rather go for the years "full name" like "2014". This could be a reason for the revivals.
itry··on “Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap
I was thinking about these too. I did not came up with an idea what it could be. Maybe just noise and we interpret something into it?
itry··on “Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap
Funny, how years get born and then forgotten over time:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=2010.2000.1990.1980.19...

There is a little anticipation in the preceding years, then a big explosion in the year itself and then slow decline in the following years.

itry··on HTML minifier revisited
> barely anything to lose

It adds complexity to your setup and server side load. I would not call that barely anything.

itry··on HTML minifier revisited
I find it hard to imagine a scenario where this technology pays off. Any examples of real live systems that gained from this?
itry··on Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scale in seconds
Cool. What's your business model?
itry··on StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers

    users=db.get("SELECT name FROM users WHERE group='admin'")
is more efficient and understandable then:

    users=[];
    tmp=db.get("SELECT name,group FROM users")
    for (i=0;i<tmp.count();i++)
    {
      if (tmp[i]['group']=='admin') users[]=tmp[i][name];
    }
itry··on Google Reports Better-Than-Seen Revenue Growth
My guess is that the clicks are worth less these days for two reasons:

1) The ads are now displayed so prominently that everybody has to notice them. Earlier, they where less prominent and more clearly marked as ads. So there is probably a shift in demographics. Less dedicated buyers and more people who just stumble upon the ad.

2) On tablets and phones people might a) misclick more and b) surf more without the intend to buy.

itry··on DuckDuckGo Regex Search
/a{2,2}b/

Should return aaab right? But im getting some different stuff.

itry··on Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post
You might be right, that it will go live earlier. And that the 2 year period is just the period that funding is available for. I interpreted tfa as it will go live in 2 years.
itry··on Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post
It will take 2 years to develop this bitch?

My bet: It will flop. Systems that take long to complete usually flop. Reminds me of Diaspora. The things that take off are usually created in a short time. Hacker News, Git...

How long did the first version of Facebook take? Wikipedia says "Zuckerberg wrote a program called Facemash on October 28, 2003". Does that mean it was coded in one day? Since it was a hot-or-not type site, that could very well be. About the second version - then called "Facebook" - Wikipedia says it took less then a month to code.

My most successful project ever took me one day before I launched it. My second most successful one weekend. Then years of development went into these. But only after I saw people use the core functionality.

itry··on Yahoo locked me out of my email account
> Why not just post the actual, albeit fake, domain?

Privacy. The owner of that domain has my real name now. I dont want it linked to my HN account.

> an smtp server is actually listening at the domain

How would you test that?

> is configured to receive any address at the domain

I sent an email from gmail to that domain. I did not get a bounce. So I guess it is.

itry··on Yahoo locked me out of my email account
Meanwhile, I do use my own domain for my primary email account. But the Yahoo mail has nostalgic value for me, because I have it for 15 years now.
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