stevejohnson

I really did want to expand on the point you disagreed with, but I had to leave. Here's a bit more.

What I meant was that given the choice between two tools, one of which is pleasant to use (for whatever reason) and one of which is not, I will always choose the one that is more pleasant to use. So far, reading and testing, I have not seen any reason to prefer appCode to Xcode. If appCode had some sort of killer feature, then I would put less emphasis on the way it looks.

In addition, this sort of interface displays a fundamental misunderstanding of OS X and iOS by Jetbrains. Integrating with an OS is about more than getting your code to run and do stuff. I am a user as much as any iPhone owner is a user.

At first I was excited that Xcode had some competition, so I downloaded this as soon as it was available.

Unfortunately, it has a crappy Java-generic GUI. For an IDE for a platform that makes a big deal out of user experience, it really looks awful. (And it manages to be slower than Xcode 4!)

I understand that tools don't have to be pretty to be functional, but I draw the line here.

In recent years the delay has gone from months, to a month, to weeks, to a week, to mere days. This year, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't online the day after they were given.

And is definitely not insane.

You really think the developer tools team doesn't have a UI designer?

I've been a Chrome user (OS X) for a while, but switched to FF4RC to see if it used less memory than Chrome (not a difficult feat).

It was mostly great, except the UI would stop responding at random for minutes at a time. So I'm back on Chrome.

This video is so good that even though I hadn't previously thought I needed a form on my web site, I realized that I will in the near future and immediately signed up for Wufoo.

I always package the full Python interpreter when I release applications because I am guaranteed a specific version and set of libraries. The tradeoff of a few megabytes for stability is a good one regardless of the availability of the framework.

I really enjoyed this article. I do take issue with a couple of sentences:

"We hear in stereo 3-D." This is not true unless we move our heads. We hear in one dimension, left-to-right.

"We hear better than we see." This is an apples-to-monkeys comparison.

This post ought to be titled "Crazy fan-made Minecraft ad using realistic CG effects," not the generic title of Notch's blog.

Also, it's something I would have rather not seen on the front page, but I suppose the community has spoken...

I didn't say that the comments agreed with me. I said that's what I gathered from the comments, which say that one consumer security tool flagged the site, and one blacklist flagged the site.

Reading the comments, it looks like the "hacker" part is spooking some bean counters. I wouldn't worry about it.

The only thing "Textmate-like" about this Chrome extension is that it has a file list on the left and a tabbed editor on the right.

That said, this looks quite convenient, and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention!

No other comment I have ever read on HN has made me as angry as this one.

My last emotional response comment wasn't such a good idea, so I'll leave you to your bigotry.

1: Edited my post to have it make more sense

2: I just did not expect to be reading this sort of thing on a Tuesday morning on Hacker News. It caught me completely off guard.

I just started reading the thread linked from the blog post, and it felt like reading House of Leaves. Here are some choice quotes from various authors:

Re Clojure: "This is a 'babel' plot to destroy lisp."

"Pocket Forth is a free Forth interactive-interpretor that runs fine on my Macintosh "Performa 600" (68030-CPU) System 7.5.5."

"The Mac is a desktop-publishing 'appliance' --- considering that you don't have a laser-printer, a Mac is about as useful to you as a bicycle is to a fish. Besides that, you don't seem like the desktop-publishing type of guy --- that is mostly a marketing-department girl thing."

"I really foresee the collapse of civilization. The majority of people in America are motivated entirely by hate, fear, greed and envy, and this situation can't continue indefinitely. This is what I describe in my book, 'After the Obamacalypse,' which is included in the slide-rule package on my web-page."

    Another time I was sitting in my van in a parking lot. A skinny 
    Jew walked up to the van, peered inside, then tried to open the door 
    but discovered that it was locked, so he walked away. I got out and 
    walked over to him, and I said: "What the hell do you think you're 
    doing?" He also said that he thought it was his friend's van, but he 
    didn't apologize at all, but became prideful and belligerent. When I 
    said, "I think you're a thief," he said: "Look at the way you're 
    dressed; you're the thief!" (I was wearing a hoodie). He told me that 
    if I continued bothering him, he was going to call the police, and he 
    got out his cell-phone. When I said, "I think you were looking for 
    something to steal," he said: "There is nothing in your van worth 
    stealing!" I beat him thoroughly with my fists and left him face down 
    on the sidewalk in his own blood. Somewhat belatedly, be began to cry: 
    "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

It ends shortly after "Discussion subject changed to 'Whining (was Re: ordered associative arrays)' by John Passaniti."

Doesn't work at all if the source material is in LaTeX, or anything more complicated than RTF really.

Or for people who want to share binary files, or for people who like drag-and-drop interfaces, or for people who don't want to spend a bunch of time learning about secure shared repo setup. In other words, for people who Just Want To Share A Damn Folder. Like my thesis advisor, my artist friends, and me, a loyal git user.

10 seconds is quite low for Reddit.

> A) not sure what dawkins has to do with anything.

Simple, he hates religion but spends a lot of time on it.

Others have said the same about Richard Dawkins, a man whose company I would be proud to be in. That's not to say that I think I come anywhere near him in terms of contributing to the discussion.

This is the first time in a while I have seen an article I disliked so much get up so high on the front page, so I feel obligated to explain my position to others so that they will think more carefully about what they vote up.

I think you mean "worthy of sympathy." And while I agree with you, I wish you would provide examples to back up your assertion.

I came to my opinion by observing that he spent most of the article cataloguing his unsuccessful writing career, and then brings in a one-paragraph love story out of absolutely nowhere.

This comes up almost every time someone does what I just did. You're right about the Voting-Based Social Media Site Psychology of it, but I think we've covered it enough that it doesn't need to be said.

I do regret adding that to the end. I really didn't mean to influence the votes. Now, of course, I can't remove it without eliminating the context for our discussion.

Edit for more meta: Apparently I am now That Guy In The Thread Whose Comments Are All Downvoted Regardless of Contribution to the Discussion. I am also That Guy Who Left A Stupid Reddit-Style Comment, That Guy Who Is Spending To Much Time in the Thread, and That Guy Who Thinks Hacker News is Going Downhill. Time for a sandwich.

Here's some more twisted internet reasoning for you: maybe if all of the comments on this article suck as much as the article itself does, it will fall off the front page like it deserves to.

It's a meaningless story about a guy who, by his own admission, has written several books just for the attention. Then he meets, dates, and marries a girl in the space of a single paragraph, which somehow justifies the entire experience.

Now here I am, reading it on Hacker News, just wishing it would go away. We can debate internet philosophy (interacting with a System vs a Community) all day, but I'll just go ahead and concede the entire battle to you right now, because you're right, it was a bad comment made for unsound reasons. However, I am not a rational agent and will not delete it.

"...I eeked out my $40,000 a month..."

OH NOOOOOOOOO

(I write insightful comments so that I may also write cathartic ones like this. Vote however you like.)

Edit: This comment was ill-conceived in every way possible.

"That's the way it's always been" is a really, really awful justification for perpetuating things. I dropped my nick of several years not too long ago in favor of my real name.

You're right, I should have said this. Some of the students here are amazing.

The only two alumni anyone ever names in the tech world. But Paul calls it "good enough" and Knuth was there long enough ago that it was essentially a different school.

I'm at CWRU right now, trying so hard not to respond to that bit with a super-long comment. I'll just say this: smart people, go somewhere else, at least for CS. (If you're reading this comment years later, re-evaluate.)

(Hi Adam!)

Ah crap, you're right. We were going to do Alan Turing eventually, so that will be fixed.

Edit: It's fixed now.