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zoner··on New Perl 6 Homepage
So is it just a custom coloured version of Twitter Bootstrap?
zoner··on Ask HN: I'm being stiffed by a client. What are my options?
Hit him hard on the nose. Always satisfying :)
zoner··on Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?
I'm mainly developing PHP applications (Magento, Symfony) And I found Linux much easier. Back in 2000 (ish), when I switched to Linux the biggest confusion was the different format of configuration files and scripts. In Windows, I get used to .ini files and .bat batch scripts. When I switched to Linux (well, it was more like a slow process) I was confused about this. Fetchmail config format, the apt sources tree format (which seemed to be an .ini) and all the config files in /etc was all different. I finally managed to get my emails fetched and sorted to different folders based on topic and sender, using Fetchmail, then I was happy to read them in Mutt. The UI looked terrible (well, it was text after all) so I tried Balsa and used it for years, then Sylpheed, Claws Mail, still backed with Fetchmail. I can imagine that the different GUI libraries would confusing others, but I always managed to sort my installation to use only one. If I had KDE, I installed only KDE or at least Qt programs. If I had GNOME, then so that it. Nowadays, I use AwesomeWM mainly with 3 or 4 software only, on 3 screens: the first screen is the terminal with tmux, the second (middle) is the browser, Thunderbird, the third is Sublime, so I don't get nervous about installing different libraries.

With all of these, Linux felt better than Windows and it's openness and community support encouraged me to discover more and more. Back in those days I really tried every programming language I could: Java, Ruby, C, C++ and I had no confusion learning and using these on Linux. I was only confused when sometimes I had to switch back to Windows. The lack of documentation, missing libraries, unpredictable crashes on software upgrades (which came from different sources, absolutely without automation, manually running setup.exe's) and different UX, unsought taskbar icons really annoyed me. Now if I sit in front of a Windows PC, I feel it's just an useless gadget.

Linux was the cause I became a software developer.

I have only experience with one IDE, which was Netbeans. I used it mostly for developing Rails applications and I found this was the only IDE which does not get in my way. I just can't get used to PHPStorm today and I found Eclipse too slow, so I'm using Sublime as my primary editor now. Before it was Geany, gEdit or just Vim. I was never able to learn Emacs, but probably it's my fault :)

zoner··on Ask HN: Do you use Vagrant or Docker for active development?
Vagrant with Docker provisioner:

https://github.com/czettnersandor/vagrant-docker-lamp

Much faster than the Virtualbox provisioner, so it's not an "or" decision, the two thing works well together :)

zoner··on Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
Switched to Firefox as the primary browser just to be sure :)
zoner··on 1.5 Million Missing Black Men
Black women are unapproachable. Not sure why is that. Are white males not attractive in black women eyes?

The effect is the reverse with white women as they tend to flirt with black man, hence the interracial children are mostly from black males and white females. I don't have a study to support this, but I do have personal experience.

zoner··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3080
Not s solution, the things I use in vim is not in Vintage. hjkl navigation and yy is not enough for me.
zoner··on Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?
I read Magento's code (both 1.x and 2) every time I implement something for it. I seen some developers just started to write something, resulting the coding style been quite different than it should be. Reading the core also helps to get comfortable with the coding standard and naming conventions.

Also, Magento 2's code is beautiful, despite it's written in PHP :)

zoner··on Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code [pdf]
That was a loose statement in the book, 60 lines might be long, but in extreme cases, it's ok.
zoner··on Ask HN: What makes an API good?
Documentation.
zoner··on Wake Up, Europe
Ah, So this one was written by Soros itself. I just overlooked the little red line below the title. Well even worse, but still have to disagree with him. But again, why is this post appearing on hacker News?
zoner··on Wake Up, Europe
Not sure why an aggressively political post should appear in Hacker News. This one has no relevance with IT in any manner.
zoner··on Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic
You don't probably do torrent or just ignoring the fact that the vast majority of internet traffic globally is peer to peer traffic between dynamic IP addresses, so clearly torrent.

It's more true in case of Hungary where the minimum wage is around 250 EUR and people have a relatively luxury broadband speed, need (and addict) for car and historically good in pirating content since the world invented the VCR.

zoner··on Ask HN: Handling an international non-paying client
Tell the local autorities that they are using your copyright material without permission, therefore they're breaking copyright law. It's an offence in most countries and will involve confiscation of evidences (servers or computers).

It's easier if the foreign country has an embassy in your country.

zoner··on Scottish independence referendum poll tracker
As a foreigner, living in Scotland the whole debate seems left wing-ish to me. SNP shows they are nationalistic, but wants to be an independent republic, not having the Queen (or restore their own historical realm).

There are also a lot of very good things I see, but there's no sign of the same nationalistic spirit as I can see in Poland, Croatia or Hungary.

Beautiful landscape anyway, they could be rich and smart when independent. In fact, after Russia, Scotland will be the most manliest country in the world with more culture and gentleman than Russia :)

I will be also very sad an other Kingdom will be smaller in case they became independent.

Despite I have the right to vote, I can't say aye or naw yet, but silently observing the thing to learn from it. Hope Transylmania one day will have the same opportunity.

zoner··on Programmer to Manager
I wouldn't do it. Just let me have fun with my code editor :)
zoner··on 54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c
At least it's a proof that GCC is smart enough to understand and compile this condition :)
zoner··on Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent development and deployment
You can combine it with Vagrant as well. I used to use Vagrant with Virtualbox, but using the Docker provider, the development is much faster. The config files we are using is public and open source: https://github.com/czettnersandor/vagrant-docker-lamp

However, if you don't have Linux, Vagrant can start a Virtualbox image with Linux and run Docker in it with a little modification in the Vagrantfile

zoner··on How extreme isolation warps the mind
It's still ridiculous that BBC does not allow UK visitors to see their american (web) content. An other reason to not pay for the TV license.
zoner··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
I remember how I hated my warez Frontpage '98 :)
zoner··on 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
Tell him to start paragliding :)
zoner··on Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust
Wow that is wonderful! Great idea! I have a tourism related startup I shut down 1 year ago, very similar to this, but it was more basic. I was write it in rails as well.

I need a week off from work and I can make the UI translatable and finish the Hungarian translation if you are interested.

I did not check the source, is it planned to show recommended destinations after I selected a city?

zoner··on Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video]
This is like paragliding :) But without the hassle of collapses, material problems and a wee bit faster.
zoner··on Houston Yelp reviews include the word "racist" 4 times more often than average
You found not racism, but ranting caused by frustration as you are writing it in your blog.

Clean, pure racism can be found not in the crowd and not in any pub, but in silent people's mind.

It does not hurt, it does not rant. It will only silently kill when it sense it's family in danger. A danger which is coming from a different culture. You can call it racism, but it remains natural instinct of subsistence.

zoner··on Czech Communists may get share of power after snap election
And 150 million deaths, concentration camps, unborn child.
zoner··on Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
Was the lesson learned? Never work a single minute for free.
zoner··on Israeli government websites under mass hacking attack
I would like to see news about attacks against in-country jewish websites because of what they are doing in Palestina (and the rest of the world)
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