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Drugs. A lot of it.


Here's some feedback : tapping the spacebar with the phone? That's dumb. Why? I have to hit hard for the "bump" to happen. But that's not really a problem since hitting a keyboard with a cellphone makes no sense. Consider another scenario :

a) The user clicks somewhere (or vocal command?) to enter a listening state.

b) Then he shakes his phone.


But then you lose the thing that "magically" links the phone to the computer, i.e the simultaneous record of the event occurence.


Reminds me of the Intel ads for the Ultrabook (eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kuMen5UOm0). Good way to communicate.


Why did I clicked that link? Now I can't help learning me a Haskell.


Haskell is like a venus flytrap, mwahaha


Wrong in so many ways.. I don't know where to start.


Well, all this is a bit of a fairy tale to me. Sure programming on my free time with friends, always wanting to know more, to go further, that's true it is fun and I'd say it's a way of life. Now consider: process, deadlines, the annoying management guys.. All this is exhausting and boring, it takes away creativity and fun. Not everything is bright and shinny like that article seems to state. The guy actually designing apps is not necessarily the guy who will code them, etc. There's a lot of frustrating realities out there that are better to be known and accepted than ignored.

Also, see http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0358233/is-pro...


Sounds like you need a change of environment.


So it's not the fault of programming or any other activity per se, but that of the stressful (work) environment.


What I'm saying is that programming for fun on your free time is absolutely not the same as programming to pay the rent, and this is not straightforward when you start learning computer science (and that's what this article is about, right?). You have to respect a lot of things that stops you in the creation process, because the goal here is not to do cool things but do as you're told, to take decisions not for your entertainment but for your boss. Sure there are people that do whatever they want at work, but it's relatively rare. And this, my friends, is just my humble opinion.


Let me put it this way. On a regular week day, I spend around 12-14 hours a day programming (that might change with a kid on the way), only 10 of which are done for my boss. The point is I don't program to make a living. I just make a living by doing what I do best.

In other words, programming to me means so much more than what I give my employer. Just like the article says, it defines a way of life, that puts knowledge, learning and improving on top of everything else.


I really like the fullscreen editor, but ideone.com is actually more handsome imho. Editor? great ; now I want to execute it.

If I really could compile my code and execute it on my machine, I would not be using that website in the first place.


Hey! thanks a lot for your reply. Note that this is a beta, I have in mind code compiling, but for now the entire website is ran via JS (actually no server side code) as I planned, and I think making a PHP interpreter in JS is a bit hardcore :P but thanks for your critic :) I'll see what i can do


I hate full-width websites that do not handle x-resizing. But nice job.


!! is not specific to fish. It is a history feature to get the last command. It's like using '!ec' for getting the last command that starts with 'ec'. Using `!!` is not "getting output of previous command", it is re-executing it and getting that output.

For that alt+. tip, I'd use the special $_ var.


You haven't told me how to do a `!!` in fish. (I do understand that it re-executes the previous command). I am used to using this in other shells like bash and zsh, and would like to know if there's some way of doing it in fish.


AFAIK this is not possible with fish, as variables cannot be used as commands like in bash (and the ! history feature does not exist in fish, it is designed to be fully interactive).

See http://fishshell.com/user_doc/faq.html#faq-history


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