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Re: The Emacs Year in Review

Tom Davis — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:42:45 -0000

Just wanted to pop in to thank you for your extremely valuable contributions to the Emacs ecosystem. Emacs stays relevant primarily thanks to the work of folks like you, who continue to provide uniquely Emacs-y alternatives to functionality in [insert Electron editor here]. In particular, without CIDER, I don't think Clojure development would be terribly practical.

I hope you find time to continue your work, but I certainly understand if you cannot. I barely find time to maintain sanity these days, much less OSS.

Re: DistDepot

Tom Davis — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:32:02 -0000

Very cool, thank you Jake! I have updated the post with a link to your repo :)

Re: Creating New Events is Disabled

Tom Davis — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:14:12 -0000

Still living the dream! Glad the site is remains here, helping people :)

Re: Creating New Events is Disabled

Tom Davis — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 01:29:27 -0000

Fuck yes, keep Anyvite alive! Kim and I still use and love it. Unfortunately our maybe-once-yearly event planning doesn't really justify a paid account... but I'll charge one as a business expense anyway <3

Re: Redis Conference 2015 - Antirez weblog

Tom Davis — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:28:55 -0000

Wait, one of the talks was specifically about calling you out? And replacing you with the speaker? Either it was satire or the most bizarre conference talk I've ever heard of. Was it, like, a lightning talk session where nobody knew what was coming?

Re: A better pull request

Tom Davis — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:23:42 -0000

Great work! I'm pleased to see Atlassian innovating in this space and it makes me more confident that Bitbucket was the right choice.

Re: Emacs Rocks! Episode 15: restclient-mode

Tom Davis — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:48:26 -0000

Moar Emacs Rocks! Rawr!

Re: How to use JPA correctly to avoid complaints of a slow application

Tom Davis — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:12:10 -0000

"If you’d like to try it out yesterday, get the code ..."

You built a time machine!? ;)

Re: Liquibase and the Maven Plugin

Tom Davis — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:40:27 -0000

Ugh, thank you so much!

(I also like how over two years later this *still* isn't fixed)

Re: Fun with AngularJS & Cornice

Tom Davis — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:42:14 -0000

Oh, and for JS testing I did something similar except instead of a Makefile I wrote a Python scripts that runs some sub-processes. It just has some other niceties for changing the browser used, doesn't bother starting other services for Unit tests, etc.

Re: Fun with AngularJS & Cornice

Tom Davis — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:39:11 -0000

I too have been working on a new project that is very similar (Pyramid REST API, AngularJS client). Thank you so much for pointing out Cornice; I was just about to write something very similar and now I don't have to! Looking forward to contributing back :)

Re: 5 Ways SublimeText Just Bodybags vim+Terminator

Tom Davis — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:04:34 -0000

As an Emacs user, these posts are so quaint! Things like programmable hot keys, 'hot-loading', and extensibility are simply requirements. I don't even know how many thousands of lines of Elisp I've added to my config (though I've only written a few hundred of those).

The stuff you've found for Sublime are all things I used to have in Vim back when I used it more regularly. Ultimately, though, you're still scripting a text editor; given how excited you seem by Sublime's capabilities, I feel like you won't be truly happy until you join the Church ;)

Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign

Tom Davis — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:55:45 -0000

I think you meant to say `yum install mutt` ;)

Re: Emacs tip: running ack in the project root w/rinari

Tom Davis — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:33:53 -0000

A more generic solution would be to use projectile.el (https://github.com/bbatsov/.... It already has "grep in project," but, like you, I prefer ack--getting ack.el to work with projectile.el is trivial since both the pieces are already there.

Re: Auto-completing Google Contacts in Vim ~ Recursive Dream

Tom Davis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:05:37 -0000

Hey, really glad it helped out! Your clarification makes a lot of sense; it would have had to do some pretty intense voodoo to actually hook into "any" editor. I guess I was initially confused as every other tutorial just said, "throw this in your muttrc and all is well!"

Re: Applying to YCombinator: Tips for Standing Out ~ Recursive Dream

Tom Davis — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:32:34 -0000

Of course, a team can misguide a product as well—you can easily find examples where all points *for* teams can also be made *against* teams. Getting locked into "design by committee" often overrides the possibility for increased productivity when involving multiple people. Teams may be able to improve one another's morale, but they can also clash and destroy the company. One person "carrying" another can create bitterness just as well as it can ultimately educate. And so forth. But more often than not, teams succeed over individuals. It's a matter of averages not absolutes and by saying that teams succeed more often I am not suggesting that individuals do not.

Making decisions based primarily and initially on a prototype is misguided; the chances of a prototype resembling the product you have a year later is unlikely at best. What the applicants have built *previously* is of the utmost importance to me (see (2) in article), but I'd only bother to look at what they have *now* if I'm suitably convinced of their ability to build something completely different. And my rationale for that is simple: the majority of teams I know and respect are on their second or third idea and still hustling. Even if the idea doesn't radically change, how it looks certainly will.

Deciding whether something has a "bright future" with any level of accuracy is more or less impossible for anybody who doesn't have an intimate knowledge of the specific market the product is targeting (or attempting to create)—and those people usually get it wrong, too. It's why people didn't want to invest in Google or Facebook. It's why acquisitions in our industry almost never appreciate in value. There are too many variables to control for. People, on the other hand, are slightly more predictable—YC may not be able to draw generalizations from each unique company, but they can look at the attributes of the *founders* of successful companies and find attributes that way. It's not perfect (clearly far from it), but it's way better than basing every decision on a prototype.

Re: Applying to YCombinator: Tips for Standing Out ~ Recursive Dream

Tom Davis — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:14:41 -0000

Actually, I guess that could be misleading: what I meant was, I *need* to be more impressed by solo founders than by teams. One person can go off and prototype a simple product—in many cases, even a more complicated product. But that person also has to have a good deal of experience and intuition to make something good without external feedback—without somebody as passionate and opinionated about the idea as they are, day in and day out.

Finding a co-founder and finding somebody to "polish and market" a product are two very different things. That person who didn't live and breath the product from idea to implementation isn't going to be nearly as passionate about it (and I've been on both sides here) and that sorta thing really starts to matter when the chips are down (which they will be, eventually).

As for solo founders representing a vote of no confidence from their friends... I think life is never so easy as that and I doubt Paul really believes otherwise. It could just as easily represent a vote of no confidence *in one's friends*, for instance. Save one person, nobody I grew up with had (to my knowledge) any entrepreneurial drive. There are all sorts of other reasons for it, too.

Re: Announcing Anyvite Simple Ticketing

Tom Davis — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:51:32 -0000

A really good, potentially complex feature intuitively executed! Great job!

Re: http://recursive.dev:8800/blog/2010/hell-its-about-time/

Tom Davis — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:32:51 -0000

I knew I'd manage to miss Core folks like you, Jesse. It's more about me having less visibility into "Meta Python" than I should and less about your rate of blogging... I only managed one post here before letting it sit idle for two months. And I sure did miss Michael Foord! You've both been added; thanks for the comment!

Re: http://recursive.dev:8800/blog/2010/hell-its-about-time/

Tom Davis — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:03:21 -0000

As a practical resource for Python, I am unconvinced. Neopythonic is all over the place.

Re: http://recursive.dev:8800/blog/2010/hell-its-about-time/

Tom Davis — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:58:27 -0000

I had no idea about it, but I'm subscribed now! Thanks!

Re: Tips & Tricks for your Django Powered Database

Tom Davis — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:40:41 -0000

Erm, might just be me, but the video is behind an access code not mentioned here...

Re: Sentry, our Django Error Tracker

Tom Davis — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:35:18 -0000

It uses the SC2 sentry as a logo? That's all I needed to see—sold!

Oh, and it also looks like a solid piece of software and very useful; I will try it out in my next project. Thanks! :)

Re: Converting HAML to ERB with Vim macros

Tom Davis — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:07:14 -0000

surround.vim would make the initial <% ... %> macro easier and more repeatable (just use . -- requires repeat.vim)

Re: MG Siegler Destroys the English Language – Episode 3

Tom Davis — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:25:21 -0000

While I adore your keen focus on MG's attempts at proper English, I feel you're missing an opportunity to tear down other TC writers, too. You wouldn't have to limit yourself to grammatical errors, either: Jason Kincaid doesn't even bother to use spell check! http://www.techcrunch.com/2...