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> what CS PhD students have been doing ~forever. Or what every researcher has been doing for literally decades (except with other versioning systems, but still
by KPGv2 5mo ago
> what CS PhD students have been doing ~forever.
Or what every researcher has been doing for literally decades (except with other versioning systems, but still typesetting without Word or Adobe).
No need for techbros to pat themselves on the back as innovators.
I typeset my novels in LaTeX and use GIT. I even just clone a base repo whenever I'm going to release another.
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- skydhash 5mo agoI don’t have anything to publish, but one of these days, I’d like to try the troff suite (with eqn, pic, and tbl).
- dghf 5mo agoI keep on meaning to try these out: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/ https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/
- kyboren 5mo agoConsidering LaTeX came from legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Leslie Lamport's need to typeset a book, and was built on the shoulders of legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Donald Knuth's work on TeX, I think "techbros" can safely pat themselves on the back as innovators in this case.
- KPGv2 5mo agoIt doesn't seem you know what "techbro" means.
- kyboren 5mo agoPlease explain what you think it means. I said CS PhD students have been doing this forever, and you dismissed that as techbros patting themselves on the back. But once I pointed out that LaTeX was created by Serious People, apparently CS PhDs aren't techbros any more. So which is it? And who exactly do you think is a self-congratulatory techbro here?