Silica6149

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by Silica6149 4y ago
I see, I could add a whole chapter on useful vim plugins! Thanks for the suggestion! In addition to surround, what other plugins do you think beginners should almost always use?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Thanks for the guidance! I'll look into how typingclub works, I'm new to this business stuff.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Hey I'm on a mac too, but I can't seem to reproduce the bug. Perhaps there is a safari extension, or a native application that is interfering? Sorry I wasn't much help, please let me know if you've found a solution, I&#x
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Huh, thanks for letting me know, no one else has mentioned this issue, and I haven't experienced the issue either. Can you let me know which browser and OS you're using? This seems like an important bug, thank you.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Yes, in a narrow sense. I would say I know it well enough now to edit code faster than using a regular editor. It would be difficult for a lot of people to say they've fully learned vim though, since it has a lot of things to discover.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I kind of get where they're coming from, but I hope all my messages in this thread have made it clear: If you want to learn vim, please try all the available free resources before considering vimified, or any other paid option. I use
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Definitely try out the free resources for learning vim before ever considering Vimified, or any paid option! I used vimtutor and openvim to get started, and they're fantastic free resources. It was only when I couldn't find someth
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The 8 lessons you mention are actually 8 chapters. There are actually 34 lessons right now (you can see the lessons if you click on the chapters to expand them). Please let me know if there are topics that you want
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Thanks for asking, I initially had them like you suggested but with the way I was doing it, it made it kind of hard to make responsive. For the hero especially, the words didn't line up without lots of adjusting. I'm not really go
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Hey, sorry the landing page is a little unclear. You gain access with the email you use to purchase (the buy button is all the way at the bottom, which I could with improving its location). Thanks for letting me know!
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Nope. If you're already comfortable in your code editor of choice and like it, there's no good reason to switch. However, if you've seen people use it in real life or in youtube videos, and think that it's cool being abl
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Thanks for asking, I actually have practiced vim on shortcutfoo. It is really good for remembering shortcuts for regular desktop applications, but I felt that it wasn't really meant for learning a code editor like vim. It did not have
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Yup. I had tried to use vim and quit because I thought it was needlessly cumbersome. What changed my opinion was watching videos of people using vim on youtube that made me interested in learning it for real. It made me realize how much mor
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by Silica6149 4y ago
It can also be a boon. One of the things some vim users like is always being able to discover something new, after using it for years. I'm not really in this camp though, I would prefer vim commands to somehow be more "discoverabl
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think most people would agree with you. Being comfortable in your editor of choice and knowing the shortcuts in it will already make you faster than trying to use vim from scratch (at least for a while). Vim definitely needs to be practic
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Thanks! If you wanted any features that are missing, let me know!
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by Silica6149 4y ago
On it! Edit: hmm, can't find any errors. Can you reply with the first 3 letters of your email? You can also contact me via the email located at the bottom of the page.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Definitely a hurdle to overcome for beginners. Although, it would help to show beginners exactly why abandoning the mouse will be better in the long run. It wouldn't do well for them to always rely on it in place of more efficient comm
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Oh yes, when I was trying to fully learn vim, I had the mentality that I could just practice it for 10 minutes a day and be able to use it while editing code. The remaining time I would edit code like normal with vscode, so it turned out th
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think they were speaking from a total beginner's perspective, and how to get them up to speed as fast as possible. I felt the same way when first learning vim, since it was completely different from the code editors I'd used in
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Ah, I see. I agree, more context would be better for the beginner to understand why the lessons are the way they are. I tried to explain the benefits of vim in the "Why Vim?" section, but I should really go into why using and lear
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Hi, I understand where you're coming from. My introduction to vim was through vimtutor and it was free! I agree with your point about muscle memory. Learning !== muscle memory. However it does make it more comfortable to edit code by n
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Interesting, but if my legal information is still shared with the company, what are the benefits of getting paid in crypto?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
This would be a good idea for a speculative fiction novel, about how constant access to the internet could drive our evolution.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think the transition from being an employee to being an entrepreneur is difficult, because of the different skill sets required. In a company, you usually have a specified role, with the hard problems mostly figured out by the people befo
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Yeah, that bit is a little concerning. The world owes you nothing. Each one of us gets dealt a hand in life for most things, and we can't usually ask for another hand. It's up to us to make the best plays possible. Being born in t
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Talking about luck, I think attitude plays into this since entrepreneurship has more failures than successes, and sometimes it's just a game of luck. The important thing is, in the face of failure, do you give up? Or do you persevere?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Nice! It looks like you put a lot of work into this, what was the motivation behind this project? Did you not like the existing solutions available?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
While I agree that my laptop gets used plugged in most of the time, it is nice for it to last a while for the occasions when I'm away from an outlet (which I argue would be the primary benefit of using a laptop).

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