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by Torwald 5y ago
His explanation of why WordStar is so good (I guess I agree with him, never used WS), reads as if you say to a programmer at gunpoint: Drink these five bottles of whisky first and then re-implement Emacs Org-Mode on a CP/M machine. The
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by Torwald 5y ago
If you scroll down the article to the third screenshot, you'll see a MEmacs icon. MicroEmacs on the Amiga was what made me choose Emacs over Vi later on in life. A very nice good-buy gift from my last computer where I had to enter date
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by Torwald 5y ago
Hit the gym after work. This will prevent you getting sick. It is not natural to sit all day long, so with the exercises you punch against all these sort of issues, pronto. It will also relax your mind. It relieves the slight tension that w
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Photos of Atoms from Cornell University(dpreview.com)
2 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
I still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned them so far) and also a few newer ones: https://kottke.org/ https://daringfireball.net https://seths.blog https://www.freedoma
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by Torwald 5y ago
OT, but am I the only one who finds the web layout of that publication absolutely cool?
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Geoworks and AOL (2019)(tedium.co)
17 points by Torwald 5y ago|6 comments
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Importance of the Back Button in UI(tbray.org)
4 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
Apple also holds this sort of features back on their browser on the open desktop platform (macOS). Judging from that I'd say there must be another reason.
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How the Internet Redesigns Your Mind(lifeforbusypeople.com)
3 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
> People in the OSS community can, at times, glorify toxic behavior. I wouldn't go so far as to glorify toxic behaviour, but some of what is seen as toxic by some is IMO just frankness or a tactic to bring the conversation back into
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by Torwald 6y ago
I thought the same when reading the article. What he calls formal patterns, aren't those a sort of language in itself, one in which the coders talk to each other? Almost like comments. You recognize the pattern, when you browse the cod
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by Torwald 6y ago
The type of interface of Emacs is not the CLI, but "roguelike" interface. ESR in "Unix Interface Design Patterns": >> The Roguelike Pattern Programs obeying this pattern are legion: The vi(1) text editor in all its
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Why is it so hard to build government technology?(technologyreview.com)
2 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
Best scene ever. I was on Amiga, but trying to objective here, c64 had the best demoscene and altogether best scene.
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This is a web browser(thebrowser.company)
2 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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Design with Strategic Intent(jarango.com)
3 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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My Manhattan Project (2009)(nymag.com)
4 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
> They don't line up outside churches much these days. That's factually incorrect. And it's not only churches, but mosques as well, and various types of temples. The so-called world religions are popular to this day. And A
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by Torwald 6y ago
You should not measure your success by how many tasks you have done. Having a todo list is fine. There are a couple of methods on how to organize your todo list, I can recommend David Allen's GTD or Mark Forster's DIT for that, bu
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by Torwald 6y ago
For "full hyena" you need a vase of glass, so that the sun can shine on the meat to produce the carrion, but no insects can touch it and poison you. But I wouldn't recommend that route for early exploration. Better to eat org
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by Torwald 6y ago
These three strategies work for me: a) healthy diet based on raw meat, b) in control of your goals by working on each of them every day, and c) that others mean well, even when they behave like dumbasses, relax.
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A Brief History of Bloggering (2014)(themorningnews.org)
1 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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Past, Present, and Future of Outliners(taskade.com)
2 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
You set a goal "find out what I want" and start working on that goal on a daily basis. The OP lost me at "SMART" which is the very first word in his article. SMART goals are not smart. They stem from "management by
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by Torwald 6y ago
Google search bar also breaks the standard OS behaviour on a Mac, eg. when I am i the search bar and hit <cmd-left> it should jump cursor to the beginning of the line, which it doesn't.
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by Torwald 6y ago
Thanks for the link!! (Yeah, I am not going to look it up before I did my own…)
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by Torwald 6y ago
I haven't read it fully yet, but I will write that TPK algorithm in some language(s). Post here if you have some (! OR ?)
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by Torwald 6y ago
He is wrong regarding Emacs.
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by Torwald 6y ago
because the Atari OS was named TOS, some Amiga guys called the Atari guys "tossers"

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