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by angleofrepose 6y ago
I meant to dig more into requestAnimationFrame, thanks for the prompt. I should clarify, the problem is that you can crash a web page if you do any animation inside of a runaway loop but especially painting with console. I suppose this indi
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Haha, sure, sure. But that's not really the point. We have machine code right? Who needs an assembler? Tools and workflows are worth thinking about and improving. Right?
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Outside of the datascience context, I would argue that notebooks like these are how information in a world of compute should be presented. It's ironic that we have codeblocks upon codeblocks of content served on the web on technical si
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Right, where you could send the worker a terminate signal if some conditions were met like time or no response or too many responses... And that drawback obsoletes the strategy it seems, unfortunately. It's an interesting problem, how
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
This paper? https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master... All good ideas, thanks for sharing.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
A brief skim through that doc looks like it is about a kind of security that's not relevant to my project. I'm trying to protect the user from themselves while simultaneously giving the user full power over the document. Web worke
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Ah, okay this is interesting. The entire notebook is one iframe, which lets you do more of the metaprogramming and sharing variables. Both printing (via console) and non-printing infinite loops crash the iframe until you close the page. And
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, this is a cool project. I've been working on something similar on and off for a while, and I've found the space to be fascinating and somewhat puzzling. Most of the first questions I try to ask about these in b
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
That's a fair point I respect. It does seem that it would be easy to have this fun in a way which is also useful, with literally any filtering system which had a relationship to the data. Equal work, equal fun, more than zero use.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Unless I'm missing something, this map might be pretty or impressive that it can be made, but it is entirely meaningless. Meaningless in that I don't know of significant meaning of breaking down the globe into 10° chunks whatsoeve
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
This is an interesting thread and I appreciate both you and bananabreakfast for it. America has a unique perspective of the wild among western countries. The way this manifests itself is that the American wild is furnished at an absolute ba
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
I agree, thanks for pointing me to that info page. I would bet that keys representing functions probably evolved simultaneously with the first computer typewriters, they've been around forever and are "obvious" to some degree
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
It's probably fair to say this software isn't the most user friends as a result of its continuous change. In chrome and firefox Control-Enter runs the web app version I find here: https://hundredrabbits.github.io/R
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
There is a plan9 and acme demo on YouTube which is eye opening. One idea that has captured me is the idea that end users ought to be able to create custom UIs. This appears to be a foundational principle of plan9, the way all text is able t
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
I've been following Ronin and the author for a few years now from a distance. As I have said in other threads on hn about this work, the theme and ethos are so consistent and thorough they just slap you in the face. You know exactly wh
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I think rather than trying to get org mode outside of emacs, you want to change the mechanics of entering emacs. In my head this looks like a subset of emacs (in the same way you can imagine notepad a subset of word, or contenteditable a su
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I'll have to look more into this, thanks for the tip. I have found it incredibly difficult to figure out how OneNote was intended to be used. The in-app tutorials are basic in the extreme (describing only the visible UI) and I couldn&#
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I used OneNote every day for a month. It's a toy application not meant to be used seriously. It has no navigational tools beyond its hierarchy of files and search. Import a 78 page pdf to read and annotate? You can't set bookmarks
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
As an example, Dropbox Paper supports a number of keyboard-text[1] to formatting capabilities. - The markdown goodies (bold, italics, line break, headings, quotes, etc) - Dropbox Paper specific items like +LinkToDocument, @Person, #tag - D
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Are there in-place macro tools that could be similar to this? Examples: - italics in a live markdown editor usually hides the asterisks after you've closed the pair, but can get them back if you backspace with your cursor at the &#x2
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Why is it impossible to build a new Windows 10? Shouldn't that be an area of great interest to Microsoft? What other endeavor would give Microsoft as great a leap forward as a ground up rebuild of the operating system?
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I don't fully understand the argument that a long piece of work will leave you behind when you're done. What if you've qualitatively moved the field forward while the "competition" simply made incremental progress?
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Wow, this is the real deal. First time I've heard of this work and I've got some more digging to do. Has all the right language and some great references with pretty awesome related work on digital tools should anyone want to keep
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Controllable constrains. Tiling wms give you more hooks than anything else, so more control than anything else. I often have more than 4 or more workspaces in i3 and I love being able to swap between them with ease. Many users of tiling wms
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I think I'll give that a shot. I'm just greatly disappointed with OneNote's organizational features. In that they don't exist. I have notebooks > sections > pages but nothing within pages. No portals, no tools in p
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
If we're making this a little bit of a surface line conversation: I'm absolutely amazed at how bad the latest Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is. I bought it for OneNote and as a second computer to my main laptop. The pen regularly is not
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
What are you up to these days Chris? And the obligatory question, what is your take on the article/why post? I piled standout quotes below. I think a big takeaway from the intersection of Bret Victor, Alan Kay, Jim Hollan and the ink&a
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I think it is because each comes with its own opinionated workflow, and missing features. Each has a way of writing markdown/connecting notes that is novel, which means each other option is missing that feature. A take away from this s
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
I've written up three different replies now and I don't like any of them. I'm not sure how to respond to this statement. Thank you for writing it. I fundamentally disagree with the two assertions "it's the act of us
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
> The better the tool the less you learn from it This seems too broad to make a general rule. Shall I not use calculators and memorize trig tables to better understand the tools that are these functions? I would be interested in seeing t

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