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by angleofrepose 7y ago
That's fair. Good point. I wish I hadn't notified you so that I could get a content based response from you who seems to have read it. But the fact would still stand, and this isn't great writing by any means. As the other gu
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
There are plenty of long hn comments, and they are usually more worthwhile than a two sentence comment. But I see your point and I appreciate you making it. This would be a fun idea to explore thoroughly in a formal writing rather than a co
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Thanks for the tip, it looks like I hit it.
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
MB has done an amazing job at creating an identity. It seems that some content of his stirs up small controversy on this forum, and while I can't pick apart the minutiae, it's clear on a high level that he has really made a place
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
There are hilarious stories I've heard and read about the way that things used to be "built to last" something a while back about an small Irish village mailman who rode the same bike for decades without ever getting a flat.
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Ha, you're probably right. Frustrating, but makes sense. Thanks for taking that on.
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
Plain text on top of a programmable interface is the way to go. I like this comment from yesterdays 26.2 release [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19650131
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
> It allows us to throw different use-case-optimized GUIs at a sync'ed folder of org-mode files. A clear example are the mobile apps, but there are others. This is a good point, I agree. > As for the knowledge base features, howe
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
For sure, I think in the 2008 Google Talk by Carsten Dominik (org mode creator) his host makes a comment from the back of the room that he has a use case(among others) of creating html tables in org mode because its so easy. Org mode has so
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by angleofrepose 7y ago
What sense does it make to have org mode outside of emacs? I think the entire power of the system would be that it explicitly lives within emacs. From the repo: > Org is probably the best and most complete plain text organizational syste
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
I haven't had the chance to give this a really solid skim or do any background searches for the author or any related work, but given that, what do you like about this? Why do you post it, why do you think it is interesting, or what di
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Or, better yet, a UI builder accessible through that "advanced features" menu that lets the user decide what is accessible and easy.
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
> Seems like it would be much less useful to copy his configs rather than building your own organic system after years of use, though - which is what he did. This is a great point and one I've been thinking about more recently. Tool
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Any other ideas on what "could be the better tool"? I haven't really used plantuml or one of the couple of others like memraid or flowchart other than playing around with them, but my dream tool in that arena is something tha
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
That's a cool idea with gl and gr. I've never used 0 and $ in vim, D or C get me to the end, and I have what is probably an anti-patter in hitting I<esc> or A<esc> to get to beginning or end otherwise. Or its a change
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Gary Bernhardt has a good take on this in his talk A Whole New World [1]. He introduces an editor which has these layers which can display or hide orthogonal information such as types, a short view or profiling details. That talk, and your
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Lots of cool stuff around Adam's work, it was really interesting to see what patterns people had for Jupyter notebooks as maybe the most popular literate programming environment (?). I particularly liked the extension he developed [1]
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Orca is just one piece of the world that this guy has been building at https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#home He's got a suite of tools: Left, Dotgrid, Ronin, Marabu (text, graphics, super-graphics, audio). Then a logging/
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
I'm struck by the harshness of this piece. Starting with a jump scare going to suicide and porn. Beautiful graphics and I think the message is brilliant regardless of the fact that it ends as an ad.
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Get Your Brain Back: Hard Hitting Emotional Critique of Screens [video](remarkable.com)
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Because he's a person. Because she has problems. Because he has a family. Because that's my friend and uncle and neighbor. What on Earth do you mean "why do we have to care about them?" Because they're real. I get w
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by angleofrepose 8y ago
Completely agree, but we can also figure out how to make it easier. Take a look at http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html#_improving_o... (this is the section that introduces the flip on vim's command str