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Australia’s Canva Startup Almost Doubles Valuation to $6B(bloomberg.com)
2 points by b3n 6y ago|0 comments
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by b3n 6y ago
> is there any other user-facing software that has survived such a dramatically shifting landscape? Yes. Microsoft Word, for example, is older than GNU Emacs.
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by b3n 6y ago
Are there any other TLDs that are under the control of a non-profit in this way?
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by b3n 6y ago
> I opt for Signal now, hardly anyone uses it and the UX isn’t as nice, but it uses state of art in encryption. Out of curiosity, what don't you like about the UX? And doesn't it use the same "state of the art" encryp
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by b3n 6y ago
Yes exactly, by default it has a tab-bar UI element, but you just have to set tab-bar-show to nil and you can use it to switch between window configs without the UI.
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by b3n 6y ago
> Suburbia? Is there anything else for a radius of 50-60 km? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Green_Belt You can also hit the sea in that distance from London.
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by b3n 6y ago
In case you weren't aware, winner-mode is now part of Emacs, and as far as I can tell the Emacs 27 tab-bar-mode makes eyebrowse redundant. For me project.el that ships with Emacs is enough for my project needs.
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by b3n 6y ago
From C-h v This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in version 22.1 of Emacs. Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.1.
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by b3n 6y ago
Are any ad networks bypassing this yet by serving ads from a static IP?
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by b3n 7y ago
If you are using backlinks, why not just grep for `[civilization]]` or `[[file:civilization.org]`? I actually have a binding in Emacs to run ripgrep on all files in the current directory, which have a link to the current file. It's ver
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by b3n 7y ago
Why is Russia missing?
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by b3n 7y ago
Wouldn't you prefer your browser use more RAM? I'd much rather it cache as much as possible than have unused RAM sitting idle. Hell, I even stick my `~/.cache/` in RAM.
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TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites(bloomberg.com)
220 points by b3n 7y ago|128 comments
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by b3n 7y ago
30 hours a day seems quite extreme to me.
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by b3n 7y ago
You mean like Next[1]? [1] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next
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by b3n 7y ago
In Firefox it tells me: You are about to log in to the site “google.com” with the username “www%2Epaypal%2Ecom”, but the website does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you. Is “google.com” the site y
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by b3n 7y ago
Org mode files are just plain text, but it has syntax for linking to external files like images, and Emacs can display those images inline.
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by b3n 7y ago
The problem with using SHA1 to protect PII is it would be trivial to brute force, especially with the restrictive character set of URLs, and a big part of them being able to be guessed. One could very quickly cycle through all Hacker News U
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by b3n 7y ago
Have you done Coursera's "Learning How to Learn" course? It's very good (and free).
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by b3n 7y ago
Is less RAM really a selling point? I have a lot of spare RAM, I'd prefer it get used to cache more if it can speed things up.
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by b3n 7y ago
With 300 tabs why do you want your tab bar horizontal? Doesn't it make more sense to have your tabs in a vertical sidebar so you can easily see them and scroll through them, like you can do in Firefox?
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by b3n 7y ago
What is the looming USD crisis?
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by b3n 7y ago
The article has nothing to do with clutter, it is about choice paralysis.
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by b3n 8y ago
Is this the list used? The article claims that his "wife diligently did all the research and compiled the list of cognitive biases".
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by b3n 8y ago
If you're going for Emacs tips, an Emacs package may be more suitable than a web browser extension.
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by b3n 8y ago
These countries import waste from many other countries, including the US.
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by b3n 8y ago
Do you have an example where multiple cursors are efficient, but Vim is not?
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by b3n 8y ago
Doesn't Doom use Evil?
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by b3n 8y ago
It's part of what makes Emacs so easy to customize on-the-fly.
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by b3n 8y ago
What's the value of the dynamic workspace support being built in to EXWM, rather than using one of the many packages which does something similar (e.g. persp-mode.el)?

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