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by dmortin 6y ago
> Now I use Pycharm for python and web development for things that can reasonably be called a "project"; the level of language support, introspection, and intelligent code prediction exceeds anything I ever achieved in Emacs. I
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Brancher – visualizing browsing history as a tree(youtube.com)
3 points by dmortin 6y ago|0 comments
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by dmortin 6y ago
People want quick answers, not browsing documentation. SO is useful in the sense that it provides answers to specific questions which a google search finds instantly.
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by dmortin 6y ago
Why don't you send an email to the customer if there is an error while serving content by cloudflare? It can be a daily digest of the errors of the day. If the problem is on cloudflare's side then the cloudflare user doesn't
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by dmortin 6y ago
Andriod is open in the sense that you can sideload apps independently of the play store, you just have to enable it. So in such countries the movements with banned apps should post step by step guides for their followers of how they can ena
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by dmortin 6y ago
> At some point, and I feel it is close, we need to subscribe to stuff and simply pay for the stuff we want and need to use. The problem is not everyone has the means to pay for everything. E.g. what if Youtube and other video sites swit
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by dmortin 6y ago
Emacs also has a shell in Lisp EShell: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...
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by dmortin 6y ago
I use Emacs, but I like the polish of VSCode too. Emacs is a portable programming platform and once you learn it, it's so easy to program that it's trivial to create mini applications with a text/keyboard interface to get thi
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by dmortin 6y ago
I had time only to skim the video, but isn't it a responsibility of companies to hire people to learn and work on low level stuff? If they pay those people and pay them well then there will be people working on those areas. If they onl
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by dmortin 6y ago
I don't have anything against Lisp, I program Emacs with it, but wouldn't you get mostly the same features if Emacs used Javascript for its programming, for example?
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Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?(youtube.com)
1 points by dmortin 6y ago|0 comments
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Plastic Recycling Is an Actual Scam(youtube.com)
7 points by dmortin 6y ago|0 comments
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by dmortin 6y ago
Nice, but not perfect, at 6:05am I was shown an image of 16:05, so it was off by 10 hours.
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by dmortin 6y ago
Tech is just one subject, there are lots of others which don't change as fast. And for tech you can define a search alias which defaults to the past year, for example, if you work in a field which changes very fast. With facebook group
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by dmortin 6y ago
I hate to see discussions moving to Facebook groups. Often the groups are closed, you have to join to see what's inside. Closed groups are not indexed by google, so everything that's written disappears in the Facebook silo. With w
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by dmortin 6y ago
> games even email client built-in These are plugins which are loaded on demand. So if you never use them, then they are not loaded into the platform.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> I am about to delete Google Maps You could just turn off location history in the settings.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> Your phone checking emails all the time I turned off mail sync, I only trigger it manually, so there is a way to avoid the constant checking.
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by dmortin 6y ago
It's known for a year. Why didn't you act since then?
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by dmortin 6y ago
org-rifle may be better for searching org notes, because it searches for multiple words occuring in individual notes which is more efficient than simple line-base grepping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916536
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by dmortin 6y ago
Even if the self-driving can be implemented only partially it can be a big gain. E.g. suppose the car can only drive itself on highways in daytime in good weather. It still a great convenience feature to have if you don't have to drive
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by dmortin 6y ago
A desktop which you can take with you if needed.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> 1. I like big, big monitors. 2. I prefer a full size keyboard. 3. I prefer a separate mouse. You can have these with a laptop too. At home I use my laptop with an external screen, keyboard, mouse (the latter two are wireless), because
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by dmortin 6y ago
Even if they did, for such a big service there would be a long transition period. E.g. 2 years, so you could move somewhere else.
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by dmortin 6y ago
You should never have a single backup of anything. Google storage is nice, but you should duplicate everything you put there (also true for any other storage service).
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by dmortin 6y ago
> I had a few Python scripts that spend several seconds parsing larger files, after a rewrite to c++ that changed to almost instant. It depends on the task. If the parsing is done once a day then several seconds is nothing, so there is n
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by dmortin 6y ago
If you wanted it to stay at 31% then it was a mistake to post on HN.
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by dmortin 6y ago
Lately Youtube too annoys me with some message to sign up if I'm not logged in. Unfortunately, that is not a popup, it is displayed in the video panel, stopping the video from playing.
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by dmortin 6y ago
Characters can have various properties set. These are either built in or you can define your own properties too.
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by dmortin 6y ago
You can use as much or as little of org as you want. It's perfectly allright to use only a subset of it. I do. I only use what I need.

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