elliotec

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by elliotec 10y ago
Why is vim more troublesome than it could be? With Nerdtree and Fzf/Ag plugins (or ctrl-P) I can't imagine how much easier it could get.
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by elliotec 10y ago
Gotta say, this comment itself reads like it was written by the postmodern generator
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by elliotec 10y ago
Does this count? It's just a query about updates on something YC posted on HN themselves. Seems allowed to me.
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by elliotec 10y ago
And with a usable interface
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by elliotec 10y ago
Yes, your method of iPad/Apple Pencil/Microsoft OneNote is the best note-taking experience I've had as well. OneNote is absolutely fantastic. That said, I rarely draw pictures and defer diagraming to my co workers, so vimwiki
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by elliotec 10y ago
What? Why does that matter? From the political detox post: > What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments. This article isn't political, but it is an intellectually gra
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by elliotec 10y ago
Really? More info?
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by elliotec 10y ago
You mention this is a "step up" from the Better Explained book, which was supposed to be an intro and went right over my head, still making lots of assumptions about what I should already know. I'm a decent programmer, maybe
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by elliotec 10y ago
Yep
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by elliotec 10y ago
How?
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by elliotec 10y ago
You're right, career progression is entirely every person for themselves. The trick is to get management to agree to be your ally.
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by elliotec 10y ago
I chased a girl to Europe, by far the best decision I ever made.
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by elliotec 10y ago
This is my feeling about Rails. I've created several Rails apps that delighted the customer, and most have required literally zero maintenance after years of use. Sprinkle in a bit of jQuery and you have an app that is stronger and jus
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by elliotec 10y ago
uBlock is really good at blocking ads, and a lot of other things that aren't ads too.
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by elliotec 10y ago
You're totally right. I can't stand his work. Just even trying to read it feels pretentious.
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by elliotec 10y ago
It doesn't surprise me considering the speed of development with Node and its ecosystem. It has only been 7 years since its birth.
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by elliotec 10y ago
It's interesting. I appreciate it. It does define something. Think of Aaron Schwartz or something for contrast.
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by elliotec 10y ago
Funding, bureaucracy, war?
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by elliotec 10y ago
That's a super interesting theory.
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by elliotec 10y ago
I think so, traveling and adventuring through the world while working seems more worth a pay cut than just not needing to drive to an office.
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by elliotec 10y ago
but it's from 2035...
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by elliotec 10y ago
I'd like to have a chat with you if you're up for it, I don't see any contact info for you in your profile but you can contact me through my website listed in mine if you want.
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by elliotec 10y ago
Start it!
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by elliotec 10y ago
Thats simply not the point. We went to the moon. That was not an easy thing to do. We developed nuclear weapons, which was certainly more difficult than establishing a colony in the Gobi desert. See the excerpt of the JFK moon speech from a
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by elliotec 10y ago
- President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962 http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
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by elliotec 10y ago
Don't stop contributing if you're one of the good ones!
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by elliotec 10y ago
How is this a postmortem? Everything seems to have gone well and nobody/nothing died... Edit: I was under the impression that postmortem was usually used to mean a discussion of a failure of some sort. I was not aware of the project ma
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by elliotec 10y ago
Not necessarily - before the industrial revolution the pace of change was very very very slow comparatively. In fact, our rate of change now is pretty slow and minor compared to the changes during the time that Victoria was the queen of Eng
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by elliotec 10y ago
Wonderful concise description of your tech stack. Thanks for sharing! Love it when people actually describe this on HN
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by elliotec 10y ago
The headline says "shuts down engineering office" so it sounds like it is engineering rather than sales.

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