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by gexla 6y ago
Says this... Type :qa! and press <Enter> to abandon all changes and exit Vim Maybe not quite what the user was looking for. But I guess it does get you out of Vim. ETA: Also, that answer on Stack Overflow at one time was the answer
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by gexla 6y ago
Other than being a great editor, Vim has great value as a sort of practical joke you can play on people new to the command line. "You can't figure out how to get out of the editor? I'm busy, stop asking me stupid questions. L
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by gexla 6y ago
Calling it a dark pattern is a bit much. Dark patterns are intentionally misleading. The free account here clearly shows the limits before you sign up.
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by gexla 6y ago
It would be interesting to see them pop up on a quarter mile drag strip. Probably they already have, I just haven't been to drag races for decades. I remember them being quite the experience though. The eye burning fumes in the air. Th
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by gexla 6y ago
I think people try to do too much with note apps and then they fail. What people normally try to accomplish with a note app should actually be like 4 - 5 different apps which handle different elements of what you're trying to accomplis
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by gexla 6y ago
Also, many people like Journals and plain text because these methods don't lend themselves to blaming the tool. They force you to think about the problem rather than the tool. Plain text doesn't fix note-taking any more than it ca
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by gexla 6y ago
Taking notes is a process. If you're tired of the apps, then you haven't put enough thought into the process. The available apps are fine. Picking a tool to solve a problem is the opposite approach to how you solve the problem. Yo
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by gexla 6y ago
Kids' chores 2000: Take out the trash, 2 minutes. Kid's chores 2020: Up until 3AM programming the robot to take out the trash. Purchased the robot two weeks ago. Kid only moves to go to sleep. Trash is building up. No other chores
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by gexla 6y ago
My browser alone can eat up 2.7 GB of RAM.
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by gexla 6y ago
Doesn't seem like a big deal. In this case I believe "MS support" is just compiling PHP for Windows and making them available at the PHP for Windows site. I'm sure someone will pick this up. Or maybe it ends up being som
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by gexla 6y ago
It doesn't. Nothing does. Good poker players should have no problem doing all this in their heads. The tooling which does help is hand analysis and replay. I haven't kept up, but there used to be tools while playing online poker w
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by gexla 6y ago
This has been a standard tool in remote poker for years. That tooling has even included hand histories for your opponent. One of the last great new players to blow up the poker scene before "Black Friday" almost went bust in a mat
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by gexla 6y ago
One of my first pick-ups as an adult in a bookstore was Gödel, Escher, Bach. People thought I was crazy for grabbing it. One of my friends was fascinated by it and I ended up giving it away. Hopefully he did good things with it!
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by gexla 6y ago
* Quick entry in a workflowy-like interface (blocks) * Bidirectional links * Block linking * No need for file creation / management Roam is just getting started with a dedicated team and a sustainable business model. At this point, I&#
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by gexla 6y ago
Not 1:1 but it wouldn't be an alternative if it isn't offering the same key characteristics which make the service unique.
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by gexla 6y ago
If you only need the features that Notepad provides, then it's an alternative to Roam. That's what these "Roam Research alternative" discussions sound like to me anyways. Foam isn't an alternative to Roam unless you
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by gexla 6y ago
Everyone should aspire to charge ridiculous prices for their products. Why are you going to let Evernote tell you how much you should charge? > The funny thing is if they would have tried to charge a one of $300 people would have called
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by gexla 6y ago
Same response as I gave to another comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667492 Why are we talking about Roam rather than those services then? Why don't we just "find and replace Roam with Bear?" (a
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by gexla 6y ago
Right, for much of that time we didn't have digital distribution. 40 years ago we were buying vinyl records (probably superior products) and cassette tapes. 10 years ago, selling subs were a pain because we didn't have providers s
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by gexla 6y ago
> 15 sounds a bit high though No way. Time is short. They aren't selling carrots. This isn't a commodity. There's no "market price" for a quality service. If you don't think it's a quality service, then
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by gexla 6y ago
It has already stopped being free. If there really were alternatives to Roam then why would we even be talking about Roam? Why aren't we talking about Notepad? Nobody talks about Notepad because it's not interesting. It's not
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by gexla 6y ago
What model? A monthly fee? As opposed to what? Free? Getting investors who will pay for development while the service monetizes the users? It's unfortunate that this is what users have come to expect. That we feel should be getting fre
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by gexla 6y ago
Or Org Mode, which has already existed for a long time.
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by gexla 6y ago
The title is click bait. It seems all note taking applications now need to be Roam Research alternatives. And then you get the entourage of other mentions (Hi, Obsidian.) The Readme for the linked repo mentions this note taking system was i
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by gexla 6y ago
I wonder just how deep this rabbit hole goes? And how much of our lives is directed by misunderstandings, misinterpretations, bad translations, outright deception, etc. As a programmer I know that my the screen I'm looking at is the vi
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by gexla 6y ago
> To my surprise, there was not much content for adults with it. Which then goes on with "content" which is just like every other article you might read out there on how to focus.
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by gexla 6y ago
> I often felt overwhelmed by the ever-growing list of TODOs This is an issue with a global set of todo lists. I follow a butchered BASB type of system. I just keep all ideas in resources folders. Todo items go in those folders, but thos
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by gexla 6y ago
Right, iterating on your workflow is a normal part of work. > I see a similar trend with org-mode users. It's great and all on a technical level (I've used it myself in the past) but it's easy to fall into the elisp and cu
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by gexla 6y ago
> You think cool explosions are among them? Could be, considering we're talking about Elon Musk. If you know the thing is going to get caught on video exploding, then might as well make a good show of it. > would be that they hav
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by gexla 6y ago
Wouldn't strength only need to get to a certain "good enough" point rather than "as strong as possible?" Maybe the shell is already at that point? And after that point, maybe all there is left to concern yourself wi

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