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by gexla 6y ago
Maybe this is by design. Maybe they are giving more thought to how they want the shell to blow apart rather than making it as strong as possible. Once the thing decides it's going to explode, then the shell just needs an exit plan. The
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by gexla 6y ago
> Engineering 101 teaches that when in doubt err on the safe side. This sounds like lecturing birds on how to fly (Nassim Taleb quote below.) They'll possibly fly people to the space station today. Maybe they have engineering 101 do
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by gexla 6y ago
> The possibility that an outage could cause me to lose work alone prevents me from ever giving it a shot. They have an excellent data download option in the app. You can download in Markdown or JSON and then restore. The JSON format res
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by gexla 6y ago
I get that. But I'm also skeptical of any product / service which attempts to bolt on Roam-like features. Note taking apps have been around for a long time, and now all of a sudden it's a hot new thing to add bio-directional
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by gexla 6y ago
Might be a good thing for them to get picked up by a company which would continue working to make the tooling better. Docker seems to have been struggling as an independent company. This wouldn't be the sort of acquisition where MS tak
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by gexla 6y ago
Why not Roam?
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by gexla 6y ago
> someone has to be the "top dog" attracting the top talent As I said in my comment, this is the big shift I would be looking for. The shift in the top dogs. The top dog could become a Chinese company snagging US expertise rath
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by gexla 6y ago
The bigger issue right now is the total cratering of the world economy. Then there's also the unknown resets which will come with that. Trends which were in slow motion and maybe barely noticeable may have gone into overdrive. Now we d
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by gexla 6y ago
Did the web sort of start out a super walled garden for millions of people? My embarrassing story was starting out with an AOL disk in the mail. I thought the "web" was great fun and apparently I wasn't alone. Often I couldn&
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by gexla 6y ago
How does this compare to Trilium? Looks similar. https://github.com/zadam/trilium
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by gexla 6y ago
Excel is great when you have a lot of small notes you need to reference and you need a quick and easy way to structure them. Write in an editor and then paste in Excel.
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by gexla 6y ago
I assume her assistant does the obsessing for her.
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by gexla 6y ago
Couldn't you just unplug the computer?
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by gexla 6y ago
Lots of comments about Org mode being complicated. This link shouldn't be representative. This is the culmination of an iterative effort over years. I don't know the history behind it and not a hardcore user. But I would suggest s
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by gexla 6y ago
They won't be poor after stealing SV jobs.
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by gexla 6y ago
RIP high tech salaries. If you were teetering on a decision between working in a FAANG company or starting your own business, then this adds some weight for the "own business" side. I get that high salaries are partly a result of
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by gexla 6y ago
Anecdote. I did HORRIBLE in high school. I somehow still graduated with less than the required GPA. I think they called it close enough because they didn't want to continue dealing with me. When I stupidly thought college would be a go
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by gexla 6y ago
Right, any comparison would need to be done within the context of what they are optimizing for. China's priority right now seems to be securing the S. China Sea. There's also nuclear weapons as a concern. I'm not sure we&#x27
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by gexla 6y ago
Maybe their curriculum gives them more time to work on these things? I couldn't imagine being a college student and doing much outside of a typical college workload. You're going to be good at what you train for. An analogy for th
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by gexla 6y ago
Joplin already has this feature via browser extension. It has a mobile app, but never tested it myself.
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by gexla 6y ago
> So I'm in the process of setting up a workflow There shouldn't be a need to setup a process. This functionality exists in many places. For example, I use Joplin to save articles in Markdown format. It's the best web to
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by gexla 6y ago
This could somewhat be the fault of web developers. Unless there's a paywall, the (client|customer|boss) probably wouldn't object to throwing in an RSS feed. Maybe it would require a little extra time, but it's easier than ja
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by gexla 6y ago
Probably the wrong place for the discussion. Do a search and you'll find all sorts of people with this issue. I had the problem after I first built the computer. Then I was able to boot by lowering the speed of the memory in the BIOS,
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by gexla 6y ago
You start with HTML. Write your HTML in an editor. You now have what we started with and I won't complain about your un-styled site. Right now I'm working on a simple personal thing with unstyled pages and a static site generator
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by gexla 6y ago
> but most modern WordPress development, especially Gutenberg — is really JavaScript As are probably most other discussed ecosystems in this thread. Most people doing Go for web development are probably writing JS heavy front-ends which
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by gexla 6y ago
> PHP only exists today because of legacies being maintained > people compare it to languages like Rust or Go since they consider those are "innovative" PHP is getting old enough for developers today to be unaware of the his
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by gexla 6y ago
Ouch, I forgot about that part. That's sobering. I remember the drinking part of the story, but as with any story, there's more to it than we'll know. I suppose this is a good moment to say, RIP Dean Allen. This is another mo
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by gexla 6y ago
You're quoting out of context. The full quote was Filipinos who speak English as a second language. It's reasonable to point out that they'll (ESL's) need more help in getting up to speed with communication which may inc
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by gexla 6y ago
> I suspect we'll never know the true story of what happened with Dean Allen; looking back, there were definite signs even from as far removed as I am of him battling with depression, but of course, I'm writing this now with hi
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by gexla 6y ago
This piece is kind of fluffy, I don't see why it's on the front page. Not particularly insightful. From my experience, Filipino's speaking English as a second language generally have difficulty fitting in with Western culture

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