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by girzel 11y ago
For an actual typing-on-the-keyboard format, it seems like almost anything would have been better, particularly given the number of markup languages that can translate trivially into XML. I may have misunderstood -- he was actually typing i
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by girzel 11y ago
I keep an eye on the Scribus project from time to time. Who knows, maybe someday it can compete. https://www.scribus.net/
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by girzel 11y ago
Written in XML?! That's the first I've heard. Though also a fine proof that what you're writing is much more important than how you're writing it. (Still, though -- XML?)
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by girzel 11y ago
I always liked the Tinderbox pricing scheme. You pay X amount for a year of updates. It's not super cheap. You get your year of updates, and then you coast on the last version you got, until the next time you decide to shell out for a
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by girzel 11y ago
Right. And an Org file that's "gone off" somehow is pretty frustrating. Totally fixable, but very frustrating.
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by girzel 11y ago
No, just write your document :) Seriously, that's the side of things where Org is meant to get out of your way, not provide you with a bunch of flashy tools. Learning to create and manipulate headings (move up, move down, indent, outde
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by girzel 11y ago
It's always good to see Org mode flagged up (though it gets a surprising amount of love on HN). I use Org more or less constantly, and I'll take this opportunity to note an Org-related observation that I've been mulling over
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by girzel 11y ago
Looks like development stopped in 2005, does it still work? Would be nice to have on ELPA, if so...
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by girzel 11y ago
The contrast between viewing that website (all fade-ins and exciting fonts) and actually playing Nethack itself is... stark. But I enjoy assuming that the irony is intentional! Edit: Also, not to be that guy, but there are few boasts on tha
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by girzel 11y ago
> Kanye understands that as consumers we’re increasingly favoring access over ownership, services over products. We want these services to improve themselves over time, and we want to be able to arrange and customize them to our taste. I
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by girzel 11y ago
"A Suffusion of Yellow" is a phrase which I have never forgotten.
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by girzel 11y ago
As a translator and publisher of Chinese literature, I found these articles absolutely fascinating. I am all too familiar with the case of publishers hiring whichever translator they've heard of before, with apparently little or no act
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by girzel 11y ago
For some reason I've ended up using a combination of i3, tmux, and Emacs window splitting, all at the same time. So three different programs that do something like window management, each with its own set of behaviors and keystrokes. T
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by girzel 11y ago
That's where these comparisons always fall down: you're trying to do something in X number of keystrokes in vim, whereas in Emacs you'd write your own function to do whatever it is. How do you compare those? Coincidentally (o
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by girzel 11y ago
Weird that it only mentions OSM in passing, in one or two places Seems like the source of your map data would be something you'd want to put out front
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by girzel 11y ago
The Texinfo format, using the in-Emacs Info browser. Yes, it means you only read your documentation inside Emacs, but it's hands-down the best doc-browsing experience I've ever had. Hell to write, butter to read.
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by girzel 11y ago
I've been in China for fifteen years, and haven't filed taxes for the past twelve, I think. I'm moving back to the States at the end of this year, and am deeply worried about integrating myself back into the good graces of th
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by girzel 11y ago
The wubi input method (五笔字形) uses radical composition or something like it -- keys represent different (semi-arbitrary) character portions, and you "build" characters by choosing the portions, and adding other keys that indicate t
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by girzel 11y ago
This is a bit old! Mostly still relevant (the discoverability problem has improved), but a couple of years old.
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by girzel 11y ago
This stuff makes me drool. I remember being in the Norwich Cathedral a couple of years ago, and getting a tour of the graffiti. Some of it was just regular lampooning of authority figures, young guys letting off steam, that sort of thing, b
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by girzel 11y ago
Today I learned that one of the Chinese words for avocado – 鳄梨 – is actually a translation of the older English term "alligator pear", and not a fanciful neologism as I'd thought. Interesting! I look forward to learning the r
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by girzel 11y ago
It's also worth noting that there's a lot of work going into Emacs right now to give it better IDE-like features -- finding definitions reliably, refactoring, all that stuff. They're working on a more generalized framework fo
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by girzel 11y ago
My mistake – thanks for the correction!
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by girzel 11y ago
Sadly, yaourt comes up empty-handed for all "APL" related searches – I have no interpreter on Archlinux. I also don't speak French, but I guess that's not really the point. Lastly, the linked file is byte code, which wou
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by girzel 11y ago
It's anything but static — in fact we just had someone complaining bitterly on the mailing list that the syntax and API was changing too quickly! It's a fast-moving, responsive project, and tends towards that "user beware&quo
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by girzel 11y ago
The brutal thing about Thai, for me, was learning the matrix of how consonant class, tone markings, and the "live" or "dead" status of the syllable all came together to determine the tone of the syllable. There's a
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by girzel 11y ago
If only China and the rest of the South-east Asian countries could solve their tiny-island disputes the same way. Think: Thailand throws water: Songkhran! China throws baijiu: alcoholism! The Philipphines... I don't know enough about t
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by girzel 11y ago
I find a nice equivalent is to get rid of the browser . I'm still connected to the internet, but I find that non-browser based internet activity is usually higher-quality activity. I'm trying to move as much of what I do as possi
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by girzel 11y ago
I come from Seattle, but haven't lived there for nearly two decades. For some reason, I seem to have spent the intervening time in desert-like climates (central California, the Middle East, northern China). The dampness of Seattle -- i
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by girzel 11y ago
I have to admit, the Yule Log and the fruitcake are so distinct in my mind from the whipped-creamy thing they sell at 7-11, I didn't even really connect the two.

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