joshstella

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by joshstella 9y ago
Author here. In reading this thread, I'm struck that most of the objections to emacs are both legitimate (as are the arguments for it) and focused on programmer-specific issues. Back when I wrote the original post, I was experimentin
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by joshstella 9y ago
Disclaimer: I spend very little time configuring emacs these days, as it's working well for me, and there are others around who are much better at emacs than I am. There are likely better ways to do everything than I have, but I share
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by joshstella 9y ago
I'm hopeful that https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol will decouple some of these concerns. We've built support for it for our DSL, and it's pretty great so far (esp in VSCode). Emacs
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by joshstella 9y ago
Author of blog post here. I take your point on being more accessible, and you're right about the wall of text. I didn't think anyone would care about my little paen to emacs, and this is one evening's work from a couple yea
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by joshstella 9y ago
Author of post here. I have no agenda to convert anyone, but mapping caps lock to control is a good move when trying emacs IMO. If you love vi(m), more power to you!
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by joshstella 9y ago
Author here. I didn't, but I might now. Dig this.
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by joshstella 11y ago
It was originally *nix, and got changed to Nix and linked in the editing process somewhere. Thanks for the find!
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by joshstella 11y ago
OP here. It took me about three weeks to get back up to a high level of productivity in Emacs. At the time, I was learning a new keyboard (truly ergonomic) which was the greater challenge. My wrist tendons are thankful to me for those we
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by joshstella 11y ago
OP here. There are lots of great tools for editing text and code out there. Finger travel was a concern due to some RSI issues I was having, but not the most important factor which is that I like Emacs and enjoy using it. I like it'
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by joshstella 12y ago
Passive, Where do you think our approach will add overhead to your development? We'd love to know so that we can either explain better or get a better product match for you. With Fugue, you get a Conductor that continually monitors and
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by joshstella 12y ago
Radiofan, It will indeed! And with a compiled language so you can get meaningful errors, etc. before spinning up resources that cost $. - Josh
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by joshstella 12y ago
Mark, Thanks for the comments and well-wishes! We chose to use some new terms to not overload existing ones where we are introducing new concepts (Conductor, Performers, etc.). The analogues to music conceptually were so strong they seemed
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by joshstella 12y ago
Thanks for the question, curiousDog. Disclosure: I am a founder and the CEO of Luminal. In a distributed, and therefore often largely stateless system at the instance level, the system boundary is now outside the individual instance. The pe
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by joshstella 13y ago
You might be interpreting the "claim" more rigidly than is warranted in a popular publication. Personally, I think children are born potentially smart, but intelligence must be developed constantly in my experience. I have found t
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by joshstella 13y ago
Having just done a round partially made up of Angels, I don't see this as having a major impact on fundraising which is still predominantly private. I'm skeptical that we are moving broadly towards public fundraising in Angel kind