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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I kind of cringe a bit because he learned something very special with a somewhat obscure language. >>Clever but there are better solutions. I doubt it. Because that's not what Macros really are. In a programming language
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by kamaal 4y ago
Actually macros do a lot more than search-replace, including things repeating key strokes across several buffers(tabs in vim). In Emacs you can even have incantations, to open connections to remote servers with tramp etc. Some times things
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by kamaal 4y ago
Heck, Macros are the only reason why you would need vim today. It's really like a programming language with text buffer and chars as your input, and outputs being cursor movements and text. Everything else something like vscode already
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by kamaal 4y ago
Stuff like this is always fascinating to me since I read 'The Reasoned Schemer' and worked my way through Clojure core.logic. So as I understand this leverages and extends Prolog, and yet it is very dry on showing your average pro
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by kamaal 4y ago
That's what engineering management is all about, taming and controlling complexity in such mega engineering projects.
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by kamaal 4y ago
In South India, The Indian oil Sardine fish is something people eat like 5+ fish/meal. People under estimate how much fish is sold and eaten. There are also other kinds of fish available in Bangalore they come like $1.5/kg. They a
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by kamaal 4y ago
Thats a very nice way of saying of they have a decentralised power/political structure. Very much like Chinese. This is some what also similar to what the US itself has. The reason why any geopolitical player would not want their oppon
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by kamaal 4y ago
https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/heavyh... Moving while pumping dumb bells is one the greatest exercises ever designed. https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitne
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>“If you’re so smart, how come you’re not happy? How come you’ve not figured that out?” There is a default assumption here that being smart should eventually end in some sort of success. Whereas being smart has only mild correlation
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by kamaal 4y ago
Both Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead, can be great creativity catalysts if read in your younger years. Though the rage fades as you age and come to grips with the reality and unfairness of life. They are still great books to read. Fight Clu
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by kamaal 4y ago
Honestly speaking the only real use case of vim/emacs style keyboard heavy editors I can see(having been a user for years) over vscode is use of keyboard macros. Which in modern context is rare enough to make a one off sacrifice. But o
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by kamaal 4y ago
Yes, Because contrary to whatever one thinks making frequent changes to a process doesn't mean automatic improvement. Staying at one place ensures I don't have to undergo pointless stress to prove myself to new managers over and o
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Whenever I see people closing and opening VSCode instances, I feel like: "Why did you close that?! Can't you just do things in your editor without frequently closing and opening it again?" It feels like an inefficient
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>As a vscode user considering the move, how difficult would it be to get to the point of making emacs a daily driver? Among the big list of features missing in Emacs as of now is remote development that way its done is vscode.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>While with Neo/Vim itself, you never need to reach for the mouse, because the entire thing, not just the editing/writing, is meant to facilitate keyboard-only usage. Exactly, most python plugins like black, code formatters
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>That was completely and utterly a senior US political position that demanded non existeant evidence to support a bizarro "known unknowns" claim Asking people to "Prove a negative" is such a logical stupidity that
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Today, it's clear where the bad guys are. Tomorrow it may be different. Actually bad guys have been the same. It is hard for people to understand or even stand the fact that their country and their countrymen could be evil.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>My original point was to address the idea that we shouldn't be allowed to criticise a regime that commits abuses against people because our own nation did something in the past. Not past, those nations that are lecturing on mor
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by kamaal 4y ago
Isn't that exactly what most people did with the economy class seating. They modified their plane to transit more people. So this logic still holds. The remainder is as simple us understanding what basic structure of a product holds go
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>>Quite a proportion of westerns would now see that colonialist behaviour as a bad thing. Racism and Supremacist culture/politics literally exists because people today think their life got significantly hard since colonialism and
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>As if we should share an enormous guilt for the crimes of the elite who ruled our ancestors. If you share the privilege and beneficial conditions, with that territory comes the guilt and responsibility too. >>The people in any
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>As an extension of this, I propose we remove 4/5ths of each airliner. The 20% that remains, so long as we pick the right 20%, will surely fly correctly. Not sure if they will fly correctly. But most airlines I'm sure have
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by kamaal 4y ago
It's not just L visa(I was on L a few years back, and returned back). Let's be honest this is far from what people call slavery. They are being paid multiples of six digit salaries, RSUs and work in one of the most happening tech
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by kamaal 4y ago
In all honesty, this doesn't look all that bad to me. And it feels what a new boss would say to rally people around his cause. Every company/boss has this sort of management speak 101 sort of speeches they give. I think Amazon als
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>If the platform cannot run for 5 minutes without someone pressing a button to keep it online then I have to question what 1000s of engineers are doing at Twitter. It is not just tech debt per se. In larger companies most middle mana
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by kamaal 4y ago
This is HN, if this is failure, people here aspire to fail upwards like this. Who wouldn't? Most of us here hang out for listening to fellow hackers who have failed upwards.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>WITCH salaries are a joke Getting a job in India is not a joke. And that's saying something. Most poor people in India, are not the same poor you see in the USA. Many people who make it to WITCH companies are likely succeeding
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Being a millionaire is only “powerful” if there are people in poverty. Isn't that whole point of being rich? You are better than the others? There is an always a stack rank, whether we like to agree with this or not. Any attemp
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Unionization is no different from giving someone else control over your paycheck. Most people would do anything to have the privilege to work at a company like Twitter. Even with insane productivity standards that Musk demands. Peop
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by kamaal 4y ago
The public face is just theatre. I'm sure the internal situation is a whole lot more different. Honestly speaking lots of bosses you would meet, are far worse than Elon Musk can even be. I've worked under all sorts. The kind of bo

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