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by kenbolton 6y ago
"forcing evil-mode"?! Spacemacs asks if you want to use "evil", "holy", or "hybrid" mode early in the process.
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by kenbolton 6y ago
I moved out of NYC after the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks and back to my parents. There wasn't the same level of lockdown, and the 14 days I was stuck in SF when my 9/12 flight was canceled seems quaint now. I used the change to learn py
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by kenbolton 6y ago
and canoe ballet: https://youtu.be/9iDVWn77VuM?t=70 (unable to find a decent-quality clip of karen knight, who i have seen spin a 16' sea kayak on a dime with a canoe paddle with no above-water motion.)
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by kenbolton 6y ago
I regularly kayak long distances in rough conditions, backpack, jump rope, practice yoga, play hockey aggressively with people half my age, and engage in calisthenics, and have been for ~20 years. Currently in my mid-40s, I am never more so
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by kenbolton 7y ago
I guide sea kayaking expeditions and provide instruction for a local outfitter. It pays for itself, as kayak gear is not cheap, and forces me to exercise my social skills. My "day job" is solo remote founding engineer for a RegTec
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by kenbolton 8y ago
I worked summers in college as a garbage man and laborer for my town department of public works. My current side-hustle is guiding kayak trips with local outfitters. I am looking forward to retiring into that.
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by kenbolton 8y ago
> "Emacs is a great OS, but it lacks a decent text editor." > Only vi users are allowed to tell that joke with a straight > face, IMHO. Emacs users can tell that joke, but they have deliver it with a wry smile. Evil-mode
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by kenbolton 8y ago
The question is not elisp v. vimscript but rather the power of not having to switch contexts. To write code for a locally-hosted RESTful API I used Chrome to read the API docs, Postman to make the calls, iTerm2 to start/restart the ser
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by kenbolton 8y ago
Q: But does it org-mode? A: No. Long A: Org-mode is plain text. So it org-modes, but not in a meaningful way.
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by kenbolton 8y ago
I'm building a pipeline that sends pages like this out to splash and returns the js-rendered html to my browser.
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by kenbolton 8y ago
I started playing with emacs 24 years ago, then spent 20 years as a devoted vim user with a two year work-enforced gap in Eclipse. I tried spacemacs in evil mode about four years back and stayed for magit. I tried VSCode a few weeks ago to
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by kenbolton 9y ago
Roll your own: https://github.com/stephenmcd/drum
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by kenbolton 9y ago
LambdaMOO and its children got me into college and a career. Another example of technology out of PARC that they failed to monetize. The so-called social web has been a pale imitation.
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I've been reading N.K. Jemison's works intermittently for the past year and perceive her as the literary successor to Le Guin.
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I've been fantasizing recently about using a Bluetooth keyboard (Twiddler3) connected to an eInk reader to do most of my work both locally and on remote machines/instances. The eInk reader would have just enough power to run space
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by kenbolton 9y ago
Two of my dearest friends–people who could not be more dissimilar otherwise–teach ethics using, in particular, Greek Tragedy. One is an Army ethicist, the other a Shakespeare scholar who teaches ethics to business undergrads. The latter con
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by kenbolton 9y ago
The author of the article and this book write and perform comedy together.
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by kenbolton 9y ago
Outsource it: http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/ As I posted elsewhere in the thread, author of the NYTimes article is the sometimes comedy partner of the artisanal pencil sharpener, who also wrote the definitive boo
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by kenbolton 9y ago
Too funny, this article was written by Sam Anderson, the comedy partner of David Rees, author of How to Sharpen Pencils, http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/ .
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by kenbolton 9y ago
Funk, soul, and hip-hop make me happy. Turn off rock: it is derivative and depressing. So called alt-rock should be crushed under a, uh, rock. Jazz is great, but not full of joy, as is classical music. Folk has the same issues as rock plus
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by kenbolton 9y ago
The first paragraph, I call this "integrity"! Maintain integrity.
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by kenbolton 9y ago
First, I never under-bid on a contract, except once in exchange for equity that seems to be panning out. Know your value and values. Stick to them. When I quit full-time employment at a major US university, my first contracts brought in far
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I am single, live alone (with a blind dog I am re-teaching to hike with me), and work as a software developer exclusively remote. I started a meetup to teach aspiring developers that has evolved into a "stitch-and-bitch" where eve
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I have a slack-line but get very little opportunity to use it. I'll start keeping it in the vehicle so I can bring it on kayak expeditions–adequate clothes-line and camp couch–and on the off chance I find a spot to use it. I am looking
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by kenbolton 9y ago
This! Be honest and open about your needs, goals, and desires.
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by kenbolton 9y ago
Appreciate the sentiment, but gotta admit that I feel like I am still pretty far from this achievement. I suspect that balance is a goal that will remain perpetually just out of reach, and I am fine with continuing to work on it! To that po
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I work from home for a profitable business-to-business startup servicing the payments underwriting industry. I did not know such an industry existed before working on this project, and the job came through my alumni network on LinkedIn. I j
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I clicked to the comments to pun "let's take the mass out of patent trolls." well done, friend.
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by kenbolton 9y ago
I started doing four hour workdays about eight years ago. Every day is a potential workday, and some rare workdays are two! I don't find it burdensome to have a month-long streak of working every day at this pace. And if I "miss&q