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by lewisjoe 3y ago
The jargon from category theory for this phenomenon is - partial ordering. It really is an interesting thing. In fact, as human beings who by nature think in terms of abstract, non-concrete units (as opposed to mathematically precise units
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
True. This might be confirmation bias so take it with a grain of salt: At school both students and teachers used to consider me brilliant. They saw me picking up concepts faster. But I knew all I had was a headstart. Everytime I was supplie
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
TLDR: Open AI structured its organization such that there's no boss. And even if there is one, it's not about the money. Reality hits Open AI: There is always a boss and it's always about money.
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Well, interestingly josephg (parent commentor) was part of the team that made the original gdocs editor. And I guess he worked on the Google Wave OT implementation.
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
> everyone’s gonna say “but hey, google docs uses operational transform not CRDTs”.. OK yes, but you are not google. Well, google docs works not because they somehow figured out how to converge OT edits with as much precision as CRDTs do
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Forbes Mobile App Shifts To Kotlin Multiplatform(forbes.com)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
The debugging tools built within the browsers have come a long way in the last couple of decades. I'm a JS veteran and I'm deeply grateful to all the people putting in such efforts to make debugging code in the browser so intuitiv
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Java vs. JavaScript: Battle of Concurrency(docs.google.com)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I worked with a founder who had the same vision. Democratising legal industry using tech. It was my first job after college and was fun building a contract negotiation platform, document assembling API, etc. Learnt a lot but had to leave be
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Callbacks are not that bad(docs.google.com)
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Kotlin Multiplatform Is Now Production Ready(touchlab.co)
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Roman Elizarov is leaving Jetbrains(twitter.com)
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Braid Browser – A multiplayer browser engine(twitter.com)
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Zoom Docs – Notion Competitor from Zoom(news.zoom.us)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I'm puzzled why Kotlin isn't getting enough attention on HN, at least as much as Rust or Zig. Kotlin is indeed popular in it's specific domain (Android & Java). But the company is keen to position it as "write once r
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Microsoft Loop – Microsoft's Notion Alternative(loop.microsoft.com)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Google Docs have somehow solved E2E encryption with safe sharing and collaboration. They haven't advertised it much, just a mention here and there as an enterprise requirement or something, it's good how they've implemented i
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
The very reason why libraries like Lexical & ProseMirror exist, is because it's painful to work with contenteditable APIs. And even with those libraries, try implementing features like multi-columns and cross-block selections. And
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Rich text editors and rendering engines(writer.zohopublic.com)
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The Curious Link Between Rich Text Editors and Rendering Engines(docs.google.com)
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Rich Text Editing Is a Layouting Problem(docs.google.com)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
We are implementing markdown support in Zoho Writer ( https://zoho.com/writer ) and I can confirm how difficult it is to handle bold and italics. It definitely is a weird choice to use *s for both bold and italics. Parsers co
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
"Follow your interest/passion" - is such an easy advice. However in some societies / economies, it's simply not possible. Where I'm from (India), where a majority of my generation has to lift their families fro
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
The approach here is a bit novel i.e treat each block as a separate editor instance (contenteditable) and somehow wire-up cursor movements to behave as if it's one big editable area. But it comes with its downsides as well. For example
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BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support(blocksuite.affine.pro)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Please ask her to stop taking turmeric often. I couldn't find the source, but I remember a liver specialist on twitter, calling out on such practice. He explained how he had patients with liver failure specifically due to regular turme
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
A little dissapointed to see ProseMirror not mentioned. It's an amazing rich-text editing toolkit that provides all the bits and pieces needed to write any kind of rich-text editor. Tiptap is a wrapper over ProseMirror for minimizing t
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Ask HN: Why isn't Kotlin getting enough attention on HN
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How do modern GUI toolkits like React and Compose, sync view with state changes?(workdrive.zohopublic.com)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Great! Now try it in any other list view in any other app. Maybe the list of docs in https://docs.google.com ?

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