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by mftb 4y ago
This is an interesting answer. There are some actual real-world examples to support it. I think someplace like Cologne Cathedral was planned and the plan executed to completion in ~600 years. I think it would also be fair to say, that there
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by mftb 4y ago
Yours is a great point, because it brings to light the follow-on question; what system, or improvements to an existing one, would help people work towards longer-term goals? I think it's a difficult ask, because even a responsible, civ
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by mftb 4y ago
Ha! ty!
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by mftb 4y ago
I just wanted to let you know that what you are doing is appreciated. More than once while researching something, I've been made aware of the fact that individuals making copies, is the most important factor in written works being pres
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by mftb 4y ago
That is a lot of fun, great job! You might think of adding a link or two for each book. Say to the Wikipedia entry for the author, or a review of the book. I was curious about the, "Demon Cycle" for instance, and would have liked
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by mftb 4y ago
Replying to myself, because after reviewing other comments I realized I didn't read the linked post thoroughly enough. Near the end he proposes a format called "usv", basically using the control codes (unit separator \u001f a
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by mftb 4y ago
As best I can tell no one has mentioned Recutils[0]? It is a little bizarre that csv has never really been nailed down, but yea it's all about trade-offs. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
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by mftb 4y ago
I like plain html pages for presentation too, but this writer is making a fundamental mistake. He keeps making it, as he vacillates between solutions. He keeps mixing his data into his presentation of that data. Keep your data however you l
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by mftb 4y ago
It's not just web developers. The back button is the single, most-used, UI element in the browser.
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by mftb 4y ago
lol, it is, but people that are trying to market things to me frequently want to know about my problems so they can appeal to them and thereby sell me things. I don't see a products section on their site yet, but they refer in several
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by mftb 4y ago
Yea, I have zero interest in Charm Cloud and their web site is eye-poison, but Go > Python so next time I need some CLI stuff, I'll be researching Charm (This is intended to be useful feedback for the Textualize people, I'm lon
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by mftb 4y ago
Indeed as sibling comment mentions there are Tcl fans out there. The guy who created redis has good things to say[0]. With a little evangelism it could maybe stage a comeback. [0] http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunders
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by mftb 4y ago
That airships.net is a cool site, ty. My old man, was a huge, zeppelin, dirigible, nut. I never got the story out of him, why, but he would have loved that site. The entry on the "flying aircraft carriers" in particular was cool.
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by mftb 4y ago
Ha! I use vifm now too, since this functionality is pretty much built in, but I still use vidir for one-offs and I thought it might appeal to some of the true minimalists.
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by mftb 4y ago
I have used vidir from this collection quite a bit. If you're a vi person, it's makes it quite convenient to use vi/vim for renaming whole directories full of files.
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by mftb 4y ago
Not op, but I want to jump in. I sense that we're building a culture of surveillance and manipulation. Long-term none of us wants to live in such a society or culture, but we're building it anyway, because in the short-term it&#x2
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by mftb 5y ago
I have no idea who downvoted you or why they did so. I'm seeing your reply for the first time. From what I can see, our priorities in our tools are different. Discoverability and widespread use of particular features are not near the
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by mftb 5y ago
You might want to investigate Gemini. It appears to be one response to the case you are presenting. It starts at the protocol level and they are starting to build up an ecosystem of servers and clients which are more hypertext focused (No J
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by mftb 5y ago
At first glance it looks pretty nice. I wonder why it hasn't gotten more attention? Or did I just miss it?
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by mftb 5y ago
Keep your marketing, just show us the code.
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by mftb 5y ago
Cool, I'm really interested in that paper, ty.
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by mftb 5y ago
Never fear, Emacs approach is pretty great. It uses a gap-buffer, which is conceptually an array with a space that moves around with the insertion point. It's pretty cool approach because, it's simple, there's very little boo
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by mftb 5y ago
It's vaguely reminiscent of Vim's implementation, in the sense that I think, for large files, in it's default config, Vim keeps most of the text in it's swap file and pages it in as needed. Vim's implementation also
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by mftb 5y ago
I do almost this exact thing for all my personal stuff. I have 5 or 6 going in a vm for simple things like my bookmarks, etc... works great. I could definitely see it solving many small business use-cases.
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by mftb 5y ago
Normally I would pull the command I need multi-line editing for back from shell history, using the search operator '!' and print predicate ':p' before invoking bash's 'edit-and-execute-command' on it. I su
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by mftb 5y ago
This stuff has been in the major shells for years, through excellent editor integration. For emacs and vi it's pretty much free. If you want to integrate with a different editor, it's totally doable. Most of the stuff sibling comm
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by mftb 5y ago
Thanks to op for posting. Remembering is important.
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by mftb 5y ago
17x for me, US West Coast
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by mftb 5y ago
This is so awesome. It's awesome because this statement is ridiculously ambitious, "I'm writing an MMORPG game for learning programming". Rock on! You've obviously made a ton of progress. Keep going, follow your dre
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by mftb 5y ago
Agree, your phrase is an improvement on theirs.

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