monroewalker

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by monroewalker 6y ago
I actually just finished that book last night. I enjoyed it, but its accuracy seems dubious. There are some good links to problems in the book in this thread: https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Do others here still recommend using Excel/Google Sheets despite having programming knowledge, or are there more powerful tools available (eg. Airtable) which might be less accessible to people without tech backgrounds? If spreadsheets
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Ask HN: Infinite-canvas-based notes system?
3 points by monroewalker 6y ago|0 comments
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Do you mind sharing a bit more about your setup and workflows? Or a link to anywhere where you've discussed it before?
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by monroewalker 6y ago
I've had a similar experience to yours. Even when I'm curious and motivated to learn, I find it hard to learn more and improve. There seems to be a lot of assumed knowledge from most tutorials and articles about where to place cod
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by monroewalker 6y ago
What keeps the lines from intersecting? Is that a property of "Perlin noise"?
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Check out the Reactiflux discord! It's been invaluable to me as I've been facing similar challenges using TS and Redux https://discord.com/invite/reactiflux
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Just found a layout called "Workman" which seems to be a more reasonably designed layout for programming. Also has a "Workman-P" variant which switches the number/symbol keys so that shift is needed for numbers and
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Oh cool, thanks for sharing. That keyboard has a similar shape to the Kinesis keyboard I got a while ago. Could never really get into it though. It was nice for typing with two hands once I got familiar with it, but I think it made one-hand
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Chiming in to say the the Reactiflux discord channel has been an amazing help while doing FE work with Typescript, React, Redux.
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Ask HN: Do you use Dvorak or any alternative typing / input technology?
5 points by monroewalker 6y ago|8 comments
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Are those the only complaints with it? Those actions for the shortcuts you mentioned seem pretty standard so it might be worth adjusting to them and figuring out how to work around it in whatever software uses different responses. You could
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by monroewalker 6y ago
*raises the question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by monroewalker 6y ago
You don't have to use the Vim editor itself, but to not take advantage of Vim key bindings is a huge miss if you're doing programing work. Most modern editors have plugins that enable them. Personally I've been using Intellij
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Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collab (2018)(ckeditor.com)
87 points by monroewalker 6y ago|16 comments
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Thanks :). I saved your email
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Awesome, how would I reach you?
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Thanks for putting this list together! I took some cog sci courses in college and have been meaning to dive more into the research around it and these papers seem like a good place to start. I expect to run into lots of jargon and concepts
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by monroewalker 6y ago
As a laymen, I don't understand how "attention" and "explanation" are used here. Would you be able to summarize the terms and the contention?
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Ask HN: What features of non-English languages impact the ability to search?
2 points by monroewalker 6y ago|0 comments
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by monroewalker 6y ago
I was having similar issues on Ubuntu with either Unity or Gnome (can't remember which). The high DPI resolution of the laptop screen made everything look really small and everything I tried to do to scale up the size of things just di
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! For anyone that's gone through these, which are most worth watching? I haven't made emacs a regular part of my work yet, but I'm always curious to see what's going on in the community for it.
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Can you elaborate on that? What's faster? What are you customizing that you couldn't before?
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by monroewalker 6y ago
What about XFCE do you like and make it a much better experience for you than Macos?
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Always a bummer when something is given a generic name like that.. makes it really hard to search for results specific to it. What are some of the main things you like about it?
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AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to streamline your work?
4 points by monroewalker 6y ago|12 comments
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by monroewalker 6y ago
Awesome guide :). I've been meaning to learn the basics of LISP since trying out Emacs and this was finally an easy enough introduction to it that I've read a fair amount. Thanks for this!
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by monroewalker 6y ago
What does "DO" refer to here? edit: I'm guessing Digital Ocean