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by reificator 5y ago
I don't feel like it was hard to pick up* so much as it was just not the right tool for me. *Relative to my expectations when trying a new editor for a short period
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by reificator 5y ago
> That only matters if you want to use the more interactive features of Emacs' org-mode. I only use Vim and still write everything in .org files. I did something similar for awhile but felt like I was net negative in effort to gai
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by reificator 5y ago
I hesitate to answer because I sense an editor war incoming, but I'm going to assume your question was in earnest and not evangelical or judgemental. Also to be clear, because I know people can be touchy about editor preferences: I say
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by reificator 5y ago
I keep everything in my life in plaintext, so I've been looking longingly at Org for several years now. There are three things standing in my way, from least to most important: * I sometimes view on or want to share documents over site
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by reificator 5y ago
> If we reduce everything to that metric of observability then coders should be paid in lines of code written not thinking done. If this happens I'll do well. Just don't ask how I "write" the code that gets submitt
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by reificator 5y ago
> i miss the ping pong table.. You had me until the end. Nicely done. We all know the ping-pong table is there for the same reason as the couch in front of the break room TV, or the cheese on the mousetrap.
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by reificator 5y ago
> "My Deck is bigger than yours!" Ah, the rallying cry of EDH/Commander players everywhere.
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by reificator 5y ago
> In iOS I never seen an in-app volume control (I assume its forbidden) and all volume adjustments affect the system volume. Typically games will have them so you can balance out music and interface sounds relative to in-game sounds. I
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by reificator 5y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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by reificator 5y ago
> “Weak sauce”? Whether that counts as assigning blame or not, I have not typed those words in the last decade or more.
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by reificator 5y ago
> That is hardly OP's fault, since there is no way to be aware of others' HN reading behavior. I don't remember assigning fault.
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by reificator 5y ago
> I edited it 5 seconds after posting it. And those edits don't propagate to pages that are already open. > You posted 20 minutes after I posted it. GP could easily have taken 20 minutes to read the article and comments befor
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by reificator 5y ago
Oh, now we're moving the goalposts eh?
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by reificator 5y ago
> It looks beautiful As long as the marketing focuses on the flashy lights I can't bring myself to ever buy Razer anything.
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by reificator 5y ago
> I hypothesize that productivity can be maximized with a 7-day workweek but a shorter workday to keep the # of hours constant, eliminating the loss of productivity between weekends. I take it you don't have children, elderly or d
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by reificator 5y ago
I edited right before you posted because I realized I misremembered the line. Thanks though.
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by reificator 5y ago
I've always wanted a service like this, for movies, TV, and music. I might be missing it, but is there a way to share a link to a specific clip, preferably not including the text used to search for it?
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by reificator 5y ago
> I found that "have you considered" is better at communicating a genuine intent. Be careful about your tone or this will be far worse than "why not simply?" ever could be.
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by reificator 5y ago
Just a heads up: That editor project, while conceptually interesting, is currently abandoned.
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by reificator 5y ago
> Unlike IE6's reign of incompetent terror, Chrome is actually a competent browser. Techies are embracing the takeover instead of fighting it. It's guaranteed to succeed. IE6 was also a good browser. It didn't stay a
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by reificator 5y ago
I have a sleeping disorder and if I wake up and remember having a dream I almost always also feel well rested.
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by reificator 5y ago
Excellent. I'll bring your computer-with-regular-speakers-attached with me on my next bus ride.
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by reificator 5y ago
Sure, and that works fine. Just let my application tell the window manager: * What key events I care about. (I.E. what the keybind should be named in the settings UI) * What script or message to pass back to me when that event is activated
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by reificator 5y ago
I did edit the post you responsed to a few times in the last few minutes, so heads up there. > > Unless you're suggesting that the DE comes with a preconfigured set of global hotkeys and cannot be altered or extended > Yes
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by reificator 5y ago
> Looks to me like something the DE should manage for you, not the application. > But everyone seems to disagree with me! The original post you responded to was suggesting that your DE, or at least something outside of your applic
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by reificator 5y ago
So if I'm in my text editor and decide I want to change the currently playing song, I need to switch windows/contexts, press a hotkey or GUI button, and switch back? The current model where everything running can listen to everyth
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by reificator 5y ago
> Why would you ever let a non-focused application subscribe to any key combinations? * Media playback controls * Hotkeys to take screnshots, or record videos * Quake style terminals * Ingame chat and game invites * Color pickers * Scr
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by reificator 5y ago
> That central authority is a bottleneck and at times corrupt. We don't trust central authority in government so three different levels of government have to reach an alignment for a law to be passed. Police powers are separate fro
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by reificator 5y ago
A classroom has a trusted central authority. Even assuming some kind of educational benefit from students racing to be first, how on earth does blockchain accomplish anything there? I really really hope that all the blockchain hype is from
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Perhaps I phrased my response poorly, but yes, that's basically what I meant.

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