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by submeta 6y ago
I‘ve seen VMs running Ubuntu 10.something, with a Jira instance that was never updated. Then these people had both an outdated VM where upgrading to the next Ubuntu Sever LTD version was not a trivial task. And Jira was outdated as well. An
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by submeta 6y ago
Very idealistic. - Have you ever tried to maintain a PHP project or Django project or any other web project after several years? Dependencies break, packages are abandoned, or the whole project gets abandoned, then try to maintain the regul
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by submeta 6y ago
This looks like a beautiful software. But I would like to add some thoughts. In the past I've been using many tools for managing all kinds of data. In the 90s MS Access for creating personal database "apps". In the 2000s vari
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by submeta 6y ago
Excellent. Thanks for sharing. - Beautifully coded in Python.
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by submeta 6y ago
Just started learning Emacs Lisp. Common Lisp is on my todo list. Glancing through these tasks, I realize I have a lot to learn before I can call myself proficient. But I am very eager. Started reading Guy Steele and Touretzky. Love the con
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by submeta 6y ago
He seems to be a thinker and philosopher who uses Emacs extensively to write and organize his thougts, and he is willing to share his learnings in excellently made videos. Btw: He seems to be an excellent Lisp hacker as well.
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by submeta 6y ago
r/emacs is a wonderful community. Also, many young people are picking it up and starting youtube channels, demonstrating beautifully how to use it. Magnar Sveen has done many excellent videos ( http://emacsrocks.com/ ).
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by submeta 6y ago
Love `M-x tetris RET`. Beautifully made. After many years of love for beautiful interfaces ("oh, look, how beautiful and shiny (i.e.) `PCalc` is"), I realize that what matters to me is my data and a versatile interface that allows
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by submeta 6y ago
When a giant like Apple makes a decision to disallow installing apps that were not downloaded from the macOS-app store (and by preventing me to open the app, what Apple does is basically disallowing the app; my retired father does not know
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by submeta 6y ago
This is a shallow argument that is repeated over and over again. - For those who invested a lot in hardware, software and know-how on Apple platforms, cost of change is holding them back from quickly jumping to other platforms. For them, Ap
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by submeta 6y ago
That it is necessary to jailbreak consumer devices is grotesque. I can totally understand that a car has a software / OS that is locked down. But a consumer device? - Apple is slowly moving the whole industry in a direction where in a
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by submeta 6y ago
Emacs + Org-mode (once mastered) are excellent for both writing structured text (in org-mode‘s markup instead of markdown), and for managing tasks and projects. With org-mode I have dozens of files for managing my projects and tasks. And I
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by submeta 6y ago
I have gotten rid of almost any Apple only tools (OmniGraffle to Figma; OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more), but there is only only a few left that I can‘t find a replacement for in Linux-land: DE
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by submeta 6y ago
Ahh, thanks for the hint. It was a bad typo, but I can't edit my post anymore. Edit: Just reached out to Dang with a request to correct my typo.
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by submeta 6y ago
> What's worse is the number of other posts with the top comments being vociferous defenses of these companies I slowly tend to think that some of those commenters, who fiercely defend all and any action taken by Apple to limit the
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by submeta 6y ago
Will they prevent changing hosts file as well?
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by submeta 6y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
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by submeta 6y ago
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llang
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by submeta 6y ago
I use my machine for work, and although I am interested in this release, I cannot afford having downtime because any of my crucial apps could break. Will wait a few months.
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by submeta 6y ago
I am about to delete Google Maps on my iPhone. Are all those issues valid on an iPhone as well or does Apple limit it‘s privacy evading features? Edit: Done. Deleted it. Now if only I had an alternative to Garmin Connect. Love my fitness wa
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Trump admin removes senior defense officials triggering alarm at Pentagon(edition.cnn.com)
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by submeta 6y ago
Absolutely agree. - First they took away the ability to upgrade RAM, then to change HD/SSD. What‘s next: Can‘t boot any other OS. - Taking away freedom step by step. I am a die hard Apple products aficionado, I don‘t use any other comp
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by submeta 6y ago
What I am lamenting is the observation that the iPad OS seems to be Apples vision for how computers should work: Crippled, not much user control, just content-consuming devices with Apple controlling every aspect of it. That’s not a persona
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by submeta 6y ago
Oh Apple, why are you doing this, taking freedom from your customers. I don‘t want to use Windows, neither do I want to tinker with Ubuntu. But if you keep going that path, you are forcing your power users to think about migrating to platfo
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by submeta 6y ago
Short answer: Lisp! - I mean, been using "Sublime Text" some years ago, and "Sublime Text" is scriptable / extendable in Python, and although I am fairly familiar with Python, it never occured to me to extend "
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by submeta 6y ago
I think there is a big misconception about what Emacs is (or is not). Many see it as an editor with advanced capabilities, and then they start comparing it to IDEs or editors like VS Code and the like, and finally they think Emacs falls sho
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by submeta 6y ago
I used to use Alfred for these kind of workflows, for years. For opening apps, URLs, for triggering Python or bash scripts, and for searching files of course. It’s a wonderful app. Until I started using Emacs seriously. Now I use Emacs for
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by submeta 6y ago
That‘s not the point (that fraud may happen in any election). Trump asserts that there was systematic fraud in large numbers, in a way that the outcome of the election was changed. And many of his 70mm voters may subscribe to his point of v
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by submeta 6y ago
Moved to Fastmail years ago, because my spider sensors were telling me for years that I need to fear companies where I can’t reach a human to resolve conflicts / problems. - They have an excellent Email service, calendar and contacts m
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by submeta 6y ago
The RIAA behaves like the powerful in ancient times. But your gut feeling knows exactly when someone is wrong. Just because they refer to some law does not mean their actions are rigt. See „Ius primae noctis“ https://en.m.wikipe

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