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by submeta 6y ago
After seven years of not working with Emacs, a few weeks ago I gave it a try. I was negative, biased and convinced that it would just be a distraction, a time waster. But the more I dived into it, I realized that the Emacs that I worked wit
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by submeta 6y ago
Why the downvotes?
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by submeta 6y ago
I am very skeptical of Microsoft, even in 2020, with a visionary, embracing CEO. VS Code is a beautiful product with very nice defaults out of the box, very polished workflows and user-experience when it comes to extending it. With this fre
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by submeta 6y ago
But they are very restrictive with API access. You have to apply for a developer access, and they won't give you any if you aren't a developer. All the "modern" companies will give you an API access, a token and even API
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by submeta 6y ago
+1 for TaskPaper. Markdown for notes and Taskpaper for tasks, projects and outlines. It is a format and a Mac app, that is extremely well made. Super fast keyboard navigation, customizable styles and scriptable in JavaScript. Love it.
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by submeta 6y ago
> You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format. This! When I tried to export my notes I realized how hard to impossible it was to get them out. An absolute no-go for me. So I gave up on accumulating notes in this otherwise b
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by submeta 6y ago
Free speech is not a god given right to spread hate, misinformation, antisemitism, misogyny, etc - And yes: Not confronting people who threaten the very basics of our democracy (respecting human rights and the dignity of our fellow citizens
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by submeta 6y ago
I wonder how someone like Hitler would have been treated. I guess free speech advocates would have helped him to spread his sick ideas and rise to power? Free speech needs to have limits somewhere. If others are insulted, smeared, de-humani
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by submeta 6y ago
Same here. I keep using VS Code for dev only and Sublime Text for all other text editing tasks.
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by submeta 6y ago
Software that is unique to MacOS: - HoudahSpot (search files / documents) - DEVONthink (document management system) - Ulysses app (a markdown writing app; I know there are many, on many platforms) - iA Writer (another markdown writer)
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by submeta 6y ago
> notebooks are not good for development. They are great in mobility and convenience, and this argument might outweigh everything else for some people. I accept that. But still, a desktop monitor + external keyboard are always better tha
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by submeta 6y ago
I have my best coding sessions after I start the day with fifteen minutes to half an hour of mindfulness meditation. That calms my mind, makes me „less anxious“, lets me go into new directions without feeling the urge to walk away, procrast
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by submeta 6y ago
I‘ve seen larger amounts spent on startups with no significant userbase nor exceptionally well made products.
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by submeta 6y ago
Exactly my perception. Was looking desperately for an abstract, a TL;DR version, the key takeaways.
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by submeta 6y ago
No, it is not. Python's `my_list.sort()` will sort the list in-place without returning the sorted list. If I wanted to have a return value (without changing the original list), I'd have to use `sorted(my_list)`.
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by submeta 6y ago
They return a value, like functions.
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by submeta 6y ago
Wow, this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Btw I love that Ruby methods return a value, so method chaining works so good. That‘s something I appreciate in Mathematica‘s postfix notation (for instance `x // Sin`), and also what I
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by submeta 6y ago
Org-mode is awesome. But only in the context of Emacs. Markdown is less capable, but almost ubiquitous. I went from org-mode[^0] to markdown some years ago, and the only thing I am missing is org-tables. Currently I am using a set of markdo
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by submeta 6y ago
How does Racket compare to Clojure? Anyone knows both worlds and would like to give some infos? I know Clojure is JVM based, one of those new languages built on Java technology (the others being Scala and Groovy). So very solid tech used by
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by submeta 6y ago
Not many alternatives. Interests almost zero or even negative. - How else are we supposed to save for the retirement.
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by submeta 6y ago
+1 for Ulysses. It‘s got all the features I was asking for: markdown, tagging, folders, offline, beautiful UI, a go-to-anywhere (omnisearch), saved searches, and the company has a history of over ten years (not VC backed). Been using all ki
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by submeta 6y ago
Ahh, thw beauty and versatility of Python again. And the momentum doesn’t stop. Never regret jumping off of Perl, then Ruby ten years ago to fully commit to Python. I can see so many use-cases for it (with the rich ecosystem), on an almost
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by submeta 6y ago
Check these books: - Ultralearning by Scott Young - Deep Work by Cal Newport - Atomic Habits by James Clear - How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler - Mindfulness Meditation (many books by Jon Kabat-Zinn „Ultralearning“ has lots of valuable i
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by submeta 6y ago
Impressed to see four posts about Rust on the front page of HN simultaneously.
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by submeta 7y ago
There are hundreds of use-cases. It is not important what the use-cases are. - There are two types of developers: Those who use hacking to solve all kinds of tasks that need hundreds of manual steps. And those who never think of automating
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by submeta 7y ago
Honestly interested to know: Is there any added value for a Python developer in learning and using Scala? I love Python, especially because of its ecosystem, its widespreadedness, and of course because of Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib. But I mi
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Warning Issued for Apple's 1.4B iPad and iPhone Users(forbes.com)
1 points by submeta 7y ago|0 comments
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by submeta 7y ago
My Hewlett Packard calculator from the 80s (HP28s)
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by submeta 7y ago
Just recently I took over a very rapidly evolving project, and I realized that OmniFocus for iOS (as much as I love it with all the custom „perspectives“ I created) is way to slow in quickly capturing and organizing new tasks & projects
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Covid-19: How the Pandemic Will End(theatlantic.com)
2 points by submeta 7y ago|0 comments

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