theptrk

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by theptrk 8y ago
Lol at secret uses of echo. How are you logging your command line entries?
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by theptrk 8y ago
I have a thing for “want to do someday” called Asana but it’s never ending. My killer feature for a todo list would be either Auto Delete or auto “tell me a reason why I shouldn’t delete this”
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by theptrk 8y ago
You have a better memory than me. I would instantly forget whether or not I’ve added an entry for the day
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by theptrk 8y ago
I think adding a command to go to the next line would be the sweet spot
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What db design should be used for infinite trees (workflowy)?
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by theptrk 8y ago
Which part is the offender?
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by theptrk 8y ago
I’m super interested in creating an intensely detailed mind map of what you need to answer these tech interviews. I always hear that the interview process is broken and we need a new system etc but I would imagine we’d want our new coworker
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by theptrk 8y ago
ooh i get it, `alias did="vim +'normal Go' +'r!date' +'put _' ~/did.txt"` and this starts in insert mode. I like this. I think ill change mine to this.
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by theptrk 8y ago
I type "o" (lowercase o) to start the cursor on the next line.
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by theptrk 8y ago
projects/done is a directory?
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by theptrk 8y ago
this doesnt seem to work in the same way for me, it doesnt print a timestamp to the file
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by theptrk 8y ago
Dang. I love this. I only remember preparing this intensely for grad school apppications but come to think of it the stakes are just as high if not higher at work + life.
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by theptrk 8y ago
Hm, that’s cool. Is your note taking an app part of the menu bar (if you’re using Mac) If so which is it? Agreed on the global hot key. I use iTerm and it has a global hot key so you can bring it up with a shortcut and then hide it with t
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by theptrk 8y ago
How do you set up the mirrored ZFS? Is this running some type of job that runs something like rsync on a schedule?
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by theptrk 8y ago
hadn’t heard of these emacs addons. Commenting to save this.
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by theptrk 8y ago
Is there a great intro to org mode that isn’t the docs? (Never used emacs but tempted because all I’ve heard of org mode)
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by theptrk 8y ago
Do you mean a did file for yourself or a collective file for the machine?
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by theptrk 8y ago
This is so funny. It’s almost like a kanban board in vim. What’s your strategy for saving the files?
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by theptrk 8y ago
Totally, i've never actually fully read my did file (just started), but I find the act of writing a concise summary of what I've done to be the major benefit.
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by theptrk 8y ago
"By writing down an entry in the bugs file for each interesting bug, I find that I learn much more easily. There is something with the act of writing that makes me think more deeply about what happened." - linked post I like this
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by theptrk 8y ago
oh thats smooth
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by theptrk 8y ago
Whoa never heard of Syncthing (open source syncing to replace dropbox). What led you to choose that?
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by theptrk 8y ago
Interesting, I've been seeing a lot of interest in syncing the file and this seems like a good next project. I never thought to use dropbox to sync, I wonder what the dropbox api does with merge conflicts
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by theptrk 8y ago
the moving from a todo file to done file is something i still havent figured out in plaintext
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by theptrk 8y ago
Yeah commits are great for logging code changes. I started using the did file while learning a new language, don’t remember which. I’d have 15 tabs open with different docs and tutorials but very very little actual code written or way to ma
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by theptrk 8y ago
Hm. Dynalist seems promising. WorkFlowy has been incredible for a certain type of brainstorming but there seems to be tons of room for new features.
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by theptrk 8y ago
I’ve settled on a plaintext file in my home directory called “did.txt”. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17538697
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by theptrk 8y ago
hm, good thinking, I guess I should run `touch` to create the empty file first.
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Keeping a plaintext “did” file(theptrk.com)
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by theptrk 8y ago
The author also created “rate.sx” for bitcoin prices

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