twstws

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by twstws 15y ago
I occasionally grind my teeth at night, enough to give me migraines the next day. A doctor suggested gum as a remedy, and it seems to work. I guess his theory was that it worked the muscles enough to 'wear them out' by the time I went to be
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by twstws 15y ago
I think they've got it backward. 'Cloud computing' makes all desktop OS irrelevant. Which means it's easier than ever for me, working in a Debian ecosystem with Fluxbox/Emacs/Firefox as my main apps, to collaborate with peers using OSX or W
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by twstws 15y ago
This is argument shows up in most threads on Emacs - "sure, it's powerful, but that is actually a flaw since it takes such a long time to master". The problem with this position is that you don't need to master Emacs to make productive use
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by twstws 15y ago
There's a big difference between 'simple to hold in your brain' and 'simple to do something useful with'. For someone just starting out programming, the second is arguably much more important. The article mentions Land of Lisp presenting a
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by twstws 15y ago
Those are 'long s' characters, not f. They were used for lower case s at the start or middle of a word. I don't recall why.
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by twstws 15y ago
I suppose, but they are only opening articles that are 70 years old. Which means curiosities like Darwin's geology papers are now available, but you still need to pay for anything remotely current. So it's a nice start, but unlikely to effe
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by twstws 16y ago
Emacs is really more of a programming platform than a standard single-function application. It doesn't make sense to compare it to Unix apps like wc or ls. It's more similar to Bash, which allows you to combine built in functions and a whol
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by twstws 16y ago
Thanks, that's quite interesting. I can see the advantage of that approach to 'hard skills' like reading, phonetics, computation. On the other hand, I'm not sure I can envision it being applied to complex issues in biology, english or socia
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by twstws 16y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here, you've never taught a class before, have you? Good teaching is not something you can package up, and lesson plans are very idiosyncratic creative works. They are not readily transferable between teachers.