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by vemv 8y ago
Same could be said about almost every system tested by Jepsen, so your observation seems unfair.
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by vemv 8y ago
Lifting your arms doesn't mean keeping them in a static position. They are lifted when you're typing; else they lean on your legs (much better than using some kind of cushion/surface, since your legs don't compress your
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by vemv 8y ago
Nature doesn't require us to lean on armrests, desks or such - in fact there are almost no flat (or cushioned) surfaces on nature. Evolutionarily it would't make sense if the human body wasn't 'self-contained' - req
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by vemv 8y ago
I wouln't rest my elbow (or forearms) on anything, it's an unnatural pressure. Instead I place the keyboard at the border of the desk, so I can't possibly lean my arms on the desk. Granted, you have to use more force to keep
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by vemv 8y ago
I left Colemak for Qwerty some 5 years ago. Keyboard layout matters much less than your typing technique. Same thing for ergonomic keyboards - they can be a dangerous sign that you're focusing on the wrong thing, on micro-optimizations
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by vemv 8y ago
> That's odd... I meant, for regular usage (with full packages), some people might pride themselves over a 0.1 startup, but then as soon as Emacs does something useful it will freeze a little. > Opening a file... Maybe my example
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by vemv 8y ago
This sounds pretty neat (and something a CI server could routinely do) - has it been done in practice?
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by vemv 8y ago
Probably there's two kind of devs (none being 'superior'): those who are paranoid about keeping things stateless, and those who don't. A clear example being restarting your computer. Sometimes I do it for no good reason
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by vemv 8y ago
These are (almost) all of them, I'd say it's a bearable amount: https://github.com/vemv/.emacs.d/blob/master/lib/non-submodu... (also some are redundantly rebound, like left-key to left-ch
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by vemv 8y ago
Three modifiers are enough: Command, option, control. Easy on macOS, possible on Linux: (setq mac-control-modifier 'super) (setq mac-option-modifier 'meta) (setq mac-command-modifier 'control) I never have t
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by vemv 8y ago
> If you start Emacs with `emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file --no-splash` it starts (especially in non-GUI mode) in a fraction of a second. Sure thing, but most real-world setups have multiple heavy packages installed. > If you then
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by vemv 8y ago
Tangentially related: applying some commonly-recommended optimizations, you can shave Emacs init time to about 2 seconds, from whatever your previous init time was (7 in my case, but I also read about 60s -> 2s improvements). Init time a
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by vemv 8y ago
There's a substantial amount of Clojure jobs every month on the "HN who's hiring" thread. Personally I would have loved Clojure to absolutely win, but being an elite language for senior devs isn't a bad situation ei
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by vemv 8y ago
macOS. Not much interested in VMs, for efficiency. Yeah I was playing with a separate user account, could get some basics working but I wonder how far could I get with that. What are the bigger security risks for that approach? Assuming con
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by vemv 8y ago
I'd be interested in running my dev environment with a dedicated user account -with no access to the main account's personal files, credentials, etc-, do you know of any guides for doing so? (I could just give it a shot, but I rec
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by vemv 8y ago
Finally identified the issue - I was adding Marmalade as a repo, which cert is legitimately wrong (Chrome will warn over https://marmalade-repo.org/ ). I just removed the repo - I'd say that Melpa won in recent years?
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by vemv 8y ago
Tried out, no luck unfortunately. With that setup, both E25 and E26 get stuck forever while trying to fill the `~/.emacs/d/elpa` directory (with an actual freeze and no feedback)
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by vemv 8y ago
Kinda on-topic, I still don't know how to setup Emacs 26 (which is a relatively recent release) on macOS - as opposed to all prior versions. Installation of packages will fail due to the TLS changes. This seems the best-informed soluti
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by vemv 8y ago
I prefer http://asyncmanifesto.org/ which is subtler and more concise. Also doesn't feel like just some individual's POV. I don't see myself sharing https://www.remoteonly.org/ as it can easi
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by vemv 8y ago
Well I cannot recall every intricacy about a tool I don't care about anymore. Simply an experience report from a reasonably reputed HN member. The `arc` command did rewrite my branches, ruin my revisions or otherwise do something buggy
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by vemv 8y ago
Used Phabricator/Arcanist for one year straight, it wasn't fun. It's pedantic, buggy, happy to mutate your branches or "revisions" (PRs) unless you take specific care (which won't happen until you've been
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by vemv 8y ago
Typical Rails codebases already enjoy a reasonable layer of 'typing' via ActiveRecord coercions, validations, and possibly some system that declares/documents the types/structure of your REST API. Also, I advocate keywor
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by vemv 8y ago
I've been calling it ES6 for a while. It reflects the variety of js that generally matters now. Also concise, and reasonably pronounceable (I'd rather say aloud "ee-es-six" than "ecmascript" which seems to me a
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by vemv 8y ago
My approach: - validate agressively at the system boundaries (IO- or user- facing stuff) - inside the system, clojure implementation code isn't particularly nil-aware - inside each namespace, the most important functions (typically the
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by vemv 8y ago
While I applaud every initiative, outsiders might be more interested in https://github.com/juxt/edge which is more battle-tested. I specifically liked its multi-project layout, which shows a specific clj strength: htt
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by vemv 8y ago
You can just google "remote workers are more productive"
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by vemv 8y ago
"A day's worth of work" is a chunk of results - not physically spending 8h in those results. It's well-known (and documented) that remote workers are more productive, so on a good day you can call it a day at hour 4. YMM
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by vemv 8y ago
I think it's pretty normal for remote employees (not contractors) to not be expected to work 8 solid hours per day at home. Have specifically asked so in quite a few job interviews worldwide. Most common reply is literally "we don
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by vemv 8y ago
I use Emacs but also completely 'hijacked' the way it works with keyboard shortcuts, making it similar to a GUI editor and ignoring/disabling typically emacs-y chords. Good thing being that Emacs is powerful enough to complet
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by vemv 8y ago
> it gradually slides into part time work. I would reword it as "the remote worker is getting more productive". As long as the measured outcome (which I recommend keeping track of) remains constant, invested hours don't ma

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