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by vgel 5y ago
Signed up and posted a bit :) Very nostalgic! If anyone on HN has fond memories of forums, you should make an account!
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by vgel 5y ago
Does this handle updating plugins? Because just the 'plugin search / plugin add' isn't that interesting to me; I don't use package managers for discovery and since git plugins are so simple I don't see a large
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by vgel 5y ago
Linux packaging can definitely be confusing -- as a user I definitely prefer something like an AppImage for a program like this, which should be easy enough to provide. I wouldn't worry about making distribution specific deb and rpm pa
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by vgel 5y ago
Hmm, it's an interesting idea. I feel like the finished websites are sort of bland though. I wonder if leaning into a more messy / paperlike aesthetic would make the product feel more fun, since to me I feel like wanting to make
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by vgel 5y ago
I read this, thought "It can't be that bad", clicked it, and burst out laughing...
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by vgel 5y ago
Do you have a mailing list I can toss my email on for when this is available on Linux? Honestly I was ready to buy it instantly before I saw the platform limitation, but it would be even better if it could run some basic filters like removi
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by vgel 5y ago
> And in the case of the most recent arrest, both defendants have long rap sheets. Tiller even made headlines in 2016, for participating in a robbery of the Make a Wish Foundation at 400 Market St. and stealing — among other things — a s
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by vgel 5y ago
This is also, in similar theme to my other comment, because high schools aren't standardized and have often wildly different curricula, even between high-quality high schools. Colleges do a ton of work to smooth this out, from offering
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by vgel 5y ago
It depends -- in some areas there's schools called "magnet schools" that are public, free schools that you can test into. I went to a high school like that. In New York there's a lottery system for magnet schools instead
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by vgel 5y ago
Sort of, it's complicated, but that's also not related to what GGP said? They were claiming parents could choose schools, which is not true (at least, in most of the US). Whether schools are pf consistent quality (they aren't
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by vgel 5y ago
Have you used a whistling tea kettle? I think that's what they're referring to -- there's a small opening in the lid or spout of the kettle, and when enough steam pressure builds up inside, the steam forces itself through the
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by vgel 5y ago
> What's the background here? There was an IE culture in Xinjiang, the Tocharians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians
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by vgel 5y ago
Ads would need to be split up further, as well. It's ridiculous that Google controls the marketplace, buying of ads on that marketplace, and selling ad placements.
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by vgel 5y ago
Checked out the link, thanks for that. Will have to dig into their approach more. Agreed with immersion being important. Ultimately, you can't learn anything without work, but considering how useful tools like Anki have been for me in
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by vgel 5y ago
> I would suggest that people new to vim not trying to learn all of vim quickly. I think they are better off learning enough just to get by at first. Just the basics. Agreed. I think, leaning on my metaphor of natural language, that just
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by vgel 5y ago
Agreed. Perhaps intuition is a better term for what I'm thinking of than muscle memory, but I think we're on a similar page :) Thanks for your suggestions!
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by vgel 5y ago
> Learning/using Vim has nothing to do with muscle memory. This is a common misconception that leads to rote learning and, since Vim has hundreds of commands, the use of flawed ready-made cheatsheets _and_ the looking for ways to by
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by vgel 5y ago
Ooh this looks interesting, thank you. Do you know if it teaches more high-level Vim concepts (like text objects), or just the basic commands like hjkl?
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Ask HN: Have you learned / tried to learn Vim? How did you approach it?
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by vgel 5y ago
That said, Seattle is actually quite small in comparison to the Seattle metropolitan area, because Seattle is surrounded by lots of satellite cities: Kenmore, Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland (yes, the Costco Kirkland), Everett, Tacoma, etc. So
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by vgel 5y ago
(I live in Seattle, moved from VA, have never lived in CA) * Seattle, anecdotally, does seem to be popular with ex-CA folks. Been seeing a lot more CA plates recently. * Weather is very taste dependent. I like it, but some people like takin
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by vgel 5y ago
Hitler was purposely given a short sentence and little oversight in jail, allowing him to meet with other fascists and write his book, by the judge and guards who were sympathetic to his message. Hardly deplatforming.
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by vgel 5y ago
> And are you really wanting to simultaneously take a call and listen to music? Will the person on the other end appreciate that? Seems like an inconsequential limitation to me. You could be hosting a party, for example, and want to leav
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by vgel 5y ago
I wonder what, if anything, will replace dating apps. As someone who tried dating apps for a while, I never had much luck with them. I ended up meeting my wife in person at the LGBTQ center at my college, we were friends for awhile, started
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by vgel 5y ago
This happened to a friend of mine. "Friend" of theirs who was angry they didn't have a romantic interest in him called the police claiming they were suicidal. Police came, handcuffed them, verbally abused them, and dragged th
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by vgel 5y ago
I'm getting tired of this take. There's such as thing as programming for the joy of programming. You can love a clever algorithm with no "business value". Code can be beautiful and fun to write without being useful, or o
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by vgel 5y ago
Where I work (meetdandy.com, digital dental lab), we do a combination of: For small changes like adding a field, we make the property on the underlying event optional, but require it in the event dispatch function. That allows old events to
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by vgel 5y ago
Have you heard of Dynamicland / Paper Programs? If not, you might find them interesting in this vein.
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by vgel 5y ago
There's only one set of Lakota sacred mountains. I don't think the situation would be improved by having 100 sets of wackos blowing up the mountain instead of one.
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by vgel 5y ago
I found the title of the article a little annoying, but it has a point. It's ridiculous that we're using terminals that still emulate a physical TTY, with all the flaws that come with that. The failings of terminal semantics have

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