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by vijucat 6y ago
> Because the entire tone of your original post was written in a way to imply that the OP hadn't done the due diligence. You have a problem. The lenses you are wearing make everything look negative. > It's quite straightforw
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by vijucat 6y ago
> Why are you lying? See, this is why Linux zealots don't effect any change in others. When OP wrote something incorrect about Windows, in my perception, I gave him the benefit of doubt ("Maybe you haven't been using Windo
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by vijucat 6y ago
Ah yes. Use OneNote 2016 (or OneNote 2010), which is free to download and use, not the Windows App.
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by vijucat 6y ago
> stuff like your OS restarting behind your back whenever you lock your screen and walk away https://imgur.com/a/qAWLzsu Maybe it's been a couple of years since you tried Windows? Right now, if you go to the Wi
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by vijucat 6y ago
OneNote's Linked Notes Taking does exactly this. You can combine it with the "Dock to Desktop" / Docked Window feature which makes it hijack a part of the desktop space (to the RHS, typically) so that you can continue to
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by vijucat 6y ago
This article missed a great opportunity to post that hacking scene from Swordfish as a counterexample of what hacking does NOT look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY
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by vijucat 6y ago
What about WordStar on DOS? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502 What I'm trying to say is: it doesn't matter what the tool is. If the process / outcome are worth it, then starting to write is mu
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by vijucat 6y ago
Thanks, very good points.
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by vijucat 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: This is how git rose to where it is today. If people were less blinded by celebrity status, they'd see that Linus' lack of exposure to paradigms beyond C such as OOP or FP (due to deliberate disdain; his loss) m
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by vijucat 6y ago
FYI: "With no commission" is a bug, not a feature. Typically, when you pay commission, you get better prices. Let's say you buy 100 shares of SPY at Interactive Brokers. You pay $1 commission and get it for 268.28. At a free-
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by vijucat 6y ago
What subject excites you that doing a course on Coursera or Udemy, for example, doesn't make you feel like, "Groan, 6 hours a week x 6 weeks?!"? Do that course + talk on the Coursera forum with other students and reach out to
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by vijucat 6y ago
> Having one DE emerge as victorious would greatly benefit linux desktops as a whole, even if it would kill customizability. Good point.
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by vijucat 6y ago
It's 2020. Does the Mac OS allow the user to change the menu bar's color? I was forced to use a MacBook Air for work a couple of years ago and was shocked to find that I was forced to use the drab, grey color that was obviously bo
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by vijucat 7y ago
Now let's go back from this flat UI nonsense everywhere to the kind of solid look that Windows '95 had and make my decade, not just day! https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9..
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by vijucat 7y ago
_And_ he uses JavaScript to the extent that he can teach people JavaScript (as per his HN profile). Clearly, he is used to dealing with danger.
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by vijucat 7y ago
Good one! This actually does apply to options trading. Pricing quants may need to be masters of stochastic calculus, Ito's lemma, et al, but if you're trading and not pricing them, this analogy applies: even riding a bicycle, when
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by vijucat 7y ago
Since you work out: you must have seen that results accumulate (such as being able to lift more). The problem with the WSB style of trading is that the knowledge doesn't accumulate. It's just gambling all the way down. And you sti
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by vijucat 7y ago
You can personalize the recommendations by clicking on the 3-dot menu and selecting "Not interested" and/or "Don't recommend channel". It even asks "Tell us why". I'm Indian and I hardly see any
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by vijucat 7y ago
Yeah :-) Show them the keyboard shortcuts. Like the zxcvb set for the main 5 controls (prev track, play, pause, stop, next track), or pressing j (for jump) and then typing a part of the name of the song you remembered to play what you want
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by vijucat 7y ago
It seems to me that SQL, C++, and Excel VBA (in that order) are probably the 3 top evergreen skills that folks in the 80s or 90s are still able to utilize in a career spanning 20+ years! JavaScript is probably the equivalent for this genera
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by vijucat 7y ago
Exactly. I can't imagine why anyone would use a web site for drafting text, especially "temporary" drafts, which are probably more in need of privacy than the subsequent text that we publish / send out! What I do is have
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by vijucat 7y ago
Sleeping. Your health, your immune system, acuity, your very sanity, depend on it. This often means uncomfortable decisions such as saying "No" more often. Deep Sleep of Your Neural Network, not Deep Learning of Artificial Neural
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by vijucat 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I'm addicted to ending with cold showers now, but your comment on not starting with hot water at all is very interesting. It took me a week before I realized that rather than being a chore, this was addictive!
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by vijucat 7y ago
I think it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM
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by vijucat 7y ago
a) The NextStep UI you post seems nothing special compared to other Unix-es of the time (SGI IRIX, https://www.securitronlinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1... , and Sun Solaris and IBM AIX come to min
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by vijucat 7y ago
Interesting, thanks for the article! So it looks like there are two types of people: those who don't mind moving away from the home row a bit but have just one keypress (me) vs. those who value being on the home row and don't mind
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by vijucat 7y ago
On keyboards where you can re-map keys, you can place symbol keys nearby? > I press both of my thumbs down in their resting positions and the home row suddenly becomes Three keys to type in one symbol sounds bad to me, but it sounds like
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by vijucat 7y ago
I have a Diverge 3 and I love the split aspect of it (easier on the wrists / nerves), and love the programmability (I have the keys that I use most near the home row), and I appreciate the wrist rest, but I miss the function keys'
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by vijucat 7y ago
I have a bullet proof plan to earn a $10m bonus in my two years as CTO at <Large Firm>: 1. Identify retarded firm that uses AWS or Azure like money grows on trees AND without too much AWS lock-in 2. Join as CTO and move infra to OVH (
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by vijucat 7y ago
Oh, John, there you are again! How do you manage to be in so many places at once? Which reminds me to ask: which firms have implemented the "No Asshole Rule" well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_

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