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jhchabran

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    Having used evil-mode as my main driver for years, I can confirm that it truly works as expected. Requires some setup though. I used https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs to do th…

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    Comment #40438448

    Same I love my ligatures to death. And there are some interesting goodies. I find the author take on `tmux` being unecessary interesting, albeit it's a quite divisive opinion. Neve…

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    Comment #40438380

    The delay in between typing and seeing it rendered, drawing large portions of text (which matters if you spend a lot of time in term based editors) etc ... It's very subjective: so…

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    Comment #39368622

    Disclaimer, I love handwriting. TL;DR handwriting = write only + self-expression I think that handwriting and its constraints, lead to a different mindset from when you're typing o…

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    Comment #38178320

    While I'm not sure I see as much games being review bombed for political reasons in my sources for video game reviews, I strongly agree with you that it's really hard nowadays to f…

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    Comment #32093481

    I'm wondering if that has to do with the time spent writing Clojure code? I have only wrote LISP code during uni and on pet projects and I always feel like the parentheses are maki…

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    Comment #29794717

    That's an ambitious goal, I'm not sure to see how that would be maintainable on the long run. On a much smaller scale, if anyone is interested, I maintain a black list focused on t…

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    Comment #28426779

    To shed some lights on why power sliding is so unreliable, doing so requires to be familiar the surface on which you’re attempting it. Being familiar with it means that you basical…

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    Comment #27848509

    Regarding the weight, it’s a different position when you’re holding it at arms length while playing. You don’t hold your iPad in the air while reading, you put it against your knee…

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    Comment #26434814

    If anyone wants to give a try, it's worth noting a few things if you come from vim: - if you are on osx, you'll may find the gui rendering quite laggy if you are using a Retina dis…

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    Comment #26434741

    I would say that what areally changes the game is to use evil (vi style bindings, 95% stays the same) with Emacs so you keep the muscle memory and you can keep making use of the co…

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    Comment #26433310

    May I advise to give a try to Doom instead? It has less ambitious objectives [1] and feels much snappier while providing a similar experience (vim-like, out of the box) Also, if yo…

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    Comment #18119574

    Heetch | Europe | Full-Time | FULL REMOTE Heetch is a ridesharing company that handles 150k rides per week. We're providing young people with an affordable and safe way to enjoy th…

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    Comment #15386015

    Heetch | Multiple positions | Paris | Full-Time, REMOTE (eu only) Heetch is a nightlife ridesharing company that works with 5,000 professional drivers and handles 70,000 rides per …

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    Comment #13152649

    Valve just released a big gameplay update to its biggest esport game and added support for a bot scripting api along the way, allowing players to exchange them through Steam worksh…

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    Comment #9036976

    Trainers, save editors, translations are basically a common entry point into programming, like a closed knit group of people that love video games and who wants to modify/hack/tran…

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    Comment #5413632

    "near-0 resistance" nails it. As a Vim user, I consider the whole productivity thing about it quite over-rated. Yes it's efficient, yes it's faster, but in the end, anyone with a d…

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    Comment #5303924

    Well parsing the vimrc might be too much as it would require a full compatibility layer and I highly doubt it'll ever happen. Using vanilla lighttable config wouldn't bother me, ev…