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This makes me weirdly happy to see on hacker news. :) Actual notation was the reason I got deep into LaTeX during my undergrad degree (actuarial science). I don't recall the librar…

I used Linux (XPS15) at work for a 3 month period (Pop_OS!), mostly because I really enjoy using Emacs (and the performance on stock Windows is lacklustre). With the exception of b…

I think it's related to the fact that emacs has multiple (very) small files and short-lived processes, which does not work well/fast on Windows. For a while, I ran Xubuntu in a VM …

I worked in insurance for approximately 5 years, and had a foray in reinsurance for 3. To this day, I find this to be an amazingly complex and interesting industry from an cash-flo…

This is a great read. I am especially happy that they are not asking for an email to download the report. I understand why some companies are doing this, but I went from web page t…

I went a little overboard with fountain pen ink a few years back and stopped using fountain pens until recently. I'm left handed, but my wrist placement (underhanded) doesn't cause…

I wish that MyFonts has a better way to "test-drive" the font. When writing some small snippets of code, I wansn't exactly sure if it would work well. Ended up purchasing it, and I…

It's one of the first game I really got into. Ended up finishing it in a little under a week. It is really is a walk down memory lane.

AFAIK Hydro-Quebec already does something like this. http://www.hydroquebec.com/learning/transport/grandes-distan... Granted, there's not much details : « The technology used to tr…

In section 6.1, [_] is replaced with [ ] (with the second bracket being italic). Same thing in 6.2 with tail_len = tail len Seems like the markdown parser partially went into the c…

I smiled when I saw that a javascript browser has no javascript support. :) I like it. I tend to usually remove the style when I read longer documents. This is prettier while doing…

Worg [1] is IMHO clearly the best place to start (and finish!). There is a lot of stuff there, and I don't think I'm even 10% done. (I still haven't looked at the calendar, tried t…

That is neat! Thank you so much for this. Learning to embrace org was a long and arid journey (it can do so much you quickly get lost in the process). Babel was the first extension…

This is awesome. Being colorblind, I find many available/popular themes hard to work with/not in my taste. I feel this is something that should be an emacs-mode, though. You could …

This : " Interestingly, the blog post also includes details on testing that the company has done with various other Linux distros on the XPS-13, including Fedora and Debian. [...] …

Those ones "have" : http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...

From what I understand, they guarantee a minimum spec -- but depending on the pieces at hand, they might give you something better.

I can't and Ctrl-shortcut (i.e. Ctrl+W to close the window) (Firefox 35.0.1 on Windows 7). Otherwise, a fantastic job :-)

That's a coincidence : I just bought an Arc Notebook[1] from Staples with the express will to try this (I really like to be able to rearrange pages). So far (a few weeks), it's goi…