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I have been waiting forty years to learn how to do this.

Holy GOD all these years of wasting time on HN have finally paid off! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS

Often it pays simply to remember what a rigidly ideological culture we inhabit. Imagine it's 1986 and this story comes from SoViEt RuSsIa. Derek Lowe (who I hold to be adjacent to …

Incremental gains. Get the basics, then follow your nose to the features you want to try. Before you know it you'll be writing your own stuff and sharing it. The community is the b…

We are! ?

tl;dr Big marginal gains for small marginal effort likely make it worthwhile. The payoff can be enormous. The investment can be illegible on the front end—it depends on the skills …

If you've lived through even a tiny earthquake it's much like if you've experienced a solar eclipse: even when short and mild, they elicit an otherworldly body-terror. The people l…

I made an Emacs mode that provides this functionality, only to find that someone else had done it better: https://github.com/emacsmirror/draft-mode (It was still worth it: huge fun…

Also check out our clever lean development model NBD

Am I just hopelessly old fashioned? Or is this not most of the justification for bachelors degrees?

I’m old and we were poor: my family got our first microwave oven about the same time as I started to learn calculus in 12th grade. Both changed everything in an epistemologically q…

[2008 me] fell in love with the "it just works" and "an actually usable GUI plus Unix under the hood" and "they actually sweat the small stuff" [...] [By 2018, say] The user-annoya…

Oh. The atomic nucleus. [shrugs in cell biologist]

Or...? I got a better idea! How about if you go to hell?

>> “Move fast and break things” is a monument to an aberrant culture of arrogance and dismissive impatience. > Education is begging to be disrupted. I rest my case. Substantively, …

I teach university biochemistry. After eight or ten years, I began to feel that I was no longer a novice. “Move fast and break things” is a monument to an aberrant culture of arrog…

I highly recommend everything by Karen Armstrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong She has published all kinds of different work: comprehensive surveys, biographies of…

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Yes, sir. But there’s a kernel of an interesting idea in there. Imagine a world where all apps used by everyone were as user oriented as Emacs. Impossible, fantasy, utopian, never,…

> Many people can contribute to the development of the system, for the most part without interfering with each other. This has led the EMACS system to become more powerful than any…

I’m starting to think that what’s keeping me off the cover of Forbes is my weak-ass sociopathy and my tiny tiny crumbs of competence.

Same here! I will definitely check it out.

How does this have no replies? So effing cool. When your kids get tired of it, can I buy it?

Calibre user. I was like, that’s weird. There’s another Kovid Goyal?