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You mean "App Store did a really good job copying a standard practice in the software world to a specific domain that Steam was doing a really good job in already, and though brand…

So... stop using a debugged and stable tool whose limitations and problems are well-known and understood and replace it with six bits of software duct-taped together, two of which …

That's not what I'm advocating. What I'm advocating is not wasting time and effort rewriting working tools just because the rewrite would be newer. Which is not what you're saying …

(a) To some of us, that's not that long ago :D (b) Vim is an IDE. No, seriously, if you can run the debugger, the compiler and a plethora of other tools from within it, it is an ID…

Or you could just use LaTeX, which has been used for writing books for decades (the word you're looking for is "debugged" and the phrase is either "well understood" or "well docume…

Newton would have some things to say about that, but you wouldn't hear him because of your doppler shift.

Why expend manpower and energy improving a working solution just to do so when you have so many other broken things that need fixing first? That's a fairly self-answering question.…

> It baffles me why in 2014, some developers still prefer to work as if UNIX System V had just been released. Because (a) some of us aren't convinced that things like IDEs give a b…

1) You run latex twice only on really large and complex documents like books, and if you're writing books (not editing, see antipope.org for details) in Word, then you need profess…

Because if you want to argue over the meaning of the word billionaire, you start with why we shouldn't have changed the meaning of the word billion :) When you're talking about per…

You might give more credit to the hundred or so people (all the equivalent of our PhD graduates today) who were doing the actual work for him. Edison's contribution was to pay them…

> It's well agreed upon that paper trading is nothing like trading with money on the line. It's ALL about psychology. It's also pretty well agreed on (mainly from scientific studie…

Wow. You do get, don't you, that there's no real difference between personal wealths of $100 million and $1000 million? And that there shouldn't be? Why do so few people get that t…

> It turns out people like Woz need people like Steve Jobs, and people like Steve Jobs need people like Woz. The former is truly unlikely and the latter is desperately true but omi…

Churchill's an interesting example to bring up in what has become a thread about hero worship. The man was revered during the war and in all the gosh-wasn't-it-a-romantic-age remin…

> And yet, who else in modern history has driven as many companies to such such success, and lead the creation of so many great products? On the former, it's a fairly modern phenom…

You know what you call a product you don't put much effort into for some time and which is still in daily use by happy users? Working. /mutter.

The point is not how provincal or remote we are; the point is that this would establish a legal precedent. It's common for legal precedents to be cited across the border between th…

I've seen some folks do that, and hats off to them; but I learnt vi before emacs, and despite trying to learn emacs a few times over the years, I just never did get to the point wh…

My pleasure. I just wish someone had shown me the cornell system before year one of college :(

Vimwiki, amongst other things (and I'm still learning) supports not just its own wiki syntax, but also markdown and mediawiki (there's an option to be set and it has to be after v2…

Exactly, and you're also assuming I could trust the data to dropbox. Sorry, but no, I'll trust photos and nonsensitive personal data to it without too much worry, but NDAs are lega…

vimwiki does support markdown out of the box as of v2.0, though you have to set an option for it... let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/my_site/', \ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md…