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Re: Ask HN: What have you changed your mind about recently?

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did any particular tutorial make it click for you?

This in my vimrc helped tons: map map map map But the big thing that really made it click was just that I used it for real work, not small quick editing tasks. You have to really live in the app for a while before it feels like home.

LOL, nice.

Re: Ask HN: What have you changed your mind about recently?

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I've lurked longer than I've trolled. There is a surface appearance of intelligence (thanks to a couple dozen prolific and intelligent participants) but a great deal of unproductive conversations. Too often, people talk past each other. Too often, people nitpick like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782752 Too often, edw519 gets upvotes for 'pithy' statements like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864709 Too oft…

Good call on the singularityhub....

That one has been reported for a long time but nobody cares much about it.

I used to flag them consistently but I just gave up, so kkleiner wins that round and gets to spam as much as he wants.

Flagging to keep out the spam is a way of doing community service, if the feeling is that it is for nothing or possibly even ignored (PG hinted that people that flag a lot have their flaggings discarded) makes me much less inclined to do that work.

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