$15 for lifetime access... rubs chin... I'm old. Would you take $5 as my life is 2/3 gone?
No offence to OP intended at all, but as these things often go, you're paying for the lifetime of the site, not your own.
It was a joke
Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
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Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#232A tangential question, why is .so the new cool TLD to use for tech startups/projects? I know the lack of availability of .com/other common TLDs is a problem. I understand the reasoning behind using .io to represent software/saas startups (stands for inputs/outputs). I don't understand .so though. From what I remember, Notion was probably the first high profile startup using it, and it just kinda took off. Searching "…
It was just a good domain name that was available and I bought it lol. Not sure why the trend exists.
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've used vim for many years now. It is true, learning vim makes it very frustrating when you find yourself having to use another editor. Luckily, vim is pretty much everywhere so those situations are rare.
I find that vim really shines in editing text on touch screens with on-screen keyboards. I can do complicated commands without doing too much typing out digging through menus or using ctrl alt whatever keys.
What devices with on-screen keyboards are you running vim in?
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#234What does $15 get me? I don't see any listing of the lessons. Why is this better than vimtutor?
I would also like to know this - as far as I could see, there was only one pretty meaningless lesson about alternate arrow keys - IMO, this doesn't sell Vim to a newbie, nor does it sell the $15 product
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#235Well I think the nice point of doing excercise in a web browser is that you can quickly switch to another tab and search for daring questions such as " by the way why on earth does this monstrosity want me to use hjkl? That don't make any sense!!!!" https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys For a mostly data/SQL guy wanting to learn more about coding it still don't make much sense but at least I know why a…
> the nice point of doing excercise in a web browser is that you can quickly switch to another tab and search for daring questions such as (...) On the contrary... I'd say that if you are outside a browser, it is somewhat easier to have a browser window side by side and ALT-TAB between both. Having two tabs visible at the same time is a bit cumbersome.
On the contrary, having a giant monitor with two tabs open... /s
Who cares? So nit. You could hotkey to switch between two windows of the same program.
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course people have different opinions. That's not what you said though. You said brains work differently.
Brains do work differently - if they didn't, everyone would learn at exactly the same pace if given exactly the same input, and people would all have the same preferences. There's a reason why the term "neurotypical" exists. You don't like what I like, and that's fine, but I can tell you that I like the design of older computer systems more than I like the design of modern computer systems. There's a reason why I use…
You are interpreting my statement "brains don't work differently" here in a disengenuous way which is both more narrow and different from the exact context of the discussion.
And suggesting that people who don't appreciate vim are slow learners. Which is not okay.
But I think we can both agree on one thing. Its not productive to continue the discussion.
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#237I advocate organic learning for Vim and often other tools like it. Learn to do the bare minimum first, which for Vim is modes and how to exit. Then, after you find yourself doing something slowly a few times over, search how to speed it up (e.g. yank & paste, different buffers, macros). This is also a good counter argument for "the learning curve is too steep".
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#238sudo apt -y autoremove nano
Sorry plebians
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#239Hey, would you be open to selling the front end code you've used to stand up your course? Very curious of your billing backend as well!
Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#240Before trying these courses , Please try vimtutor that comes bundled with vim . After practicing with vimtutor , you can try these additional courses.
I started with vimtutor, then installed IdeaVim in all my Jetbrains IDEs, it took me about a week to reach the same level of efficiency I had before.
I don't understand how some people can say the learning curve is too steep. Sure it's a bit annoying at first, but it quickly becomes natural, and you don't have to use all features at first. It has allowed me to improve my touch typing a lot. Learning a programming language is a lot more work but hardly anyone ever complain about it.
It's been maybe two months and I wouldn't think of using anything else than vim for serious code editing.