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I do that with tabs for online articles I (probably) want to read.
You should use Pocket for that: getpocket.com
Pocket gets worse the more you use it: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...
Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
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#112I just don’t know about hiking with a laptop. Down time is also productive time. That said, it is interesting how he organizes the digital assets of his life. A little off topic: I subscribed to use the Wolfram Language a couple of years ago and really liked the integrated documentation, and the capabilities built in for just about everything. What was a turnoff was the very slow cycle time between entering code to b…
Rather than throwing even more money at Wolfram, it would be even better to put up a fund (maybe a crowdsourced campaign) to buy the rights to Macsyma and PDEase to release them under the GPL.
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#113Through the article I found he livestreams many of his meetings on Twitch! This is particularly candid moment I happen to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjvFyRk_4I&feature=youtu.be... edit: I wasn't aware of the negative opinions regarding his ego, but from listening to this meeting I can say they aren't unsubstantiated!
Oy, I'm fascinated that this is publicly available, but kind of horrified if I was one of the developers on this public "con call"!
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He is the creator of Mathematica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica I would consider that legitimacy.
Mathematica is literally the worst PL I've ever used, especially since you effectively have to use their built-in editor that doesn't even have multiple undo. Of course, it is the least-worst symbolic system out there currently. But, it's not like lisp wouldn't have developed similar capabilities if Mathematica didn't come around.
I mean, I wouldn't make a website with it, but for computational/mathematical code I'd choose Mathematica and its editor over a Lisp language any day, even if it's just for the syntax (though it most certainly is not). Some of us actually find it easier to understand and write math when it looks like math and not just a wall of parentheses or ASCII art.
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#115What’s HN’s opinion of Stephen Wolfram? Is he legit? Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading?
Well, he started Wolfram Research. You should try their products if you haven't. If you have, just try to imagine how you'd make something like Wolfram Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha.
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Reminds me of this Sir Issac Newton quote: > Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Hearing this coming from Newton is surprising, given his infamous feud with Leibniz over which of them invented calculus.
Not really. People can have ideal ideas that don't match their own lived reality. And the Newton / Hooke feud is probably more interesting and relevant, than the Leibniz one (given that was entirely of Newton's making).
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#118I really like the personal homepage idea. Reminds me of the iGoogle days. Anyone know any products / tools to create a simple one consisting of essentially an organized collection of links? I guess any static site generator could work, but would be nice to have an out of the box theme and can show RSS Feeds.
Google Chrome shows tiles of your most visited links. In mine, HN is first one.
Problem is it includes distractions. A personal homepage would be better focussed on things I SHOULD do, rather than things I actually do.
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#119I couldn't take tips on personal infrastructure from someone whose monitors aren't perfectly aligned.
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#120Through the article I found he livestreams many of his meetings on Twitch! This is particularly candid moment I happen to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjvFyRk_4I&feature=youtu.be... edit: I wasn't aware of the negative opinions regarding his ego, but from listening to this meeting I can say they aren't unsubstantiated!
Reminds me of this Sir Issac Newton quote: > Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Do you have a source for that?
That does not sound like Newton ar all.