This, daily TIL, like dairy has for me is nice way of introspection. I find whenever, if nothing else, I think for 5 mins about what I did everyday had immense value for me personally.
Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.
> Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an > acronym I really wish people would stop posting this - I feel like I only ever see it posted here, too. OED's first entry on "acronym, n": > A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for > a name or expression, each letter or part being > pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS) OED's second entry on "acronym, n": > A word formed from t…
So SQL is an acronym for an acronym?
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an > acronym I really wish people would stop posting this - I feel like I only ever see it posted here, too. OED's first entry on "acronym, n": > A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for > a name or expression, each letter or part being > pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS) OED's second entry on "acronym, n": > A word formed from t…
So SQL is an acronym for an acronym?
SQL is an abbreviated acronym.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#114Just wanted to say, this is an excellent idea and I'll be blatantly stealing it for myself from this point forward; thank you for putting this motivation in my head by your successful implementation. I've done a half-assed "important learnings from the last year" retrospective for myself, but your method of keeping it going forward is both far less lossy and more complete. Putting it on GIT as well seems like a smart…
Everyone at my company really got behind the idea of TILs too, so we created a little web app for it -- https://til.hashrocket.com/
I think coderwall have share protip model,
https://coderwall.com/
However, there is fundamental difference in representation.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any chance this is open source? Would love to set this up for my office
We recently open-sourced it. Let us know what you think! https://github.com/hashrocket/hr-til
I like it but upgrading ruby to the required 2.3 from 1.9 that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 turned out to be a daunting process. The 2.3 build was at least 15 min with several errors, and then bundler wouldn't work. I wiped everything ruby and will try again with RVM. It seems like over kill for such a simple app. I am not a RoR guy and my first impression is not very good compared to other server apps I've installed, or maybe I just need more patience!
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#116Something I find really interesting is how VIM takes up a huge chunk of the TILs. One of my personal quirks is I feel like those terminal-based editors consume an undue amount of time and energy to learn and maintain. This TIL seems to give a bit of extra evidence for that suspicion. Simpler options have been available for years now (e.g., Sublime). In those rare moments when you do need to edit files on a remote ser…
If you read the basic documentation for these editors, you'll know how to do the basic editing tasks in a day.
After that, it's just years of learning more and more—which is a nice journey.
Emacs and Vim are standard free software tools, so they get the new language modes and integrations, and they're available everywhere.
By the way, I edit files on a remote server literally all day long.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#117I don't understand the enthusiasm for this or the rampant forking going on. Most of these fall firmly under "let me google that for you." How do I check my Ubuntu version? How do I split a tmux window? How do I expand a clojure macro? Repeat for 300 more easily google-able questions... Actually I just realized, maybe I'm too old. If that's the case, here's a great tool: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+I+check+my+Ubuntu+v…
google does not create content from thin air, someone has to write it down first. this is it. maybe it will become google's first result?
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#118I don't understand the enthusiasm for this or the rampant forking going on. Most of these fall firmly under "let me google that for you." How do I check my Ubuntu version? How do I split a tmux window? How do I expand a clojure macro? Repeat for 300 more easily google-able questions... Actually I just realized, maybe I'm too old. If that's the case, here's a great tool: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+I+check+my+Ubuntu+v…
Before googling for something you need to actually realise first that there's something that you don't know, but could.
Lots of useful things don't fit that pattern.
To take one example from here, I use 'pry' regularly, but before reading https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/ruby/editing-c..., I didn't even think to wonder whether there was a way to fire up an editor from within it. It's not something I've ever actively needed, but it's a very useful shortcut now that I know about it.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
We recently open-sourced it. Let us know what you think! https://github.com/hashrocket/hr-til
I like it but upgrading ruby to the required 2.3 from 1.9 that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 turned out to be a daunting process. The 2.3 build was at least 15 min with several errors, and then bundler wouldn't work. I wiped everything ruby and will try again with RVM. It seems like over kill for such a simple app. I am not a RoR guy and my first impression is not very good compared to other server apps I've installed, or…
I thing everybody in the Ruby world uses either RVM or chruby/ruby-install.