midgetjones

Ugh, it's a link to the `README`, with a fixed sidebar. I partially take back my original comment, but I'd still argue that it's not the most helpful UI.

Personally I find the UI and terminology so willfully - almost obstinately - different to github's, that it's an absolute pain to navigate. I'm sure I could get used to it, but just now I just wanted to jump to the code, and it took roughly 30 seconds to find it hidden inside the 'repository' tab.

70-90 is middle-aged now?

a lot of 70-90 year-olds working in amazon warehouses you think?

Yes, that's indeed true. The English city of Bath, home of the famous Roman baths, is also known as "Bath Spa". Glad we've cleared this up :|

Isn't it more literally 'bath'? I thought the English word came from it.

I sincerely hope not

> > it isn't totally impossible.

> how about: "It's totally possible"

That completely changes the meaning.

I remember this one the first time round!

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674039

Totally agree. Sometimes I'll use a monospace font for highlighting things in a generic way without it looking condescending.

This is the funniest thing I've ever read on HN

I hope you don't snap it too loudly, because I would probably find that noise as offputting as an interruption :)

I've recently (in the last fortnight) started getting voicemails from local numbers, but in either Cantonese or Mandarin. I wish I understood the message; it might make it less unsettling in light of this story.

I'm not sure I can say, as I learned Vim before Emacs. But you'll definitely have less chance of RSI

Serious suggestion: http://spacemacs.org/

> The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!

Or the "futility room", as my Dad would call it.

This looks really good! I used to use org mode as part of my daily workflow, but now that I don't have to submit timesheets I've got out of the habit.

At the time, though, it was wonderful. Once I'd spent some time getting used to org-clock, it becamse a much less intrusive workflow than switching apps to log time. Plus, you get beautiful tables at the end of it detailing your day, and all your notes for each item if you need them.

I even wrote some (probably terrible) elisp to collect my day's time data and post the items to our timesheet API. Mainly so I could show off to my colleagues, but also something I would never even attempt in Vim.

Edit: found it! https://pastebin.com/6EksUxAh

Never mind the decline in improvement, I think we're going to see a sudden sharp drop very soon. It may be hidden by the long-lived generation before, but the baby boomers have eaten, drunk, and medicated themselves into oblivion compared to their parents.

And who knows what's to come for the next generation, with an increasing wealth divide and heck knows what else.

Thanks! Listen to this person ^

The reason is interesting as well. Paraphrasing from this blog post[0]

When you format the ASCII table in four columns, you can see `ESC` and `[` on the same row. Holding `CTRL` essentially ~lops off the first three bits~ subtracts 64, resulting in `ESC`

   ...
   ...
   0011000 CAN    0111000 8    1011000 X    1111000 x
   0011001 EM     0111001 9    1011001 Y    1111001 y
   0011010 SUB    0111010 :    1011010 Z    1111010 z
   0011011 ESC    0111011 ;    1011011 [    1111011 {
   0011100 FS     0111100 <    1011100 \    1111100 |
   0011101 GS     0111101 =    1011101 ]    1111101 }
   0011110 RS     0111110 >    1011110 ^    1111110 ~
   0011111 US     0111111 ?    1011111 _    1111111 DEL

[0] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/

I imagine if you listened to the vocal stem it would sound as extreme. It's just masked by other noise or gated/sliced out most of the time. Some people make a feature of those noises; Muse is an obvious example and they certainly divide people.

That's fantastic advice. I think it's a case of caring about the right things, and learning when to let go/not take things personally.

On a slight tangent, I've always found that hobbies - and treating programming as one of them - always helps me disassociate from thinking about my own achievements as only being work-related. I've tried so many things, just because they interested me, and got fairly good at some of them. Sometimes it might be a craft, another time it might be learning a new programming language, or a piece of software I don't know well enough.

The ones I don't enjoy so much fall by the wayside (life drawing, golang, philosophy, whittling, many more), but some chance subjects have directly led to better jobs (ruby, elixir), some have made me a better programmer, and anything else I can at least say has made me a more rounded and knowledgable person, and hopefully more employable because of it.

Emoji have really filled a gap, where words typed on the internet were missing some context of how they are supposed to be read. And nowadays, whether or not I add the eggplant emoji to the end of a whatsapp message can really change how it's interpreted, and gives me less to excuse myself should it come up in court.

But really, anything that removes doubt and clarity from a conversation has got to be a good thing. How many internet arguments have been spared because someone could attach a winky face to show that they were being impish and not to take offence? Obviously, old people hate them, but I can see emoji melding into all forms of language in the future. Or even the global language :thinking-face:

A heuristic maybe?

It's public knowledge https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/help-with-...

> Once you’ve changed your username, it returns to general circulation and may be selected by another account.

So in the case of services where your username is the only thing your account is identified on, it probably makes more sense to delete your tweets and leave the account active. Oh, and post a nonsense message every few months so you don't get deactivated

I wonder what this means for iOS apps themselves

'quick reference'

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This looks great! Is there anything similar available in other languages?

BTW if the author is about, there's a broken link at the bottom of the homepage, to https://berkin.me/rantdocs

Maybe that's just the only place they could get data