johnm

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by johnm 2y ago
Indeed, I use pen/pencil and (dot) paper. Different brain space.
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by johnm 2y ago
A bunch of wimps for not going back to actual VT220 green phosphor terminals. Lol.
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by johnm 2y ago
Indeed this is the way. I also have variants of light and dark for different lighting conditions at night and day (particularly glare).
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by johnm 2y ago
No, those are the same that have been around forever. They just have a new tool to "justify" their crappy behavior.
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by johnm 2y ago
PC/GEOS v1.0 ran on an original IBM PC with 640K. The minimum for v1.2 was 1MB of RAM. In terms of responsiveness, it was an interesting compare and contrast from the Sun workstations vs. the PCs running GEOS. Less mouse jitter is one
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by johnm 2y ago
Yeah, PC/GEOS was built from the ground up to give that fully scalable "WYSIWYG" "Display Postscript" experience but the PC displays at the time weren't very good. I remember learning about self-modifying assem
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by johnm 2y ago
Ah, I didn't realize that. PC/GEOS did in '89 or '90.
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by johnm 2y ago
Lol. Migration of PC/GEOS to protected-mode 32-bit x86 was not some magical rubicon that wasn't foreseen. Geoworks was doing well until its sales deals got utterly hosed by the Microsoft monopoly power play. That started a cascade
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by johnm 2y ago
Yeah, it took way too long to prioritize and deliver a non-assembly development chain and opening that up to the public at large. We cross-developed from Sun workstations to x86 PCs and quality of x86 native tooling wasn't nearly as go
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by johnm 4y ago
IME, Zed's real & perceived performance is way better than Sublime.
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by johnm 4y ago
Yeah, they don't seem to have any serious Emacs person in their team. So, like so many people who try and build editors in the last few decades, they seem to miss some fundamental things (while focusing on other worthy things like the
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by johnm 4y ago
A lot of us have been following along with Zed hoping that the clarity and action on the open sourcing front would be done or at least in the process of happening before the public beta but from what was shared in the podcast, it doesn&#x27
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by johnm 4y ago
Indeed, they are draggable.
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by johnm 4y ago
Nice! Would be great if it could generate static images of a diagram in e.g. SVG.
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by johnm 4y ago
You'll be called much much worse than that. IME, you'll be lumped into the "other side" as defined by each of the bad faith participants. And if you point out their bad faith intent and rhetorical games, the level of ad
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by johnm 5y ago
I use Corne(-ish Zen) that is a split-ergo on top of my MBP keyboard. It's low profile (uses choc switches). I have an additional touch pad that I use with the same keyboard on my desk.
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by johnm 5y ago
I've worn out multiple of them over many many years of using the Kinesis Advantage (and then Advantage 2) (before I went down the splergo rabbit hole). One thing to note is that people with large hands and/or long finger lengths c
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by johnm 5y ago
Boba U4's are fantastic MX style switches. They've beaten out all of the others that I've tried on my hot-swappable Corne.
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by johnm 5y ago
Note that for people who are used to and prefer the short travel of laptop keyboards, they should check out mechanical keyboards with choc switches rather than the much longer travel MX switches.
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by johnm 5y ago
Good entry point for people coming from the "traditional" keyboard world -- particularly those who don't expect to invest a lot of time in things like learning radically different layouts, heavy use & customization of lay
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by johnm 5y ago
For people already heading towards (or already down :-) ) the split ergo road, the IC is open for round 3 of the Corne-ish Zen keyboard (3x6+3 or 3x5+3, wireless, zmk firmware, chocs): https://docs.google.com/forms/d&#
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by johnm 6y ago
That doesn't answer my question about why you claim it doesn't scale.
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by johnm 6y ago
When building your own culture, of course. However, that also misses the fact that there's also the larger context of e.g., silicon valley "norms". So much cargo culting of behavioral patterns from unicorns, the spread of the
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by johnm 6y ago
It's not just the US but yes the lack of trust is a major component. Everyone seems to have a horror story of how someone made it through and sucked and caused problems. It's bizarre how traumatic that is allowed to become because
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by johnm 6y ago
Can't speak for the GP but IME, absolutely. It's much easier to dig in deeper with (much) clearer signal about somebody when they are talking/working with their own code/project. Less distractions/confounding factor
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by johnm 6y ago
Lots of why did you, why didn't you, what about this, how did you deal with that (and back to why). :-) I signal a lot of things like testing by asking them. It gives room for the candidate to ask those sorts of questions back about ho
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by johnm 6y ago
Do you have some legal/security issues? I ask people to send me code they've written via email or links to projects and go through that.
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by johnm 6y ago
Indeed. And true humility. "Less certainty, more inquiry." --Erik Seidel
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by johnm 6y ago
I had a great conversation with one of my cofounders about this. First off, if you're only asking questions to a point where they are gameable then your questions aren't very good. The example I was trying to explain to him was th
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by johnm 6y ago
What makes you believe that? Do you believe that the e.g., algo approaches create a strictly rank orderable list of candidates which actually correlates to their on-the-job impact? Also, why do you think such a thing matters more at scale

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