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by mroll 4y ago
very cool that you are writing tcl :) if you haven't found it already, the tclers wiki is a font of wisdom about the language and so many other cool topics. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/
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by mroll 5y ago
This looks awesome. I’ve known for a while that I will eventually have to support organizations and teams for https://canopycharts.com and have been dreading writing all that code myself. Seems like I might not have to :)
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by mroll 5y ago
> the original engineer of Google's search engine you mean Larry Page?
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by mroll 6y ago
Yep. I use a dedicated paper notebook for journaling. Once or twice a month I spend like 30 minutes or an hour writing down what’s been going on, what’s on my mind, what I’m working towards. Usually I do this while watching some low effort
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by mroll 6y ago
I love this. Have had the idea myself, but am not committed enough to make it really work. Have been hoping someone makes it happen. I think if done right it has the potential to unlock a lot of economic value in the form of small software
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by mroll 6y ago
Haha of course this already exists! Thanks a lot for the pointer, I will for sure start playing with it this week :)
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by mroll 6y ago
Oh wow this is great. I’ve been wanting an org mode integration with GitHub for a while, and this tool might make it easy enough for me to hack together this weekend. Basically I want to be able to pull up a buffer with a list of issues ass
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by mroll 6y ago
Hah, yeah. I used spacemacs for 2 years from summer 2018 until about two weeks ago. And you're right! It does incredible things for discoverability with the built in hydra integration. I switched to Doom Emacs about two weeks ago becau
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by mroll 6y ago
I don't think Emacs is suitable for mass usage. I think it's suitable for power users who are willing to invest time into learning to use a powerful tool. And I also think more people are becoming power users. With a well-crafted
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by mroll 6y ago
Emacs. I'm responding to the prompt in the OP, not the title. > What's a piece of software you find essential that you wish you could replace or rewrite? Emacs is the most essential piece of software in my workflow. It's p
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by mroll 6y ago
Is checklist software something people pay for? I recently wrote https://checkfox.app as a toy, inspired by Atul Gawandes “Checklist Manifesto”. I’d love to know if there’s a market for this sort of thing.
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by mroll 6y ago
I wrote a little web app for making and using checklists. https://checkfox.app/
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by mroll 6y ago
Hah! Thanks
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by mroll 6y ago
The first book is actually called “The World of Null-A”. I picked it up at a local used book store last year and enjoyed it. Haven’t read any more of the trilogy yet.
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by mroll 7y ago
Hey Ivan, this looks great! What are the privacy implications for my data that I want to label with your tool? I’m assuming I upload it to your servers?
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by mroll 7y ago
I also did not find org-roam super easy to set up, but after a second try I have it running and am enjoying it. Edit: I tried it a month ago - before installation was more than just (load)'ing the file. Now there are nicely documented
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Ask HN: What is your recommended VPN for personal use?
5 points by mroll 7y ago|7 comments
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by mroll 8y ago
Yeah, I agree that is something that pretty much is not considered in the public conversation. But it seems like at least having the ability to control CO2 levels is much better than we are now.
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Room Temperature Conversion of CO2 to Coal(nature.com)
12 points by mroll 8y ago|7 comments
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by mroll 8y ago
Fun read. Also reminds me that I wish I knew of a better password management strategy. I’m currently using an rsa encrypted text file on my laptop
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by mroll 8y ago
I wish I could see the API docs w/out signing up. Like what endpoints are available, etc.
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by mroll 8y ago
The last point about players in their thirties appearing in more professional matches needs more clarity. It’s not that “older players are dominating the sport.” It’s that “the two best players of all time happen to be over thirty.” This is
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by mroll 8y ago
emacs org mode. with a heavy customization inspired by bernt hansen ( http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html ).
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by mroll 8y ago
Ask the question “How can I make the company better right now?” Maybe there is some documentation that needs to be written, or some small bug you ran across the other day, etc
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by mroll 8y ago
Any programmers here use pomodoro? I expect 25 minute interruptions would do more harm than good for my focus when writing code, especially the continuous expectation that I will be interrupted. I don’t have a pressing interest in finding p
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by mroll 8y ago
This article makes it seem like the problem that separates BQP and PH is one the classical computers literally cannot solve, given any amount of time. I don't believe that is actually what's going on. If it were the case, this res
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by mroll 8y ago
Do you have a wide range of applications that you need this pre-cut wood for? Or is it one thing? I'm curious
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Ask HN: What company do you wish existed?
18 points by mroll 8y ago|30 comments
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by mroll 9y ago
> ...terms and conditions people did not read or understand. The article acts like this is unprecedented. No one reads terms and conditions. It's not as if people fork over intimate details of their personal lives to Facebook with t
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by mroll 9y ago
Scott has poured many more than one thousand words into the cause of educating people about quantum computing. The point here is that this journalist didn't do his due diligence. Reading the tag line on Scotts blog would have made him

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