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Ask HN: How important is it to learn Vim in 2019?
1 points by travislane 7y ago|3 comments
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by travislane 7y ago
> In the 90s, before the web really took off, stuff like this was hen's teeth. Anything you found, via BBS, Usenet, or the nascent web, you'd pore over in detail and make sure to fastidiously back up in case you never found it
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by travislane 7y ago
Two questions: With the advent of capable editors like Visual Studio Code, is Vim still a relevant skill to have? Is SLIME still the state of the art for Lisp development environment? Is there no way to get started with Lisp programming wit
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by travislane 7y ago
You make a very good point. I think the biggest factors that can determine happiness at work are the immediate boss and the immediate teammates, two things that are very hard to assess until you have already joined the new place. But the mo
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by travislane 7y ago
Awesome. Thank you for the suggestion. I will take a look at it.
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by travislane 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. I have tried Hugo earlier but found it confusing due to so many locations for template files (_default/? baseof.html? single.html? list.html? hard to remember all this stuff). What would be a good alternative tool
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by travislane 7y ago
I was also made to log in via a recaptcha today. The recaptcha widget appears just below the HN login form so pretty sure this is added by HN, not Cloudflare. If people are complaining about it on this thread, I would also like to register
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by travislane 7y ago
Nice first post for a new blog. I like the blog theme as well. How can I create my own blog with such a clean and minimal theme?
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by travislane 7y ago
What is the motivation behind writing tools like these in JavaScript? Not everyone is going to have Node or NPM. I don't want to first install NPM to install a utility. But Perl/Python/Ruby are very likely to be present on mo