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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

The Hugo team has been thinking about how to set up a web frontend.

http://discuss.gohugo.io/t/web-based-editor/155

Hugo -- http://gohugo.io/

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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

You might want to read this thread on HN before you decide:

"I am done with the freemium business model"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3416108

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Maybe I'm just not getting it, but why is this better than going with straight LaTeX? Pandoc can be used to convert LaTeX to HTML. So why the need for an extra layer of complexity? Other than a reason to use a Lisp.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I am so sorry to hear that! My mother, also, was found with a tumor that we didn't know about for a long time. She fought as long as she could. She never gave up hope.

Doctors don't know everything. There are ways to fight, even natural ones. Fighting with anything is better than giving up. Hope is very powerful. Don't give up. Keep fighting.

Best wishes to you from one who has walked this road with another.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

If you are a Firefox user:

Font Finder https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-finder/

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

You may be in the minority in terms of the total number of users, but most of the Emacs developers will have the same mindset. Terminal-friendliness is a part of Emacs tradition. The developers would surely keep the ability to run Emacs in a terminal.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

M-x doctor

?

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Thank you for that file. I have thought about trying StumpWM. Your setup is going to be helpful.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I must admit to having wondered why there is not a greater use of Lisp in window managers. Lisp would seem the ideal language to use for tweaking a desktop. Xmonad (in Haskell) seems to have taken most of the attention of keyboard lovers and tweakers, but Lisp would seem to me to be a better fit.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Does someone who has studied virology have an opinion on the chances of this disease reaching the West?

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

"You must think in Russian... You must think in Russian. Do you think you can do that, Mr. Gant?"

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

> "The stigma against seeking help for mental health exists and is real"

Not only is it a societal stigma, but it is nearly a form of accepted discrimination set in concrete.

Within the past year some states have been pushing to start collecting all mental health records. There are people who really who really do need to seek help, but actions like that will only make them afraid to come forward.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Prediction: Sometime in 2018 we will have a thread: "Ask HN: Is it finally time to use CSS grids?"

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I have a number of search terms related to a startup I'm working on listed with Google Alerts. I haven't been impressed with the quality of the links. They seem taken almost randomly from blog posts; very few relevant links showing any kind of trend.

This looks much more useful for identifying upward bumps in news cycles.

Thanks for the link!

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

"General, you are listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and don't act like one." -- Dr. Stephen Falken, "WarGames" (1983)

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

> with totally separated right and left hand keyboards

The latest Ruby Rogues podcast discussed a new "Ergodox" split ergonomic keyboard with open hardware. You can build them yourself and customize them.

http://ergodox.org/

The discussion is at 1:08:30 in Episode 147 (March 12, 2014) at http://rubyrogues.com/

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

> Today I wrote 3 lines, they were really important lines, they took me 4 hours.

Haskell? :)

Haskell is like a fine wine. It is meant to be sipped.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I used DejaVu Sans Mono until Ubuntu released their Ubuntu Fonts. Ubuntu Mono is a nice programming font! Sorry to tempt you...

The font grass is always greener in the next pasture. :)

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I am working on a MVP and am going for an elegant look. I have the <p> in Georgia 22px but would like something a little less common. Georgia is a nice font but it is everywhere.

My current main fonts are:

      p { font-family: Georgia, Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
          font-size: 22px; }

      h2 { font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 
          font-size: 22px; }

Has anyone found a font combination with an elegant, "classical" look?

Edited: for spacing

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Productivity can't be measured by hours because a single thought can change the course of a company, or a life... but that thought can take months or years to develop in order to be "thought."

For example, there is a running joke here on Hacker News about HN being a time-sink. I disagree. Some of the comments here have altered my thinking about startups. A single comment can change the course of a life.

Paul Graham's "Beating the Averages" has influenced how many programmers to pick up Lisp? One essay can change a life, or a company.

Productivity does not accumulate with X hours. It grows in starts, jumps, leaps and crawls. For those who work with their brains, accomplishment is not lines of code written, or the number of pages in your business plan.

Productivity is a result of thought, and thought often comes through a lost art called "leisure."