arcturus17

3 years agodiscuss

Some companies are probably not far away from technical collapse if a few of their critical open source libraries and tooling go to shit. Better cough up a little bit now than have to fork in the future and set up a whole new team to maintain that dependency - likely with much worse results than before.

arcturus17

4 years agodiscuss

I keep losing my files with cloud-first systems. I had a trove of notes in Evernote and I don't even remember which email I used to open it, nor if they are there anymore. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't lose local-first markdown files, as I could do the same thing I do with code: keep them in git, and then have a cloud backup for good measure.

arcturus17

4 years agodiscuss

I'm going off on a tangent, but while we have you markdown geeks here: does anyone have any experience editing it with Vim? Do you recommend any plugins or similar?

The only real problem I have with markdown is that if I have editor soft-wraps, Vim doesn't work that well (I can't properly navigate soft-wrap lines, because there is a mismatch between what I see and what the editor understands as a line). If I do hard-wraps (new-lines), then the doc loses copy-paste portability to something like Docs.

Anyone know how to solve this?

arcturus17

4 years agodiscuss

I'm also worried by this, which is precisely why I'm considering a move to Obsidian from Notion. I'm pretty much writing everything in Markdown by now, including my personal blog.

arcturus17

4 years agodiscuss

Opposite. I'm an infra-power user that uses AI once every two months, and I like the experience. Can't tell how it is for power users though. Maybe they hate it.

arcturus17

5 years agodiscuss

> and the rest of the time it suggests something rather good, or completely off

In what, proportion roughly?

arcturus17

5 years agodiscuss

How does this compare to TabNine or Kite?

arcturus17

7 years agodiscuss

Read the manual!

arcturus17

7 years agodiscuss

> Google has a policy against scraping their results, but their whole business model is predicated off scraping other sites and making money off the content

Yea a couple days ago I was checking the Places API, which they’ve built off user-generated content and scraping Yelp and others. They charge $17 / 1000 calls for certain items and don’t you dare cache anything for too long.

Great way to build a business: get data for free, wall it off and put a hefty price tag on it, then put your best lawyers around the moat for good measure!

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