jackstraw-

9 years agodiscuss

If your first installs are going to be gcc and i3, then I think you should give the standard Arch install a shot. It takes a basic understanding of what's happening during the install process, and I'm guessing if you're kicking off with i3 then you're comfortable with things like partitioning and configuring a window manager. If that's the case, installing Arch will teach you things that an Ubuntu install definitely won't, and you get a fresh clean minimal install too.

jackstraw-

9 years agodiscuss

Well, there was the movie about him that came out a year or two ago. I'm sure that contibuted to the spike, but honestly 95% of the people I've seen reading Infinite Jest in public are somewhere in the first 20 pages, and that's been the case since the mid 2000s. I don't think reading literary fiction to look cool is anything new.

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”

jackstraw-

9 years agodiscuss

I'm working on a similar minimalizing project and really appreciate you sharing this.

These types of write-ups are some of the best resources as I've grown as a developer. It's a great feeling to come across one that exactly answers something you're stuck on, or explains some concept that you're pretty sure exists but you have no idea where to start.

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