These frontends are necessary however because researchers in non-computer related fields are not trained/proficient at command line tools. Many of them need help installing software. Many of them don’t use raw text files much either. They use MS word files instead etc.
Totally. After studying few hundred words of Spanish, German and French I thought hmm maybe a way to level up English is to learn basics of other languages. For example Fenster is Window in German. Defenestration becomes easy guess.
When studying distributed systems you have to convince yourself
that clocks cannot be relied on. It is hard to do so because
all the clocks around me are always working just fine.
When this article was posted here earlier I got an idea that maybe
wearing a mechanical watch for a while might help.
I bought a cheap mechanical watch. It needs manual winding daily.
If you take it off your wrist it gets out of sync with the other
clocks or just stops.
or you could come up with a notation that works in any editor. I have [1].
> That way you can easily try different ways without deleting any text.
Sorry I haven't yet read your story. Here is how I would explore alternatives with my notation. I do this when designing software/algorithms etc.
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Elias performed at this level for about a year. He was up for a well-deserved promotion to staff engineer. I sent him a meeting invite to go through the updated leveling framework to make sure we didn't miss anything.
#{
#{ Elias declined the meeting. }
#{ Elias went to the meeting but he went late.}
...
}
Having such a list is great. I am all for such lists.
BUT
Some people memorize these things. Take them too seriously. You are thought stupid if you don't know them. Somewhere someone then makes a story on Jira to verify that your product does all of these things and you have to convince them that we are fine without them or we don't need all of them etc.