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Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think you can add them, respondents could select multiple editors. I am guessing 34% is the upper limit if no Neovim users use Vim and vice versa, which is hard to believe.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is a real pity that the major browsers don’t support better keyboard navigation out of the box. Due to work restrictions, I can only really use firefox, chrome or edge and no addons/extensions. There’s a 14 year old ticket for firefox (still open), but the reaction back then was that it is a niche feature better suited for an addon.
Comment · 2 years ago
In the EU the CRA would have mandated something like that -- not 25 years but a support period defined by the manufacturer that reflects the time the product is expected to be used. The auto industry managed to get themselves excluded.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think it would already be a big advantage not needing a very expensive launch platform like a fighter jet, even if the unit price of the drone was a bit higher than that of the missile.
Comment · 2 years ago
Recruiters and large firms tend to ask for a Word file. I sent the plaintext file (minimal markdown) I used to generate the pdf to a recruiter recently. They directly asked for a docx instead.
Comment · 2 years ago
Where I live (in Germany) there are 8 or 9 supermarkets within half a mile distance, two of which organic and one a "center" (i.e. big). I find that the inventory is limited only in 1 or 2 of the smallest ones. In all the others I typically find everything I need.
Comment · 3 years ago
You could also consider a “personalized” no+uuid@ address that only the user knows. Slightly more work, but the user would just add it to their address book anyway.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think I remember using an inkjet printer for that. If I remember correctly, the sheets had a white margin on one of short edges.
Comment · 3 years ago
I gave up on rule 18: The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
Comment · 3 years ago
Depends on what you do with the Client. If you have a complicated application and pass the Client around between different functions then maybe you would need to check every time whether the client is connected and authenticated before sending a message. If the function only accepts an authenticated client, then the type checker will complain. You could also notice the problem in a unit test, but it may be hard to represent all possible states.

In simpler situations where every time you just do the sequence you probably would want to combine some of these calls anyway.

Comment · 3 years ago
I used to be an editor in a journal from one of the big publishers (not Elsevier). We searched for reviewers, invited them, reminded them when they were late in responding, evaluated their submissions, send the approvals, etc. And I didn’t get paid a dime. All the publisher had to do was maintain the platform. And sure that costs money too, but the costs are shared between multiple journals and papers.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
They are not, at least not necessarily. It depends on what you want to do and whether the tool helps in any way to achieve this.

Back when I was doing my PhD, I had lots of PDFs and I had a workflow to mark interesting parts and export them to org-mode with backlinks to the PDF and the citation information. That was already enough for me, although I could imagine I could have used orgmode or another tool for improving the organizing, expanding and reusing of the information.

Nowadays, I mostly care about noting down decisions and action items, primarily in the context of meetings. None of these tools give me an advantage. OneNote on the other hand, despite its shortcomings, integrates with other tools we are using at work and allows sharing with colleagues, which at least is marginally better than a plain text file. Most of the stuff I note down are not relevant within a year, so I don't care about the format, the linking and so on, as long as I can find what I need.

I've tried some techniques or tools after reading HN posts like this one in the past, but I've now accepted that this is not for me. I've decided less note-taking is better and that the medium is not important.

Comment · 4 years ago
Actually I think the post highlights that even the statistic you quoted means less than one thinks it means. For example, some of the books included may have been only a few weeks on the market. Some titles may be niche books with the expected lower sales volume calculated in the price. BookScan only covers a certain percentage of print sales in the US, the total sales could be more than double that.

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