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Thanks for noting this. We are so accustomed to reading comments as of a point in time, but their meaning is also impacted by when they are made. In this case, a future historian may draw a different conclusion had they not seen your clarifying post. Whereas now it confirms that the community viewed it as a good thing, and HN also agreed steadfastly.

I hope to see it. RIP

I just bought a Lenovo laptop and wiped Windows off it / installed Linux for the first time.

As largely a newcomer to Linux, it was very smooth. Had some issues getting the wifi to work, but once that got resolved, everything has been super smooth. I must admit there is a bit of a learning curve, i didn’t fully appreciate the differences between the various distributions.

Shame that an indie company who is actively selling linux machines, can’t have them working off the bat. That’s unacceptable

Not hacker news. It’s mostly click bait / programmer junk food for the last couple of years (I only started reading then but took a while a realise)

Thanks!

How to install on linux for a newbie?

And damn you so awesome!

Thanks for sharing this link, very useful reading

cons is a recursive data structure. it’s not discussed much here in the comments, but a lot of its useability comes from that fact - you can write elegant recursive algorithms with cons as your data structure

with vectors that doesn’t work UNLESS you add a bit of overhead (which most optimising programs may do since for many cases vectors can be more performant)

I’m happy with my Topre keyboards (in particular All 30 gram keys) with their n key roll over (?).

Article was good, worth reading.

Usually the most practical programmers are too busy focusing on coding than internet arguments. They _occasionally_ appear and drop nuggets of gold.

In Australia, unfortunately yes (upto 12 months)

The performance sensitive parts of Emacs are written in C, which would explain why you don’t see a huge difference between Emacs and LW imo

Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure. Try each three and see which you like. I prefer CL, but that's because I develop programs in the large.

Yes it’s good to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism and I could (more than likely) be equally wrong, but I hope my comment encouraged others not to take comments online at face value always.

For what it’s worth, I signed up to fast mail yesterday, onboarding vs my cloudflare managed domain was a breeze and so far no issues (it’s email hosting (and their iOS app isn’t great), so there’s not much to get excited about on a day to day basis - apart from a long term appreciation of privacy first email).

I have just started using the Spark Mail App - now that I am excited about…if it lives up to its hype, it will be a great addition to my workflow.

Reading some of these comments, I wonder how much astroturfing goes on HN these days