ilSignorCarlo

August is almost over. Is there a similar guide for September?

no, sorry, it's not like that. Paolo Nori, the writer who was supposed to hold the course, is a well known and loved writer in Italy. Besides being an expert on Russian literature, he's also funny and his lessons are special because he's doing them. The same course on Dostoevsky by any other professor wouldn't have gotten the same attention and interest

they confirmed the course telling the "professor" (he's actually a writer) that he needed to talk also about Ukranian literature and authors. After this, he decided to simply held his course somewhere else

it's honestly much simpler than this. Who took the decision of cancelling the course was just thinking they were doing the right and sensitive thing. This time we can be almost 100% certain that there were no politics or politicians involved. Just a dumb move by someone that clearly has no idea how things go

I wouldn't call it cancel culture, it's something that doesn't really exist in Italy in this term. Read my comment here for some clarifications on how things really went: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30644847

Italian here: this really happened, but I think that both the tweet and the HN title are misleading.

Paolo Nori, an Italian writer, not a university professor, was supposed to collaborate with the university to hold a free 4-lesson course on Dostoevsky. The university originally decided to cancel the course and the writer published a video saying that he couldn't believe what they were doing and that, of course, the decision didn't make much sense. Many people protested and complained and the university went back on their steps, but said that Nori, besides talking about Dostoevsky should've also presented some Ukranian authors. Nori refused because, again, he thinks the request doesn't make sense and also he's not an expert on Ukranian literature and doesn't know any author.

It's still an absurd situation, but I don't know if it should be framed as a ban

It looks like a great project. It would be useful if I could import a url directly into the desktop app, without having to go through the Chrome extension. My main browser is Firefox and I understand the difficulty in developing an extension for each browser, but I expected to being able to copy the url and import it somehow into the app.

Great job in any case!

it's a really interesting post, and I really like your approach to studying. Thank you for detailing it so clearly.

I've never used Drafts and I'm curious about how do you keep your files organised after a session. You write a sort of recap of what you've learned, that's clear. But how are the other 3 files grouped together? Only by date or timestamp? Do you ever go back to or search through your old files?

Also, another curiosity:instinctively I would keep my study material on the iPad and take notes on the laptop. What's the advantage in doing it the other way around?

And thanks again!

what's your workflow for saving the pages as PDF/epub?

Thanks, and congratulations: this project looks amazing

I think you wanted to link to your GitHub and Reddit post, but all your links seem to point to the same HN thread. Since I'm interested in the matter, would you mind putting the correct links?

would you mind expanding a bit on what you do and how did you start?

Just learned about this Min[0] browser yesterday.

It uses the concept of "tasks" to organize tabs. Still haven't really tried it, so can't really recommend, but since it's not really well known (I guess) I thought it was worth sharing.

[0]: https://minbrowser.org/

same article, (slightly) better reading experience:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/03/12/we-a...

I've always been meaning of doing something like this, but never committed to it. Do you also wrote scripts to then parse the file? Like, can you get how much did you work on a certain project of for a certain client?

great content, it's just a bit annoying that one has to click on every portion of the command to see the "illustrated" part

so, only if you have an account, I guess

I donwloaded the client for Mac and can't find a way to export the notes.

But Dropbox has always offered the free option. Nylas used to have a free plan, but at some point took it away entirely -which actually meant cutting away a part of their base. I feel like they might change their mind again and remove the free plan.

That's true, but I'm worried that at some point they might decide again to remove the free plan

What motivated the decision to give again the option to use Nylas for free? I remember reading that your target were kinds of "email power users", for whom you would offer the ability to create advanced workflow. Did this change?

I used Nylas for a while and really liked it, until they they forced everyone to pay $7 per month to use it.

Here's the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11553738

I started using Nylas because I find it cleaner than other programs and somehow setting a gmail account was easier. Besides this, I don't do much else with an email client than reading email, so all these new features are something that I don't really need and I don't feel like paying this much just to have a nicer interface

does this mean that the free version won't be available anymore? Only the developer one?

and writing "a elegant" instead of "an elegant" is quite unelegant

The illustrations are just lovely and really helpful to learn words. I was using this method to study german vocabulary with Anki and very often it's difficult to find a suitable image for every word. Since I tried this app for german as well, I'd say it's bad that the words aren't shown with their article or, at least, the gender. So it should appear "das Auto" instead of just "Auto".

Then, the register form has a confusing UI. After I compiled it to create a new account I clicked on the first button available which actually was "I already have an account".

even the signup link doesn't work in the homepage

I'm using Inoreader too and I'm quite happy with it. I would like to give a try also to Yoleoreader, but right now it just can import the feed list from Google Reader and it's not good for me

it's really amazing, but I'm experiencing some issues with tmux.

It was so disappointing when I realized it was not referred to the band