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moosecakeon Go! -- the non-Google programming language by Keith Clark and Francis McCabe.

"'Go!' pronounced 'Go bang'"?

moosecakeon Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work?

oh, I see. I agree, but my parents don't, and I can't support myself yet.

moosecakeon Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work?

"are you ADD/ADHD and, if so, have you been taking any recent meds?"

Don't think so. I'm not on any medication.

"If not, let's talk about your diet: tons of carbs but lack of protein? "

I guess so, but I don't feel that my diet is particularly unhealthy. So far today I had: an apple, oatmeal, avocado, carrots, some (whole-wheat) toast, a hard-boiled egg, a sweet potato, and a bag of steamed mixed vegetables w/ corn, asparagus, green beans etc, and just water to drink.

"How about sleep - getting enough of it?"

I usually get 6 – 8 hours (except at the beginning of the week when I'm typically feeling apathetic about school and stay up late working on a project or something), so yes, I think so.

"Sometimes burnout is the term for this whereas other times it is simple procrastination. So which is it?"

A combination of both, I think.

moosecakeon Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work?

"High school is not unpleasant work that needs to be done." Could you elaborate on that?

moosecakeon Spaces or Tabs?

I prefer the same but it's a pain to line it up manually like this. I usually settle for vim's = operator, but that has the frustrating behavior of using as many tabs as possible (according to your tabstop) until using a few spaces. I can't find any way to change this; anyone know of a vim plugin to circumvent it?

moosecakeon Textorize: Pristine Font rendering for the Web

"no text selection (IMHO a feature, not a bug)"

How is that a feature?

moosecakeon Textorize: Pristine Font rendering for the Web

This is really just a design philosophy: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophi...

PDF (technically Quartz PDF) is the native format for OS X, so that may be part of the reason why it seems like their text rendering attempts to mimic print like this.