mpwoz

Someone already mentioned it upthread, but I highly recommend playing "Kerbal Space Program" to gain a better intuition of orbital mechanics. I'm no rocket scientist but that game really helped me wrap my head around how things like orbital transfers work without actually learning any of the math behind it.

Assuming a city grid, wouldn't you have at most 2 turns to get where you're going (assuming start and end inside the grid)?

Inside a city these dedicated bike lanes are great, especially with dedicated bike traffic lights. Obviously doesn't apply to longer/winding rides.

I'm in Seattle and we have one here (2nd Avenue) that "feels" a lot safer than cycling alongside parked cars/traffic.

Isn't that the point of such a system, to reduce traffic and still allow dedicated climbers to summit?

There was a great Black Mirror episode[1] about this concept, highly recommend. Obvious spoiler warning in the wiki page.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Against_Fire

+1 to this, coming from vim I found spacemacs' defaults pretty painless.

I only use it for org-mode right now, still do most of my heavy editing in other tools but it's already been extremely useful for note-taking and todo tracking.

I can also recommend pandoc[1], I've used it to convert some org-mode documents into various wiki/markdown formats for presenting to others.

[1] https://pandoc.org

I found the book 'The Righteous Mind' very eye-opening and it talks about exactly these things, I recommend it to all my friends.

Particularly relevant to my own experience was the commentary on how politicians have become less cooperative with their rivals in other parties, and how political views/party associations have become more extreme/less tolerant overall.

Highly recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307455777

Thanks for sharing that, it gave me a lot to think about. Always good to see things from another perspective.

Really? I haven't noticed this, admittedly I don't use it much.

What's the best alternative on android?

Presumably because over a certain threshold, you're paying far more than you'd ever expect to receive back from the program in retirement?

Not saying I agree with it but that's my guess as to the reason.

You should definitely give 5e a try! I only started at 3.5, but I love how much they streamlined the newest edition. It's much easier to DM and play, which leads to better stories imo

Same! I've tried the community, kde, and xfce isos on a second drive and have yet to achieve a bootable system. I'll probably tinker with it a bit more this weekend since Manjaro sounds like the perfect distro for me, but I'm getting close to giving up :/

Have you tried this mod?

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/84005-1...

It was a game changer for me, and really made interplanetary transfers "click"

Second this, it gets rid of the most toxic/addictive part of facebook (the feed) and leaves all the good stuff. Great extension!

Jumper (https://github.com/mpwoz/jumper)

It's a simple chrome extension to jump between top-level comments on hacker news using the arrow keys.

I've been meaning to publish it to the extension store, but that process looks like it'll take longer than actually writing it did :)

The reason it's my proudest "achievement" is just because it's so useful to me (solves an actual problem)

Thank you for sharing this. If anybody wants a tear in their eye, read this article while listening to his latest album. And, optionally, a glass of wine.

Not OP, but maybe "coding" is a better term: they are language-agnostic fundamentals that don't change as quickly as the tools and frameworks we use daily as "programmers"

This needs to be higher.

You shouldn't use any of these tools just because people tell you to. If you can't see what problem something solves, then start at a simpler/lower level of abstraction until you run into that problem, and can appreciate the tool that solves it.

Of course, this advice doesn't apply if you actually need to write a production app, and aren't just playing around for learning purposes :)

Uber is more than a year old, and investors speculating on $1 million medallions should have factored in the risk of losing that gamble...

Have you tried pushbullet? I use it for texting from my desktop and it works quite well. I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy user.

https://www.pushbullet.com/

Seattle reporting in, downtown is absolutely full of cranes and large-building construction sites.

https://www.seattleinprogress.com/

As far as I know you can edit any text file from the github web ui. Unless you mean that it should support org-mode features in a browser?

I actually got frustrated enough with this a few weeks ago to write a quick extension that lets me jump between comment trees:

https://github.com/mpwoz/jumper

It's very lightweight and doesn't clutter up your screen with an icon since that's literally the only use case. I haven't gotten around to publishing it on the web store yet unfortunately so you'll have to install manually.