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pcenon Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?

This is the perfect manifestation of the quote: It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

pcenon Reconstructing Obsidian Features in Vim and Bash

One plug-in in beta, but has quite a large following in the Obsidian community to achieve what you’re describing with Obsidian is the make.md plug-in.

pcenon Systems design explains the world: volume 1

Thank you for putting in the good fight. It will take a high-profile level catastrophe akin to the Challenger Disaster for the industry to move on from the current state and formalize even basic things we've known for decades such as category theory and functional programming. And unfortunately, the results will be heavy regulation. Until then, we will just have to watch history repeat through these types of discussions. [0]

[0] https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94

pcenon The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design

There are a few still not behind a subscription model, UI pattern libraries is what you're looking for. Here are some examples:

https://pttrns.com/ http://uigarage.net/ http://ui-patterns.com/

pcenon Chinese Family Reportedly Paid $6.5M for Spot at Stanford

The whole scandal only happened because these families paid the wrong person. Instead of paying the doorman, they paid for a disguise to sneak into the backdoor.

pcenon Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?

Have thought about moving to SF with the family, curious to hear what the downsides are other than real-estate prices