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I was mainly using Literature & Latte's paid app Scrivener for years, but recently the free open source app Joplin has become my primary drafting environment. I still recommended both -- I use Scrivener for capturing research, organizing projects, and producing publisher-ready files.

Yes.

Thanks for that! Great resource.

Here are my three reasons not to be customary in this case: poetic license, public domain, and maximum impact.

I was waiting for someone to do that for me. ;) Thanks. Agreed. Props to the WW1 poet Wilfred Owen 1893-1918.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Reading a book--a real, classic book, not a business, technical or self-help book--can literally change you as a person. Read the right book, and the entity in your body reading stuff on the internet might react differently afterwards.

I find it a bit circumspect that the article specifically mentions that a lack of adequate teacher training with EdTech tools is certainly to blame for its limited impact, but mentions it only once in passing and instead concludes that hitting the brakes is the solution.

Funnily enough, I have not been using MySQL for the last 10 years either, because I switched to Postgres and never went back.

MySQL: Wait a sec, what do I use for this table, InnoDB or MyISAM? What are the tradeoffs again? Oh, right, do I want ACID transactions or fulltext search? Man, this tradeoff sucks.

PostgreSQL: Wait a sec, which schema (namespace) should I put this table in? Man, it's nice to have namespaces within a DB.

The excerpt on Miami U's website, linked early in the article, is worth reading. A tale of Egyptian Gods and Kings...but if not for Plato's writing, we wouldn't know these days that Socrates was with King Thamus on this one back then. Or do we really know any of that? Thanks for the paradox, philosophers.

Young Mr. Bueno has a bright future ahead of him designing WeWork SEC filings.

True that. Even a successful exit can lead to employee common stockholders (i.e. holders of stock gained through vested, executed options) getting screwed. Look what happened in Gilt Groupe's IPO, for example: https://www.vox.com/2016/1/19/11588918/gilt-groupe-is-a-caut...

There's been a few mentions of the PageRank algorithm already...FWIW, Google's patent just expired. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999B1/en

Yay! This. Where else do we recommend arbitrary indentation levels? Nowhere. So...which is the "foolish consistency" then? Is it consistent indentation rules? Or consistently lining up arguments with function/method opening parentheses?

Looks awesome! Functionally speaking, it reminds me of Snapcast. Compare/contrast?

Daily yoga, tai chi, qigong, or another such gentle body movement activity is the way to go for able folks of all body types and situations.

Thanks to this OCR'ed version, I was able to put an NLP text summarizer of the document into production yesterday. Check it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815506

Here's some NLP text summarization of the Mueller Report in action (by yours truly): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815506

Register to self-host a thing named after a well-known open source standard? Nah...in fact, I'm feeling a sudden urge to make open source contributions to PlantUML and/or MermaidJS.

"fancy case to hide that you have no live" hahaha

For SQL optimization, learn to use window functions and/or Common Table Expressions if available in your variant of SQL. For joins, others have mentioned EXPLAIN: you can use that command to see the "query plan" for any query, which is sort of the equivalent of assembly code. You should learn which of your SQL variant's "join algorithms" at the query plan level are the most performant, and aim to use those types of joins in your queries.

When Pokemon Go hit, it was impossible not to notice in public. Just a thought.

Everyone seems to be seeing this as an Android vs. iOS debate, but I see it as a smartphone vs. dedicated device debate. If you're serious enough about photography, you don't complain about your smartphone camera's limitations, you get yourself a DSLR and multiple lenses. So if you're this serious about music, why not get a dedicated device? Look at what companies like HiBy and Hidizs are doing. I have, and my ears haven't been this happy since the early aughts.