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  1. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    The article is a time capsule of the disruption movement. I wasn't aware of this author, I clicked through to their twitter feed -- it's what you'd expect. The disruption movement is just fine and...

    The article is a time capsule of the disruption movement. I wasn't aware of this author, I clicked through to their twitter feed -- it's what you'd expect. The disruption movement is just fine and that's a stark contrast to the recent conviction of the CEO. That's an interesting contrast to me.

  2. Comment on Andrew Yang to launch a third party in ~news

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    Book release parties can be a great time.

    Book release parties can be a great time.

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  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Playing through War of Omens, a free to play card game which is one of the many descendants of Magic the Gathering. It's a tight little card game! Cross-device, which is nice. Slay the Spire still...

    Playing through War of Omens, a free to play card game which is one of the many descendants of Magic the Gathering. It's a tight little card game! Cross-device, which is nice.

    Slay the Spire still challenges and delights, I play that at least once a week, and the Spire always wins.

    Assassin's Creed Origins, slowly. I've been a fan of this franchise since the beginning, and really enjoy this one.

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  4. Comment on What did Google Reader offer back in the day? in ~tech

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    Exactly! The application was nice, working across platforms and devices, all synced -- all now expected. It had virtually no monetization or ads built in, which is now no longer accepted. I agree...

    you share a story to a sort of "community feed"

    Exactly! The application was nice, working across platforms and devices, all synced -- all now expected. It had virtually no monetization or ads built in, which is now no longer accepted.

    I agree with many of the posters here, people who lament Reader are lamenting about how the web has changed. RSS itself had started trending toward ad/summary-to-click-through than full article, I don't know that it would've had a great life anyway. I personally think it would have been death by a thousand rss-feed-is-summary website conversions.

    And regarding other readers, there a million, they're fine. I chose one. But my Reader network fragmented and that was that.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on What are some interesting websites (tech related or not) that I can add to my endless rotation of Reddit, Tildes and Hacker News? in ~talk

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    Lobste.rs is a great supplement/alternate to Hacker News, with a focus on software tech. Like tildes, they are small and growing slowly. It is currently excellent.

    Lobste.rs is a great supplement/alternate to Hacker News, with a focus on software tech. Like tildes, they are small and growing slowly. It is currently excellent.

    23 votes

  6. Comment on What is your personal preference and why: vim or emacs? in ~comp

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    I've tried to leave emacs a number of times and it never works, particularly now that I org. Emacs is my mothership, which lives in primary-dev tmux. Having said that, I assume that vi/vim is...

    I've tried to leave emacs a number of times and it never works, particularly now that I org. Emacs is my mothership, which lives in primary-dev tmux. Having said that, I assume that vi/vim is installed on every single host I use, and it's light and very fast, so I do common/quick operations in it and I love it for that.

    I also keep sublime text open on my local machine as a better notepad. I keep trying to learn IDEA and can't get productive.

    3 votes