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Re:Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like? on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:05PM (#21515733)
Just curious, if you could highlight some of the problems you've experienced with each "generation" of looker reporting? Was there any specific issues that encouraged the re-implementation?
Re:Ask HN: Is there a site for popular software names in plain english? on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:29PM (#19790012)
And if none exists; would there be interest in making one?

Ask HN: Is there a site for popular software names in plain english?

Posted by ericmjalbert on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:01PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I saw and loved https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english a while ago and although it's a little out of date with current AWS, it still is very helpful (and even a little comedic).I was wondering if there are any similar sites for other popular software project, like Apache Projects for example. There are quite a few Apache names that don't seem to be very descriptive (ie. Apache Maven,...

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Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:15PM (#18453422)
I think Vimium [0] would allow you to highlight lines with hjkl keys. They have a "Visual Select" mode that'll highlight lines as if it were in VI [1].

[0] Google Chrome Extension: https://github.com/philc/vimium

[1] https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Visual-Mode