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Re:Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard
on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:19PM (#23370943)
I believe it got a limited release, was pretty awful to actually use, and got very quickly discontinued. Although I may be wrong.
Re:Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard
on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:18PM (#23370931)
the website doesn't even work for me but I looked up some images, and even if this thing actually exists and isn't vaporware, it looks like a truly bad keyboard.
All the things that actually matter in a keyboard (key feel, travel, ergonomics) are all things this design gets dead wrong. It seems mostly modelled after the apple mac keyboard (which has awful key feel and even worse ergonomics) and to be incredibly short-travel. The design also seems to have no respect at all for any ergonomics improvements made to keyboards in the past 20 years.
Also, anybody buying a high-end keyboard will probably be able to touch type anyway, so what is the point of this product even? When you're using a computer, you're looking at your display, not your keyboard.
Re:Show HN: Margin – A lightweight, flexible markup language for struc...
on Monday May 11, 2020 @01:12AM (#23139096)
As a long time user of vimwiki with an awful lot of hacks and plugins to work for doing something like this, margin seems like the kind of thing I was originally looking for. Vimwiki is great but suffers from having almost no machine readability, which makes integrating it with things like time tracking difficult without large, complex plugins.
However, margin doesn't really seem to have any equivalent of links between files, which I find essential for organising thoughts in anything beyond small notes. This seems like something that's contrary to the philosophy in a sense, but what would be the margin-ish equivalent of something like that, and (following from that) things like file tags? Would those be done with annotations?
Show HN: A puzzle game for learning stack operations
I've been building a small puzzle game recently to help me learn stack operations for forth programming. It's available here:http://itwont.work/stackgameVery rough right now (no visual design to speak of, small number of human puzzles, puzzle generator tends to spit out terrible ones, incredibly long load times) but hopefully it should be fun to play with.
Re:Ask HN: What are you learning?
on Sunday April 05, 2020 @08:37PM (#22789963)
I'm learning sewing! It's very far off usual HN things but it's nice to do something completely different to what you usually do.
Ask HN: How do I get into the habit of writing comments/docstrings?
Hello HN, I have a real issue with always forgetting to write proper comments and docstrings in my code, especially on personal projects, and then coming back to them and thinking "what did I mean when I wrote that?"Does anybody have any tips for getting into the habit of writing good comments?
Re:Ask HN: How Python is better than Excel for data analysis?
on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:16AM (#22327242)
Python is far more flexible than Excel and can deal with data outside of tabular formats. You have an entire programming language at your disposal that can do basically everything, rather than only the analysis tools built into a single application.