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> performance hiccups

I am sure you have tried all these, but just listing them if you havent:-

1. lib-gccjit native compilation

2. GCMH

3. explain-pause-mode

4. Buy a new PC

5. Compiling emacs with -O3 for your own hardware

6. --with-x-toolkit=lucid

Please dont abandon emacs in haste. It was home for 10 years for good reasons.

Would somebody please explain to me how 'casouri/vundo' compares to the semi-abandoned 'emacsmirror/undo-tree'?

> The notion of a "controller" is also quite flexible.

Are you refering to the "view" or the "controller"; "django view" or "rails controller" :-)

If we were to coin a new name, say "Zeitgeist" to refer to the notion of a thing that does 'controller things' and more, are we compounding the problem further, or are we simplifying the problem?

https://xkcd.com/927/

> eventually far too much was built on it

Incumbents dilemma right?

Shouldnt it be possible to "Rip off the band-aid" when releasing, say Django-6.0 and rename things the way most people not already familiar with Django name things.

> names are rarely changed later

So refactoring APIs is really hard, especially when those are being consumed outside the organization... Shouldnt be an impossible task. After all, API versioning happen all the time internally...

> all your endpoints went through some function

Are you refering to CGI?

> I’d be afraid a young dev would have no idea

/s But then, I want to reinvent the wheel, it will be square and better.

> treating data as data in the abstract

Now you are really sounding like Sussman from SICP :-)

> “controller” is the balance-of-system

In Django, they call this as a View!

> a powerful set of custom primitives like terminal, compiler, formatter objects with a lua-like table structure powered by ht and eieio

Very interesting approach. Would you please share a small gist showing the custom primitives you are exploring?

Your experience mirrors mine in using Doom, Spacemacs etc. Esp, regarding unnecessary fancy features, with no explaination why they are there.

> a trip to Europe

Do it! dont wait. A change of location will reboot your brain. Trekking, Swimming, Sunburn will give you some much needed break.

Its easier to aquaint with new people when you are traveling. I am sure you know of all these things already. I just wanted to confirm that your idea of travelling is the right medicine.

Is it possible to tangle the Readme into pretty.h? In other words, are the codeblocks in the orgfile exhaustive.

I love the literate way you have explained your thought process in the readme.

> Gwynne's Latin

Would you kindly share how it influenced you. I am really interested in the intersection of human languages and programming languages.

Have you explored Sanscrit, with a similar lens as a programmer?

I have a related question: Is learning interlinked with writing?

PG tweeted:-

    You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, 
    because you need to read in order to write well, and 
    you need to write in order to think well.

Are you using the following workflow?

orgmode file --> export to pdf (aka weave)

orgmode file --> org babel tangle

Would you please help me understand your workflow for > jumping to the chunk which the code came from in the tangled source code on the pretty printed PDF

Do the codeblocks in your pdfs contain hyperlinks back to the org file where they came from?

Please do tell us the Django horror story

So, have you still broken the law if that DVD contained media which is in the public domain?

I found the anti-circumvention clause confusing.

    It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not 
    there is actual infringement of copyright itself.[1]

I couldnt substantiate this claim (circumvention of access to non-copyrighted material) by going through 17 U.S.C. 1201.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A....

This was exactly the reason for my confusion. I mistook angel investment with board membership.

Bootstrapped founder here, hence the mistake.

> unrelated group partners

That is simple and neat solution. After all, there are ~89 people to choose from. Thank you for your reply.

ycombinator.com/people lists 66 employees, 14 group partners, 5 visiting group partners and 4 founders.

I am interested in the back of the envelope calculations you did to come to this conclusion. Would you please elaborate if possible?

I know of an early stage YC startup that has a 6TB Postgres DB. Would it be fair to say that the DB hosting (neglecting replica, engineering time) can be done at $150/month?

    For each class, buy a separate notebook from the one you 
    take your notes in. I recommend a "composition" or spiral 
    notebook, not a looseleaf notebook, for your "permanent" 
    (i.e., re-written) notes.

Would somebody please explain to me the difference between these two types of notebooks? I understand that 'spiral notebook' means a notebook whose spline contains a plastic-springlike-thingy, and therefore is able to open flat-180-degrees.

But, whats meant by 'composition notebook'? and 'looseleaf notebook'?