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New comment by pcen in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

pcen — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:50:49 +0000

This is the perfect manifestation of the quote: It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app

pcen — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:52:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90960653/why-people-are-obsessed-with-obsidian-the-indie-darling-of-notetaking-apps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37874814

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by pcen in "Reconstructing Obsidian Features in Vim and Bash"

pcen — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:47:40 +0000

One plug-in in beta, but has quite a large following in the Obsidian community to achieve what you’re describing with Obsidian is the make.md plug-in.

New comment by pcen in "Systems design explains the world: volume 1"

pcen — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 04:32:13 +0000

Thank you for putting in the good fight. It will take a high-profile level catastrophe akin to the Challenger Disaster for the industry to move on from the current state and formalize even basic things we've known for decades such as category theory and functional programming. And unfortunately, the results will be heavy regulation. Until then, we will just have to watch history repeat through these types of discussions. [0]

[0] https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94

New comment by pcen in "The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design"

pcen — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:54:13 +0000

There are a few still not behind a subscription model, UI pattern libraries is what you're looking for. Here are some examples:

https://pttrns.com/ http://uigarage.net/ http://ui-patterns.com/

New comment by pcen in "Chinese Family Reportedly Paid $6.5M for Spot at Stanford"

pcen — Thu, 02 May 2019 02:27:49 +0000

The whole scandal only happened because these families paid the wrong person. Instead of paying the doorman, they paid for a disguise to sneak into the backdoor.

New comment by pcen in "Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?"

pcen — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:55:52 +0000

Have thought about moving to SF with the family, curious to hear what the downsides are other than real-estate prices