@thedan84 Trust.zone supports all platforms and doesn't block P2P at all — unlike Cloak, where that only works on some servers (if you get lucky).
// @matigo
@jws I enjoy reading in proportional width, but not creating (either code or prose). The lack of alignment really bothers me for some reason.
@kdfrawg Lovely guy, very funny and incredibly smart. The kind who's friends with all the textbook authors, has proofread and critiqued their work, and has published a lot himself.
It's just such a different perspective on grammar that I struggle to get it.
@kdfrawg Normally, I would be too, unfortunately his subject is one that really doesn't inspire me — I find it fascinating, but nothing we've done so far has encouraged me to ask any questions.
@kdfrawg I think, in this case, the professor just couldn't be bothered to come up with a separate assessment for the master's students (our class is mostly undergraduates), and so just decided to mark us more harshly.
Even for undergrad, though, 1500 feels quite short.
Another professor made it so that master's students have to negotiate a topic with him individually; the undergrads got a set question. But that's for a 4000-word assignment, so he may be being lazy, but not in terms of asking for stuff to read.
@kdfrawg I avoid fancy, but embrace visual aids. They help me make sure that I haven't forgotten a closing bracket or something like that, and in the case of Markdown/LaTeX, means that the markup stuff visually blends in with the background and leaves me to focus on the content.
I think the only "fancy" thing I have enabled is relative line numbers in vim, which makes the line number column display how many lines away from the current cursor position something is. Good for the text manipulation commands.
Prof: "Here're a few examples of what you should aim to achieve in your assessment. This one's a PhD thesis, and these are (very long) journal articles. Now do the same thing, but in 1500 words. Oh, and this is 40%, not 30% as was previously stated, of your final grade."
For fuck's sake. The literature review alone for this kind of thing should be a good 2000–3000 words.
Huh, one of my very CLI-oriented friends takes no interest in what his emacs looks like. Couldn't give less of a damn about colours or themes.
He spends way more time in a text editor than I do, so it's a little surprising. He doesn't even seem that interested in syntax highlighting.
Then again, he operates on a diferent level…
@phoneboy Likewise, or at least that was the case a while back. I've pretty much stopped thinking about it.
// @kdfrawg