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Maybe I'm just not getting it, but why is this better than going with straight LaTeX? Pandoc can be used to convert LaTeX to HTML. So why the need for an extra layer of complexity? Other than a reason to use a Lisp.

I am so sorry to hear that! My mother, also, was found with a tumor that we didn't know about for a long time. She fought as long as she could. She never gave up hope.

Doctors don't know everything. There are ways to fight, even natural ones. Fighting with anything is better than giving up. Hope is very powerful. Don't give up. Keep fighting.

Best wishes to you from one who has walked this road with another.

Emacs Lisp's Future 12 years ago

You may be in the minority in terms of the total number of users, but most of the Emacs developers will have the same mindset. Terminal-friendliness is a part of Emacs tradition. The developers would surely keep the ability to run Emacs in a terminal.

I must admit to having wondered why there is not a greater use of Lisp in window managers. Lisp would seem the ideal language to use for tweaking a desktop. Xmonad (in Haskell) seems to have taken most of the attention of keyboard lovers and tweakers, but Lisp would seem to me to be a better fit.

"The stigma against seeking help for mental health exists and is real"

Not only is it a societal stigma, but it is nearly a form of accepted discrimination set in concrete.

Within the past year some states have been pushing to start collecting all mental health records. There are people who really who really do need to seek help, but actions like that will only make them afraid to come forward.

Get on the CSS Grid 12 years ago

Prediction: Sometime in 2018 we will have a thread: "Ask HN: Is it finally time to use CSS grids?"

I have a number of search terms related to a startup I'm working on listed with Google Alerts. I haven't been impressed with the quality of the links. They seem taken almost randomly from blog posts; very few relevant links showing any kind of trend.

This looks much more useful for identifying upward bumps in news cycles.

Thanks for the link!

Today I wrote 3 lines, they were really important lines, they took me 4 hours.

Haskell? :)

Haskell is like a fine wine. It is meant to be sipped.

I used DejaVu Sans Mono until Ubuntu released their Ubuntu Fonts. Ubuntu Mono is a nice programming font! Sorry to tempt you...

The font grass is always greener in the next pasture. :)

I am working on a MVP and am going for an elegant look. I have the <p> in Georgia 22px but would like something a little less common. Georgia is a nice font but it is everywhere.

My current main fonts are:

      p { font-family: Georgia, Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
          font-size: 22px; }

      h2 { font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 
          font-size: 22px; }
Has anyone found a font combination with an elegant, "classical" look?

Edited: for spacing

Productivity can't be measured by hours because a single thought can change the course of a company, or a life... but that thought can take months or years to develop in order to be "thought."

For example, there is a running joke here on Hacker News about HN being a time-sink. I disagree. Some of the comments here have altered my thinking about startups. A single comment can change the course of a life.

Paul Graham's "Beating the Averages" has influenced how many programmers to pick up Lisp? One essay can change a life, or a company.

Productivity does not accumulate with X hours. It grows in starts, jumps, leaps and crawls. For those who work with their brains, accomplishment is not lines of code written, or the number of pages in your business plan.

Productivity is a result of thought, and thought often comes through a lost art called "leisure."

Show HN: SVG Clocks 12 years ago

Wow, beautiful!

I'm wondering if there are some uses for this, apart from just having a clock in your browser which is cool enough.

I lost my Mom to cancer in September. Cancer is a nightmare. My heart goes out to you.

They didn't catch my Mom's cancer until it was already Stage 4 and the size of an orange to grapefruit. She developed massive ascites which caused her to gain 30+lbs of fluid. People don't know how bad cancer is until you live it first-hand.

I was my Mom's full-time caregiver. It was hard. But now that I can look back, I feel privileged to have been able to be with her.

Do you know what the word "diaper" is spelled the other way around? Repaid.

Here's your homecare

I read on the news this morning that the administration is proposing to cut homecare by 40%. I did a double-take when I read that. Unless the article I read got it wrong, a lot of people are going to be hurt.

I lost my Mom to cancer this past September.