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@JohnMeuser
editing text editors text editor editors you can go around this drain forever, or you can look at the behaviors which compose a repertoire of reading, writing, and editing and build from there the problem is how well we understand behavior, not how well our programs work
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Andy Matuschak
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One reason we don't have more interesting, quality structured text editors: it's *really* hard to implement table-stakes editing operations well, particularly on web. In this video, I attempt to arrow up/down and shift+up/down to select inter-line in 8 outliners. Very yikes.
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i am not always as helpful as i can be because i need to know when i am wrong e.g. it's not a 'nudge' that is a sad word which is really a weak reintroduction of a strong scientific concept introduced by Skinner called a 'contingency'; i will help more people if i change my tone
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@JohnMeuser
i have on multiple occasions tried to ask
@R_Thaler
if he deliberately or accidentally omitted the depths of literature on contingencies and contingency analysis; my concern is for better technologies of behavior and better science; we can not ignore unpalatable facts