Me years ago: "I'll roll my own blog" Expectation: It'll be fun and customizable without the bloat Reality: Now my blog has technical debt
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@backus it is easy to convince yourself that writing code will simplify non-software tasks. Reality is you would rather write codeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Worse yet, attempting to rebuild your essay years later.
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Oh, and I recompiled my dissertation the other day to use one of the equations (a truly vile integral). Took 35 seconds.
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Biting the bullet tasted bad at first but over time I've consistently preferred LaTeX results to anything else. Markdown in a pinch. YMMV!
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Meh. I wrote (collated the papers comprising it into) my dissertation in 72 hours thanks to LaTeX. Complete with watermarked signature sheet
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