But I suppose that’s good. Done is better than perfect, and so on. What’s awful to write is not always awful to read – plus, even if so, things can be made better in future revisions.
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!
Or, in other words…https://twitter.com/jonnysun/status/929883213371232256 …
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jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!Verified account @jonnysunwrite it. the sooner u write it the sooner it will exist apart from u. the sooner u can spend days thinking its no good then come back to it realizing its better than u thought. the sooner u can convince urself some past version of u wrote it and now u can get to work updating itShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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In “Internet can still be good sometimes” news, I am having an email conversation with someone who actually used this 1959 Italian computer:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/931588975868837888 …
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He sent me the computer’s manual (!!!), which I’m trying to understand via Google Translate. (And already uploaded to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Olivetti-Elea9003-ManualeBaseDiProgrammazione …)pic.twitter.com/wdGFTgvOXN
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I’m now at ten chapters left (including the intro and outro!), so I am doing A GIANT COUNTDOWN TO THE FIRST DRAFT. I will celebrate each chapter with a PR stratagem of posting a selfie with a keyboard I own. I don’t really do selfies, ever, so this will be… new.
!!!pic.twitter.com/ciWtN399pd
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By the way, as I’m doing the necessary research, I am absolutely falling in love with Chinese and Japanese, and the histories behind their writing systems. I had no idea. You could spend your whole life studying those, and it would be a life well spent.
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Whoa, I just managed to write “weather” in Japanese using a romaji keyboard, a hiragana keyboard, and by drawing the kanji shapes directly on my trackpad. It took me a few hours to get there, giving me a net speed of about… 0.02 wpm. But I feel rather accomplished! AMA.pic.twitter.com/Pb4Wqhc0qf
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Handwriting input on touch devices is so amazing. Handwriting input via a Thinkpad nubbin is… uh, not so amazing, but usually the IME is smart enough to understand my chicken scratch anyway!
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Oh, cool! I never thought of the ThinkPad thing. I just typed “weather” on the swipe ten-key on my phone!!! Next level.
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I wouldn’t recommend the nubbin, it’s very hard to get long curved strokes right and the character usually turns out cramped. Mouse or trackpad are pretty good if touch isn’t an option. Also I never learned 10-key method of input :P
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What do you do on the phone? Romaji?
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Romaji if I know the pronunciation (or at least the pronunciation of individual characters and can use that for lookups); handwriting if I don’t (esp. complicated kanji)
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One day I’d love to use this method of input though http://www.google.co.jp/ime/patapata/
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