How is this trending on Show HN? The text is unreadable. The letters lock, unlock and rotate. Can there be a more user hostile way of offering a free preview?
From the Show HN guidelines:
> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN.
There is clearly no way to try out this book. The "Show HN:" prefix should be removed from the title so that this post can belong to the list of regular posts.
As far as I can tell the gibberish text eventually becomes readable. So the book exists and can be tried out, but with some annoyance. That still qualifies for Show HN. For books, people usually put a free chapter or two up, which is arguably less annoying, but there is room for different approaches.
The intention of the "try out" guideline is to make sure that the work actually exists and that people can play with it to get an idea of what's there. It's not intended to force Show HN projects to all be free.
For a Vim user, what is a good plugin to provide SLIME like paredit and REPL capabilities for programming in Common Lisp? Is there a clear winner plugin in Vim like there is SLIME for Emacs?
Steve Losh in his already-classic CL blog post [^1] suggests either Vlime or Slimv, quote:
„If you’re like me and already have Vim burned too deeply into your fingers to ever get it out, I’d recommend Vim with Vlime. It will give you 80% of the experience you’ll get with Emacs.”
If you want 100% of SLIME goodness without sacrificing vim, try spacemacs [^2]. I switched about two years ago and am very happy.
I'm in the process of switching after many years of using vim, and it’s been incredible so far. Spacemacs really is like vim, only with way more features out of the box, and way better discoverability, so it's really quick to get up to speed.
I have not heard before about evil-collection. I have thought about having a custom setup, but my .spacemacs has grown a bit, so it's going to be a major work. I will try it at some point, just to check my elisp-fu
From the Show HN guidelines:
> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN.
There is clearly no way to try out this book. The "Show HN:" prefix should be removed from the title so that this post can belong to the list of regular posts.