Terminally Incoherent

This is subjective and as old/unsettled an argument as vim vs emacs or spaces vs tabs - although what you're saying is true for you there are many people who argue the opposite. I must have spent at least a day's worth of hours over the years reading long threads with people debating over which is 'correct', 'safer', 'healthier' etc: dark on light or light on dark. People are different. Having a preference is normal but framing it as assistive tech is too much as there are people out there who feel a strain looking at light text on a dark background.

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/which-is-easier-on-the-eyes-dark-on-light-or-light-on-dark?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2010/05/20/i-hate-websites-with-light-text-on-dark-background/

https://www.wordpress-web-designer-raleigh.com/2015/04/16/4-special-usability-concerns-of-dark-websites/

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/8153/what-are-the-negative-and-positive-aspects-of-dark-color-scheme?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

1. Jacek Dukaj [0] - virtually unknown due to refusal to write directly in English :( "Perfect Imperfection" is imo the best sf book about trans/posthumanism there is.

"Dukaj has interesting take on post-humanism, both as a state of being and as a process. If you recall Accellerando, even though Manfred Macx was a futurist and trans-humanist he was hesitant to augment himself past certain limits. Stross pretty much drew a line in sand and said: up to here, you are human and if you rewire yourself further you will become something both incomprehensible, inhuman and frightening. Dukaj is very aware of this problem, but in his universe there is no line – there is a blurred spectrum of humanity. Yes, if you continue augmenting yourself for pure performance you may eventually lose track of your humanity." [1]

2. Hannu Rajaniemi

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Imperfection

[1] http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2011/07/08/perfect-imperfection-perfekcyjna-niedoskonalosc-by-jacek-dukaj/

Hey! This thread keeps popping up! Yay :D

In another thread someone recommended me vimtutor isntead of this game. I played both, and for learning I like vimtutor much more.

To people who don't know vimtutor allow me to explain :)

Vim Adventures still gave me the feeling that vim takes 5+ years to learn and you need to be crazy dedicated and good to understand vim. That's not the fault of Vim Adventures, that's the fault of the folklore that surrounds vim (e.g. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/curves.jpg )

30 minutes of vimtutor and I felt that I had "basic vim skills" and that I "could manage myself in a vim editor." I thought it would take 2 years to get these skills. In other words, if you feel you have realistic expectations about how hard it is to learn vim, try vimtutor!

That said this is a fun game!

Went down the rabbit hole a bit (thanks Google) and found this thread from 2003 where someone said "real men use vi". https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2003-July/msg01383.html I take it to mean real men do difficult things for no reason, which is not really a positive thing. A 2008 article updated the phrase to "real men and women use vi", still as hyperbole. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/10/01/vim-tips/ I guess the posted article didn't get the memo and still used the men-only version in 2011. But I guess you're right about this particular article, it's too easy to read it "straight".

IMHO the best TeX tutorials on the internet are written by some Helpdesk guy on his blog:

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2010/02/15/lets-learn-latex-part-1/

I'm not affiliated in any way with that site but the pedagogy is very approachable. Also it helps to use a site like WriteLatex.com or ShareLatex.com to do the hard setting up part when you're just starting out.

Edit: I see he is no longer a helpdesk guy, and his blog's tagline is (unfortunately) no longer "I will not fix your computer."

Jacek Dukaj is great, but I don't know when he will be translated.

He mostly writes hard sci-fi with political and philosophical elements, often about transhumanism, but he also did weird philosophical alternative history book - "Lód" (Ice).

Some English reviews of his books:

http://greglewicki.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/perfect-imperfection-jacek-dukaj-and-power-of-mind/

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/02/10/black-oceans-czarne-oceany-by-jacek-dukaj/