Q&A transcript (unedited)

[[!template text="""And I believe we are live. Hi, Daniel, how are you doing? I'm""" start="00:00:00.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""doing great. It's cold outside, but it's nice in here, yeah.""" start="00:00:11.120" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I can assure you it's very cold in my own place as well. We do""" start="00:00:17.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""EmacsConf always in December and that's always when it's""" start="00:00:21.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""particularly cold where I live and I assume where you live as""" start="00:00:24.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""well. So, don't worry, we'll try to keep you warm with""" start="00:00:27.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""interesting questions. But first, thank you for taking the""" start="00:00:31.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""time out of your busy high school life to make a presentation""" start="00:00:35.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""about Emacs. Do you have any thoughts about the process of""" start="00:00:38.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""recording something for a conference? Because I assume""" start="00:00:41.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""it's one of the first ones you're ever doing.""" start="00:00:44.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I think it was not as difficult as I thought it would be. I just""" start="00:00:47.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""recorded in my basement and prepared some notes""" start="00:00:55.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""beforehand. I think it was definitely helpful to have Emacs""" start="00:01:04.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""as a tool for that, because I made my presentation with""" start="00:01:08.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Beamer. Right. I mean, it's amazing to see so many of the""" start="00:01:11.960" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""tools because, you know, you've shown Emacs, but you've""" start="00:01:18.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""shown Beamer. You've shown tools that are about twice as old""" start="00:01:22.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""as you are yourself, which is amazing when you think about""" start="00:01:27.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""it. But I think many people in the audience can actually""" start="00:01:30.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""relate to your discovery of those tools because we were""" start="00:01:33.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""pretty much, I mean a lot of us were your age when we started""" start="00:01:36.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""playing with those tools so it's like there's a little bit of""" start="00:01:40.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""nostalgia that we feel looking at your presentation""" start="00:01:44.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""because we are, we can see the excitement behind everything""" start="00:01:45.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you've touched and that's great for us because it brings us""" start="00:01:48.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""back maybe 10 or 20 years in the past and for others perhaps 30""" start="00:01:51.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""or 40 years so that's kind of amazing.""" start="00:01:55.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""How about we start taking some questions? So, just for""" start="00:02:01.080" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""timekeeping, we have until 20 of the current hours, which is""" start="00:02:05.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""8 minutes and 30 seconds to cover as many questions as""" start="00:02:09.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""possible. Now, if we might take the first one. So, Corwin,""" start="00:02:12.080" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can you scroll down to the questions? Yes. I'll be reading""" start="00:02:16.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you the questions just to make it a little easier for you,""" start="00:02:20.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Daniel, to answer them.""" start="00:02:22.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I use Org-roam for notes and find it""" start="00:02:23.792" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""very useful. Have you considered it? Uh, yeah, that's""" start="00:02:26.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""actually where I started out for taking notes. Um, that,""" start="00:02:30.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that I moved to Denote because I didn't use all of its""" start="00:02:35.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""features, um, for, Org Roam, I meant.""" start="00:02:38.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Uh, I also didn't, didn't really like the dependency on an""" start="00:02:44.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""external database. Uh, it just like took a while for, um,""" start="00:02:47.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""stuff to index if I moved it between like, uh, using sync""" start="00:02:51.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thing. laptop and my desktop. Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely""" start="00:02:56.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something, I mean, I co-maintain Org Roam, so I'm fully aware""" start="00:03:03.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of this problem with it. And yeah, SyncThing is not great to""" start="00:03:08.120" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""sync a database, a SQLite database that we use. And, I mean,""" start="00:03:12.160" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""whichever solution you use, whatever works for you is good.""" start="00:03:16.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Orgrim was kind of thought in terms of scalability for""" start="00:03:19.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""people who had, you know, thousands of notes with thousands""" start="00:03:21.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of links inside of them. so perhaps it's not adapted to your""" start="00:03:26.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""note-taking style right now, but perhaps it's something to""" start="00:03:28.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""keep in mind, you know, it's many tools and you use them when""" start="00:03:31.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you need to. Colin, if we can switch the questions, I'm""" start="00:03:34.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""switching to the second one.""" start="00:03:39.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Do you use the Getting Things""" start="00:03:40.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Done methodology as part of your Org workflow? So there's an""" start="00:03:42.160" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""interesting thing about that. I started with Org first and""" start="00:03:46.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""then I heard about Getting Things Done, so I didn't exactly""" start="00:03:50.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""design my workflow with that in mind, but I sort of""" start="00:03:54.960" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""reinvented it, I would say, not really, but I do a lot of""" start="00:04:01.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the similar things, but I don't have the different TODO""" start="00:04:06.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""states like...""" start="00:04:09.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I don't know an example because I didn't really look into it""" start="00:04:11.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that much, but it would be like NEXT isn't the next thing""" start="00:04:17.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you're going to do. But I don't think I...""" start="00:04:22.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""where I just write what I need to do and then schedule it and""" start="00:04:28.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""then look at my agenda for the next thing. Yeah, I mean, part""" start="00:04:35.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of the beauty of using Emacs, Org Mode or using a methodology""" start="00:04:41.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like Getting Things Done is that I think you need to find room""" start="00:04:45.960" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in the method or the tool for you to organically do what you""" start="00:04:49.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""want. And it's okay to not do everything in a Getting Things""" start="00:04:53.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Done methodology. I know a lot of people take issue""" start="00:04:57.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""with the tickler file, where you're supposed to put stuff to""" start="00:05:00.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""review in the future. For instance, if you don't want""" start="00:05:04.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to work on this particular topic right now in your life, you""" start="00:05:07.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""decide, oh, I'd like to revisit this topic maybe in six""" start="00:05:10.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""months. And then you have this tickler file, which has""" start="00:05:14.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""entries and folders for each month of the year. And when six""" start="00:05:17.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""months comes and you find yourself at the beginning of the""" start="00:05:21.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""next month, you open the file and you see, oh there's the task""" start="00:05:24.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I left off for later. A lot of people don't like to do it this""" start="00:05:27.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""way, some people really like it, but part of the beauty of""" start="00:05:30.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""having tools which are very modular like Emacs and Org Mode""" start="00:05:34.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""allows you to have, well, you just adjust the method for""" start="00:05:38.120" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something that works. And there's something to be garnered""" start="00:05:41.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""as well for applying these lessons to how you organize your""" start="00:05:44.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""life, not merely in front of a computer, but also how you""" start="00:05:48.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""manage your tasks elsewhere at school, iSchool or""" start="00:05:51.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""elsewhere.""" start="00:05:54.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""All right, moving to the next question. Org-fc and org-drill""" start="00:05:58.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""are Emacs Org Mode-centric flashcard solutions. Have you""" start="00:06:02.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""looked into them? I think I looked into Org-Drill, but I""" start="00:06:06.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""wanted to use Anki because of... I wanted to use it on my""" start="00:06:11.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""phone, but then I realized I had to pay for the app, and then I""" start="00:06:17.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""didn't want to use it on my phone anymore.""" start="00:06:21.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""but it's just something that I used before without work mode""" start="00:06:24.120" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""for a little bit. And then I liked it,""" start="00:06:31.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""but yeah, it works pretty well with Org mode. So I didn't""" start="00:06:35.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""find a reason to switch to one of those because like I might be""" start="00:06:42.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""not at a computer one day and have to learn something. Yeah,""" start="00:06:47.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that's something that you call premature optimization.""" start="00:06:53.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""And if you continue as a software engineer at university,""" start="00:06:56.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you'll get to hear plenty of this. But yes, Anki is also a tool""" start="00:06:59.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that I've used a whole lot in my learning journeys, be it""" start="00:07:02.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""about languages, be it about literature, be it about""" start="00:07:06.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""whatever really, and it's a very good tool and I recommend""" start="00:07:09.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""people to look into it, especially since they've released a""" start="00:07:15.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""new algorithm to manage learning a little differently than""" start="00:07:17.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the old one. If you're familiar with SuperMemo, I really""" start="00:07:20.840" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""invite you to look into the advancement""" start="00:07:23.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in Anki in recent years.""" start="00:07:25.993" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Moving to another question, what do other students""" start="00:07:27.506" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""think about your approach and what are they doing instead,""" start="00:07:31.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""if anything? And your teachers, what do they think? So for""" start="00:07:33.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""other students they usually are just confused about what's""" start="00:07:39.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""going on when I show my computer because they know that I use""" start="00:07:43.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Linux but they don't know what it is so they're just assuming""" start="00:07:51.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""everything on my computer is I'm either hacking or like""" start="00:07:56.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""doing some Linux thing and""" start="00:08:03.840" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I don't really bother to explain it to them so that's kind""" start="00:08:06.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""But for I love it. See my see my prior videos. That's that's""" start="00:08:09.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""wonderful. Pardon me. Pardon me for breaking in, Daniel.""" start="00:08:17.080" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""But I just since I have, I want to say wonderful""" start="00:08:19.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""presentation. I love your spirit, your tone and great""" start="00:08:22.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thought there.""" start="00:08:28.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""For my teachers, I think...""" start="00:08:29.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""because if I write an essay or something, I usually paste it""" start="00:08:31.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in Google Docs. But recently, I got more confident, which is""" start="00:08:38.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""export to LaTeX, and I did that for my physics labs. My""" start="00:08:46.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""teacher was pretty satisfied with the results for the math""" start="00:08:53.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""formatting. So I think they don't really have a problem with""" start="00:08:56.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""it, where it's actually more convenient, maybe.""" start="00:09:03.120" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""That's really great to hear and if you continue at""" start="00:09:06.960" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""university, which I'm almost sure that you will, your""" start="00:09:13.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""professors, you'll be pretty much using the same tools as""" start="00:09:16.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""they are, so you'll find yourself in a like-minded crowd of""" start="00:09:19.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""people once you get to university. We are a little short on""" start="00:09:23.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""time because we need to move to the next talk in about one""" start="00:09:28.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""minute. There are still some questions and Daniel, I would""" start="00:09:30.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""invite you to stay and maybe answer them in a room so that we""" start="00:09:36.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can gather as many of your answers as possible. But before we""" start="00:09:40.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""leave, I just want to give you the opportunity, if you have""" start="00:09:43.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""any last words, to share them with the crowd.""" start="00:09:45.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Well, for the students who may be watching this, I hope that""" start="00:09:46.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you give Emacs a try. And good luck if you decide to use""" start="00:09:53.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something else because it's probably won't be as great.""" start="00:09:57.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""It's very good to be so young and to already be convinced that""" start="00:10:01.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Emacs is the best thing. For some of us, it took us many""" start="00:10:07.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""decades to reach this conclusion, and I'm so happy""" start="00:10:09.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to see young people. I used to be a teacher,""" start="00:10:12.840" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""by the way, so I used to teach people your age,""" start="00:10:15.096" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""but I'm so happy to see people your age""" start="00:10:17.017" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""interested in Emacs because it makes me hopeful that in the""" start="00:10:19.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""future we'll have people carrying the flame and standing on""" start="00:10:23.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the shoulders of current people. So thank you so much,""" start="00:10:26.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Daniel. We'll be seeing you soon. We wish you good luck with""" start="00:10:30.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""your studies. And for EmacsConf, we'll be moving to the next""" start="00:10:32.917" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""talk in five seconds. See you soon. And I want to reassure""" start="00:10:36.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you, we'll post all the Q&A info when we do post this video.""" start="00:10:39.625" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yes. So Daniel, as I said,""" start="00:10:44.333" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""if you want to stick around a little more with""" start="00:10:47.840" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Corwin to answer the questions, that's all fine.""" start="00:10:49.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I'll be moving to the next room to get ready for the next""" start="00:10:51.840" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""talks. So thank you, Daniel. And I'll see you later.""" start="00:10:53.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""All right, the cops are gone. Wait, no, I'm just kidding. No,""" start="00:10:59.160" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""but if you'd like to walk through a few more of these""" start="00:11:06.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""questions, I'd be happy to record that. You're not""" start="00:11:10.043" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""obligated to do that. You could also, the pad's there. You""" start="00:11:12.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""could just type out your answers or whatever you prefer to""" start="00:11:14.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""do. I guess I can answer them still. Cool.""" start="00:11:17.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So we're here.""" start="00:11:24.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""What was your biggest source of frustration, friction,""" start="00:11:25.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""confusion when getting started?""" start="00:11:27.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I honestly don't really remember. It""" start="00:11:32.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""somehow just clicked one day and I figured it out.""" start="00:11:38.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""All right, it takes us pretty naturally to the next one.""" start="00:11:45.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""How did you come across Emacs? What got you into it? I could ask""" start="00:11:48.124" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""this question quite""" start="00:11:54.080" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""similar to how I stumbled into Linux, where I was... I heard""" start="00:11:58.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of it before, but I saw screenshots of it""" start="00:12:05.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""or something on Reddit, and I was like, oh,""" start="00:12:09.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that looks pretty cool, maybe I'll look into that.""" start="00:12:11.248" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""And then on YouTube, I would see videos""" start="00:12:14.649" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""about Doom Emacs, and then the Doomcasts video,""" start="00:12:16.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I think that's what really got me into it.""" start="00:12:21.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, I did my best to capture that. So what's the situation""" start="00:12:37.240" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""with respect to the mobile use, if that's applicable? And""" start="00:12:42.280" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Orgzly is,""" start="00:12:46.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""sorry, was it not Doomcast? Is it System Crafters?""" start="00:12:47.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Sorry if I botched the note. Oh yeah, System Crafters was""" start="00:12:52.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""also one of the things I used for getting into Emacs from""" start="00:12:58.200" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""scratch. I'm sorry if my dog is barking.""" start="00:13:01.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the, I'm not sure how to pronounce his name, but Protesilaos,""" start="00:13:08.080" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I think that's how you say it. I always say Prot just to get me""" start="00:13:16.800" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""out of that problem for what it's worth. I'm not sure that I""" start="00:13:20.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can say it properly either. Yeah, his videos were really""" start="00:13:23.040" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""great for getting started with each, each individual""" start="00:13:26.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""component of""" start="00:13:30.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something like there's entire videos just""" start="00:13:31.292" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""about completion and about a tool called Embark. And like, I""" start="00:13:34.125" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""would just watch those videos""" start="00:13:40.250" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""while I was doing the dishes or something.""" start="00:13:41.319" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and I would learn a lot from that.""" start="00:13:43.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Awesome. I love it. What about the mobile...""" start="00:13:53.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""sorry, did I get that question out there already? Oh, no.""" start="00:13:59.121" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I don't use Emacs or any Org Mode things on my""" start="00:14:04.961" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""phone. I have an iPhone, unfortunately.""" start="00:14:07.918" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""But for org files, I couldn't really get it to sync over""" start="00:14:19.964" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""without using a paid app.""" start="00:14:24.121" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""And I didn't really look into it""" start="00:14:26.801" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that much because I have a computer with me""" start="00:14:28.041" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""almost all the time.""" start="00:14:30.141" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Usually I carry around a notebook. And if I really need to""" start="00:14:36.001" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""know something or remember it for later,""" start="00:14:39.521" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I just write it down.""" start="00:14:41.941" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I've seen people get started with e-ink tablets, and they""" start="00:14:52.661" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""sync it with SyncThing because it's Android, but I don't use""" start="00:15:01.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that, so I can't really attest to how good it is.""" start="00:15:07.960" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So has using Emacs led you to an expanded interest in""" start="00:15:21.920" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""programming and computer science? Sorry if""" start="00:15:25.560" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I could have got that out of the presentation.""" start="00:15:28.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I think Emacs is what got me""" start="00:15:31.782" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""started with Lisp specifically.""" start="00:15:34.000" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Otherwise, I probably would have not really looked into it""" start="00:15:37.900" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that much, other than like maybe dabbling in Scheme""" start="00:15:40.381" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""from the Structures and Interpretations of Computer""" start="00:15:44.921" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Programs book. But I probably wouldn't have seen that if I""" start="00:15:50.181" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""hadn't discovered Emacs either so.""" start="00:15:53.681" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I was already into programming""" start="00:16:06.121" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""before Emacs, and I had used VS Code for a little bit and then""" start="00:16:08.793" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Vim. But I think I've done most of my programming""" start="00:16:14.959" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""inside of Emacs, in terms of lines of code written,""" start="00:16:22.918" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""projects made...""" start="00:16:26.668" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So maybe we'd jump from there, right, to, you mentioned""" start="00:16:40.672" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""exporting notes, essays, and so on, handing them on to other""" start="00:16:44.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""people. How does interaction with others work in technical""" start="00:16:48.360" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""terms? We mostly find workflows centered around like""" start="00:16:53.320" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Microsoft products, and that makes sense to me. I have a day""" start="00:16:57.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""job where I have to work with a bunch of Microsoft products,""" start="00:17:00.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and I know the workflows for that. So how do you manage your""" start="00:17:03.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""kind of Emacs-y you know, workflows, um, you know, in terms of""" start="00:17:08.400" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""sharing with people. Yeah. So for sharing with like my""" start="00:17:14.520" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""teachers or something, I would, we use like Google at our""" start="00:17:19.120" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""school. So for, I'm very fortunate that I don't have to deal""" start="00:17:22.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""with Microsoft other than with a very niche situations in""" start="00:17:25.760" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""which I can just use LibreOffice and then convert to Doc X or""" start="00:17:29.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something. I heard that chef. That's, that's how all my""" start="00:17:32.600" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""vendors, uh, my vendors all roll their eyes when they were,""" start="00:17:35.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""oh, you're a Microsoft shop. Yep. Heard.""" start="00:17:39.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Then they're all Google shops too, in education.""" start="00:17:42.886" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Great point. For Google, I just... If my teachers wanted""" start="00:17:45.948" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""a Google Doc or something,""" start="00:17:51.959" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I usually just copy paste""" start="00:17:53.126" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""whatever I wrote in Emacs""" start="00:17:54.300" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and then still keep it, anyway, as a side thing""" start="00:17:55.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""because I don't really trust the cloud""" start="00:17:59.334" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that much in terms of using""" start="00:18:00.668" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""it for later if I wanted to look at it. But for that, I don't""" start="00:18:02.876" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""really have too much problems. Hopefully, I will find a way""" start="00:18:10.668" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to figure it out when I get into university.""" start="00:18:14.340" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Awesome. Okay, well, I know we did it once already, but since""" start="00:18:21.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""this will be the end of the video, let me just open the floor""" start="00:18:26.680" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""one more time for parting thoughts.""" start="00:18:30.480" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I'm not sure that I have any. I mean, you said it pretty well,""" start="00:18:33.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""right? I hope my peers see this. I hope they realize other""" start="00:18:41.720" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""tools are kind of inferior from a gets things done""" start="00:18:46.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""standpoint. Saw your talk. Heard that message in this Q&A.""" start="00:18:49.880" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I think you did a great job. You don't have to say more, but""" start="00:18:54.640" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just offering you the chance. Thank you.""" start="00:18:58.160" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Well, thank you, Daniel,""" start="00:19:02.836" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and thanks to everybody watching this video""" start="00:19:03.917" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""during the conference or after it,""" start="00:19:07.440" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and appreciate and look forward""" start="00:19:09.839" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to your talks in the future, Daniel. Thank you.""" start="00:19:12.160" video="qanda-students" id="subtitle"]]