004. Talk to stardiviner about Emacs and his unique life experience

This program also invited a senior Emacs user stardiviner , who is also a Taobao shop owner to sell his IT skills.

From org-mode user to contributor, how did he do it? What is even more curious is his unique life experience. After he graduated from college, he worked as a real estate salesman, Pizza Hut waiter, preschool teacher, IT supporter, and finally discovered that he could make money by selling his IT skills, and bid farewell to him. Workplace, embarked on the road of freelancer.

In the choices he made time and time again, he gradually moved away from the road "ordinary people" walked. This may be reckless for a while, but it is more that he has the courage to break through the shackles of tradition and gradually formed his unique style of doing things. The content of nearly an hour and a half is full of "wet goods" and should not be missed!

People in this issue

• Anchor: watermelon
• Guests: stardiviner
  

Timeline

• 00:02:09 Guests learning Emacs experience
• 00:10:35 Introduction to org mode
• 00:15:15 Elisp learning experience
• 00:22:19 The feeling of maintaining open source plug-ins
• 00:29:04 Open a Taobao shop and do technical consulting experience
• 00:39:19 Differences in attitudes towards payment for services and knowledge at home and abroad
• 00:49:22 Service pricing
• 00:57:36 Change career
• 00:58:27 How to take a different path
• 01:06:54 The way forward
• 01:09:31 What the guests said to the audience
• 01:11:01 recommended

Show Notes

• Guest introduction

  • Name: Jin Guo
  • Work experience: Do most of the work except programmers
  • Taobao shop: Blue Shark Network Studio
  • Contribution to org-mode: https://github.com/stardiviner/org-mode

• Pit experience

  • 2 years vim -> org mode
  • Like retro style
  • Emacs is used by many powerful hackers, so follow the path of the great master.
  • At the beginning, it was with a bit of blind worship in the religious sense, as if learning Emacs would be able to use it to become omnipotent. Boys always hope to have a long sword in their hands. After learning the sword, they dream of going to the world with the sword. And Emacs is the long sword in my hand.

• org mode contribution experience

  • Zero configuration reproduces the problem, then go to the community for help
  • No one wants to realize the function you want

• Elisp learning experience

  • Text processing comparison delete
  • Not as powerful as common lisp, mainly because of poor asynchronous support
  • kiwix Search Wikipedia offline in Emacs

• Open Taobao store sales consultation

  • Since 19
  • Customers are diverse, high school students, college students, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and overseas students
  • Pay for service

  • How to price services

    • The most expensive: 500+ RMB, 100¥/hour
    • The most difficult: Proof General Emacs environment configuration
• Guests' life experience and perception

• Guests' sharing

  • How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
  • org-link-beautify org beautification plug-in, easy to distinguish different formats of links (PDF/pictures/videos, etc.)
  • Clojure

• Anchor’s sharing

  • Use Emacs to read mail

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