[leephillips]

Entertaining, but just another “I insist on using garbage software and then complaining that it’s garbage.”

The table at the end is oblivious to adult solutions.

LaTeX + Beamer or Pandoc slides. Collaboration? Git.

[thiht]

Collaborating on documents on slides is not the same as collaborating on a code base. Git is an awful replacement for that. Maybe something like Liveshare would be more like it.

But Beamer, really? Now you’re oblivious to any people that has the slightest eye for design. Beamer slides are the worst: the defaults suck, they’re hard to customize, and more importantly no one wants to touch LaTeX today, it’s a waste of time for very few advantages.

[IshKebab]

> LaTeX + Beamer or Pandoc... Git.

Ha crazy how this mentality still pervades HN even after that famous Dropbox comment.

[cozzyd]

Overleaf + Beamer works surprisingly well for collaborative slides. (and yes, you can use a git bridge if you want).

[doublepg23]

I need to sit down and redo my resume, currently in Google Docs, to LaTeX with Pandoc. Very powerful tools and I much prefer plaintext with git of course.

[adhesive_wombat]

I did my CV in LaTeX once.

First recruiter: "we need a docx file". Argh!

[doublepg23]

This would be for my website, most vanity.

Frankly, every job I've applied for at this point just has me re-entering everything- even my internal system!

[IshKebab]

Maybe for the best - that recruiter was probably going to edit your CV and add a load of bullshit.

[adhesive_wombat]

Probably, but that would have been miserable for them, as I lazily ran the PDF though a PDF to docx converter online and that presumably created a Word file completely full of absolutely-positioned text boxes.

[ComradePhil]

They don't have PowerPoint on that list, which I found surprising.