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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Some reference style posts are not intended to be read in full. I've done a few of these on my blog such as comparing the 5 major browsers, how good the iPod touch is for reading many different sorts of reading material, best aa batteries w
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Anvil of Stars also my favorite Greg Bear book. Nobody read my review of this book on Amazon, so perhaps this is a better place for it: I've read hundreds of science fiction books where humans have military conflict with aliens (though not
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I loved the miniseries (after hating the first film - a travesty). After watching the miniseries, thousands of people chanting "Muad'Dib" came into my dreams and I still remember it today, years later (as luck would have it, my son attends
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I have mixed feelings about this post on what is by far my favorite TV show. On the one hand, I think he's spot on highlighting the aspects of Numb3rs that are unrealistic: * Time frame for both gathering data and performing analysis * The
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
You're absolutely right that Nook Color is a far worse general purpose tablet, for all the reasons you mentioned. If the question though is how to carve out niches in the overall tablet market, then Color Nook answers with one possibility:
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
The Nook Color is an example of a $250 tablet with less functionality than an iPad. Though Barnes and Noble has not released any official sales figures, it is easily outselling all other tablets except for the iPad. This seems supportive of
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I peeked at a few but didn't buy. Many books are just a long novel with no graphics. For such books, the Kindle store is fine as there are no issues with graphics or missing TOC or waypoints. But when I peeked at books that should have tabl
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
As for light-hearted fiction books - there's plenty. I just finished reading all 14 books in the Wizard of Oz series to my son (on my Nook). Zane Grey published a lot of Westerns as well as a few about baseball (I like the baseball ones). T
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
When I had a Kindle, I first mostly bought free or very low cost books from the Amazon, though I checked out excerpts of more expensive books sometimes. Virtually none of them contained waypoints, and only a small fraction had table of cont
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Here is what I mean by better formatted: Table of Contents always included No funny characters scattered throughout the text No missing paragraphs or words Graphics on the same page as their captions I found I could not count on these thing
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I had to search for the full post too, which is the link I posted. I guess WSJ detects a user entering via an incoming link and converts into an excerpt. Anyone know how to post a link to WSJ that goes to full article?
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Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge(online.wsj.com)
3 points by FilterJoe 15y ago|2 comments
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I've used both a Kindle and Nook and found the formatting of books in stores to be poor for the majority of books (but not all). I get out-of-copyright classics (or public domain books) now from places like Feedbooks and Manybooks which do
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
We managed to post nearly identical ideas simultaneously - a Google-News-like approach to related posts. In all my experimentation with community news sites, I find I prefer Google News if all I want to do is read the breaking news (without
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I like the Google News approach that algorithmically groups together related stories as follows: Show the most popular story (or 2 or 3), then provide a link that states "See all 143 related stories." The hard part on a community news site
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
You mention black-on-grey. Are you referring to HN or my site, www.filterjoe.com? My site is close to the color of a faded paperback novel, a yellow/beige. HN looks halfway between beige and grey on my monitor - so I'm guessing you're refer
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Thanks. Terreta mentioned the same thing about compressed line heights on lists so I just changed it. What do you think now?
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Just made some changes to line height that moved most of the way in the direction you suggested. You're right - it looks better. Thanks!
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Both font size and line height are smaller for comments and list items. Are you saying you prefer more line height (without font size change)? Or do you generally prefer both line height and font size in lists/comments to be identical to bo
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
The author's focus on just 2 things, contrast and font, are not only overly simplistic, but are not even universally true for all people. For my eyes, reading high contrast black on white all day causes eye fatigue, while HN level of contra
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
My understanding (please correct if I'm wrong) is that Sparks is about consuming content, and using signals (especially social signals) to better target that content to individual tastes over time. A group is a social group, where all agree
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I think the article's discussion about the importance of groups is interesting but the headline is silly. Google+ is a 2 week old field trial. I too want groups (shared circles?). Perhaps Google+ will have groups before it is officially rel
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Why Google+ is Poised to Fail(blogs.forbes.com)
58 points by FilterJoe 15y ago|53 comments
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I'd like to see: * filtering options for the main stream - at the very least be able to choose circles to include/exclude * a "muted" stream (then I'll quickly mute the 90+% of the stream I find of little interest - but can still access or
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
* filtering options for the main stream - at the very least be able to choose circles to include/exclude * a "muted" stream (then I'll quickly mute the 90+% of the stream I find of little interest - but can still access or unmute if I want
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Wow my Bluehost server has 2,649 sites on it! If each site had only one domain name, then Bluehost is grossing around $15,000/month from this server. Many Bluehost users have multiple domain names. But even if they had 3 per user on average
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
After a decade as a professional investor, I've learned to think about the world in money terms, especially with regards to people: incentives, greed, fear. I used to be a very optimistic person who assumed people to be good-natured and inn
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Here is the law, marked up: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx1_2... I read parts of this and noticed the following exception for small retailers (<$10,000 annually), which may or may not be applicable to Amazon
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Just carefully read through parts of this and noticed the following exception for small retailers (<$10,000 annually), which may or may not be applicable to Amazon Affiliates (could be interpreted either way, because "retailer" includes
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Can already toggle by opening up a second browser that you never use (and you clear cookies and history after each use). You'll still get geographic filtering but little else. Webmasters do this all the time when checking out how well indiv

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