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by LeonB 7y ago
Some kids have a great grasp on diction, go on to be early readers, and basically teach themselves to read. Any approach will work with them because they “just get it”. These are the kids who have an articulate voice even when 2 years old.
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by LeonB 7y ago
For some things it’s easy to measure: eg how much wheat is produced per hour of farm labor. Some easy to measure things don’t rise and it’s easy to see why, e.g. how many students does one teacher teach in a given day. Productivity in the a
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by LeonB 7y ago
When you say ‘“circle”?’ I think “clique” is appropriate as ‘a network where every node is connected to every other node’.
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by LeonB 7y ago
We're going to use the new icon we've designed, the first one in this image: https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/1161965759846744065
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by LeonB 7y ago
Here’s a comment answering this question when we announced the beta. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19700265
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by LeonB 7y ago
Okay I’ve added it to my backlog (I blog at secretGeek.net)
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by LeonB 7y ago
Agreed. We’re planning to revise in the next year or so. At the moment we wanted the brand recognition so that existing customers who are looking to use the Mac version know and trust that this is the same product. Modernising the icon can
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by LeonB 7y ago
(We're also separately emailing beta contributors, as we have done throughout the beta period.) Also, if you ever want to ask questions about organizing a beta, I'm always keen to answer. (Though Jon did almost all of the work on
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Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now
40 points by LeonB 7y ago|32 comments
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by LeonB 7y ago
Levity not appreciated.
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by LeonB 7y ago
If you make sure that login/registration pages have no ads, that's not enough to be secure. One example: you've probably clicked the "login" (or register) link from a page that does have ads, and a malicious scrip
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by LeonB 7y ago
I thinks it’s the latter. If there is a major news item involving regular expressions, we’re all ready to pounce, ala: https://xkcd.com/208/
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by LeonB 7y ago
Although I feel the same surprise as you, (I didn’t realise some people would interpret bold as yelling/condescension) ... I’m going to change the way I use it. I can’t control the reader, only my writing, so I’ll switch to italics or
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by LeonB 7y ago
You might’ve been in the ECT treatment area, I was shocked when I went there.
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by LeonB 7y ago
Pray, Mr. Radhakrsna, if I put into the machine an article which contains errors, will a corrected summary come out?
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by LeonB 7y ago
This is a complex story told in simple terms. I think the writer has done a tremendous job of making the material accessible.
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by LeonB 7y ago
Comparison should include the Apple Newton.
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by LeonB 7y ago
I like your best practices, and I like the format that you've used ("Don't do this; Do this instead; Why").
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Show HN: Secrets of Mastering Excel
16 points by LeonB 7y ago|2 comments
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by LeonB 7y ago
Genius idea. I have a bunch of domains, combine it with the right subdomain... and we're onto something. Adding this to my list of things to do. Cheers! Update: okay check out https://excel.secretgeek.net/ I've re
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by LeonB 7y ago
The link is to "You Suck at Excel" by Joel Spolsky, which is an excellent tutorial. I sincerely wish it had a different name, though! I would love to send this video to some of my business colleagues inside a large enterprise. The
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by LeonB 7y ago
The warning you receive when a formula is not consistent is a nice feature, and an advanced user will quickly learn to be very sensitive to those warnings, will spot them quickly, and avoid causing them when possible. To strictly enforce th
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by LeonB 7y ago
Signing into some new tvs recently, the google account sign in experience was better than Netflix sign in, as it let you use your phone to sign in (once you’d scanned a QR code shown on screen).
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by LeonB 7y ago
>The sort of folk who run rsync is a niche clique. While that may be true, I think: "The sort of folk who would benefit from being able to run rsync" is a much, much broader group. (And even the existing group of rsync users
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by LeonB 7y ago
Just the latter.
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by LeonB 7y ago
Could be, could be. I hadn’t thought of that.
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by LeonB 7y ago
When Satya Nadella became CEO Microsoft Azure was four years old. As old timer insiders said to me prior to that time “You wouldn’t believe just how committed Microsoft is on this. I’ve never seen anything like it.” (But Satya has made it r
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by LeonB 7y ago
I think the “public” are already aware of photoshopping etc. I don’t agree that this tool will primarily serve to make the public more informed. The effect you’re talking about is far smaller than the main effect. If you really put yourself
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by LeonB 7y ago
Less abusive ex-boyfriends and abusive ex-husbands will find it. That's a win for each one of the victims that are spared. So it would make things "better" -- not perfect, but "better". And leaving it on github will
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by LeonB 7y ago
Over here in the real world, the primary use of this code is for harassment and abuse. Upholding people's freedom to make authentic looking photos of women without their clothes on, regardless of their consent, is a pretty low form of

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