San

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by San 16y ago
AnyBots founder and CEO Trevor Blackwell (quoted in the third section of the article) is also one of the Y Combinator co-founders, and I believe both companies are in the same office building. RiderOfGiraffes lists some relevant HN items he
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by San 17y ago
Yes, I agree it would be a nice way to do some personal time boxing ("How do I divide my free time between projects A, B and C"). But as I already noted in the parent post, this layout simply does not suit my kind of appointments. However,
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by San 17y ago
While I like the general idea of your 'schedule as a bar chart' solution, I see several issues: 1) There is very little space to write down appointments. I'd like to be able to write down at least a name and a location, even for a 30-minute
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by San 17y ago
Moleskine has something like this, called the Weekly Notebook. Each spread has a page for appointments on the left (one week), and room for notes or to-dos on the right: http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/diariesplanners/12_month_... It's
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by San 17y ago
That would also allow for a more even wear across the mattress. The center (from left to right) of our current mattress becomes soft and saggy over time, which can not be solved by anything but a quarter turn (or a new mattress). We have tr
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by San 17y ago
The font rendering varies wildly between browsers: http://i47.tinypic.com/1125ssp.png From left to right: Firefox (Win), Chrome (Win), Safari (Win), Safari (Mac) Firefox renders the font way too light, Chrome (this version at least) falls
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by San 17y ago
Not YC funded, but the guys from YellowBird, Yunoo, and E (My Name is E) are Dutch, and might have some interesting stories to share.
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by San 17y ago
Nice cycling lanes and impressive statistics, but I don't get the impression that bicycles are as ubiquitous (yet) as they are in Amsterdam. I wonder how they handle bicycle parking in Copenhagen, because that's a real problem in most Dutch
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by San 17y ago
For me, the most important thing is to stick to my daily schedule. Every single day of the week. Once I skip one or two meals, work long hours, or stay up late, my life starts spiraling out of control. So I live on a fixed schedule now, whi
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by San 17y ago
Most of these seem to be easy means to rather shallow ends, to me at least. Paying my sixteen-year-old nephew to do these things for me would be easier, and just as satisfying. The only activity on this list I actually enjoyed was learning
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by San 17y ago
Sure his method sounds easy, but are the results actually worth anything? It looks like an over-simplified version of ACT-R, with some made-up cost values. To me, this has no advantages over my gut feeling on usability; it's just that the n
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by San 17y ago
Let's not reinvent the wheel and use a framework that has been developed since the seventies. Anderson's ACT-R framework is based on cognitive theories and models, and can deliver pretty accurate results. For a more user-friendly tool, take
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by San 17y ago
It's the cheap kind ($5 or $10) you can get at sport outlet stores or even large super markets. They have a TPR (rubber) outsole and an EVA (foam) insole (which I removed). The upper part made from nylon mesh and some thin neoprene. But goi
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by San 17y ago
About two months ago, one of my shoelaces broke. I was still three miles from home, and walking wouldn't get me back there in time. So I took off my shoes and socks, and continued my run. It felt a bit awkward at first, but after twenty str
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by San 17y ago
Here's an anagram-sorter. (I'm no Python ninja, but I quite liked my idea.) def sort(s): listt = list(s) listt.sort(cmp=lambda a,b: cmp( ord(b)%len(s) , ord(a)%len(s) )) print ''.join(listt), sort('Oh,well') sort('lord'