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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
This title is a little misleading. The original title of the post is "Search Engine add-ons to be removed from addons.mozilla.org", which implies that a special class of addons will be removed from the online store and merged with
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
This book is amazing, it changed my perspective on communication completely when I first read it.
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
I was using these apps for about 2 years, and I got to a point where I would use it daily and feel better for it, so it was a subscription worth paying for. Later on, I went on to read some books that really answered a lot of my "am I
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
The threshold is around complexity of your practice, and you don't need a complex practice to get very far. It just helps if you have specific goals for your practice. What you're doing is totally fine. Insight timer gives you som
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
+1. This episode is a great 20 minute primer on mindfulness meditation https://www.netflix.com/watch/81062191
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
Some resources on meditation that the HN community might find helpful, generally ones with a scientific, skeptical and secular perspective. Apps Meditation is somewhat inherently incompatible with the late stage venture funded scale based d
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
Not sure about MCTB but TMI was written after this and is a well regarded secular resource https://deconstructingyourself.com/best-meditation-books-201...
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Mental Health Tips Feat. Anxiety Wolf(ncase.me)
1 points by abhinavsharma 7y ago|0 comments
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Email and Google groups continues to be heavily used by companies even though google has underinvested in it for years now.
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by abhinavsharma 7y ago
The period of time before the infiniteness of the internet but after CD-ROMs could pack lots of information was fascinating to grow up in. You had lots of curiosity but still limited access to information so you deeply explored stuff. Add t
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by abhinavsharma 8y ago
Balsamiq is software that’s an example where picking deliberately poor fonts is a common thing to do in low-fidelity prototyping. It helps because it focuses attention on higher level elements over nitpicking on details https://b
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by abhinavsharma 8y ago
This is a good overview: https://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2018/05/02/progress-in-text...
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by abhinavsharma 8y ago
It's important to acknowledge that centralized platforms like Medium have benefits, and a truly decentralized writing platform will only work if those problems are worked out to a level where writers have a good experience. - The bigge
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by abhinavsharma 8y ago
At first glance, I thought this was an UI proposal for automatic summarization before I read the full post. Once summarization is more mature and reliable, something like this would be cool.
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Retracing the evolution of Reddit through post data(randalolson.com)
3 points by abhinavsharma 9y ago|0 comments
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by abhinavsharma 10y ago
I'm an engineer turned designer turned product manager (and sometimes backwards). Keeping yourself open to learning new skills is a growth opportunity that's silly to shut down in general. So the real question is given your life g
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How work changed when we put everyone's screen on a Google Hangout(medium.com)
1 points by abhinavsharma 13y ago|0 comments
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Mascots in Product Design(medium.com)
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by abhinavsharma 13y ago
I was thinking about that and I think you're right as far as the overall numbers go, but the intern group is really small (it was <20 when I was there), so the entropy in the distribution would be higher than Google/Facebook&#x
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by abhinavsharma 13y ago
As a former Mozilla intern, I can confirm that the company has an unusually great intern program! Sure, there's some perks like free food, laundry, free yoga and other things that are taken for granted at startups missing but some of m
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by abhinavsharma 13y ago
"CEO Eric Schmidt" lol
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by abhinavsharma 14y ago
Though I agree with your general point about Microsoft being hampered by legacy support (but for other reasons such as having 2 UI paradigms of Metro and Windows together), I don't think this is the best example. The everyday user really do
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Foursquare partners with OpenTable(blog.foursquare.com)
1 points by abhinavsharma 14y ago|0 comments
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Spotify launches iPad app(spotify.com)
45 points by abhinavsharma 14y ago|32 comments
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by abhinavsharma 15y ago
Process seperation isn't the only savior to this, its just one way to compartmentalize things, intermediately, as of Firefox 7 (Aurora), there's been a massive improvement on managing compartments of memory andreasgal.com/2010/10/13/compart
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by abhinavsharma 15y ago
Your data isn't being sent out of your browser. The source code is here: https://github.com/toolness/collusion As with all Firefox addons, you can right-click + save-as the xpi file, run "unzip addon-name.xpi" and look at the source.
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Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you online(collusion.toolness.org)
125 points by abhinavsharma 15y ago|28 comments
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RecallMonkey: Web browsers deserve better search engines(mozillalabs.com)
4 points by abhinavsharma 15y ago|0 comments