akirk

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   by akirk 17y ago

   So this ì is Pinyin diacritic? Too bad that the accents are used in different ways in the different diacritics, it seems.
2. 152.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   I wonder if that little accent-like looking thing on the ì indicates the right tone?
3. 153.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   Microsoft is kinda trying to keep going with bad names for their products.
4. 154.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   Funny how -erl is the Austrian German suffix for something smaller than the original.
5. 155.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   I love how you can hover your mouse over certain lines of code and it highlights a paragraph below that explains something about it, and vice versa.
6. 156.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   Well, most people don't get that it's optional, and this is also in part because they don't make it obvious that it is in fact optional. Clever in some way but I still consider it as tricking people into signing up.
7. 157.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   Looks pretty nice, but isn't actually that complicated. He just moves a background image ( http://labs.dragoninteractive.com/panel/demo/lib/img/form/ma... ) around all the time, and only let a small part of it shine through.
8. 158.▲
   by akirk 17y ago

   I wonder how PDF in larger paper formats (A4, US Letter) look on the bigger screen. They get rendered with illegibly small text on my Sony Reader (which has the same-size screen as the normal Kindle). Too bad again, that the Kindle is US on
9. 159.▲
   by akirk 18y ago

   Honestly, it feels a little boring to me. I mean, ok, it's nice to be able to custom rank feed items, but it sounds like a lot of work to do beforehand. Especially as the most interesting items are most often the ones that I did not anticip
10. 160.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Couldn't your domain name be a problem in the future? I always thought trademark owners need to fight other people using their trademark in order to keep it. So Yahoo will have to ask you to change your domain to something else, right?
11. 161.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    I unfollowed you because of the spam. It was really too much.
12. 162.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    I hate if I have to enter a username when I just want to quickly try what something is about. I always try to build my apps so that you can use most of the functionality without an account. I think that should be the standard way to do it a
13. 163.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    You can bring the process indicator back, as well as some other things, as I just found out at this blog post: http://swedishcampground.com/safari-4-hidden-preferences
14. 164.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Best point for me: more screen space because what used to be the tab bar has been reduced to 0px. Worst point for me: Progress indicator is gone/almost invisible. I now have to check twice whether or not I properly clicked a link.
15. 165.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Somebody should tell T-Mobile. How can you own a color if it ain't a color? ;)
16. 166.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    I think it punishes commenting on niche hacker news postings that don't make it to the front page (i.e. far enough up on the list). If only few people read a posting, only few people will upvote it. So even if the comment would be valuable
17. 167.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Not yet, but I am not actually sure what to use from there. There are just so many definitions that have weird up vs. down ratios that I wouldn't dare to let a program decide what is legitimate or not.
18. 168.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    The idea of the project is a new approach into collaborating on knowledge, by splitting the knowledge into smaller parts, and then being able to handle them in an easier way. Most of the definitions come from Wikipedia. We started off tryin
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    by akirk 18y ago

    Thanks for the kind words. Your personal lexicon survives your registration (of course :) For the navigation bar: we tried it, but settled for leaving the bar out (as the menu actually continues on the far right). A matter of taste, I suppo
20. 170.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Thanks for the idea. I am not sure if I can extract useful facts from it, but I can definitely see this helping for "see also" purposes. Integrating with the semantic web is a natural further step for Factolex.
21. 171.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    This was possible using SafariStand for a long time already. This is now a plugin and not an InputManager (which is layed on unstable ground (as Apple wants to disable them in the next OS X version)). The killer feature (and what sets it ap
22. 172.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    what do you mean? like what it is built with (i.e. programming language, server etc)?
23. 173.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    As a matter of fact, there is a Greasemonkey extension for Firefox that achieves integration into Google search: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32352
24. 174.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Factolex.com is a fact lexicon. We split up knowledge into small sentences: facts You can use the checkboxes to remember the facts that you find relevant and by doing so, we create your personal lexicon (which can be exported using the API
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    Ask HN: Review my project, Factolex - the fact lexicon(factolex.com)

    24 points by akirk 18y ago|19 comments
26. 176.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    Maybe people from outside of the US buy them in order to be able to shop at the Amazon MP3 store?
27. 177.▲
    by akirk 18y ago

    http://www.blummy.com/ "The bookmarklet management bookmarklet" Sorry for the plug, but it fits well :) Since I wrote Blummy, I have not changed it much, but IMO it is still useful. The database contains 400 bookmarklets to add to your ow