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by allenu 4y ago
I remember I was big into Modula-2 as well in the '90s. I started out with BASIC and then moved onto Modula-2 before fixating on C and C++. I think I really only picked it up because I found a free compiler (I don't remember which
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by allenu 4y ago
Thanks for the response. I read up on how Anki's algorithm works and tried to match it closely, although Fresh Cards doesn't have the exact same algorithm. I actually ended up adding a way for you to provide your own scheduling al
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by allenu 4y ago
See my other comment, but I wonder if someone could coordinate an open source deck using github. It would have to use a text-based flashcard deck format, and as with other open source, would require some coordination to curate the deck. Tha
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by allenu 4y ago
> This is probably not an original idea and if anyone knows already where to find such decks, that would be cool. This is something I've wanted to do with my app (Fresh Cards). I ended up defining a simple text file format for the f
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by allenu 4y ago
There was a con called Notacon. I suppose it’s accurate to say this one is NOT Notacon.
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by allenu 4y ago
> If we fixed it, then innumerable generations after us would not have to deal with the problem. In day to day use, I'd argue the date and time system works perfectly fine. I know when my birthday is, I know when Christmas is, I kno
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by allenu 4y ago
Agreed. This makes me wonder if a purely rational species is something that can even survive evolution. A lot of irrational behaviors we exhibit are likely the result of traits that have helped us survive in the wild.
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by allenu 4y ago
I didn't find it particularly funny either. It's mostly predicated on this belief that somehow we "should" have optimized our date and time system and that it's silly that we're using an inconsistent, legacy sy
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by allenu 4y ago
Seeing the context in which the photos are taken (busy streets, kind of grimy looking) makes you realize how powerful a camera is at creating an illusion. That is, taking a good photo means composing your shot so that you don't include
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by allenu 4y ago
To me, it's really context-dependent and when working on a solution, you may need to take into account the business objectives and make the right trade-off in terms of time spent and "quality" of the design. Architecture-leve
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by allenu 4y ago
> This case study makes me wonder if PMF is only accidental. Many startups I know have accidentally stumbled on the idea that made them big. This is one such story. It does seem accidental to me in this particular case. The more I read a
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by allenu 4y ago
I think the big difference is that the means of production to potentially be an influencer is in the hands of everyone. It doesn't mean it's likely to happen, of course, just that it appears to be more possible. In the past, you c
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by allenu 4y ago
I notice that as well. Being from Canada originally, I also immediately spot the Canadian accents, even if they are trying to suppress them or do a generic American accent. I was re-watching the first season of The X-Files and every episode
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by allenu 4y ago
This looks so bad. The lighting is so awful. Why is the background brighter than the actual avatars themselves? I assume their wrists are held up like that because in the real world, everybody is holding up their controllers. Maybe they&#x2
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by allenu 4y ago
No kidding. If only he could bottle that up and sell it! If something goes wrong in one of my projects, I start thinking about giving up, but this guy doubles down. He seems like one of those crazy business tycoons you read about from, say,
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by allenu 4y ago
> Someone makes an Entertainment so unbelievably good that anyone who watches it is immediately stupefied and has no will to do anything but watch the Entertainment over and over. This Entertainment becomes a potent terrorist weapon sinc
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by allenu 4y ago
I agree that many are just trying to undercut the competition. My pet theory is this is having an effect on consumers' expectations for tech-based products. Specifically, nobody thinks anything is worth paying for, or at least only wan
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by allenu 4y ago
> I recently left an 8,000 person company that's been on a 2 decade loop of private money to publicly traded and back a couple times now. It occurred to me that in 25ish years (about 10 of which I worked there) that it might never h
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by allenu 4y ago
I was thinking it looked way too much like the real thing. As soon as I caught on that it wasn't making fun of the actual service, yeah, I started thinking it was a paid spot as well.
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by allenu 4y ago
I haven't tried Calm in a while, but I wonder if they were also trying to expand beyond meditation as Headspace has. Last time I checked, Headspace added general wellness features like workouts and also marketing tie-ins with Star Wars
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by allenu 4y ago
> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latency communication over the internet. I don't have
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by allenu 4y ago
I was hoping to see design mockups of UIs with unrealistically short text or avatars featuring beautiful people photographed by professionals (and not poorly lit selfies or anime characters).
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by allenu 4y ago
I agree that there is definitely a sense of entitlement in this industry, especially with these larger companies. On the other hand, if you’re coming from a startup, you’re going to be way more incentivized to put in the work since that ult
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by allenu 4y ago
> In general, existing SRS does a very bad job of supporting priority and prerequisites between items. This is a feature I've wanted to implement for a while, but I think it would be hard from a user's perspective to set up the
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by allenu 4y ago
That growing backlog is a big issue with this type of scheduling. I think it's one of those almost "unexpected" side-effects of spaced repetition. I mean, if you did the math up front, you should know generally how busy you&#
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by allenu 4y ago
I completely agree. It's easy to pick apart legacy code and say what you would do differently, but it's starting from a place where we have learned a lot of knowledge about the product we're trying to build and the architectu
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by allenu 4y ago
Maybe the root cause is that your desire to "be better" or attain a goal is too strong. It sounds like you're aware of some of this already. I know that for me, I once tried to optimizing just about everything in my life. Tha
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by allenu 4y ago
That sounds like a legitimate use of bots! Imagine having a bot act as a filter on candidates.
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by allenu 4y ago
> For me, not releasing my game ASAP is not an option. I'm living off of my savings. That's why I prefer other full time devs because survival mode is very different than safe mode. I think you have the right mindset here, so y
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by allenu 4y ago
I was thinking something similar. The editing process is still a human one, and I agree that the one chosen was weaker than a lot of the intermediate choices. It's a matter of taste, obviously, but to me the red ball with a nondescript

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