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by allenu 1y ago
You're right about the data model. I built my own flashcard app [1], so I've had to understand the database schema that Anki uses and a lot of it seems very inelegant, but on the other hand, I can see how it was purpose-built and
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by allenu 1y ago
I've written my own flashcards app (Fresh Cards) and once in a while, users ask if there's a way to import flashcards from things like web pages and PDF files, but to be honest, I still don't know how it would work, so maybe
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by allenu 1y ago
As someone who's worked on lots of personal projects over the years, the constraints you put on yourself are really a major blocker. I used to spend more time planning rather than doing, but at some point something clicked in my head a
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by allenu 1y ago
Thanks for checking it out! I'm going to update that FAQ right now since Minders does offer a one-time payment now and also does let you export for archiving (JSON, text, and PDF).
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by allenu 1y ago
Congratulations on the launch! It looks very polished and easy to use. Coincidentally, I've come up with same idea independently with my own journaling app with a social media interface (Minders). I've seen at least a couple of ot
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by allenu 1y ago
To me, it feels more like a move to even more individualism. Previously, a lot of information was learned through your community, but now you can bypass all of that and get information directly by searching for it on your own online or hear
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by allenu 1y ago
Oh, I have tried that strategy and it's usually met with lack of interest, which to me is a sign maybe I don't have much in common with them anymore. I can recall one conversation where I was doing a lot of asking in a phone conve
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by allenu 1y ago
I just wanted to highlight the vast difference between conversationalists who are terrible askers and those who are really, really good. I definitely don't have the personality to be the greatest asker at all times, but it's good
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by allenu 1y ago
I have a couple of friends who I would call non-askers. It drives me crazy and makes me not enjoy spending time with them. When I do hang out with them, I'll ask them what's new and they'll gladly tell me in great detail all
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by allenu 2y ago
> The first kind of quality is the only kind that matters in the end. From a business perspective, this is what's exciting to a lot of people. I think we have to recognize that a lot of products fail not because the software was wri
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by allenu 2y ago
I agree with you. I like that they mentioned people came by to their larger event by way of the paper invitation. There's something about a paper invitation that signals thoughtfulness and care. You have to print out these things and a
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by allenu 2y ago
App Store Optimization, sort of the SEO for the App Store.
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by allenu 2y ago
The lack of sympathy is understandable, though I do think becoming depressed after a huge success is probably very common. You've spent so much of your waking life for years working towards a goal and then you attain it, and maybe that
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by allenu 2y ago
I agree that it's possible AI is unable to generate exceptional code (at least not at the moment), but there are definitely places where average or below-average may just be good enough. If the goal is deliver business value, an argume
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by allenu 2y ago
I wonder how much of this has been driven by ZIRP, making companies a little bit more lax on what they were spending energy on. Teams are large and devs are decoupled from the end user and end result (PMs, designers, leads, managers have mo
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by allenu 2y ago
Reading the post, I initially thought you literally went and got donuts and drove around to drop them off to local people in your fediverse. That would be a really cool way to meet people for those working from home, but obviously it would
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by allenu 2y ago
Neat idea. I always thought it would be interesting to have social media with limitations of some sort, such as limiting number of posts per day per person (to discourage people hanging out on the site too much or overwhelming followers wit
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by allenu 2y ago
This might be obvious, but to me, it was an important realization that a lot of subreddits that deal with, say, chronic health issues, are going to skew towards people who have extreme conditions. People who get better aren't necessari
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by allenu 2y ago
If I'm going to MOD Pizza, I'm going because I want to eat something quick and easy. I'm not necessarily going there to maximize my pizza-eating experience. I honestly prefer picking something from the menu and maybe adding s
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by allenu 2y ago
I agree with the sentiment that algorithms do affect what we see in our feeds and often the things we see are chosen because they are deemed more engaging by said algorithm, but I also think we're overstating the effects of the algorit
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by allenu 2y ago
Do you know if there's a camera-based app that translates on the fly? These all seem to use uploaded images, but I'd love to be able to flip through an actual physical book and translate via an app.
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by allenu 2y ago
Come on, it was a team effort. It took at least six designers to come up with that new color.
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by allenu 2y ago
Oh, that's really cool you have something similar there too. I like that you stay in edit mode as you navigate from note to note with the shortcuts. I think that's one of the things that makes Card Buddy work really well. I tried
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by allenu 2y ago
This is very cool. I had a very similar idea, although I was probably inspired by the same UX you've seen elsewhere. I had already built an index cards app for Mac and iOS and it works really well for what it does, but the fixed size o
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by allenu 2y ago
Totally agree here. I visited the page and scrolled through it to see what it was all about and saw a bunch of pull quotes and couldn't work out what I was looking at. It just looks like a light magazine article or brochure until you e
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by allenu 2y ago
I immediately thought of old school blogs in the 2000s when the page loaded. No annoying clickbait titles, memes, or reaction gifs, just personal reporting with short paragraphs and plenty of photos.
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by allenu 2y ago
I've learned not to trust company technical blogs. They're all just marketing fluff intended to act as recruiting materials, and judging by the comments here, it's working. As your post highlights, taken in the greater contex
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by allenu 2y ago
I can imagine also that in some situations where there's a large volume of work to be done and you don't need a high performer to get some of it done, you'd rather have the low performer than nobody in that position so you ca
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by allenu 2y ago
> I tend to follow a lot of people, and like to see a mix of their posts. But on Mastodon, what I got instead was "who is posting right now?" This was a big issue for me. Some people I followed would constantly post, so your fe
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by allenu 2y ago
In junior high, we had to memorize and recite a poem in front of the class and this was one of the choices available to us. It's the one I chose, so it holds a special place for me. The teacher who taught our class was probably one of

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