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by aneth4 14y ago
Half of internet users use Facebook. If half of those internet users friends use facebook, this limits Sendrail to 1/4 of potential matches. If half of those internet users' potential recipients of files are friends (colleagues, acquaintanc
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by aneth4 14y ago
Yeah, I'm not really sure of the political message of the comparison. It's not surprising that wealthier people live in nicer areas with more greenspace.... Income inequality is not the enemy - in fact it is what incentivizes our economy an
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by aneth4 14y ago
Regardless of whether TM deserved its success, its time has past. I took this as a reminder to finally delete the binary from my Mac. Sublime all the way, and without irritating licensing restrictions.
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by aneth4 14y ago
As a git newbie, perhaps you have not encountered many of the seemingly simple edge cases that end up being agonizing searches for incantations.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Here here. Any design that needs to be defended so vociferously and causes so much confusion is clearly flawed. Distributed version control is not as complicated as this.
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by aneth4 14y ago
The fact that even experts admit they don't understand the array of options and implications for commands like reset and rebase would tend to support me here. And there is always dispute about the best way to do something as simple as back
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by aneth4 14y ago
> The only truly destructive thing you can do to your git database is `git gc`. And of course we should expect garbage collection to be destructive of information that is not garbage? Didn't know that? Just read the man page. Whoops, it
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by aneth4 14y ago
Defenses of git sound remarkably like defenses of C++ syntax and feature design. In fact, I'd argue they are similarly written by people who are overly proud that they are smart enough to figure out some convoluted and arbitrary complexity,
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by aneth4 14y ago
And then there's the thousands of libraries, debuggers, versions, deployment choices, design strategies, etc etc. Development is an endless path of learning, and git is barely learnable. And editors don't take a week to learn because you do
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by aneth4 14y ago
I must have seen polls like this 5 times in the last year. They don't reveal much except that people are very bad at comparing large numbers with small numbers.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Evernote is clunky, slow, and confusing to navigate. Just the processes and slowness of finding and editing an existing note, particularly one that has anything copy/pasted with formatting, keeps me from using Evernote for anything much, le
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by aneth4 14y ago
This is misleading, as you CAN read anonymously if you disable the feature. Personally, I read stuff for amusement or interest all the time that I would not want a large portion of my acquaintances knowing that I read, and certainly not wit
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by aneth4 14y ago
The English language is unsustainable. We'll never find word for all these new things we are inventing. All the simple ones are taken. And really, how many of these businesses will be around in 50 years? I think there might be some churn.
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by aneth4 14y ago
For sure it increases the computational power required to decompress, but that does not preclude its usefulness. Sometimes computation is cheap and bandwidth is expensive, as perhaps when sending messages to distant stars.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Since a sudoku puzzle implies it's solution, it is a highly compress(able) representation of the solution. I wonder if it might be possible to leverage this sort of rule based matrix to improve compression algorithms, or if compression algo
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by aneth4 14y ago
Lots of information about who and how many might buy your spaceship, helpful in decisions thought the design and manufacturing process, a group to announce product and beta launch to, leveraging months or years of long tail attention rathe
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by aneth4 14y ago
If we are lucky, they will settle for PadMapper's assets - and use them.
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by aneth4 14y ago
> Research I've seen suggests the exact opposite I'm not suggesting circles of different sizes instead of rectangles, which is what this study is about. While interesting, it's not relevant to my statement. > That said, pie chart sl
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by aneth4 14y ago
Her first priority should be to restore Flickr as a leader in photo and video sharing. With her "coolness" factor at the helm (even though personally I don't think she's that cool) this is possible, and the world would be a better place for
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by aneth4 14y ago
Love the concept, however this is much like learning a language by learning to translate. 求 -> ball -> O (actual ball) vs 求 -> O (actual ball) Classic study vs immersion. The implementation will be much harder, but for this to b
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by aneth4 14y ago
This is just generally a horrible way to make a chart that is intended to communicate relative size - it's worse than a pie chart because visually it's much harder to compare sizes of horizontal and vertical rectangles. To compound that by
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by aneth4 14y ago
The purpose is not to raise $500k, but to have around 10k committed users - committed enough that they paid and will likely contribute content. This is what they feel they need to get off the ground. So nothing is fishy. It's quite clever a
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by aneth4 14y ago
On the other hand, these petitions spread awareness to far more people, educate them to start researching, and may instigate further action and discussion. You say that his is "using up" what little people are willing to do... (and what are
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by aneth4 14y ago
I hate this. I feel fine lurking in a group I've been added to unless or until I want to engage. This also gives an inappropriate amount of data to the creator of a group, who isn't always the person who is supposed to be armed with that in
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by aneth4 14y ago
You can't intuitively know what it does without understanding the logical flow of the "program" and what the commands do. I had no idea what this program did until I saw the output. If someone learns the logical meaning of these words, they
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by aneth4 14y ago
So, $150... vs. $50 and several hours of labor and cleanup. The issue is not really the money. I suppose there is a positive in the pride of workmanship and if someone is handy and feels like doing this - have at it. The monetary savings do
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by aneth4 14y ago
> Today, we know that our brain is capable of storying an insane amount of data (estimates value it at around 2.5 petabytes, that’s 2.5 million gigabytes (more here). It won't be long before this no longer seems like an insane amount of
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by aneth4 14y ago
It certainly a good place for you to poll. I was wondering why it was upvoted to the front page. Ask HN is generally used to engage in discussion and get answers in the forums, from which everyone benefits, not to post external, private sur
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by aneth4 14y ago
Why is this on HN? It certainly doesn't meet the criteria of being remotely interesting and there doesn't seem to be any intent to share the results back with the community.
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by aneth4 14y ago
There is something symbolic about something impractical and expensive becoming a symbol for practicality and frugality. There was a recent post on HN about a startup in Seattle spending loads of time to build door desks, an apparent attempt

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