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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
I think using native UI components is the least of 1password's UX problems. I'm a long term user of 1password on Windows and Android and I find the user interface to be incredibly unintuitive. Things that should be simple such as
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
The main argument here seems to be that we shouldn’t use LFS because Git will have large file support at some unspecified point in the future? Similarly you could argue that we shouldn't use a Covid vaccine because we'll develop
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
ProWritingAid | Remote Always and Anywhere | C# developers, NLP/ML developers, Typescript/Javascript (UK-based company) We're empowering people to share ideas, stories, and knowledge by inspiring, educating, and helping them
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
Do any compression algorithms use and approximate matching technique like ssdeep to sort the files by similarity before compression starts? It might be slower but if the compression was 15x better then it might be worth it in some scenarios
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Ask HN: What language should be avoided in PR reviews?
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
ProWritingAid integrates with Scrivener and provides grammar checking, repeated words, and much more to help you improve whatever you're writing. http://prowritingaid.com/
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
Safari have been messing extension developers around for ages now. It's been hugely frustrating. When you dig into the data, most of Safari traffic is from iOS so most devs just can't be bothered to port to Safari. The $99 is just
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
Another prediction of this theory would be that naturally blind animals such as some moles would not need REM sleep or would have substantially less REM sleep. I couldn't find any research in completely blind mammals, but in a mammal t
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
If you're building a new podcast app, all you need is one feature that makes people love your app. People often use apps that have far fewer features than their competitor but do one thing very well. In this sense, I think the "lo
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
What's observable.io? The domain doesn't seem to work.
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
I wonder if it's not punishing the poor, but trying to encourage them to earn more. Of course, this might not take into account the nuances of the real world where some people just can't because of constraints like children, locat
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
ProWritingAid | UK and Remote Our Vision: Empowering people to share ideas, stories, and knowledge by inspiring, educating, and helping them to express themselves. You will work with some of the most talented people in your industry. Langua
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
Because the conversion rate was higher from no sign-up to paid. So we were probably selecting more serious trailers, but they were then more likely to pay as well. If it was just the conversion rate from sign-up to paid then you would be ri
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
On mobile it's impossible to understand what they do. Two words and then a screenshot that's impossible to read. Maybe that's why they've failed as a company. If you can't even make a reasonable homepage, what hope
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
This does not sound like a fun life. Spontaneity brings life's most rewarding moments. He's basically reduced spontaneity to zero. He may be successful, but success is sometimes a prison.
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
Email registration is the gateway drug to conversion. We AB tested this. Requiring users to sign up meant we got fewer sign ups but a higher conversion rate to premium. So although we had fewer users, more paid. Giving your email is a commi
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Worst Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them(youtu.be)
2 points by chrisdbanks 6y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
The whole premise of this seems wrong. I've worked on large financial systems that have happily supported different rules for different countries using a relational database. The database was never the issue, it was how to handle testi
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
Watch this video on the five principles of clarity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maKe0wQqJ0g If you focus on the clarity of your writing, it will guide you to the best way to express yourself. My company, ProWritingAid, p
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by chrisdbanks 6y ago
One issue with having your servers not in UTC will be that you're always wondering whether other software e.g. logging software is using UTC or local time. Also, in your database you should always use UTC if you have daylight saving ti
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What can we learn from our worst customer experience ever?(medium.com)
2 points by chrisdbanks 8y ago|0 comments
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What is an augmented writing platform?(link.medium.com)
1 points by chrisdbanks 8y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdbanks 8y ago
ProWritingAid | Head of NLP | Full-time | Remote ProWritingAid is a profitable, fully remote company with > 100% YoY growth. We're creating an online personal writing coach. Our users vary from professional writers to international
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GitHub banned us without notice – Is Microsoft the risk we didn’t consider?(medium.com)
53 points by chrisdbanks 8y ago|13 comments
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Google “accidentally” devalues its own ecosystem for other software vendors(medium.com)
5 points by chrisdbanks 8y ago|2 comments