christudor

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by christudor 11y ago
Hey, just had a go at this for five minutes, and here's what I thought. I'm probably not your 'target customer', but here's my feedback anyway! First impression: I'm not really sure what the site does. The firs
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by christudor 11y ago
A few thoughts on the UX from my two minutes on the site. When I created my event, the first thing I did was select a date in the calendar, before going down the page to fill in the other details. When I got to the bottom, the submit button
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by christudor 11y ago
The greatest barrier to a change in the way publishing works is the fact that tenure still depends on publication in high-impact journals--and high-impact journals are resolutely not Open Access. Regardless of how difficult it would be get
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by christudor 11y ago
Languages: Either Python or Rails would be a good start, since (I believe) they are most widely-used languages/frameworks for web development, and there are a lot of really good introductions out there. I'd suggest either Codecade
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by christudor 11y ago
Have just started learning Swift. Have favourited, and will be sure to give some feedback once I've made my way through the whole thing. Good luck with it!
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by christudor 11y ago
Interesting, but very first book I clicked on led to a 404 error. http://hackershelf.com/book/274/rails-deep-dive/ Then the very next book I clicked on had another 404 error. http://hackershelf.com
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by christudor 11y ago
This and the previous comment are /exactly/ right, especially: "... that's only a reason to improve real-time communication, not a reason to turn papers into real-time communication tools".
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by christudor 11y ago
Personally, I think the biggest benefit that the internet can confer to FW is someone reading it out, rather than providing easier access to annotations. I suspect FW is best enjoyed when done at pace, letting the poetry of the thing wash
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by christudor 11y ago
I think about this a lot. How would you deal with peer review in all this? We don't want a system where academic papers haven't been peer reviewed, do we?
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by christudor 12y ago
Electricity supply has to exactly match electricity demand at all times, which is why (in my opinion) 100% renewable energy doesn't make sense. There has to be /some/ source of electricity that a country can turn to if the wi
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by christudor 12y ago
Agreed. The community is probably biased towards people who are (1) a little bit smarter than average, and so relatively happy to go away and learn things by themselves, and (2) generally more interested in maths, technology and science, wh
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Study shows how police interrogation techniques generate false memories
1 points by christudor 12y ago|0 comments
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What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m(what3words.com)
56 points by christudor 12y ago|54 comments
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by christudor 12y ago
This is exactly right. That's why I started MASSOLIT (www.massolit.io), which provides video lectures in the arts and humanities. It normally costs £5/month, but if you send me an e-mail (chris@massolit.io) I'd be happy to gi
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by christudor 12y ago
$1000 is a a huge amount of money to pay for a landing page when you can just buy a template for $5 (or get one for free?) and get a similarly nice-looking page in more or less the same amount of time, no?
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by christudor 12y ago
I don't think it's helpful to think in terms of the 'right' or 'wrong' kind of books. Notwithstanding the fact that it's quite hard to define what makes certain books better/more valuable than others,
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Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world(themassolit.wordpress.com)
56 points by christudor 12y ago|18 comments
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by christudor 12y ago
Yes, as I said, it's only /some/ Greeks that feel this way. I hope I haven't misrepresented the situation too much? (Please correct me if I'm wrong!)
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by christudor 12y ago
Some Greeks are very proud (even precious) about their cultural history. Check out this response to Dr Armand D'Angour's 'attempt to re-write Greek history' (and dont' forget to read the comments): http:/&#x2
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by christudor 12y ago
"So I think I'm exactly your target customer." From what you've said, I would argue that you're /not/ their target customer. I used to work with medium- to high-complexity Excel spreadsheets on an almost d
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by christudor 12y ago
I would /love/ something that made it really easy to take care of my receipts - that is definitely a problem for me. I'm not sure what to make of this, however. I signed up and decided to test the service by uploading a recei
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by christudor 12y ago
Yep, I think when people are introduced to a new product they're just used to clicking on a video and having everything explained to them in 2-3 minutes. The video on the KS page looks great, as I said...
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by christudor 12y ago
For me, the big problem here is that the website gives me no indication of what the game actually is. I understand it involves my smartphone and photographing things in the real world, but that's about it. However, when I go to the Kic
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by christudor 12y ago
Yep, one of the reasons Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as targets was because they were one of the few major Japanese cities that /hadn't/ been firebombed in the preceding weeks. People forget that the deadliest 24 hour
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by christudor 12y ago
This is not quite true; the Nagasaki bomb missed its target by almost two miles because of cloud cover, and as a result only half the number of people were killed compared to Hiroshima. Even with an atomic bomb you had to be /relativel
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by christudor 12y ago
I'm guessing the app is called Hemingway because it promotes simpler writing in general (a good thing, I think), not because it will make you write /exactly/ like Hemingway!
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by christudor 12y ago
Down in Hong Kong as well.
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by christudor 12y ago
This looks great: it's a well-designed site and solves a lot of the problems in TA. The idea that people will rate hotels higher based on "marginal experiences" is very well put, and probably true. Will definitely use in the
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by christudor 12y ago
I love this: found a few interesting tools on the internet as I went through it, which was a nice bonus.
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by christudor 12y ago
I'm not sure sure about the lenses point. I read a book once about how William Herschel (1738-1822) spent an inordinate amount of time making lenses for his home-made telescopes, polishing them for hours and hours. These were probably

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