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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
When I attended the University of California at Berkeley in the fun 1960's, there was no tuition for in-state students. Zero. There were 27,000 students at that time just at that one campus. It would be hard to quantify the return on i
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Can I use it on my Android phone and sync the notes to my Windows machine and my iPad?
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So I went to the Simplenote website to check it out, and there's nothing there. You have to register to see anything?
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
I've been using a Windows desktop app for years that's a lot like Evernote. I have many MB of notes, especially code snippets. But also lots of other stuff, exactly like what Evernote is intended to do. I would love to migrate it
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Site has stopped responding.
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This is one of the clearest explanations of the situation that I have read.
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I don't think we live in the same City. But it's good that you came here to follow your dream. Life is a buffet -- try a little of everything, and everywhere, and then move on.
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A disappointing percentage of links go dead, thereby making the answer useless. This problem increases over time.
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Thank you for all of your hard work, and the work of the SO team. Helping us share all these fishes around.
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
A very unfortunate incident, but there are bound to be mistakes made when there are tens of thousands of developers and over six million questions. Eventually, bugs are going to appear. The kind of dumb mistakes that developers (and other h
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The site appears to be overwhelmed. Server error 500
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
Guns, Germs & Steel was a real revelation about the rise of Western civilization. Ain't because we're so smart or genetically superior, sorry. Just a matter of being in the right place at the right time a few thousand years ag
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big -- Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) Super Rich -- Russell Simmons (hip-hop magnate) Choose Yourself -- James Altucher Edit: forgot about Walt Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
The poor-quality web design is by intent. Users think they are dealing with a small business trying to sell its merchandise online without a fancy web team. It's like con artists who dress poorly to look like their mark. More credible.
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Paywall
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
I don't like to think of myself as being their product. I am not aggressively narcissistic. I have a bad enough case of FOMO and FOBO already. I prefer friends and conversations IRL. Broadcasting is one-way communication, or asynchrono
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
All the laws, all the money spent enforcing them, lives ruined, and we still believe that the "war on drugs" can be won. There is a huge industry based on production and trade in banned substances. Anyone who wants one of those su
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
Site has apparently been overwhelmed by HN traffic. Not sure that's what you intended to "Show HN".
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Ratings trends over time can go in the other direction too. I got bit by an update the other day on a mature and very popular app which just released a tragically flawed update. I over confidently accepted the update and then started readin
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
Installed it on my iPad and tried to set up a credit card. Total failure. The UI is hideous and doesn't render properly on iPad. JavaScript validation error on page load disables the user -- can't go back, can't cancel out, a
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by daphneokeefe 13y ago
You may find real inspiration reading this guy's blog, Altucher Confidential. He is so realistic, and he will get you back on your feet, laughing. http://www.jamesaltucher.com/
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by daphneokeefe 14y ago
So I can log in everywhere using the exact same username? This will make it SO much easier for the user data trackers to capture and aggregate all of the information they can about me. I think I'll take a pass.