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Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.(jamesclear.com)
3 points by esolyt 8y ago|0 comments
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by esolyt 9y ago
Miracast is a standard, not a product. There is nothing wrong with selling a Miracast device, however this particular device is blatant Chromecast rip-off, designwise.
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by esolyt 9y ago
"The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created."
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by esolyt 9y ago
> Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent Not really. It has many issues. The left toolbar is not dockable. I find it annoying that I have to do window management withing a single application. That and the fact that it asks for the canvas siz
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by esolyt 9y ago
Honestly, it's been a while since our partisanship has spread to arguments about tech. It never suprises me to see people are going to extreme lengths to defend Apple, even when it's a life and death situation. "Re check your
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by esolyt 9y ago
Unfortunately, Amazon Prime Now does the same. Tips are simply becoming "hidden fees".
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by esolyt 9y ago
> “But don’t you want to? Doesn’t it feel like part of being a grown-up?” Funny because driving age is 16 in most US states. Not only it isn't part of being grown-up, it's not even required to be grown up to drive US.
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by esolyt 9y ago
OSX by default doesn't have scrollbars either. I had changed the setting though, so it was obvious to me that there is more content. But I can easily imagine people not scrolling down and assuming there is no content.
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by esolyt 9y ago
Looks like a remake of Haxball (haxball.com) that doesn't require Flash.
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by esolyt 9y ago
They're trying to gain publicity and strengthen the narrative "liberal California is censoring conservatives". I don't think they care about winning this either. The kind of people who use gab would already know how to s
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by esolyt 9y ago
Sublime's startup time (even before 3.0) never failed to amaze me, especially compared to Atom and VSCode. And now it starts even faster.
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by esolyt 9y ago
But a twin wouldn't be able to unlock my iPhone 7 with their finerprint.
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by esolyt 9y ago
They do because that's how most educated Americans describe their country to Europeans.
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by esolyt 9y ago
> Cities grow organically because people want to live in that city. That doesn't mean you can't stimulate that growth. You can take the initial steps to make an area a little more desirable and then let the rest happen organica
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by esolyt 9y ago
That is actually what we are doing. The problem is we can't decide on where the middle ground is.
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by esolyt 9y ago
> We all know what he meant Having your mistake corrected can be educational even when you were understood. In the future, inanother context, the same mistake could result in confusion.
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by esolyt 9y ago
You can just use an alias.
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by esolyt 9y ago
The problem is public opinion. Americans either don't care or think imperial is superior. It doesn't have to be a federal law. Change can start gradually with private companies. Pokemon Go, for instance, shows only kilometers and
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by esolyt 9y ago
> Whether it's Metric vs. Imperial To be fair, humanity did standardize that long ago. There is a country that is refusing to switch to the standard.
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Why I stopped speed-typing with abbreviations(jakubmarian.com)
1 points by esolyt 9y ago|0 comments
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by esolyt 9y ago
Exactly. The first 70 years of a 75-year life is probably more enjoyable than a 70-year old life.
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by esolyt 9y ago
By being born in the UK.
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by esolyt 9y ago
May ran a bad campaign. Corbyn ran a better campaign, apparently.
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by esolyt 9y ago
I believe the idea is the motivate you to contribute further by proving that your edit made a difference. How does your edit being viewed 100 thousand times makes you less interested in contributing? Would you rather contribute to a product
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Moom removed from sale due to patent violation claim(manytricks.com)
226 points by esolyt 9y ago|129 comments
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by esolyt 9y ago
Soylent is a meal replacement product. A fruit is not. Not to mention, it is indeed faster to drink the bottle you already own, rather than going to a grocery store.
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After 12 rejections, Apple accepts app that tracks US drone strikes(theintercept.com)
6 points by esolyt 10y ago|1 comments
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Adobe Creative Cloud Is Coming to Chromebook(blogs.adobe.com)
2 points by esolyt 10y ago|0 comments
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Prosecutor seeks arrest of Samsung head as part of spiraling corruption scandal(theverge.com)
4 points by esolyt 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by esolyt 10y ago|0 comments

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