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by forensic 15y ago
Sounds like you dig it because you're not a serious user of either flash card apps or EverNote.
482.
by forensic 15y ago
What you really want is Anki for iPad, which is a GOOD flash card program that uses modern neuroscience to improve your learning. And it's free. Also doesn't force you to lift up a magnet in meat space to use it.
483.
by forensic 15y ago
1. Tapping the screen means you're using 2 hands. 2. If you aren't using spaced repetition statistics with your flash cards... you're doing it wrong.
484.
by forensic 15y ago
I'd like to know what you switched to? As a Premium subscriber to EverNote, this news about a very bad flash card app indicates to me that they aren't serious about improving their core product and instead want to capitalize on the brand wi
485.
by forensic 15y ago
why is evernote diverging so far from their core product? there are other flash card apps that already do this way better and i dont see evernote catching up anytime soon the peek thing looks cool but it's not a useful gimmick because 1. yo
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by forensic 15y ago
there would be no trial. USA PATRIOT ACT was passed a loooong time ago
487.
by forensic 15y ago
Newton is not a classical author. "Classics" basically refers to philosophy, theology, literature and history from 600BC to 600AD. Humanities in Greece and Rome.
488.
by forensic 15y ago
"Politics" seems to be an excuse for giving up these days. I think baby boomer parenting techniques have left a generation with very little resolve in the face of adversity.
489.
by forensic 15y ago
In Ruby you can write in a functional style. Can't do that as easily in Java. Java enforces a more pure OO style.
490.
by forensic 15y ago
I don't understand that because Java is more object-oriented than Ruby, not less. Most people seem to think that Ruby got popular because it was LESS Object-oriented than C++, Java and .NET.
491.
by forensic 15y ago
You found it valuable despite: 1. There being no evidence provided to support the claims. 2. The author being a well-known cultish demagogue willing to say anything to get your attention.
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by forensic 15y ago
Not all very smart people are trying to help you, so it is appropriate to ignore a lot of very smart people. In order for someone to be useful to you they need to tell the truth and give you accurate information that has been tested and ver
493.
by forensic 15y ago
Since Steve Pavlina makes something like a million dollars per year on his magical blog, he has credibility when it comes to making money. The real question to ask about Steve Pavlina though is whether his blog posts are designed to help YO
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by forensic 15y ago
The truth of a statement can be determined by two things: 1. If the person is an authority or expert on the topic being discussed. In this case, the person has credibility and it is smart to give them a level of trust. 2. If the person is
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by forensic 15y ago
... and yet Steve Pavlina was a Windows developer. Do we have to quote cult leaders on Hacker News? Steve Pavlina is the guy who writes blog posts about winning blackjack through ESP. His wife is a professional psychic. He sells magic CDs f
496.
by forensic 15y ago
he's bipolar and in a manic phase by the looks of it.
497.
by forensic 15y ago
It's not about skill, it's about motivation. Cracking big company stuff is more about persistence than about skill. Skilled hackers are bored by SQL injection attacks. What Sony has done is give thousands of bored teenagers a reason to hate
498.
by forensic 15y ago
Yeah you're right. I think at one point Scientology may have been richer, but they have gone downhill it seems.
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by forensic 15y ago
Bitcoins may have value for the anonymization, the lack of fees, and the ease of micropayments. It's not essential that a fiat currency is backed by a government, it's just the easiest way to create a fiat currency. Bitcoin right now is ess
500.
by forensic 15y ago
US Dollars are backed by the US government who requires that taxes be paid in them, and pays them out to employees. This is what makes dollars valuable. Their scarcity is far less relevant. Bitcoin needs to be backed by some kind of utility
501.
by forensic 15y ago
Lots of apps do this or use a combined approach. It aint new and it's a fine idea. Try this on: Lock app after 30 uses if 30 days has passed.
502.
by forensic 15y ago
Sounds like a discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation lawsuit!
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by forensic 15y ago
The value proposition of the Ruby community has more to do with their mindshare than their technical merit. Compare and contrast Scientology with Psychiatry. Both communities make similar value propositions: improve mental health. Scientolo
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by forensic 15y ago
The iPad is just a tablet that doesn't suck. Just like the Sidekick:iPhone relationship, there were a few tablets that didn't suck too much, but the parent companies tended to hamstring them. They would stop supporting them, they wouldn't d
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by forensic 15y ago
That's precisely the point here. There were three kinds of iPad naysayers: 1. iPad sucks compared to the tablets released in the 90s. They had more features. 2. There is no market for tablets, tablets are dead. It's been tried and failed. 3
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by forensic 15y ago
This applies just as much to the iPad. Tablets have been out for forever, and some of them have even been well made only to be ABANDONED by the makers. It's been blisteringly obvious for a decade that tablets are the future of mobile comput
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by forensic 15y ago
This isn't inspiring, this is neurotic. Mental illness is no way to live. And for every captain of industry who worked 24/7, there are plenty who relax, enjoy life, and still manage to move mountains.
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by forensic 15y ago
True and a bit tragic. I think a lot of nerds grow up, and get careers in technology, hoping they can spend their lives in that flow state. But it's just almost never practical. Probably one of the only ways to do it now is open-source stuf
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by forensic 15y ago
A lynch mob is appropriate if the police refuse to act. If elected officials do not enforce the law, the burden falls onto private citizens to do so. This is the common law with thousands of years of precedent.
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by forensic 15y ago
The biggest GNU contributions are gcc, gdb and emacs. Command line stuff is trivial. GNU made them for free first, but if they hadn't, someone else would have. The same cannot be said for gcc, gdb and emacs.

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