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by getpolarized 7y ago
We're shipping a new version of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) this weekend that is sort of closer to the roam/zettelkasten idea of managing notes. Here's a video explaining the new functionality: https:&#
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by getpolarized 7y ago
You can use it as a standard desktop app without logging in but then you don't really have cloud sync.
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by getpolarized 7y ago
I love discussions about browsers on Hacker News! They're amazing. Half the people ranting how some insanely complicated technical decision is going to ruin the world, the other half yelling at them that this is necessary, others rant
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by getpolarized 7y ago
I'm the author of Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Spaced repetition is a game-changer but right now it's not really adopted outside of say Duolingo and Quizlet. I think the reason why is that integrating spaced-re
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by getpolarized 7y ago
I'm the author of Polar if you guys have any questions. We're working on EPUB. We want to do it right so it's taking a bit longer. A lot of our users are using Calibre to convert from EPUB to PDF. We've seen a LOT of u
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by getpolarized 7y ago
Just moved from CA to CO. 7.25 to 4.6 ... Not a massive change mind you but I'll take it. The main problem with CA are the "hidden" taxes WRT quality of life. Real estate prices being insane. Serious homeless problems in SF
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by getpolarized 7y ago
What are the costs here... 25M downloads per month doesn't seem like it should cost $100k per month. Must be total archive size I imagine?
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Roadmap for Polar in Q1 2020(getpolarized.io)
1 points by getpolarized 7y ago|0 comments
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by getpolarized 7y ago
CSS feature queries and these other strategies are also hacks to determine the actual device being used. Most other UAs don't just flat out lie about the CPU and platform.
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Apple Lying About “User Agent” in iPad Pro – Blocking PWAs(getpolarized.io)
11 points by getpolarized 7y ago|11 comments
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by getpolarized 7y ago
I've been a Software Engineer for 15 years now... 10 years in the industry as a systems engineer before that. I sort of agree but what I try to do is put more comments and documentation in the source code directly. The problem is that
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by getpolarized 7y ago
The same reason millions of Americans voted for "trickle down" and other irrational economic decisions. They're overly manipulated by propaganda.
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by getpolarized 7y ago
> Partly, and I won't deny it, this is because of serious chemical changes that happened almost instantly when our first child was born. It was like someone flipped a switch. I have a step-daughter. It's amazing how protective
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by getpolarized 7y ago
For spam purposes, IPv6 is just as rare as IPv4... you can generally assume that anyone in a /64 is the same owner. ... so really if you have 1000 IPv4 or 1000 /64 IPv6 it's about the same number of IPs that you can use to sp
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by getpolarized 7y ago
Go is a horrible language in which to write a crawler. The main problem is that NLP and machine learning code simply isn't as prevalent and robust as it is in Java and Python.
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by getpolarized 7y ago
I've been heads down in PDF for about 6 months and looking at all the various and supported libraries. Within Polar ( https://getpolarized.io ) we support pdf.js which is rather nice but ONLY supports viewing of the PDF and t
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by getpolarized 7y ago
This is why I didn't buy a Tesla... It's half pregnant basically. My 2019 Mazda 6 has adaptive cruise control and I think this gives you 80% of the features set for 1/3rd of the price. FSD would allow you to only supervise wh
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by getpolarized 7y ago
We didn't vote with our feet regarding Facebook. Every startup founder defected and surrendered to Facebook in favor of more pageviews. It's like the prisoners dilemma only with startups and instead of going to prison you have to
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by getpolarized 7y ago
I don't understand the goal of this. Is it to replace React/Angular or are these components like tree controls, tab controls, etc?
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by getpolarized 7y ago
Also, and serious answer. I would NEVER participate in anything like a voting ring and have been very vocal about paid advertising in the RSS community in the past. Lost a very very high paying customer to Datastreamer who was using RSS co
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by getpolarized 7y ago
Nice. Just hit the front page! Today is my birthday too so good birthday present from you guys! I'm the creator of Polar so AMA :)
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by getpolarized 7y ago
Here are a few more resources if you're interested: Our roadmap: https://getpolarized.io/2019/04/10/Roadmap-Q2-Q3-2019.html Here's a discussion of using datastores to support a more distributed web:
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by getpolarized 7y ago
This is basically the entry point.. I need a front end app to get people to contribute content so that Polar can discover and build a larger system on top for content sharing, federation, etc. It's in the roadmap and video. This isn&#x
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Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays(getpolarized.io)
34 points by getpolarized 8y ago|42 comments
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by getpolarized 8y ago
Everything new is inspired by something in the past. Literally nothing comes from whole cloth. I think the point I was trying to make is that we're going to see more of these types of apps.
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by getpolarized 8y ago
CRA is a set of best practices for setting up a React app. Even if you do stuff by hand you can run CRA and see how the experts do it.