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by grecht 7y ago
Wow! I didn't know this ad existed, but it pretty much nails it: "A dazzling display of common sense." And thumbs haven't changed since then!
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by grecht 7y ago
> When we see 5 and 6 inch phones, but with higher screen to body ratio, some of us seem to mistake this with a phone that is too large to hold. That's true. However, it'd still be harder (or impossible) to reach every corner o
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by grecht 7y ago
I use VS Code and it never felt sluggish. But it’s probably one of the best Electron apps out there. Honestly, if I had to develop a Desktop app today and wanted it to be cross-platform, I’d probably use Electron. No need for hacky workarou
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by grecht 7y ago
That’s the right mentality. I'd say don't change it if it works (and is nowhere near as bad as Slack). If the difference in practice is marginal it‘d provide no real value.
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by grecht 7y ago
A feature I missed in OneNote: Handwriting recognition. Both GoodNotes and Notability are able to search your writing, provided it’s somewhat legible.
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by grecht 7y ago
Nearly everything has an environmental impact. And do you really think a Laptop compares favorably to thousands of pages of paper? But I guess you could get a used iPad with the Apple Pencil or something similar.
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by grecht 7y ago
I recently tried Firefox on a Windows machine, and noticed that the font rendering was much, much worse than in Chrome or Opera, it looked almost bold and was hard to read. I guess it’s got something to do with subpixel hinting. Has anybody
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by grecht 7y ago
I use hugo (single binary) with Github and Netlify. When I push to the master branch, Netlify automatically builds the website and publishes it on my domain. Sure, not as accessible as Medium, but it’s pretty simple.
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by grecht 7y ago
No, those are mostly fine, but a blog has different requirements than a text editor. I just find it a bit hard to read, because for example bright pictures really stand out, and I think he’s using different shades of white (or grey) for the
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by grecht 7y ago
I agree with the author: It sucks. But so does white font on a blue background, since we’re also talking about readability. At least they got that right!
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by grecht 7y ago
> hoping that people in Africa will stay poor so they cannot That’s a pretty far-fetched allegation which does not contribute anything to the discussion, but instead makes it seem more black/white or rather good/bad.
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by grecht 7y ago
I personally have a small carbon footprint, considering I live in Europe. But I know that it’s no more than virtuous wishful thinking if I were to start a vegan diet out of love for the environment. What we need is practical, economic solut
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by grecht 8y ago
Developers and other people with great jobs know very well how privileged they are. That doesn't mean that they're not allowed to have problems and be stressed.
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by grecht 8y ago
Things that are widely recognized as "good". Who could say no to that for the sake of minimal change? Also, this doesn't affect life in a way that dating or the hassle of having to carry cash with you to buy bread do. Of cour
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by grecht 8y ago
Germany is notoriously slow at adapting "new" things. Think credit cards, internet speed, ...
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by grecht 8y ago
Very interesting. This guy not only seems to attract rich people, but rich people who display their wealth. I wonder how "hard“ it is to live a fairly normal, modest life with that kind of net worth. Could you restrain yourself and not
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by grecht 8y ago
Sadly, I feel like people and politics lack common sense, especially in Germany. Hastily closing nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident was not a smart decision and hurt the environment in the long term. It could've been a &
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by grecht 8y ago
I don't understand people who don't read the news. Do they also not vote, as they cannot form their own political opinion? In reality they probably do, but are susceptible to populism, be it right-wing, left-wing, green or what el
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by grecht 8y ago
Thank you! I love Spotmatics! Sadly, the ones I inherited have light leaks. If you're not going to use the viewfinder, it'd probably be a lot easier to use something wider than 50mm. Besides the greater depth of field making zone-
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by grecht 8y ago
Shooting without a viewfinder is a great way of taking photos. I used to use a Minox 35 ML, the so called "spy camera": https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minox_35#/media/File:Minox35ml... It's ver
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That’s Not How You Win Loyal Customers, Apple(gereonrecht.com)
1 points by grecht 8y ago|0 comments
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by grecht 8y ago
I think you got that wrong, he didn't say they were coworkers. But sure, that'd be very different.
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by grecht 8y ago
That's exactly what I thought. What's the harm in just telling them? He makes it sound like it was completely out of his control.
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by grecht 8y ago
I like that blog post, it resonated with me and generally feels like sound life advice. But the problem I have with it is that this is essentially the life advice you'd get from a good friend after the 3rd beer in the pub, yet it'
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by grecht 8y ago
Sounds like the phone‘s not the problem. Just don‘t twitter, instagram, facebook, snapchat or whatever you do 24/7 and simply use it for its most useful features. Ditch every social app, delete your accounts. Maybe turn it off every da
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by grecht 8y ago
Hey, I just set up my own domain yesterday and got a couple problems I had to solve. The above link should work now, and this one does too: https://gereonrecht.com/ Sorry :)
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by grecht 8y ago
I really like personal websites, so I just set up mine a while ago. It's neither goofy nor miserable. Maybe a bit unfinished? Anyways, it's just a very simple static site generated with Hugo, using a basic Hugo theme which I modif
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by grecht 8y ago
The title's a bit clickbaity. "No such thing as motivation", and he goes on to explain two different types of motivation and sums it up with "do x and y and your motivation will grow". Also, I'm missing a golde
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Procedurally Generating Non-Equivalent Colorings(grecht.github.io)
3 points by grecht 8y ago|0 comments
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by grecht 9y ago
Wow, straight out of Motivational Blogger 101. Lots of quotes, pictures of people doing things, a couple keywords. The actual content of this post? One sentence: Work hard, fail, learn, fake it till you make it. Never read that before... He

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