jamesjyu

20 ms·

181.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
This facility uses cookies ...
182.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I think about this every time I use my wife's macbook. She doesn't have natural scrolling turned on for her trackpad, whereas I do. I have to temporarily rewire my brain to make it work. Should a trackpad scroll the scroll bar, or
183.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
This can be true even for well-known words, like Bruschetta (common Italian antipasto of bread topped with tomatoes). Most everyone in the US pronounces this with a soft 'ch', but it actually should be a hard 'k'. But wh
184.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Definitely not deriding horseback riding (no pun intended). Humans will always do things for pleasure that they used to do purely for practical reasons. Just look at the mere act of jogging. But, one thing I know that I'll never do for
185.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
That is incredible! I knew there would be the off chance that someone would have put something like this on, but this looks like they went all in.
186.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
This is really great. Many years ago, I was neck deep in frontend coding. I got so good that when given a mockup, I could code the skeleton of the page "blind" without viewing it in the browser. I would load the page at the end an
187.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I've been a toe walker my entire life, so this is fascinating. Sometimes, this is indicative of cerebral palsy, but this isn't true for me. I'm not sure why I started to do it, but my parents said that ever since I was a todd
188.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I was recently researching some of things archivists have to do, and the general consensus is that their skills are needed even more in the digital age, not less, because it introduces a whole host of new problems: files that fork, forger
189.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I was born on the winter solstice, and there's something about that stillness in the darkness that I love—people are on holiday, and you have the space to linger over your thoughts.
190.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I applaud trying out cool techniques to transform text, but I think this would work better for non-fiction books. Fiction is like a serialization of senses for your inner director that paints a world in your mind. By lopping off words, you
191.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Nit: Really verbose error messages like the last example are at risk of being brittle. If the API changes, there may be a failure to update the error message. This is because the messages may concern things at a distance, and may have arbit
192.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
You should put that spoiler warning up front!
193.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Upcoming Uber advertisement: "You don't even need a car! Work from home and drive from your mobile phone."
194.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Wait, really? I thought there were copious alcohol in Tokyo vending machines, at least the last time I visited.
195.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Yep, Parse runs on Mongo.
196.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
(disclosure: I worked at FB for 3 years) I don't agree that it's "super toxic." Any company that gets this big and is also a utility will get its fair share of complaints, and this fair share will seem huge because the b
197.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I'd agree it's not weird, but it definitely is old fashioned. The French invented haute cuisine (which is French for 'high cuisine') in the 17th century. In the west (and many places in the east) French food is considere
198.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I agree that interesting stories don't have to adhere to this structure (and by all means, stories should break the rules!). But, the western market generally demands it for salable material, especially novels. Even in this conflict st
199.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
The problem of the reader needing to understand is story is not in the story itself. Anytime anyone reads anything, their goal is to figure out what they are reading... so that problem doesn't add anything. Kishōtenketsu specifically d
200.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
It's different because there is no apparent obstacle that blocks the protagonist (the girl) from achieving their goal. In traditional western plots, this conflict is the main focus, and is usually between the protagonist and an antagon
201.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
The 4pm travel time also changes based on day, afair. I used to make the commute from SF to Menlo Park every day, and Tue, Wed, Thurs were much worse than Mon or Fri.
202.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Yeah this is a lot of suspension of disbelief, but Star Trek has a bunch of those, so it's not so out of left field. One common solution in SF novels is for aliens to be in an atmosphere suit, typically very high tech (thin and floati
203.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
This would be pretty cool. I've started the habit of bringing a book (yes, paper!) to places to read. But, I still need to have my phone with me, in case of emergency calls or urgent messages. If the watch can do that, it'd basica
204.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
It's monthly active. Also, this isn't surprising given the trend: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
205.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
You touched on a much wider human phenomenon: attention isn't evenly distributed. The media isn't pushed to report in proportion to an individual's impact. It's guided by trends, aka what people want to read. AI is hot.
206.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
This makes a ton of sense. Oculus's biggest leverage is in improving the platform, not creating content. If anything, that money would be better spent on directly funding other studios.
207.
by jamesjyu 9y ago
Fascinating! I would have thought most people didn't have land lines in Taiwan. Are they dialing in using mobile phones?
208.
Altcloud: A web server with extra powers(github.com)
2 points by jamesjyu 10y ago|0 comments
209.
by jamesjyu 10y ago
Thank you, mcescalante. We did our best to make the transition as smooth as possible.
210.
by jamesjyu 10y ago
That violates rule #3: "Each new answer had to involve some new notion – it couldn’t be reachable in principle using methods that appeared in previous answers"

More ›