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by kevinqi 12y ago
what a cool idea. It's hard to know how the user experience is without using it (eg. do you have to flip it back and forth manually often?), but the benefits of having an e-ink panel seems huge.
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by kevinqi 12y ago
I'm really interested in learning chinese, and the interface here is fantastic, well done. But a project like this really lives and dies on the quality of the content, I think - it needs a good set of interesting novels to really get p
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by kevinqi 12y ago
It's a bit windy, and there wasn't too much in the way of "how", but the story was well written - so a good read regardless.
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by kevinqi 12y ago
I'd have to agree - maybe it's different when you use it, but based on the screenshots, the UI seems like a step backward.
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by kevinqi 12y ago
Are they no longer able to have "markdown" in the name? The name isn't rubygems-bad, but it's not exactly intuitive.
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by kevinqi 12y ago
wow, just wanted to say it's an awesome post - so much useful information in a really comprehensive and easy to read format. well done!
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by kevinqi 12y ago
"psh, I knew about that site before it was indexed"
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by kevinqi 12y ago
Agreed, but to be fair, people have a lot more email these days.
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by kevinqi 13y ago
Yeah, the library is really excellent - easy to follow and very extensive. It's smart of them to do paid crowdsourcing to create the articles. It's cool of Linode to make the library available to everyone, not just customers.
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by kevinqi 14y ago
I wonder if Android development is also a big factor in Java's popularity.
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by kevinqi 14y ago
There's always cost to keeping old code around. With any given Google product, regardless of how unpopular it is, there will always be people unhappy that it's been pulled. But it's healthy to have a focused set of products and to cull non-
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by kevinqi 14y ago
I don't know about that. Google has done a fantastic job at a lot of details such as colors and readability of street names that really improve usability. In the Bing version, the color palette is much closer together and less visually dist
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by kevinqi 14y ago
It sounds like the problem isn't git itself, but the concept of source control in general, which is pretty abstract until you actually dig into a source-controlled project that has other people committing - after that, the understanding com
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by kevinqi 14y ago
There are successful cloud APIs, I think - Twilio comes to mind. It doesn't mean that it would work for Twitter, but it's not impossible.