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by markbao 10y ago
Four opinions, going off of this article and partly in response to Gruber's[0]: 1. There was a functional reason that CDs and floppies went out of style: low capacity and the Internet. What’s the functional reason to get rid of anal
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by markbao 10y ago
Mods should update the URL to https://stratechery.com/2016/tv-advertisings-surprising-stre...
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by markbao 10y ago
That's a great point. I wonder if there's an elegant/clean way to denote that something is vegan but not changed to be vegan. "Naturally fat-free" is good, and the sort of plant logo that some restaurants use at l
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by markbao 10y ago
I use OmniOutliner on Mac with a custom template to take notes at university. I have a two-column template that allows me to write questions/cues for notes which then go into Anki. I'd like to have a more flexible way to work with
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by markbao 10y ago
For a revenue-generating business like this, is 90 employees with $10M ARR normal? Admire the transparency.
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by markbao 10y ago
The UI has always held me back from using VS Code, though the performance and new features look great. Glad that tab support is coming, and it's cool that they have a detailed iteration plan for June publicly available: https:/&#
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by markbao 10y ago
I traveled for 10 months and this is exactly the feeling I got. Thanks for putting it so well. I had a strong desire to move forward on learning and building something, which the constant uncertainty and inherent instability of traveling wa
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by markbao 10y ago
In broad strokes, no – the First Amendment only prohibits the government from abridging speech. Companies have no obligation to protect your speech, but many act with the spirit of free speech. Brief overview: http://lifehacker
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by markbao 10y ago
Right. I don't know the specifics but I'd guess it was a hard sell to add another rail line in a crowded area when the A/LIRR already went to Penn.
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by markbao 10y ago
I had no idea that airport train ridership was so low – I suppose that explains their generally elevated prices. Even NYC's JFK AirTrain only carried an average of about 18,000 paid passengers per day in 2014, which seems low to me (th
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by markbao 10y ago
I don't do smart home, which seems to be the main use for it – instead, I use a simple remote control to turn on/off my lights, which is way easier for me than saying "Alexa turn on bedroom light" and waiting for it (I&#
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by markbao 10y ago
It leads to a page that has a bad screenshot of blockchain.info and the only button that works is the Login button. Crazy how Google didn't screen this out. Google's ad report page: https://support.google.com/adwor
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by markbao 10y ago
It sucks that the outcome of the first Apply HN became complicated, but the resolution makes me confident that the people behind this are gracious and understanding – which is more important than that mistakes were made this time around. Th
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by markbao 10y ago
Craig Wright says that (the late) "Hal Finney was one of the engineers who helped turn Mr Wright's ideas into the Bitcoin protocol", according to this article. However, in Hal Finney's "Bitcoin and Me" post, Ha
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by markbao 10y ago
Skip the short BBC article – The Economist has a full profile here: http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve... EDIT: Mods merged the thread with https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by markbao 10y ago
Very fun – I've already sent 5. The cost is very impulse-purchase friendly, and it's a lot easier than the effort of going to the store to get cards printed out and putting stamps on and such, though less personal because of lack
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by markbao 10y ago
Having overrides for text and images in the inspector is amazing. And what they're doing with automatically shifting nearby elements to text is an awesome touch ( https://cdn-images-2.medium.com/max/1600/1*nXOR
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by markbao 11y ago
This looks stunning. Anyone know how it compares to RStudio? I might virtualize Windows to use this.
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Study that undercut psych research got it wrong(news.harvard.edu)
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by markbao 11y ago
So cool to see one of my favorite products on here. Overleaf's rich text view is a total revolution for LaTeX editing and I've always wondered how it combined MathJax with an editor. Love this product.
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by markbao 11y ago
Actually, the light is set at a certain angle and can't be changed [0]. They let you choose between different angles – 60º, 45º, and 30º (mounted on the wall). They say that they are working on allowing for light adjustment in the futu
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by markbao 11y ago
Adobe is handling this terribly. From the forum post [0], a number of people are reporting losing data, with one poster losing "all of my working files for my clients" and another saying "197 GB of working files Gooooone!&quo
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by markbao 11y ago
Neat product but the "familiar user interface" for a Quitter is literally a copy of Twitter. That's not a good look.
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by markbao 11y ago
You're right, I forgot that the 3G did get thicker, and the iPhone 6s does seem to be slightly thicker and heavier, by a hair. My mistake. I think the general trend still sticks, despite these exceptions, whereas the author argued that
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by markbao 11y ago
> Iphones, which seem to get bigger, heavier, more expensive, and more complicated with every release, not to mention a complete lack of customization and control, are obviously off the table. There are excellent reasons to not choose
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by markbao 11y ago
Business Class-only is a bit frustrating (if it needs to be paid, can it be on Trello Gold too?), but this is really exciting. Would love to see if people start to develop tools for productivity (like Pomodoro and that sort of thing) with i
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by markbao 11y ago
A few issues here. Filtering feature requests to "whatever makes money" seems to be overly reductionist and a bit cynical, especially given a company like GitHub which is relatively open and has a flexible policy as to what is bei
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by markbao 11y ago
Explain like I'm five: Does this mean that IntelliJ IDEA will get faster?
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Where do you go?
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by markbao 11y ago
Yes, perfect time to catch up on open-source projects.

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