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by markbao 11y ago
This is a thoughtful redesign. Although the organization of the redesigned form is stronger in some aspects and weaker in others (stronger in terms of how much sense it makes and the behavior flow, weaker in its visual organization), it&#x2
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by markbao 11y ago
The Reddit thread has some interesting perspectives on this: User /u/CatsandCrows: > Yeah, it's great and it makes me happy that in this sense we are eco-friendly, however this comes a great costs. Our electricity rates a
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by markbao 11y ago
Fascinating article – and they did a great job with the Optima-inspired typeface. I'm not usually a fan of Optima, but as a Chinese font, it looks really fresh amidst the more boring traditional fonts.
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by markbao 11y ago
I use Anki as a part of my college strategy ( http://markbao.com/notes/college-strategies ) by using the Cornell notetaking method to write up questions and answers for my notes and piping those 'cues' into Ank
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That's really cool - with those settings, you could run it on a single charge of one of those cheap 20,000 mAh portable batteries for a month.
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by markbao 11y ago
Yep. This is the weirdest variation of the Streisand effect I've ever seen.
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Yes, very well said. I'm currently on a very activist college campus and also have many friends (and follow many people on Twitter) who side with this movement. To an extent, I'm sympathetic to the difficulty of actually being hea
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by markbao 11y ago
While I'm in agreement with you on this (I've watched the video, and I'm as pissed off as you are), it's worth noting that a few unreasonable students should not serve as the poster child for all student protestors. Late
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I agree with you in general, but I didn't read it that way – I read it as them saying that developing world-changing technologies takes a lot of capital, not that having a lot of capital necessarily leads to world-changing technologies
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Correction: it mangles one or two pages in 45% of books it scans. Prototype 1 could scan the majority of books without damage, but may tear one or two pages in some books. Out of 50 books tested, 45% had one or two of their
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by markbao 11y ago
Could this just be survivorship bias? We don't hear about all the non-ad-blockers that got rejected by Apple or Google for the same reasons. If they wanted to ban apps like this, they would likely just ban them, instead of stirring the
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Colonising Force: An influx of Indian users ruffles an online community(caravanmagazine.in)
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Reminds me in some way of this tweet from PG last year: > Paul Graham (@pg) — Markets are usually quite clever but one place they break is in encouraging treatments rather than vaccines. Subscription revenue. https://twitter
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by markbao 11y ago
Yeah, I feel this way as well. I've experimented with some 4K displays and I currently use a Dell P2715Q, the 4K 27" in the article. It's a stellar monitor, but at full 2x pixel doubling, it doesn't offer as much space a
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by markbao 11y ago
Check out this special on 'desktop presentation graphics' from 1989 (on sister site My 80's TV): http://www.my80stv.com/#ysJZn3wqsAw There's a demo of MacroMind (now Macromedia/Adobe) Director in th
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by markbao 11y ago
I'm surprised they let him apply ten times. I was rejected from Stanford three times and didn't allow me to apply a fourth time.
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by markbao 11y ago
Does anyone know how this and the other cameras in this field (e.g. Lily) do subject tracking? A few people have commented in this thread that it might be a combination of GPS and inertial tracking, but does anyone know any specifics?
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by markbao 11y ago
That was really cool, thanks for sharing that (also the music was awesome). Crazy how much custom machinery is there, like the circular railing for the Lego-like arms.
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by markbao 11y ago
I was pretty young when I quit (20), so I'm not sure how useful it is, but: — [W]hat was the experience like? 10–11 months, through Europe, quick stop in Turkey/China, Southeast Asia, and finally South America. Really amazing an
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by markbao 12y ago
adaptance.com — some sort of platform for something articlefeedback.com — wanted to build a system for getting feedback about your writing, sort of crowdsourced editing cureta.com — no idea logicist.com — logic, or something townless.com —
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by markbao 12y ago
I was surprised at this so I looked it up. Anecdata: http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/28oeo6/alist_subscr... If this is true, it's pretty cruel. Yeah yeah supply and demand, but that doesn&#
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by markbao 12y ago
Depends on where you live, I suppose. I have zero problems with my ConEd power and whoever supplies my water, and I find the pricing pretty reasonable. My power supplier even offers different energy sources to use other than the standard on
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by markbao 12y ago
In my opinion, it buries the actual discussion on the post in question under a stream of name-mentions. Imagine if people on HN didn't email an article link to someone, but just @mentioned their name as a comment. With a ranking system
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by markbao 12y ago
I get aggravated at seeing these comments too, but I'm not surprised why they don't use the 'formalized' routes for sharing. Tagging someone in the comments is the path of least resistance, and people have acclimated to
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by markbao 12y ago
I'm curious why this lists but few of the Alexa top 10, such as Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, and others. The first two are mega-sites and only the root domain would count most likely, but social sites constitute a lot of communic
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by markbao 12y ago
Very true. We probably have to have blind faith that the companies that are important (like Google) are the same ones that take the validity of DMCA takedown requests seriously.
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It's very unlikely that Google would follow through on an obviously wrong takedown unless if the competitor was actually infringing copyright. EDIT: Well, yes, they did do that here. My bad. My original point was that Competitor A subm
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by markbao 12y ago
Presumably, Takedown Piracy LLC and their client would have to have signed the Sworn Statements on Google's DMCA page [0]: I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infring
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by markbao 12y ago
I mostly use Simplenote for ideas and loose notes, and Quip/Evernote for more structured notes. All three sync to all my devices, and while neither are perfect for my needs, they are OK. The problem comes from keeping everything organi
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by markbao 12y ago
Yes, that's what I used—however, I just realized I may have been conflating the difficulty of doing package management in Rust with some packages that I used that were enormously difficult to use or were outdated (speaks to the pre-1.0

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