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by marvindanig 5y ago
I agree with you on Kindles; they're certainly worse than having books on the open web, even if it were to be paid content. I also agree with you that page turning experience is _the_ native control of a book and that it adds to the sa
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Why the dead-tree? Can we not try monetization of your book straight on the web instead, right here on your website? As developers we should lead the change away from pulp to electronic screens… Edit: I mean, I'd be happy to pay the au
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by marvindanig 5y ago
I recently came across a US Government funded study [1] that used anecdata of 12 people–just 12 tired souls!– to put forth a seal on the claim that e-ink screens are better for the human eyes than emissive type of displays. Edit: Reality ho
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Right to repair is an absolute must. Period.
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by marvindanig 5y ago
The funnest piece of information (and a notable one) is the amount of money these "smartest folks on the planet" put into all of these bullshit projects. And the list doesn't even include the photo-sharing apps that met Bay A
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Almost 200% of commenters and lurkers on this thread buy dead-tree books on the design patterns and best practices of a javascript framework from 2012. Yeah, not much hope with that here.
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by marvindanig 5y ago
lol. I never mentioned the political leanings of the anti-vaxxer type; just that they are either very stupid people or misinformed by propaganda originating somewhere. it's interesting to see multiple downvotes on my comments from the
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Well, given that a significant percentage of citizenry is anti-vaxxer-level-stupid, there isn't much improvement over people trusting their local Government either…
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by marvindanig 5y ago
The ad industry isn't going away, if you're thinking of a world in the future sans ads. With the Brave's model, at least you are able to make some profit for yourself. It's not utopian, but works from a capitalist's
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Awesome! Love the illustrations and the subtle animations underneath. Quick feedback: My nephew prefers page turns (curling) on their iPad. I assume that he prefers it over a powerpoint style slides that we currently have on your book. Well
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by marvindanig 5y ago
True, but you'll be surprised at how many people want astrology and stuff like crystals and scented stones and magical beans across the United States. It's huge and truly a contest between literacy and the belief system.
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by marvindanig 5y ago
My experience: iPad with a pencil is much better. But it is a personal choice in the end, I'd say.
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by marvindanig 5y ago
> Hardware wise, it looks great, but I seldom hear good things about the software, only that it is "improving" for years now. It was pretty much DOA for me. Over the years I have learned/trained my hand to keep away from p
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by marvindanig 5y ago
I recommend the newsletter The Flipside [1] by Annafi Wahed. She and the team are doing an amazing job bringing the two sides together. Shout out to Annafi– how are you all doing there?! [1] https://www.theflipside.io/
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Not if they are black though, isn't it?! Then the execution is summary and pretty much live on-street.
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Could you provide the source indicating that only 0.1% of cops are bad and the remaining 99.9% are good? Meanwhile a reality check for you: https://twitter.com/ProfessorPenis/status/140430555390457036... "the
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by marvindanig 5y ago
I’d say it is less by Modi directly and more by the nazi inspired organization called the RSS that’s shaping up India lately. The only difference is that they won’t be repeating the hubris/mistakes of a Fuhrer style set up with a singl
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by marvindanig 5y ago
So a consumer startup by a 20yo founder with no experience, business model or an iota of revenue is a ponzi scheme too? Edit: Wait! It is so and Bay Area has been selling this pyramid scheme for years. lol.
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Exactly! I suspect most of the folks complaining about crypto space in general are 'brick and mortar' investors of a centralized web. These people invest only in their closed network, in people they meet face to face and "lik
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Ming of Harlem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by marvindanig 5y ago
A gentle reminder to anyone dismissing this theme of making websites work with less javascript: Amazon.com works great with NO javascript. Seamlessly.
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JavaScript Notes and Reference(wesbos.com)
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by marvindanig 5y ago
> I love to somewhere surrounded by nature, open my laptop and use my phone as hotspot, but I feel the fatigue after some time… I think this has more value than just working somewhere in the arms of nature. The fact that we no longer see
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by marvindanig 5y ago
It is counter-intuitive indeed! This research led professors Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young to win the Nobel Prize [1] in Physiology and Medicine in 2017. The cue is in the effort required to capture the message from
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by marvindanig 5y ago
> It still excludes a quite significant amount of users, and probably most desktop users. A shrinking fraction of 32% [1] web users. Some hard data to take a call based off of. [1] https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/st
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Absolutely! Ha, yes! Scrolling vertically is orthogonal to the reading direction. This makes us lose track of scanning head (leading word/sentence) on the content easily. Goes against the grain of our saccadic perception kinda of. A ho
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Agreed. But more typical is publishing the on dead-tree pulp. I am aware about the views held by the older generation of developers on this topic; most of those unix heads (especially on this forum) are desktop thinkers and end up buying ph
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by marvindanig 5y ago
Hmm. That's a solid point. Thank you! I should have shared the Cover [1] instead of the Book itself. Then it'd have opened on a new tab. [1] https://bubblin.io/cover/a-108-verses-of-the-gita-by-swami-b...
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by marvindanig 5y ago
> I think it’s because I associate the back button as the counter to navigation through links, which the page flip gesture doesn’t feel like… Again, each page on that book is an independent link that you're navigating to. I'm a
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by marvindanig 5y ago
> Except those web pages are broken into pages at arbitrary locations, rather than by chapter or topic like most web sites Websites are not books. No one will read Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban like a website or a news article. Bo

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