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by metasean 11y ago
Kudos on creating your own keyboard! How long did the design process take and do you find it helps you maintain healthy typing habits? As for the 'cool' aspects of the Soli, I really could care less. (I've never cared about
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When I first started having pains in my wrist, I learned Dvorak and am very grateful I did so. Unfortunately, I still deal with repetitive stress from keyboard use and would love an alternative to the standard keyboard. I've looked at
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Official site - http://openstenoproject.org/ Blog - http://openstenoproject.org/ Looks like they're close to launching a crowdfunding campaign on - https://www.crowdsupply.com/
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A couple of months after having surgery to replace a blown cervical disk, I received a letter telling me that a prior surgical patient had died of Creutzfeldt–Jakob and, among other things, that I may have been exposed via surgical instrume
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My favorite 'survey' question ever... > On a scale of 1 to 10, what's your favorite candy? I originally heard it on a "Senseless Survey" radio segment.
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I learned about "productive procrastination"[1] at least a decade ago and as a result learned to embrace my procrastination tendencies as long as (a) I am actually being productive at something and (b) there isn't something t
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From the same source (highlighting mine): Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need . Man is a perpet
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Distribution is crucial, but I think pkorzeniewski was highlighting how marketing and networking can trump product quality, and his disillusionment with realizing how often this happens. For many products distribution is correlated with mar
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I missed it the first time round ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913774 ). This aligns with Maslow's Hierarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs In other words
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For those not in the know, this is from William Gibson's Neuromancer ( http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp ).
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For anyone interested in putting together their own version, I customized my bash terminal (including git related info) using the following resources: - Mikko Nylén's comment in http://web.archive.org/web/201301270
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> Especially since now everybody has X bucks more, will the prices go up for everybody, thus excluding the poorer and thus making the system counterproductive ? This is the big question for me. I have yet to read about a trial being run
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Highlighting mine... Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer mig
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There are related learning benefits to sleeping, in particular for materials studied shortly before sleep. http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits... http://www.psywww.com/intr
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Or to 'entertain'/'occupy' the still operational brain-cells during the flushing period (like tv shows and movies during long flights or dialysis).
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No, the idea behind a basic income is that it "is a form of social security system in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public instituti
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"the Teflon website will warn against small birds in the kitchen..." But Big Bird is okay in the kitchen? ;-)
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I'm extremely near-sighted, which is getting worse with age. Some believe that myopia is exacerbated by typical indoor activities. So my dream use case is to be able to do my computer work an a virtual drive-in movie theater screen.
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Yep, it means the tech is probably in the "Trough of Disillusionment" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
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It gives women, along with other frequently disadvantaged groups, such as minorities, the obese, seniors, and physically challenged persons, a more equitable chance to be heard in the first place. It means that the speakers who are chosen
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Is there anywhere we can read about the actual robot or the project?
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I've been there. I've done that. I finally quit and am so much healthier and sane for having done so! Bullies, no matter how good their ideas, are bullies. Bullies do not make good bosses, however they do make work environments ra
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Reminds me of a sign I saw in the Pueblo, Co train depot - http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/mix97-3.com/files/201... For attribution purposes, the image is associated with an enlightening write-up, but
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It looks like they are trying to make them in a locally sustainable manner... >We're doing this in our approach to distributing GravityLight >We are partnering with local networks of people earning a living by selling products su
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They're both tools that use spaced repetition [1]. The OP made it sound like Hickory is automatically generating cards based on what a user reads. It also sounds like Hickory is doing more analytics. Of course, Anki is open-source, s
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I'm a lousy swimmer, but when I was an active duty Marine I had to swim qual every year. One year during swim qual I was doing the last bit, basically get from point A to point B in helmet, camies, and boots. Since it didn't matt
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I hadn't heard of Esio Trot, but sounds like a definite fit. I was actually reminded of "Hidden Messages in Water" - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22hidden+messages+in+water%22
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I'm glad I have Pinboard to save this article to [1]. And hopefully it will still be at the same url in 8 years [2]. [1] The author of the article runs Pinboard.in [2] From the article, "What I've learned is, about 5% of this
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http://blog.scottlogic.com/2015/07/02/surprising-things-abou...
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Links to each of the mentioned (and available) add-ons below. Note that they each require a restart. - BetterPrivacy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy... - Cookie Monster https:&#

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