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by paperpunk 8y ago
My issue is mainly that Word doesn't really maintain the same structured hierarchy in the XML that HTML would – it's more like a sequential format. The users wanted a way to indicate certain types of content or annotations and the
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by paperpunk 8y ago
I think they are comfortable with it from using it for a long time. In fact I find people do everything in MS Office products, generally in ways you wouldn't necessarily expect the software to be used. E.g. PowerPoint is the de facto t
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by paperpunk 8y ago
You define an internal schema, which is essentially just a tree structure according to your own use-case. In this way it lets you do editing of more complicated page elements than a typical WYSWYG editor. You can provide (or use others&#x27
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by paperpunk 8y ago
I've used Slate in a production application for about 2 years now, as part of a CMS for medical professionals to write rich content for other medical professionals and patients. They tend to write the initial content in MS Word which t
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by paperpunk 8y ago
Roll your own, untested function vs a small, widely used library with a well-understood, well-tested API that your devs have a good chance of being familiar with already. I too want to avoid bloated npm dependencies but this seems like a fa
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by paperpunk 8y ago
I'm not so sure it's so clear in that page you linked to. Google do also sell the largest analytics/user-tracking platform that exists (Google Analytics). That page you linked to seems to hinge around what constitutes 'p
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The Impact of Gender on Conference Authorship in Audio Engineering(tibbakoi.github.io)
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by paperpunk 8y ago
That's interesting, I always feel the opposite -- when I open a page about some software that doesn't have a video I often close the page immediately because I want to see how something works in practice not just in description.
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by paperpunk 9y ago
Something of an off-topic conversation but I think it's quite interesting how modern language is evolving to include pictograms that are common between different languages, and not childish at all. Why must it be a problem?
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by paperpunk 9y ago
Perhaps the same biases that might influence career progression/pay-rise discussions could also influence hiring decisions? Though I agree with your secondary assertion.
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by paperpunk 9y ago
Apropos of nothing, but you mentioning that brought up a memory of when I was in Helsinki this summer: I took a taxi back to the airport early in the morning and the taxi driver (a black man) asked me (white) to sit in the front rather than
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by paperpunk 9y ago
I do agree that Starbucks share responsibility but would you really say that 0% of the responsibility is with the person or people who actually set up the mining?
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by paperpunk 9y ago
Forgive me for what may be a cliché but aren't we just going back to 10 years ago when we moved from layout in HTML tables to CSS? Only now it's `<div class="row"><div class="col-xs-12">` instead of
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by paperpunk 9y ago
If you're ever interested in taking another look you might consider Docker for Mac. There should be no need to use boot2docker anymore. Docker for Mac is the official, recommended solution, and uses HyperKit for lightweight virtualisat
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by paperpunk 9y ago
Because it's more complicated that. Hiring decisions, career progression decisions, salary decisions are not made by an algorithm trying to balance the sheets. They're made by humans with biases.
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by paperpunk 9y ago
I can't speak for the natural sciences, but I'm an academic in an engineering department at a major university in the UK. My main criticism of the article is that it sort of lets non-humanities off the hook. I've been sat in
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by paperpunk 9y ago
I got stuck into a bad habit of browsing the internet idly anytime when I'm at home and then having to rush to get to work so I've created rules on my router to disable web access in the mornings before work and late at night befo
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by paperpunk 9y ago
You described yourself in another comment as fluent in three languages – I wonder if you might be much more practised at figuring out things spoken in other languages than others.
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by paperpunk 9y ago
I worry this will just funnel kids onto the kinds of porn web-sites that are unlikely to follow government regulations anyway, as they might have more damaging content. Are there any cases where something like this has been rolled out elsew
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by paperpunk 9y ago
She makes a good point when she says "I’m already here, people. So I’m not the problem you’re trying to solve." I think what a lot of these kinds of posts miss is that efforts to bring women into tech generally aren't aimed a
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by paperpunk 9y ago
Soulver does it (Mac/iPhone), it just uses 'as' instead of '->' E.g. "6Mbit/s * 1.5h as GB" I've been using it for a while now and I can't imagine going back to a traditional calculator
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by paperpunk 9y ago
For those unfamiliar with the works, it's a good reference. In 'Zen in the Art of Archery' Eugen Herrigel uses archery as a metaphor to initially learn, and then to teach Zen to a western audience because teaching it directly
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by paperpunk 9y ago
All this survey reports are the things people consider to be restful. To that end it doesn't seem more valuable for your personal use than just asking yourself what you find most restful and doing that. It's not actually a study t
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by paperpunk 9y ago
There is (typically) a difference other than pitch. Formants will be in slightly different locations [1]; the energy in the spectrum is balanced differently; there is more aspiration noise [2]. You can model the latter somewhat with this to
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by paperpunk 10y ago
That's a fair point, but it does align with what I was trying to get across. That being that achieving 'technological progress' with a milestone that applies only to the super wealthy is only one part of technological progres
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by paperpunk 10y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to equate 'technologies that existed since the 60s' with 'technologies that are ubiquitous today'. I'm in the bottom 15% of my country (UK) by income and I have access to thin
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by paperpunk 10y ago
I found that with my original iPad. I sold it after a while as it wasn't getting much use. Just last year though I got an iPad Pro 9.7 with the Pencil. That's been pretty game-changing for me as far as making these devices actuall
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by paperpunk 10y ago
If it helps people to improve their hygiene, by placebo effect or otherwise, then that's a good thing. However, I ask because I did try it for several months, and did not notice any effect other than the minor irritation of having to k
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by paperpunk 10y ago
Is there any evidence for Night Shift/f.lux having impact on sleep? Last time I attempted a review I found plenty of explanations but no evidence. A PNAS article about the use of e-Readers is often cited [0]. However, this compares a l
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by paperpunk 10y ago
If the unis I've looked at are any indication then many offer an integrated masters programme but most students will be on the bachelors route. At the institution where I work (Uni of York) many more BEng degrees are awarded than MEng.

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