pknight

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by pknight 12y ago
You are joking I hope? >> you didn't pay for a dateline and I don't owe it to you. Supplying date meta is as basic as having contrast between your font and background and having font set at a legible size. "Because you
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by pknight 12y ago
Removing the date from a post/article/essay is like saying FU to a reader who's trying to research a topic efficiently.
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by pknight 12y ago
It's pretty simple though, if you're researching a topic you need to be able to assess the chronology of a post. Without it the content becomes less reliable. Now you have to second guess the content to know whether it's stil
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by pknight 12y ago
I've been waiting for a basic device that just tells me roughly what brain state I'm in (alpha/beta/delta/theta/gamma dominant) with bonus points if it has a feedback mechanism to make it easier to train one se
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by pknight 12y ago
Games are a way to play. Life without play is = devoid of joy. You can get play from lots of different things (work/music/improv etc), but it's human nature to want to play. Games are a part of culture, just like music is.
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by pknight 12y ago
Amazing what a single person can accomplish with the right focus.
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by pknight 12y ago
I don't totally get it. On one hand he's selling this idea that making a dream site can be easy (and it is if it's a very simple site, I guess). He's got 2 decades of experience that say there's more to creating a s
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by pknight 13y ago
My initial thought on this was that it needs to be a combination of self-hosted/hostable, open source and community driven. At the very least, it users should be able to control where their data is stored. Now that I see that advertisi
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by pknight 13y ago
This happens so often. It's not just in the freemium space either. I've seen companies use affiliate programs and low-ish prices in their early days, only to dump the affiliate program and price model after they have garnered enou
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by pknight 13y ago
I have been wondering what the value is of being continually up to date. One of my gripes with being on twitter is that you get to be up to date on things you don't particularly want to be up to date on. I wish there were an easy way t
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by pknight 13y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating what it means to have (virtually) unlimited energy. Things that we are not doing now because it's not economically viable, become viable. Water filtration for drinkable water is huge and also
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by pknight 13y ago
What's interesting to me is that the real tipping point is when we are able to produce energy easily and cheaply in a virtually unlimited fashion, without relying on scarce resources. It will accelerate our means to produce virtually a
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by pknight 13y ago
I have never taken homeopathic medicine but I am fascinated by the placebo effect. It is one of the best researched effects (because most studies have a treatment group just with placebo) with very real results. Homeopathy for some people j
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by pknight 13y ago
I think the issue is that AI folk believe that given enough computer power they can somehow replicate all the brain can do and create the capacity for consciousness and qualia in what is essentially a machine doing mathematics. This assumes
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by pknight 13y ago
That's cool. Their terms refer to US based law/courts though, I'd probably wager their servers are going to be in the US as well.
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by pknight 13y ago
My 5 year ago self would have loved this. That was when I had the unrealistic expectation that useful services would stay around forever and not get bought out, close shop or pivot into something else. It was also during a time when I wasn&
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by pknight 13y ago
And that there is an app for most platforms. I'd actually love to see an open source version of OneNote (pen based abilities, search performance and OCR capabilities) more than Evernote.
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by pknight 13y ago
writing a draft in Onenote and sending it to your blogging CMS, syncing a todo list in Onenote with a 3rd party project management service or task manager. Parsing a page in Onenote and retrieving meta data via another API to add to the pag
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by pknight 13y ago
Recently I can't get any browser to reliably render flash content without the browser crashing or blacking out. It's a coin flip whether a video is going to show or not. The irony is that IE 11 has been the most consistent of all
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by pknight 13y ago
Motivation is such a complex issue but it's quite apparent that you can't view it in isolation. I don't see how a hypothetical motivation pill will do much better than an anti-depressant drug. What I find interesting though i
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by pknight 13y ago
Not to discount research and the potential benefits of drugs for individual use cases, but why fight the symptoms (apparent lack in motivation) with drugs instead of the cause. Why not figure out how to organize things in a way that less pe
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by pknight 13y ago
I've looked at your project for the purposes of writing a book but it feels like the technology should be able to do so much more and make things easier. These were my initial penflip impressions: * I'm ambivalent to markup, it&#x
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by pknight 13y ago
That's nonsense. Their are whole industries that could use better collaborative tools (such as the book publishing industry). Have you tried writing a book? The tools are so limited. Google docs for example is not a great tool for writ
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by pknight 13y ago
Just want to say cool art work on the landing page
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by pknight 13y ago
It just blows my mind that some folks are condescending toward running WP over running a light weight solution with a vastly inferior range of functionality. If you want to publish a series of texts with only a minimum of requirements, sure
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by pknight 13y ago
It's because it is a sad depiction of life and totally misguided for the purposes of making a catchy post. He took the games analogy to far the way of mechanical games that emphasize the hamster wheel approach to life. That's no
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by pknight 13y ago
I hate app tours with a passion, I wish devs would only use this if a user explicitly wants a hand-held introduction, otherwise it feels like it just gets in the way.
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by pknight 13y ago
I tried to install a light flash app (like the author) and when I saw how much privileges it was asking for, I passed on the opportunity. Out of curiousity I googled to see why a flash app might need all these permissions and it became appa
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by pknight 13y ago
Unless you're heavily into using Compass or Foundation I don't see any major reasons to favor it over Less as far as features go. Both are really powerful. One advantage of using Less is the existence of (php) libs so you can comp
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by pknight 13y ago
This reminds me of those courses that supposedly train you to read books at insane speeds by relaxing and taking in the pages like a photo. Is there anybody that actually gets results with this approach?

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