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by qxb 15y ago
I see. I wouldn't consider it a priority request. And don't get me wrong: I think the site's functionality at the moment is great: quick, simple, straightforward. I've already emailed it to the three people I know who work shifts :-)
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by qxb 15y ago
A very neat, useful application. I second some of the other feedback here (saving details, better labelling of on or off days, .ics export). One extra feature you might want to add: ability to check a date in the future without having to sc
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by qxb 15y ago
This is all solid advice. On the last point ("one-man shop"), Jason Fried wrote a column for Inc. on being a one-man company and feeling and fighting the need to exaggerate its size: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/dont-exaggerate-your-
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by qxb 15y ago
As I said in a previous Raspberry Pi thread[0], the comparison is supposed to be with high / school school textbooks, not college ones. School textbooks are cheaper than those used at university. Raspberry Pi is a charity "to promote the st
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by qxb 15y ago
I agree. I think a lot of people do this already, and not just for sites where they can't remember the exact URL. It's often just as quick to type 'bbc' or 'facebook' into the Google search bar, especially if Google is your homepage. You do
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by qxb 15y ago
Some suggestions in these Quora threads: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-feedback-plugin-that-I-can-u... http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-website-feedback-widge... Or, a couple of jQuery examples (there are probably others): http:
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by qxb 15y ago
This is a (lengthy) summary-cum-reaction-to-cum-review of the book by Douglas Rushkoff. A good related read is Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget: http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/030738...
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by qxb 15y ago
Writer, philosopher Alain de Botton: "We should cite our age not by how many years we've lived, but by how many we statistically have left: a 70 yr old UK male as 8 etc." http://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/95809899929407488
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by qxb 15y ago
I am glad somebody posted this article. I found it very thought-provoking. Some background: The original paper by the Jesuit priest was discussed on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421107 (includes a link to the
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by qxb 15y ago
.co.uk now too.
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by qxb 15y ago
This is a great system. Depending on the type of emails you're sending, you could also use Gmail Labs' Canned Response feature to speed up the follow-ups.
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by qxb 15y ago
I think the comparison is supposed to be with high / secondary school textbooks, which are cheaper than university ones. Raspberry Pi is a charity "to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level" and
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by qxb 15y ago
I think you should emphasise that the browsing history is stored remotely. That looks to be the main advantage for me, because for Chrome users at least, the inbuilt history search is already very powerful. (As an example, I visited your si
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by qxb 15y ago
Previously on HN: 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935773 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932910
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by qxb 15y ago
Drag and drop in Google Docs (and Gmail) is HTML5.[1] I don't think WebKit supports it fully, though. I am using Chrome 15 canary and when I visited html5test.com I got "partial" for the "dropzone" attribute under "Drag and drop". Same for
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by qxb 15y ago
As I understand it, vi's author, Bill Joy, used a terminal that placed arrow symbols on hjkl because it did not have dedicated arrow keys. Wikipedia backs up this story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJKL_keys#HJKL_keys
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by qxb 15y ago
Here's a single page version: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/gold-coins-the-...