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811.
by sfifs 9y ago
Could there be a way to print to EPub? PDF is uniquely bad for mobile readability but EPub solves for that
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by sfifs 9y ago
I've been programming computers since the time they came with two 5.25 inch floppies with green text monitors and have seen all UI paradigms since then. Maybe I have a right to have a point of view? The standard desktop design paradigm
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by sfifs 9y ago
please read what I've written carefully. if the us didn't use so much oil, global oil prices would be much much lower and wouldn't enrich these countries.
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by sfifs 9y ago
And I feel the other way around. "Modern Desktop GUI" feels clunky and archaic to me :-) Like menus and toolbars and the "ribbon" ajd the status bar and those clunky desktop widgets...
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by sfifs 9y ago
Sure. And you should stop driving/riding petroleum using vehicles because fuel demand props up prices and funds these countries.
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by sfifs 9y ago
the point is HTML5/CSS/JS nowadays provides superior UI experience to traditional UI frameworks. In many of the categories above, there are electron/webview based applications that's very popular. Text editor, document e
817.
by sfifs 9y ago
Well you're not their customer, you're the product. The hiring manager is the customer.
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by sfifs 9y ago
> most of the simple things in a user unfriendly way Care to elaborate? The thing I value about Android is how I can setup the things "my way" vs. "Johnny Ive" way and so make important things far more simple to do th
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by sfifs 9y ago
Say you are migrating password algorithms in a login system. Typical way to do it would be to add columns for new algorithm hash and ask people to change passwords once they login with the old one. Front end only needs to know to show the c
820.
by sfifs 9y ago
Ever heard of mass forced migration for hydroelectric projectsa and air pollution in cities from coal burning causing asthma
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by sfifs 9y ago
Yes. But if someone without a license pulls this kind of a scam in a regime with licensing and the victim complains to the police, the police can catch the scammer on basis of operating without license. Conversely, a licensed operator is
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by sfifs 9y ago
Yes. Those will generally be significantly pricier. These kinds of problems happen when folks try to minimize cost
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by sfifs 9y ago
One of the big problems in Indian economic statistics is that a lot of wealth and income if the "middle class" and the rich actually doesn't show up in official statistics. Their income is in what's known as "black
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by sfifs 9y ago
You're betting around 30 will survive? What would be the reason for survival of so many?
825.
by sfifs 9y ago
not GP but in both India and Signapore, instant settlement with little or no fees is the norm for nomimal amounts like rent etc.
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by sfifs 9y ago
The more years pass, the closer to reality Snow Crash and Neuromancer and Rainbows End appear. In Snow Crash, the central intelligence agency has become a commercial entity that produces a aynducated reality show by putting cameras on their
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by sfifs 9y ago
in the digital and mobile software space and how they can transform society, i am seeing China a year and a half ahead of US and Japan (and quite a bit ahead of Europe). Same in infrastructure where it's decade ahead of the US. No one
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by sfifs 9y ago
Interesting that none of these except maybe the Market on Mulberry would interest me sufficiently for a visit. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Shopping is probably the least interesting thing to do when in New York. There's virtually nothing in stores in New York that you cannot find elsewhere. The experiences though - the Metropolitan, Broadway etc are without peer
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by sfifs 9y ago
They can do pretty much what they want unless there is a political movement in multiple countries to stop it. In other words, there has to be profit for a bunch politicians to stop it or what they're doing has to be highly morally unpa
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by sfifs 9y ago
It's convenient because everyone accepts it and the transaction charges appear to be half of credit card fees (or zero if the merchant uses Tencent's escrow system). When I travel to China, as a foreigner, I'm virtually the
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by sfifs 9y ago
> I think we have people who try to make sure that we don't contaminate Mars with Earth bacteria any more than we can avoid. Given Elon Musk's goal is explicitly to colonize Mars, this is probably the least of his worries.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Depends on whether the drivers owned their cars or were renting. Many drivers rent from the actual car owners, they won't make much. The few who own their cars do well out of Uber.
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by sfifs 9y ago
> ...wrapper to the YouTube web page rather than accessing the videos directly, I expect Google will enable access again. Probably they won't. WebViews don't return device ids amd don't let you set persistent cookies which
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by sfifs 9y ago
Instead of taking 1 high quality UI paradigm that works exactly the same on virtually every computer and spending time solving my business problem, you'd like me to spend time on learning the weirdnesses of each platform's native
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by sfifs 9y ago
> This is OK for many cases, but gets pretty expensive and inefficient for prototyping I used to think so too once upon a time and i used to etch PCBs myself etc. Then my child was born and the value of my own time sky-rocketed. Now even
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by sfifs 9y ago
Market size would be a challenge. You likely represent a very niche segment - a highly technically savvy hobbyist who wants to work on tools yourself for the love of it. For anyone doing requiring 3D printing, CNC etc professionally or even
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by sfifs 9y ago
From the same article: > McBride and his co-authors estimated that individuals living near coal-fired installations are exposed to a maximum of 1.9 millirems of fly ash radiation yearly. To put these numbers in perspective, the average p
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by sfifs 9y ago
It simply reflects social priorities. If physical violence were tolerated as commonplace and had few deterrents then a lot of people would feel much more unsafe all the time. I wonder if you have ever lived day to day in a place where a few
840.
by sfifs 9y ago
Well "shitty tabloids" tend to survive financially. The media companies that don't work that way tend to require a rich benefactor who doesn't mind making little money or losing money to keep it alive. So it's no su

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