sportsaw

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by sportsaw 6y ago
I love this: > In the Trellis project we experimented with a “time travel” interface, allowing a user to move back in time to see earlier states of a merged document, and automatically highlighting recently changed elements as changes ar
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by sportsaw 6y ago
I love markdown. I hate making slide decks. I’m looking forward to comparing this to similar tools I’ve tried. In a perfect world I would be able to `brew install fusuma` and not need node, but that’s a small thing. Thanks!
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by sportsaw 6y ago
I admit that I like Reddit for product or local-area research. But whenever I find myself filling my time by scrolling through popular subs, I end up feeling like shit. They're teeming with misanthropes and the low-IQ'd. For examp
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by sportsaw 6y ago
Do you have an example of a site that blocks this? I don’t use gmail anymore but used this trick for many years and wasn’t blocked once.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Google use infinite scroll?
3 points by sportsaw 6y ago|1 comments
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by sportsaw 6y ago
Actually it makes perfect sense: clear images are identifiable.
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by sportsaw 6y ago
This sounds sentimental, I can’t think of anything worse than being stuck in a coffee shop talking to people all day.
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by sportsaw 6y ago
But the Stoics put a stake in the ground about what is virtuous. Doing so definitely has utility to society, but it has no more of a claim to being “correct” than a spider’s idea of a virtuous life: “eat flies and sometimes your offspring,”
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by sportsaw 6y ago
To me #1 sounds like an appeal to nature without basis. It sounds a little like “The Secret”—positive actions have positive reactions—which I haven’t seen evidence of sufficiently to make a law of. I don’t know what “listen to our conscienc
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by sportsaw 6y ago
I like Stoicism and have read many books on topic. Stoicism provides me with mental tricks to think more positively and be more resilient. However, there are some presuppositions that underlie the philosophy that must be take on faith. “Lea
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by sportsaw 6y ago
I think the example was silly, but think about finding the epoch in, say, a log file. With this system you could just click and see the human readable. With the date command you'd have to switch to terminal, type "date -r", p
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by sportsaw 6y ago
I haven’t used the Acme text editor, but this reminds me of what I have read about it in that any text can be a command. Very neat looking.