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by szhu 6y ago
Yes, large companies have solved their own money-making problems of scale by becoming so large that problems that we find important as a society become ignorable for their bottom line. That doesn't mean that they've solved the pro
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by szhu 6y ago
It looks like people are discussing alternatives here, so I wanted to give a quick pitch for my setup. I stash my useful links in Asana. For those who haven't used it, Asana is like a big, organized to-do list. Each link I want to keep
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by szhu 6y ago
Don't have groups/projects I know about, but if you'd like, I would love to have a further conversation about education. I'd rather converse rather than post because most of my thoughts are still half-baked (and because
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by szhu 6y ago
I have a friend with pet rabbits -- apparently this is common in most prey animals. Individuals won't indicate that they are sick unless there's a statistical advantage to doing so. Non-social animals don't get help from thei
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by szhu 6y ago
Found some context: https://github.com/WICG/portals I think this proposal is a better starting point for readers than an API spec. Goals, taken directly from the proposal: - Enable seamless navigations from a page show
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by szhu 6y ago
Not only are there only two options, there is a high entry fee to each option, and you can only choose one at a time even if you wanted to pay this entry fee twice. What percent of consumers are willing to carry two phones in their pockets?
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by szhu 6y ago
I see a lot of people commenting on how good the Jump bike design is. I almost missed this excerpt, but it looks like that design might be here to stay: > Lime's chief executive Wayne Ting has said he prefers the design of Uber&#x27
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by szhu 6y ago
I typically use video chat apps like Facebook, Google Meet, and Zoom. I think the grid is efficient from a space perspective -- there's less wasted space -- but the grid looks very corporate and boring. I think there's also a prac
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by szhu 6y ago
I think this part of macOS has always been consistent. - shift- anchors the selection as you move the cursor and can be combined with any of the below. - left/right jumps characters. (backspace/delete deletes characters.) up/
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by szhu 6y ago
> painful and unappreciated role I think the fact that an outcasts are unappreciated is an inherent correlation. Being influenced by appreciation is mostly useful for getting individuals to adhere to the behavior of the group. As for it
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by szhu 6y ago
> Most of my time on it these days is supporting others In general, I actually disagree with even this sentiment, that macOS is worse because it is harder to help others fix certain kinds of problems. The problem with supporting people o
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by szhu 6y ago
I would love to have framework de-duplication work this way: - Each app ships with its own copy of the framework at a particular version. This ensures that apps can be installed offline, just as before. - When running the app for the first
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by szhu 6y ago
I tested the following on Mac: 1. Block "(star)" from accessing "(star)://mail.google.com" 2. Install the config 3. Go to chrome://policy/ and click "Reload policies" 4. Open Gmail. Dar
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by szhu 6y ago
I don't think the CoffeeScript advocates did anything wrong at all. CoffeeScript was a popular solution with a healthy ecosystem, no one knew when JS was going to get these features, and TypeScript was still an emerging player (just li
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by szhu 6y ago
I think the killer feature here is natively targeting Windows AND macOS simultaneously. The only cross-platform alternatives that I've seen in the ecosystem use either web or Gtk in the frontend, and both of these have a distinctly non
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by szhu 6y ago
For those looking for a Notion alternative: at my previous company, the excessive customizability of Notion convinced me to switch everyone from Notion to a more lightweight and opinionated tool called Slab. We made the switch in early 2019
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by szhu 6y ago
A good example is ridiculousfish, the maintainer of Fish shell: https://github.com/ridiculousfish https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/about.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567053
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by szhu 7y ago
Yes, we heard you the first time. The code snippet kn0where posted has the same effect. :) I looked into this some more, and I think the actual difference between `document.documentElement.contentEditable` and `document.designMode` is subtl
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by szhu 7y ago
Tesla sells two versions of that car, one with longer range, even though they have identical hardware. During the hurricane, they lifted the software cap on the shorter-range version.
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by szhu 7y ago
Saw |> in the example and came here to say the same thing! I used LiveScript for a while and it was very fun to use for personal projects.
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by szhu 7y ago
I had the same thought, but I think this except from the post assuaged some of those concerns: "We want to make clear here that even though the current version of the robot appears to be performing amazingly well, our human flaggers ar
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by szhu 7y ago
> While not all users have Chrome installed, the vast majority do. For those who do not, we are using the browser fallback method described above (option 3); other than adding one line of code, we get the fallback for free from CCT. As
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by szhu 7y ago
I checked before, and if I recall correctly, Time Machine backups are protected at the kernel level -- you cannot modify them, even with sudo. You can delete the whole backup, but you cannot modify part of it. > but executing things from
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by szhu 7y ago
Homebrew Cask's uninstall scripts are basically a community-maintained "best guess" at to how to full uninstall each piece of software. It's generally pretty reliable, and I do use it to remove non-brew installs sometime
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by szhu 7y ago
Possibly relevant for those looking for easier ways to create Markdown tables: A few years ago, I wrote a spec for Markdown tables using a subset of YAML -- no GUI required for authoring. Curious what HN thinks of it: https://git
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by szhu 7y ago
I had no idea how recently modern credit cards were invented until reading that first paragraph. Wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc .
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by szhu 7y ago
This might get buried, but have you considered using your calendar? I create calendar events in the past to keep track of where I've spent my time. If you want to create an event quickly, there are tons of integrations. You can even us
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by szhu 7y ago
I use fish shell, which lets you create abbreviations. Abbreviations are like shell aliases, except that after you type them, they expand to the entire command -- so it helps you memorize the real thing as well! Also there's auto-compl
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by szhu 7y ago
Another great article about customizing key bindings: https://macromates.com/blog/2006/multi-stroke-key-bindings/ This one talks about using it to insert commonly used special characters. (My own keybindings,
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by szhu 7y ago
Amazing article. btw, can the title be changed? The real title says "disabled" but the one here says "readonly" -- I can only imagine what kind of automatic substitution caused this.

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