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by yodon 4y ago
Windows would just have you open the file manager app when you need a file manager window. No need for the "app" to be always open. To Windows users, it feels extremely strange to have an app that's always open that you can&#
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by yodon 4y ago
Windows 1.0 was technically a thing but as you probably know the thing the rest of the world thinks of as Windows didn't really launch until Windows 3 (and arguably didn't really fully ship until 3.11)
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by yodon 4y ago
The concept of "an open application with no open windows" is a very OSX thing that other windowing OS's manage to avoid without effort or difficulty. There are lots of ways to represent background tasks, services, VPN's,
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by yodon 4y ago
For Mac users asking "how is this different from the keystrokes I already have", this app is designed to give you Windows-style switching which is subtlety but fundamentally different from OSX-style window switching. MacOS is app-
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by yodon 4y ago
This app is designed to give you Windows-style switching. MacOS is app-centric, so you have to switch to an app and then switch through the windows of the app. Windows has a unified window stack so Alt-Tab always takes you to the previous w
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by yodon 4y ago
Merging a few themes that have appeared in other posts but that I haven't seen combined into one, the outlier-based nature of large VC returns and the lack of liquidity prior to those outlier events makes IRR a bad metric for VC invest
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by yodon 4y ago
I'm reminded of an oldie-but-goodie paper on Bazaar-style development efforts vs. hierarchically organized humans writing code that might interest folks hitting this page[0]. tl;dr: Bazaar efforts tend to develop loosely coupled or dec
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by yodon 4y ago
Recycling laws changed and plastic bags ceased to be readily available. It's not a change in prosecution that happened, it's a change in the availability of the disposal mechanism.
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by yodon 4y ago
For those who run Windows, I realize bing is a joke to most HN readers, but the desktop backgrounds they serve up are actually pretty great[0]. It's the only reason I keep the bing app installed on my machine. [0] https://www
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by yodon 4y ago
You've clearly put a lot of work into assembling this list. I'm guessing the page would be significantly more valuable to readers and much more likely to be found by people interested in the the information in it if you added a br
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by yodon 4y ago
Your character is defined by who you are and how you behave when you think no one is watching you.
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by yodon 4y ago
The process was surprisingly close to "hey could you do this" followed by "that would be tricky, let me see what I can do" followed by "it's up on GitHub." Many kudos to Scott Hanselman and others at Micro
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by yodon 4y ago
Reading your second set of links, it sounds like much more a case of "the media does a bad job of reporting on science" than "the research is corrupt." If you want to improve the quality of science reporting, that's
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by yodon 4y ago
I'm not seeing the smoking gun here in your documents. I'm aware of many academics who work with city governments, including at least one researcher not from Chicago who works closely with the city of Chicago. He does so precisely
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by yodon 4y ago
The University of Chicago is a private institution with a research budget of many billions of dollars per year. Given the extreme difficulty of believing the government of the city of Chicago provides even a tiny fraction of those billions
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by yodon 4y ago
Funding is always going to be preferentially available for the things that people are interested in. That's true in all aspects of life, not just in science. If you want to challenge the Standard Model in Physics, of course you're
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by yodon 4y ago
MIT CSAIL is not hard up for funding, nor is Hal Abelson. They can choose who they want to take money from. Funding sources that restrain a researcher's ability to publish damage that researcher's ability to advance their own care
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by yodon 4y ago
> But if your conclusions do not align with the funders desires, would your research see the light of day? If you are in academic science doing publicly funded academic research, as most academics do, then yes, your funding agency does w
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by yodon 4y ago
You may want to spend less time reading anti-intellectual media and more time talking to people who actually do academic scientific research. There are many challenges in academic science, but it does a remarkably good job of not falling pr
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by yodon 5y ago
When the author starts their post off insulting David French they lose all credibility in my mind as an arbiter of literature. David French has written an enormous number of posts I disagree strongly with, and an equivalent number that I ag
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by yodon 5y ago
Not sure if others had this experience but by a few lines into the text I was hearing these words sung to the tune of hotel california while reading them. My conscious had zero awareness of what was going on, but my subconscious got it imme
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by yodon 5y ago
When my kids were young, I set them up with two emails addresses: one for emailing friends, the other for emailing businesses. The assumption was this would protect their personal friend emails from spam. The reality was by the time they we
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Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothing(phorhum.github.io)
1 points by yodon 5y ago|0 comments
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by yodon 5y ago
I think this is something of a debate on "is it good to get some exercise?" vs "is walking or swimming or weight lifting a better exercise?" The minimal set of doodles I mentioned is a simplification of the Palmer method
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by yodon 5y ago
I agree that the slant is intentional, but it's not clear to me that the slant comes as a result of the preferred arm position (it seems equally likely the arm position was chosen because it results in the desired slant). As you might
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by yodon 5y ago
Most English language handwriting has an up-and-to-the-right tilt. Architects will frequently adopt a precisely vertical style but it tends to feel cold and impersonal (or perhaps just unfamiliar as most writing does have a bit of slant to
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by yodon 5y ago
Something like this [0], but don't worry about the counting, just doodle the patterns [0] https://fcmdsc.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/exercises.jpg
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by yodon 5y ago
Every couple years, I'll adjust my doodling habits to a set of patterns based on a simplification of the Palmer method. This simple doodling practice has given me the best handwriting at just about every place I've worked in the p
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If founders treated investors the way they treat employees(software.rajivprab.com)
347 points by yodon 5y ago|167 comments
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Netflix and the Economics of F2p Games(davemadden.substack.com)
1 points by yodon 5y ago|0 comments

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