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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
Interesting. Did you learn cursive in elementary school? I find the sample really easy and pleasant to read. I wonder if it's a difference in experience or just personal preference.
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The Slow Death of Digital Books(marcusvorwaller.com)
1 points by zzzmarcus 11y ago|0 comments
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
There are no Postgres or Mysql add-ons for Meteor that are actively maintained or even close to production ready. Hopefully you can prove me wrong on this, but I've looked and have only found preview releases and alpha quality packages
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
A friend showed me http://gethibou.com/ yesterday. Basically the idea seems to be that you bookmark a page, highlight what you want to remember and they use spaced-repetition to help you remember it. It might go along well
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
OP here. I mostly agree with you. If the filesystem was better at a few things then it'd be the ideal PK. Right now though it isn't enough. It's too slow or too inconvenient for most things you'd want in a PK. Creating f
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
One of the main reasons for using a personal knowledgebase is surfacing patterns in what you've saved. If there is no way of visualizing the relationship between notes/nodes outside of a flat list, pattern finding is limited to wh
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
Freemind is great for mindmapping in the context of a specific topic or project, but isn't a general purpose knowledgebase. A mindmap starts at a central node and moves outward. This makes it limited in the practical number of nodes yo
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The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases(marcusvorwaller.com)
115 points by zzzmarcus 11y ago|106 comments
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
If you're trying to figure out Goldlist and having a hard time, this video helped me understand the actual method much faster than reading the 22 step list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixxq8moh4pg
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes is an interesting take on consciousness that seems to come up often in these types of discussions.
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
The List App https://li.st/ is currently getting some traction by being promoted by a bunch of Hollywood people, notably the founder(?) B.J. Novak.
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
I pay for Kindle Unlimited and can say first-hand that it has a terrible selection of mostly self-published and second rate books. Kindle itself of course has the best selection, but that's on a pay-per-book model. The brilliant thing
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
Oyster was something that Google Play or Amazon Kindle Unlimited will almost certainly never be. The beautiful design and focus on details was just the surface. It felt like a company run by people that are passionate about reading and surf
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
I've tried it, the main problem I have withe it is that the whole DB has to be loaded into memory. It seems like it would be slow and unwieldy with even a moderate sized database. I'm still keeping it open as an option, but I like
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
Also Electron apps. It's currently pretty painful getting sqlite working with Electron, this could be a nice alternative.
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by zzzmarcus 11y ago
In 2007 moved with my wife and 5 year old from Virginia to Montevideo, Uruguay for 9 months then to Buenos Aires, Argentina for another 4 months. When we arrived, we didn't know a soul and chose that part of the world based mostly on t
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by zzzmarcus 12y ago
This article is the perfect example of why not to use Linux on the desktop. A lot of fiddling around that eventually leads to a result that is far inferior to what you'd get just using OS X or Windows.
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by zzzmarcus 12y ago
It used to break up the landscape, but in its current dilapidated state it's a bit of an eye-sore, even compared to the rest of the Ballard Blocks which are far from being architectural marvels. Hopefully someone will fix it up, becaus
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by zzzmarcus 12y ago
As a Picturelife customer with over 200gb of pictures backed up, and as an Everpix refugee, I really hope this turns out to be the case. If Picturelife disappears, I'm not going to start over somewhere else.
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
What are they removing? I find that they're constantly adding more and more. They're recommendations particularly just keep improving.
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
I am another very, very satisfied Everpix user who is sad to see them go. They did such a perfect job of increasing visibility on old photos and I've been sharing pictures like I never did with Facebook or any other social network. Suc
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
If a company I worked at implemented this, and I knew about it, I'd quit. Despite the tagline about nobody liking micromanaging (not to mention being micromanaged), this is software that explicitly encourages micromanaging. None of the
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
Just some background, this is by Mencius Moldbug, a.k.a. Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. C. Guy Yarvin of Unqualified Reservations fame. It's been in the works for a long time and is certainly a serious project. http://unqualified-res
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
It seems like the main complaints are that: - It's iPhone only. This will, of course, change. They have to launch somewhere first. - We already have public libraries and Overdrive. Sure, they are out there but they don't solve the
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
Pot, kettle.
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Cubeslam - WebGL, CSS 3d, WebRTC, Web Audio Chrome demo game(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by zzzmarcus 13y ago|0 comments
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
Checkout AeroFS, it's P2P, it can do versioning with the team server and has a pretty nice UI.
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
Checkout Bitcasa [ https://www.bitcasa.com/ ]. If I understand you correctly it does what you want. Their website is frustratingly scarce on technical details but I've tried it and it works as they describe it.
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by zzzmarcus 13y ago
Why would this be game over for AeroFS? Yes, BT Sync is direct competition, but I've used AeroFS for over two years now, since their early alphas and AeroFS works almost flawlessly for P2P sync. It also has S3 sync for their team server whi
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
Paying for it was a no-brainer for me. It's an easy to maintain, well designed site and app that's not a another backup black-hole where photos are safe, but too hard to actually look at. That's easily worth a few dollars a month/year.

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