Fission

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by Fission 2y ago
This is fun, but what I think would be even more interesting and potentially actually useful would be to generate a word from multiple ideas — to help express complex ideas in one word. Like Frühstücksbrotübersättigung
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by Fission 3y ago
I'm quite a big fan of this idea. There is a lot of local history that I suspect I'd never have learned about if some map like this didn't exist. The one thing that would greatly streamline my own usage is a direct link to th
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by Fission 3y ago
The male astronaut with coffee [1] (that I believe you're using as a "verified" example) has an extra finger on his right hand [1] https://www.rubbrband.com/static/media/astronaut_with_coffee...
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by Fission 4y ago
Since Scale.ai provides labeling services to the US Department of Defense, how do they address the issues presented in this article? Have their labelers go through government background checks? Provide labeling software but not the labor?
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by Fission 4y ago
There are a lot of different translations with varied ease of reading, modernity of prose, and fidelity to the original source. The one by Gregory Hays is one of the newest and is my preferred translation.
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by Fission 4y ago
That’s because your data is stored locally, so special characters in the title = special characters in the filename, which isn’t possible. Small but very worthwhile tradeoff.
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by Fission 4y ago
To be fair, this doesn't appear to be an official account (i.e. one that is affiliated with YC). Seems like a project by an unaffiliated developer that happened to grab a relevant Twitter username. If anything, I believe that https:&#
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by Fission 5y ago
I wanted to link to an older comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714286 ) I made on this topic, because I keep on seeing this article. It's turned out to be one of my most upvoted comments on HN, to my genui
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by Fission 5y ago
An open-ended question for you @dang — why don't you think You and Your Research gets more attention from the HN community? It's a good talk by a highly reputable source, about having an impact with the work you do. I personally
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by Fission 5y ago
I did this recently to start creating a public (but unlisted) developer log, à la Carmack .plan. Obsidian has a community GitHub backup plugin, but you can also just manually push to a repo whenever you want to update the site. Then you ca
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by Fission 5y ago
A tip for the Muse team: based on my experience with first-person 3D, a substantial portion of users don't understand pointerlock, and the built-in notification that browsers give usually are insufficient. It might be a good idea to pu
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by Fission 5y ago
It seems like there are some major accessibility issues that are a result of embedding text/inputs/etc. within threejs itself. Have you considered using an HTML element and dynamically positioning it with CSS transforms (i.e. upda
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by Fission 5y ago
There are a lot of virtual office tools out there (I'm not affiliated with any so I feel comfortable asking this question). What makes Spot compelling vs. the alternatives? And if the main difference is 3D, how have you leveraged that
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A guide to product analytics tools for startups(satchel.com)
147 points by Fission 6y ago|27 comments
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by Fission 6y ago
I'm a maker of satchel.com. This is one of the core problems we aimed to tackle. In doing so, we've actually build out _exactly_ this. There are still some crucial obstacles to ensure robustness, but I'd love to get your feed
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A guide to live chat tools for startups(satchel.com)
119 points by Fission 6y ago|61 comments
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by Fission 6y ago
I buy physical books like crazy. Unfortunately, I can similarly describe Amazon's book shipping practices. Some of the things Amazon's done to the books I've ordered: - shipped in a huge box without padding, so books bounce a
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by Fission 6y ago
This is one of the problems we try to solve at Satchel ( https://satchel.com/ ). We write long-form guides to help startups figure out the best tool for them to use.
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by Fission 6y ago
This is something we wrote at decent length about in the past — let me know if this is helpful for your use case. https://satchel.com/knowledge-base/
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by Fission 6y ago
I have to agree. It feels like punching below the belt. The only reason why you know that the smaller startups have failed is because the founder has humbly written up a writeup on what went wrong and lessons learned, in the hope that it&#x
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by Fission 6y ago
I keep on seeing this link pop up. Since no one is replying, I'd like to point out that I think the Wirecutter is actually in the right here. Another HN member did some investigation and found that Xdesk is stretching things: https:&#
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by Fission 6y ago
There was a really interesting debate here on who should get credit for the patent (Charpentier & Doudna vs. Feng Zhang and to a lesser extent George Church, i.e. discovery + characterization vs. making things practical). I find it inte
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by Fission 6y ago
This is why we started Satchel ( https://satchel.com/ ). It's like The Wirecutter or Consumer Reports for SaaS. The goal is to provide an independent opinion and overview of different SaaS categories, as well as recommen
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by Fission 6y ago
I think that's okay though. If we're only representative of only 5% of the iA userbase, but we're willing to pay more than 20x of the subscription price ($5/yr → $8.33+/mo), then the 5% of users like us can double i
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by Fission 6y ago
Thanks. I was just going to ask what made it unique.
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by Fission 6y ago
We use iA Writer daily at satchel.com. We pay a one-time cost of $30 per seat, but I think we get much more than $30 worth of value from iA Writer. So when I read the article, I thought that the $5 per month price is much too low for the va
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by Fission 6y ago
There are two that come to mind: Divjoy, made by a former YC founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044 OpenChakra, an open source editor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22307270
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by Fission 6y ago
Luckily, there's some decent precedent indicating that this should be okay in the long-run. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Git
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by Fission 6y ago
We use a similar (but clumsier) tool for our Gatsby site. It excels for quick content changes. However, for us specifically, we found that we didn't really edit the content as much as we anticipated, and that most of our quick changes
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by Fission 6y ago
Would you mind elaborating on what you don't follow on? I generally agree with everything you've said, so normally it'd be A-OK, but I think there's a question here somewhere (though I'm not exactly sure what) and I

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