ctbeiser

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by ctbeiser 22d ago
I could not have invented it. I was one year old.
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by ctbeiser 7mo ago
It seems pretty clear in the OP that headline is misleading—they do work, just not as well as he would like. I think that a 50% cut in light emission is pretty good—and you can stack that with the other interventions listed, like auto-dark
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by ctbeiser 7mo ago
I have a guess as to why this fix was delayed—on the release candidate, you weren't able to resize windows in Stickies. I filed a bug for it. This felt like a last-minute addition—the previous betas didn't have the 'fix.&#x27
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by ctbeiser 2y ago
The other banks involved all agree that the remaining balances are with Evolve, and that there isn't money that's been moved somewhere else. If there was, Evolve might be willing to say where, which they've been unwilling to
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by ctbeiser 2y ago
The accounts were genuinely FDIC insured. Evolve is a real bank. But a few months before the bankruptcy, Evolve pushed Synapse to move the money into non-FDIC insured brokerage accounts. As far as I can tell, this was: - a way to move a hol
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by ctbeiser 4y ago
Feedbin for sync and for email ingest. A key fact about this is that unlike Feedly and Newsblur, it keeps old content indefinitely. That means that if I don't check feeds for a while, or something is too heavy to read one month, I don&
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by ctbeiser 4y ago
iFixit is charging $39 for an iPhone mini battery, or $25 for an iPhone SE battery. Paying $25-30 for half an hour of labor—on a $400-1200 device—every two years sounds… totally fine to me?
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by ctbeiser 4y ago
I suspect that of all the things burning the world, it's mostly oil and cars. iPhones are unusually useful, but they're not unusually resource intensive.
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
You might look at Sparkleshare; it's not P2P, but it is open source, self-hosted and encrypted.
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
This doesn't prove that economics is wrong. It just proves that something like one of every two economists is wrong. This is not a hard problem to figure out the answer to by looking at historic data either. Read both sides closely, a
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
There are also plenty of people who are interested in people of two or more genders that you shouldn't erase. This is the kind of thing where, if you really can't figure out how to make it work with your current design, you seriously need t
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
The problem with modes is fundamentally that people make mode-errors; they're not sure what mode they're in. If you've got users who aren't looking at the device, then yes, they'll make mode errors, because they have no clue what they're d
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
I think the point is being missed here, to some degree. This is not necessarily the best way to live. But it's worth considering: what would you do if you weren't tied to a corporation for 8 hours a day in order to feed and house your famil
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
If you took statistics in college, you might recall that correlation does not imply causation. There's a hidden third set of factors here; your intelligence, wealth, etc. That people who go to college make more does not mean that college me
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
"As the deflationary feedback amplifies the desire to hoard, the exchanges will become illiquid." The rest of it makes perfect sense, but why would we think this, rather than that market forces will drive prices up, and people will sell as
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
I never really understood why people feel the need to keep the UI mostly the same. It may not be as good at the first release, but why do people object to them breaking everything at first? What, was everything perfect already?
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
I'm not convinced Lion (or Mountain Lion) is getting a 'huge' pushback from users. I heard isolated groanings on launch from people who didn't like adapting to natural scrolling or the new saving paradigm, but that all disappeared within a
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by ctbeiser 13y ago
Why is it that a currency logo now needs a color scheme? Every other major currency in the world is doing fine without a special color. I don't see why Bitcoin is any different.
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
Dropbox's goal seems to be killing the local filesystem on iOS. Email, being a big part of using an iPhone and the associated file-transfering, is their one big problem; you can't attach things to emails from dropbox, or save them to it fro
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
"As I mentioned, on Monday I will begin... [a] direct attack on my procrastination problem." Does anyone else see the problem here?
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
I totally agree with your thoughts on 'finishing' a newspaper. That said, the large number of sections, and having no way to see whether I've seen the new articles in them, leaves me unable to do so. Perhaps it's my wide range of interests,
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
Fixed headers are terrible. I once asked a whole room of designers if any of them could think of a single design they liked that used a fixed header, and none could.
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
It looks beautiful, but, as a daily reader of the Times, there's one thing that's holding me back from signing up: it's designed (like the iPhone app) to show you other content from the same section. Here's the thing: When was the last time
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
As a student, I'm just going to say that it's about time somebody did this. Even going to an extremely high-quality school, Salman Khan is just a better at explaining concepts than your teacher. And that's okay. Just consider this: If stude
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
There are certainly issues with this article. As a student, who's been in this setting for the past dozen years, I've got some thoughts on the matter: 1. If you want to measure how much is taught, make sure you're measuring how much is taug
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
"It should be a natural goal for a school to raise it's test scores as time goes on." With many of these tests, especially good schools are hitting the ceiling of how well it's possible to do. If you're scoring a 99% every year, how do you
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
This is true if you've gone to school under the recent testing regime. If you haven't, your opinion as to whether it's an effective method of evaluating teachers is not valid.
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
Having gone both to schools that don't measure their results using standardized measures, and those that do, with almost identical quality of teachers, the schools beholden to teach to tests end up being able to cover a lot less of substanc
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
I mean no offense here, but this isn't design. This is parroting visual effects.
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by ctbeiser 14y ago
Having self-taught myself a lot about design, let me give you a few pointers. The number one rule is that you have to start paying attention to the design of everything. Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" is a good start on develo

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