elisehein

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by elisehein 4y ago
Thanks for raising! I guess I feel it's a necessary disclaimer out of respect to people who do have the first-hand experience. But I can see how it can come off as an excuse for not getting it right, and it certainly shouldn't be.
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Where's the fun in accessibility?(elisehe.in)
54 points by elisehein 4y ago|26 comments
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by elisehein 13y ago
While unrelated to the topic of discrimination, I just wanted to take this chance and say that Ellen Ullman writes beautifully -- I recognised her signature style before seeing the author's name at the bottom. Here is another beautiful exce
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by elisehein 14y ago
Discussions about how to save time on eating and cooking -- essentially the ultimate life hacking -- always make me think about early man and his lifestyle that must have consisted mostly of hunting trips that may well have taken up days at
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by elisehein 14y ago
And that is wonderful for her :)
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by elisehein 14y ago
I've grown up with the same perceptions of gender equality in the Soviet job market. However, I get the feeling that this does not so much have to do with a heightened sense of morality or anything, as it does with the fact that work in the
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by elisehein 14y ago
I went for "please sign up on Path and add me as a friend because unlike on Facebook, there are some things that I share which I really sincerely would like YOU (and not every other random person) to see". I've got my family and closest fri
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by elisehein 14y ago
That's so cool for your friend :) I hope you've taken some of the credit, encouragement is such a huge part of success. I'm a girl doing a CS degree and also often think that the amount of help I get from my boyfriend (who has graduated by
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by elisehein 14y ago
This might not be the case for quite a few Estonian startups though -- with 1.3 million people you're desperately lacking a large enough target market for the niche products that some startups are developing, and looking to other countries
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by elisehein 14y ago
Interestingly, if I would've read the discussion out of context, I definitely would have thought the author meant digital as shadowy and gradienty, and analog as flat.
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by elisehein 14y ago
It just makes my skin crawl :/
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by elisehein 14y ago
I've been lucky enough to have visited NK as well and unsurprisingly everything I read lined up perfectly with my own experience. Most likely tourists from all over the world are always shown the stock tour. Our guides were incredibly insis
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by elisehein 14y ago
I think beginning an academic or a research paper with a question or something like "Some people say..." or "Recently" or "Nowadays" is often a very good strategy even though it might be clichéd, because telling the reader exactly what is g
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by elisehein 14y ago
You could easily follow every single story without ever commenting on any of them.. Not to mention the amount of unregistered users
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by elisehein 14y ago
I actually found the voice of the speaker, especially her accent, quite fascinating :)
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by elisehein 14y ago
While I think the talk articulates very well what the issues are with the wide spreading of online porn, the problem is not that this isn't known -- it's how to cope with realising that your own desires are preventing you from enjoying anyt
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by elisehein 14y ago
I am loving these illustrations
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The most hostile development environment in the world(quora.com)
1 points by elisehein 14y ago|0 comments
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Medium(medium.com)
1 points by elisehein 14y ago|0 comments
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The weight of data(youtube.com)
1 points by elisehein 14y ago|0 comments
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by elisehein 14y ago
I think Beamer is great for things like lecture slides and other presentation where the aim is to pass on dense amounts of information. When using slides to illustrate rather than summarise, however, it requires a series of hacks to positio
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by elisehein 14y ago
In a way though, this could serve as a kind of test for the student beforehand to see which parts they're comfortable with. I recently gave a presentation like this as part of my course and tried to follow the style described in the article
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by elisehein 14y ago
I think beautiful slides can be made with minimal effort when adhering to the points in the article and using a simple black text on white background approach. Increasing the font size to an absurd can make things look funky and seems to be
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by elisehein 14y ago
I use SwiftKey too, and am quite happy with it. Nonetheless, 'm not really convinced when it comes to enhancing a keyboard with such a feature without first having tweaked it to near perfection. At the moment, I still get quite a lot of aut
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by elisehein 14y ago
My Natural Language Systems professor just went through that topic yesterday -- that in the case of all machine translation applications, the ultimate goal is to get as high up in a 'natural language pyramid' where the tip is a single unive
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by elisehein 14y ago
I'd like to learn more about two things: 1. Designing and prototyping in the browser -- how to do it as quickly as possible and get rid of the distraction of details (I always find details difficult to ignore when trying to do quick mockups
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by elisehein 14y ago
Unrelated, but does anyone have an idea why all of the countries appear in alphabetical order but then suddenly Spain jumps up in the middle of all the E-s? The UK follows soon after. All I could think of was Spain=Espana, but England defin