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by getpolarized 4y ago
There's a MASSIVE impact crater on the far side of the moon which we never see. Imagine if it was inverted. It would look like a MASSIVE eyeball staring at us during our evolution. Imagine how that would have impacted religion!
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by getpolarized 5y ago
> I really don't see how this is going to end well, there could be perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children doing perfectly normal things that kids do. Like a kid running butt naked around the house, o
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by getpolarized 5y ago
It's super sad that the history of Senet is mostly unknown. The texture we have of Chess history for example is part of the allure. That the rules have changed, we know how they changed, why they changed, how people played in the pas
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by getpolarized 6y ago
The problem is that 95% of users are awesome but 5% are VERY aggressive and angry. The amount of people that personally attack you and accuse you of horrible things should be zero. I've also seen users personally using our forums to tr
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Do we / did we even have the tech co be able to build this in a lab? I don't think we do. It MIGHT have been possible but Occam's Razor says it's more plausible it evolved naturally and just jumped species. FAR FAR FAR m
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Noe that when deployed properly, we MIGHT not need 85% if we have secondary protocols to inhibit the growth of covid. For example, requiring all airline passengers or anyone leaving their state to be vaccinated and vaccinating frontline wor
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by getpolarized 6y ago
About a year ago I was trying to figure out how important dark mode was for our app so I created a poll on Twitter and linked to it here on HN. https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/19/Dark-Mode-Should-Be-The-D...
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by getpolarized 6y ago
When I first installed Growl I remember literally thinking "wow, this is really cool!" ... Being a tech geek means my nostalgia memories are 'weird' by normal standards. Super happy now thinking about the time I first in
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by getpolarized 6y ago
We went full dark mode when we released the 2.0 version of our app which has PDF and EPUB support: https://getpolarized.io/2020/10/05/Polar-2-0-Release.html the issue we had was that we were using a CSS filte
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by getpolarized 6y ago
This isn't official btw. I didn't even know about this! I suspect this is a 1.x build. Make sure it's 2.0 :-P This is the interesting thing about Open Source is you get interesting developments like this that you didn'
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Thanks... broken link. I'll fix it now. The link is: https://getpolarized.io/download/
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Yes... if you delete documents it those won't count against your quota. We've also tried to make it pretty cheap so if you have a huge repo it won't be super expensive. It also won't bloat your local computer so if you
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by getpolarized 6y ago
I also wanted to point out that Polar is Open Source. https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf If you'd like to look at the code. We have a unique build environment so DM me on Discord if you want to build it
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Totally agree.. We want to have a Safari and Firefox one and are working on having that resolved quickly. The code actually is written to be portable as a 'web extension' as both Safari and Firefox use the same general API. I&#x27
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by getpolarized 6y ago
If few equals two then companies like Apple have some explaining to do as to why their hardware can't be serviced.
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Hey Hacker News! About two years ago we launched Polar on HN [1] and now we’re back to announce Polar 2.0! https://getpolarized.io/ Polar is a tool used by software engineers, students, and professionals. Anyone who wants t
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by getpolarized 6y ago
I think no-code is taking going a bit too far but definitely less code is becoming a major opportunity for innovation.
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Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages(getpolarized.io)
106 points by getpolarized 6y ago|41 comments
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by getpolarized 6y ago
What I think is hilarious is how many takedown notices they've received! https://github.com/github/dmca
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Here's a good analogy for non-programers. You're building a new car company. You see all the existing cars, the roads, and the garages. So you measure the width of the car and the garage and you decide that the car should be exact
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Let me know what you think about Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Does/can it integrate with CI? This is what I need now. While I want full integration testing I'd like to have stories/unit tests for UI components too.
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by getpolarized 6y ago
Wow.. I hate it... the quality of IntelliJ has really fallen. I've been using it for like 5 years now and I'm constantly fighting it There are literally 20-40 serious bugs that impact me daily.
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Ask HN: As a dev, what are the major anti-competitive issues with App Stores?
6 points by getpolarized 6y ago|9 comments
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by getpolarized 6y ago
My mid-2015 mac (last REAL MacBook IMO) won't install it at all. It says it's installing, I reboot, it does some stuff, then I come back and the update isn't applied. Quality stuff!
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by getpolarized 6y ago
There is a trend to assume new technology will always replace old technology. During the Vietnam war the F4 ditched its cannons for the sidewinder air to air missile. The sidewinder is fire and forget for the most part and somewhat of a no
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by getpolarized 6y ago
We're getting there.. The backend supports it now. If you send me a list of your requirements (just create a github issue here https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues ) I will look at adding the
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by getpolarized 6y ago
We're thinking of adding an generic sync functionality into Polar so that you could keep external connections to thinks like Anki, Evernote, Roam, etc. The biggest challenge is deletions though so I'm still trying to work out the
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by getpolarized 6y ago
You can sort of do this now but part of the power of Polar comes from using our own tools as they support new annotation features not present in other PDF readers.
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by getpolarized 6y ago
yes... I agree. I'm working on this too. The 2.0 UI will be all re-done in React, better mobile support, including transitions. So you will be able to deep link to other annotations by their ID. Also, going to work on the ability to

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