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by jtth 5y ago
In an "X is just Y" comparison, a good heuristic to determine whether someone is being a human being is to ask whether the comparison reduces the humanity out of the concept. This kind of thing is sociopathic.
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by jtth 5y ago
I don't get how a pro photo app is supposed to be mobile-only and subscription-gated. One of the greatest things about flickr is that I can embed it almost anywhere, even hotlinking on my blog or on forums, and anyone, anywhere can see
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by jtth 5y ago
All of this feels like a calculus done by insane people.
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by jtth 5y ago
Instapaper has this, and can even be set up to send a weekly digest.
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by jtth 5y ago
The thing with Markdown is that it does most of what you need to do with it, until it doesn't, when you can bring Pandoc to bear and put full-on LaTeX in your Markdown and it will render it however you want. I wrote a dissertation this
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by jtth 5y ago
we are losing our minds
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by jtth 5y ago
SteerMouse does this just fine, and has for years and years. I can't use a Mac without it.
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by jtth 5y ago
Phone wallpapers are social signifiers for sighted people.
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by jtth 5y ago
Are there that many people with iPad Pros who do not have the folio or Magic keyboard? Also, I feel like the solution is to release an "App" that has a virtualization server in it, that can run MacOS. Keeps it contained, off to th
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by jtth 5y ago
I think folks are missing the forest for the trees: he's saying pick a language to really focus on and own it. That's your big tool now. Of course there will be other tools for more specific contexts. But having one big popular la
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by jtth 5y ago
URL bar at the top, UI chrome is different in full screen vs windowed. (Full screen media playback on iOS has OS-level controls at the top.)
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by jtth 6y ago
what are you building that you are soliciting development labor from fiverr and think $30/h is appropriate for anyone on earth involved in programming
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by jtth 6y ago
I have some bad new for you about the world
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by jtth 6y ago
Anyone know of something like Rails for a Lisp?
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by jtth 6y ago
Go to the website for the department. For public colleges the syllabi have to be available. Sometimes this means poking an administrator. But remember, they are top schools usually in spite of, not because of, the textbook selection.
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by jtth 6y ago
Put a Montblanc rollerball cartridge in a Pilot G2.
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by jtth 6y ago
We should distinguish between fastmail being down and access to it being down.
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by jtth 6y ago
This does not happen to me and I have used Fastmail with Safari for seven years. Could be an interaction with an add-on? You also might try beta.fastmail.com.
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by jtth 6y ago
Can you just make some page that doesn't save anything so we can see what you mean by "visual"? Or embed a youtube preview?
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by jtth 6y ago
My phone is not a home. It’s a filament in a fabric of affordances. I rely on others to support those affordances. I pay for some of them with money. I don’t want a castle. I want a society.
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by jtth 6y ago
Everyone's talking about recommendations. I don't use GoodReads recommendations at all. It's a social network with a focus on books where people will actually read and discuss books and book reviews. It's also a good way
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by jtth 6y ago
i guess more friction will wear the nub down more but it's not a big effect
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by jtth 6y ago
What have you done with all these tools, so fitted to your workflows? What, other than the tools, have you made? How have these tools helped you build a better world for other people? There are new tools, now, yes, custom-made to fit your h
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by jtth 6y ago
This relative percentage stuff is silly.
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by jtth 6y ago
If the response to a question isn't actionable, it's a bad question, not a problem with the question's granularity.
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by jtth 6y ago
Historical entrenchment is not a chance occurrence.
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by jtth 6y ago
This will fall on deaf ears, but if you have to title a note, it's not a Zettelkasten.
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by jtth 6y ago
Sure. Still saves space. Also closes over the envelope of their legal exposure.
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by jtth 6y ago
Data exhaust older than a month is not monetizable for them. This lets them save space and seem nice while nothing changes.
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by jtth 6y ago
Depends on what you mean by performance. The same speed with double or triple battery life would be worth it.

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