pixelgeek

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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Ouch. Why did I leave my petard there? I think there is some overlap and so you are probably correct to chasten me. The audience that I am discussing in that piece is a direct audience though. Clicking through to a blog post and reading it
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I, showing my age, joined Compuserve for the sole purpose of getting to download all of the Kai's Power Tools documents. Our local group of pixelweasels had a few of them but not all of them. When the KPT plugins were released they wer
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Joel is not wrong. Sometimes using a tool that Kai had input into was troubling at first. The KPT and MetaCreations tools were always about creating an intuitive way to create and iterate and the UIs attempted to do that. The dialogs etc di
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Back then we would talk about UI when we meant UX. The KPT plugins had a very odd visual design but the way that you could iterate patterns and processes on an image was unheard of. People also look at the designs that the filters made and
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I would hope that in some point in the future people would stop caring about how much/far their posts were shared. The "social graph" is a polluted concept that ad-fetishists at Facebook came up with to try to track and monet
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Very nice work. I wouldn't worry about the quality of the code. You get better by seeing other people's work and seeing alternative solutions to the problems you had. Also, as I mentioned in another comment, this could easily be b
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
So I don't know what your intended audience was but there are elements of this that would be handy for people trying to trouble check PDFs for Print on Demand projects. I'm going to repost the link to a few groups I am in that do
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
The devs haven't updated the app in quite some time and appear to be working on an AI based writing tool now. I'd look elsewhere for a Markdown editor.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
The SarahR review from the bottom of the page was written by someone who seems to get around a lot https://tineye.com/search/e642d054c7b7f94841fdbdf9e4196f4275...
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Helpful links. I will be doing the same this evening
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I often am confused by people using it. Especially for groups that have long conversations, need good search or an ability to look through content based on threads.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Doesn't Amazon own Goodreads? I think its decline is an example of enshittification.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
The recommendations from Goodreads are quite bad. This is for two reasons, I think. The categories that are used can sometimes be quite broad and so the programmatic recommendation pages can be quite useless. Far too many books in a broad c
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
My question as well. Discord is a chat system. It can't handle even small communities.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Well that is one way to harvest LinkedIn data. An AI twist on those Facebook quizzes.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
Moving to Discord? Talk about cutting off your own nose to spite your face.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
First DnD and now Fortnight
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
It isn't a new trend. It has just started to affect almost every app they make. Shortcuts isn't even beta quality on the Mac. Podcasts, as mentioned, is awful. Music is a PITA to use unless all you want to do is stream random song
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
The Podcast app is particularly horrible. If it was the only podcast app available I would stop listening to them
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
In lieu of Red Hat and Meta saying why they cancelled, it would be pure speculation.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I just assume that they are all fake. Along with most of the products.
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I didn't phrase that well. How much of the Python community is writing code that would be positively affected by the removal of the GIL? The entire debate seems to be for code that strikes me as being far and away from the typical Pyth
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I am curious how much of the python community the GIL affects? And is Facebook's interest related to AI performance?
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
> Don't explain to me that I'm holding it wrong. Where are they doing that?
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by pixelgeek 3y ago
I suspect that this isn't a big issue for them considering how small the userbase is that will be going through the steps you did to sign using your own keys.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Almost all of these articles always have several caveats in place about features that aren't supported or libraries that are added to include missing features. So its not really 'replacing' JQuery is it? (no knock meant to @f
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I had this same experience trying to find some good science magazines for my 14yr old. They are quite interested in genetics and I looked and looked and none of the available magazines were any good. I think that looking at the advertisemen
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Probably just speaks to who their target audience is
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
What is magic is that this link appears to have pushed a ten year old article to #3 on their 'Most Popular' list. I wonder if you could glean information about the traffic patterns of a site by how much a link from a single social
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Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code a New 'Java'?
2 points by pixelgeek 5y ago|2 comments

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