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Re:Alternative Musical Keyboards on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:30PM (#19668635)
Eigenharp is fascinating but very expensive. Artiphon is also very interesting.
Interesting, in that case, it likely makes a wasabi a good choice for Arq (https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150015...)
Re:Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:53PM (#17754191)
I highly recommend "Essays After Eighty"
Re:Smugmug Acquires Flickr on Saturday April 21, 2018 @12:21AM (#16889968)
Sometime in early 2000s, I had a meeting with Chris. It was early days for them and they were running out of their home. This was the time when Flickr was a darling of the valley (and wasn't acquired by Yahoo yet).

Chris and I were talking, sitting around a dining table with a bench and some chairs. I remember there was a lot of light and windows all around. Don (his son) was going in and out of the house taking delivery of some hardware/servers. Toni (his wife) was handling customer support from a room upstairs. And there was a dog, I think. That's it!

It was a breath of fresh air for me! In a place that has a deep-rooted infatuation with building products on raised capital, they were running their company as a small business. They were going up against giants like Snapfish, Shutterfly, Google, Yahoo and a bunch of others in a crowded space. Unlike those giants, they were charging money for their service! And they had the audacity of doing it under the name SmugMug. I recall Chris grinning about how much some people hated the name SmugMug!

This was the only time I met them. I've thought back to that meeting many times over the years. It was inspiring for me to see software/technology being used build something for a niche need... with a clear focus on running it as a small business. I found that to be uplifting then and I still do today.

Every couple of years I'd go to their site and see how they continued to grow. And each time it would bring a smile to my face. That they ended up buying Flickr is so darn sweet... I could not hoped for a better cherry-on-top to how I personally view the SmugMug story.

Re:The Search for Autonomy on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:22PM (#16182124)
The "glitch" css animation on the title of this article is sweet.
Re:ProseMirror 1.0 on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:52PM (#15467321)
If you want to drop-in rich editor, give froala a try: https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor We are super happy with it.
Re:Guidelines for Edtech Products on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:54PM (#12764670)
Weird, I don't see any mention of accessibility.
Re:Double Solitude on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:45PM (#12748721)
A book titled "Essays After Eighty" by Donald Hall: https://www.amazon.com/Essays-After-Eighty-Donald-Hall/dp/05...
Re:Proselint on Monday March 07, 2016 @11:40AM (#11239825)
Gitbook has open sourced their proofreader at https://github.com/GitbookIO/rousseau
Indeed! Other than examples like back button, scroll hijack, password criteria most degraded user experiences mentioned in the article are side effects of a desperation to monetize. These articles bitch and moan about the bloat and degrading user experiences. I'm sure it feels good to vent. However the real challenge here is coming up with a healthy economic model around content publishing.
Re:We Cooked a Peacock on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:20PM (#10837321)
I view this conversation as having three facets:

1. Evolutionary disposition. We do have canine teeth and like underbluewaters said "Animals eating other animals is the basis of much of life on this planet.” This is also alluded to in oh_sigh's statement "we have all the equipment and desire to eat other animals”.

2. Social conditioning. Many humans have been eating meat for generations. They have been eating it some form since they were born. The society en masse around them does not see anything wrong with it. There is an inadequate opposing force in social conditioning to a balance positive bias towards eating meat. Social conditioning plays a huge role. For example. there is social conditioning and bias against eating dogs or horses. Pigs, cows and lamb.... not so much.

3. Intellectual choice. Unlike other animals, humans are intellectually evolved and we act guided by our moral compass. Furthermore, as the most intelligent species on this planet, we have a fiduciary responsibility to other species that we share this planet with. Not always but often enough, the right intellectual choice is against our evolutionary disposition and social conditioning.

If you take evolutionary disposition and social conditioning out of the picture and view killing and eating other sentient beings purely on the basis of intellectual merit, where does your moral compass point to? When framed that way, I feel that the signal-to-noise ratio is improved in framing the morality question.

Re:We Cooked a Peacock on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:24AM (#10836422)
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. I, for one, completely agree with your accessment of how future generations could look at this. The comparison with racism and sexism also does not seen far fetched to me.

I imagine reading articles like this from the perspective of an intelligent alien species who do not kill other sentient beings for sustenance, and for whom the idea is, well alien :)

Now imagine someone from that alien species looking at articles which casually talk about how a glorious peacock must be freshly killed or inject humouous anecdotes about the process. Imagine them looking at TV shows, magazines and articles which go over details of skinning recently living beings and talking about the right temperature to fry or bake their flesh. When I look at cooking shows from that perspective it gives it a completely different coloring. It starts feeling kinda horrifying and at the same time morbidly funny.

Re:Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This on Monday November 16, 2015 @01:47PM (#10576220)
Related to this discussion. For those interested, here is a report by NIA (Anti terrorism federal agency in India) about recruitment of a 22 year old by ISIS (It is redacted but kinda readable):

http://www.nia.gov.in/NIA-Cases/Mumbai/01-2014-NIA-Mum(CH).p...

Re:Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:58AM (#10419959)
Thanks for sharing this. I'm not sure about Agile but the productivity boost from using this bookmarklet is real.
Re:Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing on Monday October 19, 2015 @12:35AM (#10411141)
This looks interesting especially the part about "Trix sidesteps these inconsistencies by treating contenteditable as an I/O device". We recently started using froala (https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/v2.0) and are really happy with it so far.
Re:Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications on Monday October 05, 2015 @03:36PM (#10334259)
Looks like a link typo in the article. Here is the right link: https://www.meteor.com/why-meteor/pricing
Re:Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:44PM (#10261927)
They have a pretty "getting started" on their site: https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/blaze/creating-an-app
Here is an update on this US 132 Canada 49 America 46 U.S. 32 New 23 Europe 23 Japan 20 Zealand 20 NZ 18 Australia 17 China 16 USA 15 India 13 France 13 UK 12 EU 10 Germany 9 Switzerland 9 Netherlands 9 United 7 Haiti 7 Mexico 7 us 6 States 5 South 5 Brazil 5 Auckland 5 Korea 5 Asia 5 Britain 4 Amsterdam 4 Spain 4 area 4 Italy 4 York 4 china 4 California 3 Pakistan 3 Ireland 3 Norway 3 Denmark 3 U.S 3 Bay 3 bay 2 Turkey 2 London 2 Nigeria 2 Croatia 2 Samoa 2 Israel 2 Montreal 2 Schleswig-Holstein 2 Colombia 2 Honduras 2 Portugal 1 america 1 Western 1 Francisco 1 Vatican 1 devouredSouth 1 Seattle 1 17 1 18 1 Africa 1 Hollywood 1 Saudi 1 Tesla 1 U.S.A. 1 S. 1 Amazon 1 Yemen 1 south 1 Adelaide 1 Thailand 1 Amsterdan 1 btw 1 the 1 States7 1 GOSPLAN 1 kameez 1 Usano 1 Arabia 1 North 1 new 1 Berlin 1 Moldova 1 U.S.Another 1 City 1 Texas 1 Oregon 1 San 1 Afghanistan 1 shalwar 1 Manila 1 Russia 1 Rotterdam 1 PERM 1 Numbeo 1 US.I 1 Philippines 1 Quebec 1 StatesFolks 1 earth 1
Its a slow evening and I was curious about how many times people mentioned different places (countries) in the comments to this post. So I ran the Stanford (Named Entity) Analyzer on the copy of the comments so far.

Here is what I got so far (a gist is here: https://gist.github.com/ayush/6efe681ba968123605fd):

US 108 Canada 42 America 42 U.S. 25 Zealand 20 Europe 18 NZ 17 Japan 16 China 13 France 12 India 11 UK 10 USA 10n Australia 10 EU 9 Germany 9 United 8 Switzerland 7 States 6 us 6 Netherlands 5 Korea 5 South 5 Asia 5 area 4 York 4 Auckland 4 Mexico 4 California 3 Italy 3 Spain 3 china 3 U.S 3 Bay 3 Brazil 2 bay 2 London 2 Ireland 2 Norway 2 Denmark 2 kameez 1 Usano 1 america 1 Francisco 1 Arabia 1 North 1 Vatican 1 Colombia 1 devouredSouth 1 Berlin 1 Africa 1 Britain 1 U.S.Another 1 City 1 Hollywood 1 Turkey 1 Saudi 1 Tesla 1 Honduras 1 U.S.A. 1 S. 1 Amazon 1 Oregon 1 San 1 south 1 shalwar 1 Pakistan 1 Amsterdan 1 PERM 1 Amsterdam 1 Numbeo 1 Nigeria 1 Croatia 1 Philippines 1 StatesFolks 1 Samoa 1 States7 1 GOSPLAN 1 earth 1 Israel 1 Schleswig-Holstein 1

Sure there is. However this article seems to make the point that just even if you eat right and are active, you are predisposed to these problems just by being of South Asian decent. The section of the article "The Indian/South Asian Risk Factor" talks about that.
Re:In Flight on Thursday May 14, 2015 @10:39PM (#9548689)
It is actually an after CSS selector with fixed position and a linear gradient background. Pretty clever! Here is a JS Fiddle which shows just that bit: http://jsfiddle.net/wyx7zogo/
Re:In Flight on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:58PM (#9548576)
It is really interesting how the bottom part of the text fades away progressively. It elicits an emotive reaction to want to scroll further down. Well done!

I can't spot any css, fixed divs etc. Thoughts on how that is being done?

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