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Posted by
dmitripopov on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hello, dear friends! I am trying to breathe life into my reddit community /r/gifexplainer which is dedicated to educational slide-based GIFs, that are like knowledge cards. The idea is to explore the possibilities of microlearning and create a community that creates and shares this type of educational content. I am planning to run a marathon of creating first 99 GIFs on my own. So I request...
It's just awesome! I'm so tired of feed-like layouts, they are not for humans.
Well, I just thought you are giving a negative connotation to it while I think there's nothing wrong if the thing is your hobby :)
I see what you are talking about, but your parable has another side that no one sees - the guy learned a lot of different things in the process :) For people who enjoy learning and exploration it is the true meaning of the whole thing, not a written tune.
I agree. But, you know, enthusiasts enjoy holywars. And there's a thin hazy line between a "true" and a "cheater".
Yes, but it's not about the feel of the product which is definitely there, but about the skills required to design. I, personally, would never call anybody who designed his own computer whether with ATMEGA or not, a "cheater". It deserves respect, to say the least.
Well, his argument is not about the number of chips but rather component origins. If you are about to pretend that you are in the 80s and you develop a computer in that time, you've got to use what was available. I argue that ZX Spectrum used custom-made ULA and you kind of emulate that approach to design with ATMEGA and he just laughs :)
The truth is that we live in magnificent times where there's a wide range of choice on how to do things and it is amazing.
A friend of mine, an 8-bit enthusiast, calls usage of ATMEGA chips "cheating" :) "True" 8bitter relies solely on component base of the 80s.
After reading the title and watching first 2 seconds I thought it will fire a rocket launcher and the car would go up in flames thanks to AR.
At a space scale it's a close pass.
Somehow I still get those chills while reading source code of programming languages interpreters / compilers. I guess it's like getting to the origins of life, or something.
Just imagine one day a true alien signal comes ringing, and what the public reaction would be? "Yeah, right. Again."
Anger was an initial reaction :) I got cooled down pretty soon.
We share the same ethnicity but live in different countries now. I think it has more to do with personal traits than ethnicity.
Anyway, I can't except her money. I guess it's a kind of my own personality glitch :)
Posted by
dmitripopov on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @10:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.
My product is featured on BitsDuJour today, and early in the morning I got a purchase notification with dramatically familiar name and email. I refunded the order right away and contacted the person with anger and frustration. I always give away free licenses of my product to people I connect with personally, so it was very disappointing to know that someone I know so well tried to buy a...
A lot (if not most) of remote workers live in places where shared working space is not available and general purpose offices are too expensive.
Posted by
dmitripopov on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.
If yes, what motivates you to join?
It does not work this way since Google started to rely on behavioral metrics of content, not just keywords. Useful articles that people read and refer to frequently, go up, junk goes down. So creating articles with only aim to sell something is the sure fire way to anger people and waste your money. Content marketing nowadays is about producing quality content IN HOPE that it will help to sell your product.
Oh, I understand. My primary objective is on end user manuals, not developer docs.
I am well aware of Zeal, and it's cool for docs that people read from cover to cover. My primary objective was to not to create a new format, but rather provide means for authoring and displaying structured technical content, pretty much like DITA or DocBook, but way more simple and targeted at software (e.g. providing a context-sensitive help feature).
Epub suffers from the same flaws - only one language per file, freeform styling that makes company-wide style consistency problematic (and when we talk about a ERP system with thousands of users and a miriad supplementary tools created for it - it's a really big problem).
And it was not designed for context-sensitive help of desktop apps, while LiteHelp is.
I know at least a dozen :) Just kidding. I know a lot more. Enterprise systems tend to have so complicated business processes that a detailed help file is a must.
It's not a problem to add styles, especially since LiteHelp is based on structured content, but hey, is that feature so needed? All my client do with HTML templates of Helpinator is to add their own logo and that's it. Content is what matters.
Because technical writing is about structured authoring (e.g. using specialized content items like step-by-step guides, FAQs or Quizzes) and I follow this metaphor, avoiding excessive formatting options and concentrating on things that matter.
Ha, sorry :) Should have quoted "Microsoft HTML Help"
It's a folder with xml files, content is pretty self-explanatory, but I should write a description.
Posted by
dmitripopov on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:59PM
from the show-hn dept.
I added LeanPub (a self-publishing platform) support to my technical writing tool Helpinator a while ago, but did not see any significant interest in this feature. May be I am experiencing a kind ob bias in this case, authors of technical books are exceptional people at most :)
Posted by
dmitripopov on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:24PM
from the helpinator.com dept.