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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:40PM (#24358481)
for non-technical folks to send me big files (5GB limit), I send them to https://transfer.pcloud.com/. no registration needed.
Re:Zappy – Screen capture tool on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:52PM (#22815795)
+1 for Monosnap. Best UX in this category. Their arrows are very visually pleasant, guiding viewers' eyes to where you want them to look. No other software seems to have this type of arrows.
This is giving wayyyy too much credit to a sub-reddit that's all about poking fun at the trading game, and each others. Please don't throw your money away following them.

Ask HN: How to keep your computer organized while trying different software?

I like to experiment and try out different software packages, languages, ect. Over time, my MacBook became a holy mess of abandoned dot files, forgotten directories. The useful stuffs gets lost in the piles. There's gotta be a better way to stay organized while trying new shiny things.What's your strategy or method to keep your rig clean and organized over time?

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a technically well-versed audience like this HN crowd is not really the customer base for computer equipment from Costco. In keeping with their product offering approach, Costco is catering to the people too busy and/or don't find it fun to evaluate computer equipments. What their customers know is that what Costco offers is good enough and pretty good value. The liberal return policy helps ease customer concerns about making equipments work. Looks to me like Costco is doing it pretty much right.
Re:Plant trees while you search the web on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:46PM (#20415659)
Their point is that you don't need to pay/donate money, only using their product for something you need anyway, ie. search, and generate funding for planting trees.
Re:Rethinking Visual Programming with Go on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:32AM (#20104130)
Outstanding post. Author might find it interesting to partner up with game designers on visually representing massive amount of data for quick grok by the masses.
I'm with the majority of the comments here. It seems an expensive way to run your business. Initial cost is usually a small part of the overall TCO. This post was written in 2017, any updates on their experience with this infrastructure? Prove us doubters wrong.
I get the impression that this study is flawed. The conclusion could have been something like, intelligent people dumbed down their speech when talking to someone they perceived as intellectually inferior to them. I'd like to see the same study repeats with white conservatives intellectuals and rednecks. That'd probably ended up with the same conclusion.
Re:Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:39PM (#18355778)
Well-written product announcement! clear explanation of "bad news" for a lot of users, but encouraging for target customers. I hope when I grow up I too can write something like this. :)
Am I the only one here that still makes my kids look up words in dictionary? We have all the e-devices but I think there's something worthwhile about re-enforcing alphabet order in words, learning by wandering or happens upon words nearby in paper dictionary. The kids also have to sound out the words to try to find it so they learn different word-sound patterns. All this skills are practiced each time they do a quick dictionary lookup.
what tool/service are you using for your Community Forum site? It looks very well-designed.
It's not clear from the article if this cost figure includes software engineering cost which would be significant in Tesla's case.
User docs are customer-facing, and therefore entirely fitting to be under marketing. Of course building the documents requires engineering contribution for technical details.
I think you meant Dana St. Coffee.
Stride looks first-rate. Hopefully opening up APIs will bring integration on-par with Slack. What's the plan for bringing Stride to self-hosted options?
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:10PM (#16335623)
this book also have a forum for it, albeit low traffic. http://forum.thejsway.com/
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:14PM (#16321526)
is there an accompany forum for learners of this book to discuss content and exercises like Coursera, et al.?
Re:Show HN: Enlight – Learn to code by building projects on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:32PM (#15894113)
feature request: add discussion page for project discussion, getting help, suggestions, etc.
I'm going to stick with Excel for the row/column grouping feature. This seemingly minor feature enables multiple level of abstractions so different audiences can understand the spreadsheet in different views. As much as I want to move my team to Google Sheet or any other major competitors for easy collaboration, I simply can't.
Re:Kano’s next learn-to-code kit is a build-it-yourself laptop on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:15PM (#15341219)
how old is your son? if he's around 6 year-old, he's a god to me! :)
Re:Show HN: Kozmos – A Personal Library on Sunday August 13, 2017 @03:26AM (#15001928)
search seems to need a lot more works. Typeahead would be nice but partial match is sorely needed, eg. bus should bring up links on business and bus schedule.
Feature request: Jira integration (atlassian marketplace)
Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:06PM (#12004397)
this is fairly trivial to implement conceptually in Ethereum. What's hard is to integrate that system with existing legal and social framework.
well done! some suggestions:

* +1 for symbols & numbers * maybe use spacebar for abort word(?) * would be cool to include phrases (boss mode ?)

Re:The Dark Reality of Sports Betting and Daily Fantasy Games on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:55AM (#10393869)
it's plausible that gov't can become addicted to vice taxes. However, on the cig. tax, there is no evidence of that this is the norm. In fact, in both US and Canada, smoking rate has gone down significantly so something is working and therefore, we shouldn't be too concern with this gov't addiction red herring.
Re:The model minority is losing patience on Saturday October 03, 2015 @12:32PM (#10324399)
I'm Asian and I don't think it's possible. Jews on the other hand are confirmed with the most Nobel prizes per capita. :)
Re:Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar” on Saturday August 08, 2015 @02:39PM (#10028230)
cool concept. Put handle on it like a scooter and my Mom got a new way to get around. Oh wait, clearly, I wasn't thinking big enough. Add self-steering with collision avoidance on this deck and now you can stare at your phone the entire way from the train to the office. Google, are you listening?
hopefully, Mac deployment upticks will finally convince MS to bring Mac Office to parity with Win Office.

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