bx_

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

i don't have that many fingers

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Amen

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Charging $ to use Atom? No thanks.

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I love Buku. Using it daily now!

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Interesting. The Chinese devs I work with hate Kylin (probably because it's approved by the Party) and seem to really prefer other Chinese-created variants, particularly Lubuntu and Xubuntu. I've got no experience with Kylin, so it's interesting to hear these points.

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Why Kylin and not Xubuntu or Lubuntu?

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

With that said, reputation and word of mouth is everything in China. Before an app like Didi was the king, people were changing ride share apps every month. New deals, new coupons, new rumors, etc... The tide changes really fast here. Didi just happened to be the only app that could hang in there.

Regardless of how many people there are, if 10 people online say something is not worth using, no one else is going to use it.

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I regularly use version control, atom, markdown and syntax highlighting in preparing education materials.

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

is this just 'showing' a sign up page?

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

"Most Simple" seems like the least simple way to say "Simplest"

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Why not allow self-hosting?

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Really appreciate your perspective. Looking forward to giving it a shot. I've found Pocket to be bloated and getting slower and slower in China, so the speed and minimal UI is really attractive to me.

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Oh. Now I wish I didn't ask, haha. 1 link per day is a pretty steep restriction.

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Really love the UI and simplicity of adding tasks/task groups, but this app is (for some reason) a beast on my battery life. I sent you an email about this as well, but it was using well over what I had anticipated. From the OS X 10.11.4 Activity Monitor:

    Alloy
    Energy Impact: 651.4
    Avg Energy Impact: 24.6

This is compared to Google Chrome, which, with 15 tabs open, has an impact of 11.2. When I looked into it, the energy impact of Alloy is near that one would expect on a stress test (ex: http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/use-activity-monitor-energy-tab-...).

Any ideas what would be causing this much energy consumption?

bx_

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Love it. But I don't understand this bit:

https://larder.io/account/

    Bookmark limit
    Trial: 1/day
    Paid: Unlimited

So far that's not true, unless I'm reading it wrong. I've started a trial account and have bookmarked at least 20 sites. Is there a restriction I'm missing here?

bx_

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Came to basically say exactly this. The only people who didn't see it coming are the Chinese "aunties" who put everything in without any real knowledge of truthworthy advice. There's a lot of people who lost a lot of money in China this way. That's the danger of armchair expertise, I suppose.

bx_

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I think exactly the same when I read this.

bx_

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Looks cool, but I was a bit miffed by the use of the WeChat logo as a chat icon on your /livestreams/ page (next to "join Q&A live chat") (see: http://www.wechat.com/en/) when in fact you are using Candy Chat (http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/)

Looks like this was done somewhat intentionally, since in your HTML you have

    <i class="fa fa-weixin"></i>

(Weixin is the Chinese name for WeChat)

bx_

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

The Chinese for "hello" was sort of correct. It returned 喂 on the bottom of the list, but that's really "hello?" like answering the phone, not 你好 which is actually hello. I was surprised by its selection there.

bx_

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

> China wants to fork their own internet, for their own people.

I thought it was pretty well known that the BRICS countries want their own internet:

http://www.infowars.com/brics-countries-build-new-internet-t...

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