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nobrains
·6 days ago·discuss
any pointers on how to make it work for boox color e-ink device (it runs android) ?
nobrains
·16 days ago·discuss
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nobrains
·25 days ago·discuss
Its the same guy who tweeted a photo of a pepperoni claiming it to be a star
nobrains
·28 days ago·discuss
The Matrix
nobrains
·last month·discuss
Why has , recently, Pakistan been seen added more and more to a new category "MENAP" and separate from South Asia (i.e. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh) ?

These classifications should be geographic and could even racial, but it seems this new classification (MENAP) seems more "religious"
nobrains
·last month·discuss
That "view page source" took some loong time to load.
nobrains
·last month·discuss
From the animation: "Torque grows with the cube of diameter"

That seems like a pretty cool cheat-code to get more power. Perhaps it will mean you will start having cars with more distance from the ground to accommodate the large dia motor wheels.
nobrains
·2 months ago·discuss
My take is related but different. I believe that Google believes the customer's for these "premium" Googlebooks are the kids who used Chromebooks all their school years, and are now graduating school, getting into university, or getting into their first job. Google is presenting them an option, that feels familiar, but is also premium. The next level. The big-boy upgrade. Familiar but Better.
nobrains
·2 months ago·discuss
My take: Do proper security, but if you are short on time or resources, you can start with security through obscurity, to block a few percentage of attacks, and then when you have time and resources, go ahead and add the proper security measures.
nobrains
·2 months ago·discuss
I REALLY liked the interface. One nitpick: When the image description is ON, the left and right buttons keep moving up and down after every image, so I cannot keep my mouse in one location and keep clicking NEXT.
nobrains
·4 months ago·discuss
did u see the TV mode link? i wish more visualization sites had that.
nobrains
·4 months ago·discuss
It was a pilot. Isn't this (kinda) good news that this "bug" was caught and now the next iteration will be closer to the intended behavior?
nobrains
·4 months ago·discuss
load event or "DOMContentLoaded" event. No?
nobrains
·4 months ago·discuss
No mention of no backlit in keyboard?
nobrains
·4 months ago·discuss
Also, there is nothing wrong with looking like an idiot. Thats only in your mind. As long as you have put thought into your reply, even if it not structured correctly, or verbose, or does not have perfect English, humans can still decipher it and understand it.
nobrains
·5 months ago·discuss
The issue is that all money-throwing needs to be balanced by careful thought. This cycle the money-throwing at snow plowing worked. Next cycle, it will not be as effective, as more people who want to "game" the rewards will enter the equation. So every cycle, along with money, some thought will need to go into improving the system or coming up with alternate solutions.
nobrains
·5 months ago·discuss
They are also a mess in UI now.

In the "Intelligence applied" section, where they show the comparison animations, they are shown using a non-optimal UI.

There is not enough time to read the text, see old animation, and see new animation. Better would have been to keep the same animation on repeat, so that people have unlimited time to read the text and observer the animations.

Also, it jumps from example to example in the same video. Better would have been to show each separately, so that once user is done observing one example at their own pace, they can proceed to the next.

As a workaround, I had to open the video (just the video) in a new tab, pause once an example came up, read the text, then rewind to the start of the animation to see the old animation example, then rewind again, then see the new animation example, and then sometimes rewind again if I wanted to see the animation again. Then, once done with the example, I had to forward to the next example and repeat the above process again.

Somewhere along that process, they lost me.
nobrains
·5 months ago·discuss
In the "Intelligence applied" section, where they show the comparison animations, they are shown using a non-optimal UI.

There is not enough time to read the text, see old animation, and see new animation. Better would have been to keep the same animation on repeat, so that people have unlimited time to read the text and observer the animations.

Also, it jumps from example to example in the same video. Better would have been to show each separately, so that once user is done observing one example at their own pace, they can proceed to the next.

As a workaround, I had to open the video (just the video) in a new tab, pause once an example came up, read the text, then rewind to the start of the animation to see the old animation example, then rewind again, then see the new animation example, and then sometimes rewind again if I wanted to see the animation again. Then, once done with the example, I had to forward to the next example and repeat the above process again.

Somewhere along that process, they lost me.
nobrains
·9 months ago·discuss
they way i handle this with my teams: any bugs caught by the QA team go against the developers. any bugs caught after QA green lights the go live go against the QA team. (Of course, discounting any bugs that are deemed acceptable for go live by the PM).
nobrains
·10 months ago·discuss
What if we do vertical bi-facial panels, mounted on a rotating circle that rotates to align the panels with the sun (north-south or east-east or in between) depending on the time of the year. Wouldn't that be the best of all worlds right now?