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I have been trying to reduce my usage. I still cannot find a way to resist pulling out the phone to: - perform a quick search (browser or ai) - listen to podcasts - listen to audiobook - check the data of the last running or gym session.

Are there alternatives that are as friendly? Or being friendly is the danger here?

I haven't Smart Comic before. Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely going to give it a try. (I admit that panel handling is a nice to have feature, but what makes or breaks a comic reader for me is how easy is to sync comics---but this is a long departure from the thread).

YAC Reader [1] has great panel recognition. My other favorite comic reader has attempted but never got something that I could use.

[1]: https://www.yacreader.com/

Just curious: are the copy, cut, paste and undo commands remapped by Doom Emacs? Those don't seem to be the defaults. TY

> It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”

I am honestly very curious who hasn't observed the same behavior in large corporations too. (And to be clear, I'm not defending this behavior; rather curious if it's not an unfortunate generalized situation that occurs not only in academia).

I'm using Scrolla. Initially I had used vim-like extensions for browsers. Obviously Firefox and Chrome extensions are eras ahead of Safari's. Scrolla was like: "hey, I can get this everywhere on my system".

Wooshy and kindaVim are more or less in trial mode (I'm paying for the latter). I'm not yet relying on them heavily.

I do appreciate the foundation of these apps though and I'm very happy to have them around.

It was no further than 1 week ago when I was talking with my spouse about how could we compare the size of some cars. We found it very tedious to even find the official dimension. And we had no idea how to visualize the differences. This is absolutely fabulous!

Every month, I comb through previous month Downbeat, JazzTimes, and Jazzwise magazines putting together a list of albums. The trick? I do this with past years magazine though.

I recently discovered the MusicBox app; sort of a listen later. My current playlist has 62 albums, as in December, these magazines are publishing their best of lists.

As someone close said a couple of days: "I didn't realize how much time goes into this music I might not always like to listen every day".

Whatever system I have (tried to) used over time, I've run into the following challenges:

1. how to deal with old tasks (are they relevant anymore? should they be removed?). 2. connecting tasks to their related source and needed information to act

For the former, the accumulation of old stuff has consistently led to less and less usage of the system and as a result to a continuously decreasing trust in that system. Adopting a new solution has given the feeling of a better system with better chances to success; but it has mainly been about having a (temporarily) new clean inbox.

Is the email notification sent synchronously? What happens if there's an error sending the email?

Does this mean that tools like sdkman can include the Oracle JDK? (I haven't found any PR for it yet)

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> Some technology is designed for massive scale and some is not. You may have to layer a little scale magic on top.

This is as wrong as saying that everyone needs to scale day one.

> I have a simpler suggestion, nicknamed the Big Bang license. Congress should allow anyone with a scanned library to pay some price—say, a hundred and twenty-five million dollars—to gain a license, subject to any opt-outs, allowing them to make those scanned prints available to institutional or individual subscribers.

Wouldn't this be great? Many of these materials are not indexed and chances to discover them are decreasing every day. Second, getting access to these materials is for many almost impossible (out of print, not available in the libraries, etc.)

I recently finished reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators books. One of the things that caught my attention was that for many of the people mentioned in the book there was a mention of extra-curricular interests.

I assume this is the (counter) reaction to Facebook's instant articles. The lack of details doesn't help though.

Off the top of my head I know that Netflix and LinkedIn have been running Oracle for quite a while until they moved away.

The store was in read-only mode to prep for the new iPhones so the sales loss is already accounted for.

As a side note (and speculation), as compared with other online stores, I don't think the Apple store has the same risks as the other stores (the fact you don't buy the Mac directly from Apple doesn't really affect their revenue).

If it gets back online in time, it'll be a story to be told. If not, then :-(

I did a quick search for Grace Hopper and there doesn't seem to be anything in the pdf.

This got me thinking how much test coverage exist for the kernel. It sounds like most of those issues could've been caught by tests (and I'm not referring to API compatibility, but purely to the behavior of the implementation)

As many other parts of an interview, I've always found the blackboard coding session extremely strange. When was the last time you coded in TextEdit with no docs around, no time to think, standing up, and being watched over the shoulder?

If I could cache the page I wouldn't need a metro app anymore.

I never really got to play extensively with Docker mainly because I have found the setup of OS X not quite friendly. While I understand the value of Docker, basically booting up a VMware/VirtualBox image was faster for my own use.

I'll have to give boot2docker a try to see if it is changing things. Having a good guide will definitely help.

I've been using iBank [1] for a couple of years now. It's able to pull data from different banks, import CSV, and other format. It has many other features that I'm not using. It's not a hosted solution so everything is on your machine.

For me the only missing feature of iBank is the limited support for charts and reports (it has quite a few predefined that you can customize, but creating new ones is not supported).

No association with the company behind iBank.

Update: iBank is OS X only afaik.

[1]: http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/

The rich buyer trick is present in every other movie. It's still works. Why?

Amazon's Prime 2-day delivery completely changed my ability to wait for gratification. For deliveries that take the normal 5 days, I'm finding myself checking Delivery app a couple of times every day, hoping that something is wrong with the details and I'll actually receive my box sooner.

A couple of examples:

1. I have bought a couple of things from Massdrop and because these were estimated to arrive in about 2 weeks, I was initially very annoyed and then totally forgot about them

2. I have chosen a product based on how soon it'll be delivered (I didn't actually need it urgently) instead of just considering the product qualities.

As someone that have worked in the CMS space for quite a while (and ended up implementing a couple from scratch) I welcome any new solutions that are not antiquated.

One thing that I've learned during that time (and does not apply only to CMS's but that the time I fully realized it) is that everything you build in your CMS should always keep in mind who is the main user and who is the main consumer. The first one I've developed focused on the consumers. And every content creator hated me sooooo much. I went back to the drawing board... no actually I sit with almost each editor and looked at how they bitched and tried to find workarounds. It was an eye opening experience.

Thanks for the dossier link. Now I know how I'll spend my Sunday morning.

In some cultures it is said that dreams are forgotten the moment you look out through a window.

> Another thing you probably don't want to hear is that you are not "senior level" if you lack the experience to have figured this out for yourself.

There are many examples where I don't think there's a strong connection between the level of professional experience with the familiarity with the startup environment/lingo/negotiation.