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holychiz··on Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
for non-technical folks to send me big files (5GB limit), I send them to https://transfer.pcloud.com/. no registration needed.
holychiz··on Zappy – Screen capture tool
+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.
holychiz··on Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market
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.
holychiz··on Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail
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.
holychiz··on Plant trees while you search the web
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.
holychiz··on Rethinking Visual Programming with Go
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.
holychiz··on A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (2017)
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.
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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.
holychiz··on Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts
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. :)
holychiz··on If Printed Dictionaries Are History, What'll Children Sit on to Reach the Table?
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.
holychiz··on Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps
what tool/service are you using for your Community Forum site? It looks very well-designed.
holychiz··on Tesla Model 3 teardown points to $28k in potential material and production cost
It's not clear from the article if this cost figure includes software engineering cost which would be significant in Tesla's case.
holychiz··on What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
User docs are customer-facing, and therefore entirely fitting to be under marketing. Of course building the documents requires engineering contribution for technical details.
holychiz··on Ask HN: Moving to Mountain View CA – Places to go to hang with fellow geeks?
I think you meant Dana St. Coffee.
holychiz··on Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
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?
holychiz··on Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft
this book also have a forum for it, albeit low traffic. http://forum.thejsway.com/
holychiz··on Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft
is there an accompany forum for learners of this book to discuss content and exercises like Coursera, et al.?
holychiz··on Show HN: Enlight – Learn to code by building projects
feature request: add discussion page for project discussion, getting help, suggestions, etc.
holychiz··on Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps
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.
holychiz··on Kano’s next learn-to-code kit is a build-it-yourself laptop
how old is your son? if he's around 6 year-old, he's a god to me! :)
holychiz··on Show HN: Kozmos – A Personal Library
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.
holychiz··on Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor
Feature request: Jira integration (atlassian marketplace)
holychiz··on Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes
this is fairly trivial to implement conceptually in Ethereum. What's hard is to integrate that system with existing legal and social framework.
holychiz··on Show HN: A few years ago my Type'o'Shooter went viral – here's the new version
well done! some suggestions:

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

holychiz··on The Dark Reality of Sports Betting and Daily Fantasy Games
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.
holychiz··on The model minority is losing patience
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. :)
holychiz··on Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar”
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?
holychiz··on Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scale to the Enterprise
hopefully, Mac deployment upticks will finally convince MS to bring Mac Office to parity with Win Office.
holychiz··on How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting
you seems like a great manager! everything you said makes sense, except for "Never, ever fire anyone...". Really? what about those who are highly paid but very disruptive to the team, ie. destructive to both budget and team outputs? And can't be move to different areas. Surely that would be the exception to your rule?
holychiz··on Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up
We have OneDrive but I'm not aware of anybody in our large company using it. Instead our team spend extra money on Dropbox, and Box. OneDrive is clunky, hard to use. It does not even integrate well with Office365, let alone other apps. In terms of UX, OneDrive is a disaster.

Google Drive has a fatal flaw that kills its enterprise growth: you have to register your primary domain, no sub-domains allowed. This is fine for start-ups, but in enterprise, if one team sign up for Google Drive, no other teams can sign up separately! In a large company, it's next to impossible for our team to find that original team to pair up for Google services, if they're willing to share the services at all, budget issues and all that.

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