Ah i've been curious about what improvements folks would like to see most in SRS learning and this thread is gold! It does seem as though Anki’s core is undeniably solid, yet its power can also feel like a hurdle for non power users. Additionally, i'm not sure "boring" is necessarily bad, as i've heard and to agree that learning may be best when it feels like a strenuous workout.
Hello. It's almost exclusively a nodejs + redis stack.
There are currently a little over 200 people on the page and moderating the site is taking most of my attention, I'll try to answer all questions in this thread anyways.
whoa, this is exactly the motivation behind a current project (just posted a ShowHN thread actually!), centered around collaborative time capsules. One criticism we've come up against when we tell people we're interested in building an experience around social time capsules is that it's not consuming or addictive.
I'm optimistic in thinking that social services make it easier to connect, but I'm not sure many are designed primarily for true, intimate connections. A saying I do like though is that "Facebook is only as good as your friends list," so maybe at the end of the day it's still up to us as individuals to put forth the effort in creating meaning.
wow, beautiful app! i had a similar idea with a different slant as a side project, centered around the idea of writing a letter to your future self. am currently testing whether or not people would pay to get letters printed and mailed to them.
$9 seems quite excessive to mail a sheet of paper. I'm not sure whether or not people will be able to justify the inordinate price, and I'm of the opinion that it's simply too hight to be tenable.
As an aside, the site crashed upon closing the "learn more" dialog.
ah yes i agree $9 is not low, but i think we need to communicate more of what you'll receive in by mail.
we won't send just a sheet of paper, but rather a neatly printed letter on high quality paper (diploma quality stock) with maybe letter pressed adornments.
all in all, this a lean startup test of the idea. i'm not married to the price point, and thanks for the feedback!
Hedy Lamarr, credited with the US Patent for frequency hopping, was met with disbelief simply because people thought she was too beautiful to create such a profound intellectual contribution.
Many actors/actresses find themselves unable to break out of certain roles that match their look and caricature. In day to day life, we make assumptions about a person's personality based on how they look. There's a lot of "work" we all need to do to break out of the societal mold that's shaping other people's perception of our personalities if left to first impressions.
Weirdly enough I did once have a woman find it difficult to believe I worked in IT because I was "too handsome for that". I've also seen comments on technical youtube videos that say stuff like "Dude has pale skin and a neckbeard, you know he's legit!"
I wonder if this is one of the reasons we don't have more women in IT, if there is a public perception of IT people = Ugly. The last thing many women want is to be associated with ugly.
This (not Lamarr specifically) was briefly mentioned in the article - the 'attractiveness benefit' is actually not awarded to women in traditionally male fields.
one criticism i've heard of bitcoin is of its independence of influence from monetary policy is also its achilles' heel. there's no mechanism to alter supply subjectively and the global supply is fixed to a logistic curve.
a problem arises where when one loses/destroys their bitcoins, there is not enough counter measure to recover the lost supply. it's like burying treasure with a sealed guarantee that the value of it will be gone forever-- an unsoundly characteristic of any currency with high ambition
yeah, i'd be interested in comparisons of urban transportation across the globe. beyond taxis, an analysis with comparisons like underground use vs. taxi etc would be a great follow up to this article.
yes! the main header on the Priceonomics blog originally linked our home page, but that left users stranded on blog post pages when they wanted to visit other tumblr posts quickly.
imo a link to your homepage elsewhere is a better solution
I've been exploring some of these questions in my personal foray in design. If anyone’s interested, I posted an early experiment here: https://dribbble.com/shots/25737616-Descartes-Design-Flashca...