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polymath21
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Comment #36426387
Hold CMD + two fingers on the trackpad to zoom in+out
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Comment #22815312
Thanks for this Alex! Will definitely check this out. DynamoDBGuide.com was a huge help to me when I was learning serverless last year to build wanderium.com. There's definitely a …
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Comment #22742035
Very sad indeed. I haven't found anything comparable with global coverage or historical data support that's reasonably priced or has an easy to use self serve UI.
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Comment #22050532
It's unfortunate for Hipmunk to just be turned off despite its founders trying to buy it back: https://skift.com/2020/01/14/hipmunk-co-founders-spurned-by-... I remember being pret…
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Comment #21479948
I find it a bit funny how many people in here think Disney sucks now. The tech/developer crowd clearly is not their audience (which is fine). I personally think Disney has done a g…
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Comment #21382646
In most states dealership cars typically have dealer plates which only allow them to be driven during test drives or by dealership employees. How do you handle that?
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Comment #20235910
I listened to this podcast series too! So, so interesting, especially as an Asian American and understanding how that period of Japanese colonialism affected the rest of the region…
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Comment #18287185
For a great in depth but still understandable look at the race to zero emissions, including carbon capture technologies, I highly recommend this series from Quartz: https://qz.com/…
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Comment #18250544
It seems increasingly likely with every one of these reports that our usage of plastics has lead to the large drop in sperm counts the last few decades: https://www.gq.com/story/sp…
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Comment #15737473
If you think London is good, wait til you try the subway in big Asian cities like Taipei, Tokyo, or Seoul.
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Comment #13899809
This does look useful, thank you!
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Comment #13896181
But the whole point of me using Contentful is that a non-developer will have an easy time editing content within Contentful vs. having to set up a local way of accessing those mark…
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Comment #13894855
How does this compare to Contentful? I've been trying to combine their headless CMS with Middleman but it hasn't been that easy to use, although the experience I'm trying to create…
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Comment #10770052
We've been working on a product more oriented towards "everyday" remembering instead of hardcore educational learning called Remembered.io ( https://remembered.io ) It's meant for …
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Comment #10096389
Thanks! That was helpful. I agree we can do a better job with the copy on our landing page. I use Anki as well for learning Chinese, but the use case is different for me. What YC c…
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Comment #10092636
Hey HN, we built this recently because we saw a gap not being filled by calendar/note/todo apps. We noticed that even after writing down notes/ideas we wanted to remember, we’d for…
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Comment #10060978
Hey everyone, here's a personal project we just launched. To learn more about the product, get 10% off, and see nifty animations: https://remembered.io/invites/jono892 Here's also …
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Comment #8423408
Coin already uses e-ink
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Comment #3438886
This was the first thing I noticed too. It seems like an odd mix between Bootstrap itself and Facebook's styling. For example, the box-shadow when focusing on text input.
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Comment #3242068
Yup, agreed. Here's a great Freakonomics podcast on the upside of quitting that's quite illuminating: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/new-freakonomics-radi...
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Comment #3180267
Yup, 3rd time here too. This was our first time applying with TwoSides ( http://www.twosides.co ). No worries though, we should all keep plowin' along.
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Comment #3061193
From what I understand, Chamath is okay with cashing out by selling your stock, but what the AirBnB founders are doing is just paying themselves a dividend of $20M (essentially jus…
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Comment #3040122
Hi HN, we're launching a new way for you to compare your viewpoints with the candidates of Election 2012 on TwoSides, a social debate platform. This launch also coincides with us o…