Show HN: Speki – Flashcards in Terminal
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Show HN: Speki – Flashcards in Terminal
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#2As an Icelander, I approve of the name, which means "wisdom" in Icelandic.
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#3As an Icelander, I approve of the name, which means "wisdom" in Icelandic.
Indeed! I'm norwgian so I was looking for a fitting norse word and came across this. I'm pretty jealous how you guys are still talking like our common ancestors x)
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#4As an Icelander, I approve of the name, which means "wisdom" in Icelandic.
We called ZX Spectrum Speki, out of endearment.
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#5I really love the current days of OSS, because they enable such software that may fit into the needs for a smaller usergroup.
Great job! :)
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#6Love it =)
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#7This is great, I find the Anki interface has too much going on and feels quite outdated, will definitely try this instead.
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#8This feels like the far end of the spectrum between super busy modern interfaces and interfaces that are going too far to be as lightweight and minimal as possible.
What ever happened to making stuff for a GUI that was simple and useful? It seems everything is feature packed or so simple it can be in a command line now.
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#9This feels like the far end of the spectrum between super busy modern interfaces and interfaces that are going too far to be as lightweight and minimal as possible. What ever happened to making stuff for a GUI that was simple and useful? It seems everything is feature packed or so simple it can be in a command line now.
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#10This feels like the far end of the spectrum between super busy modern interfaces and interfaces that are going too far to be as lightweight and minimal as possible. What ever happened to making stuff for a GUI that was simple and useful? It seems everything is feature packed or so simple it can be in a command line now.
I'd hazard to say that simple-looking but polished GUI programs are not so simple. The more expressive is the medium, the more small things you should take into account to avoid papercuts or visual unpleasantness.