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Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by yebyen »

milosh_ wrote: post #14
tormeh wrote: post #2

>It's highly recommended that you install Anki from this package instead of relying on the version distributed with your OS, as the packages in the official repo are often very out of date. Why is this still a problem in Linux-land? Why can't we just make some but not all packages rolling-release? Making Anki rolling-release won't make the distro unstable by any sensible meaning of the word.

Frankly, "very out of date" when it is version 2.0.32 in debian testing and ubuntu current while the new, one month old version is 2.0.33 is overstated. What are the features that are not in the debian stable package (2.0.31) or in 2.0.32 but are in the cutting edge 2.0.33 version? None of the bugs reported in the debian bug tracker seem to have been fixed by later versions! With that said, you can make some but not…

> None of the bugs reported in the debian bug tracker seem to have been fixed by later versions!

Bingo. That is the #1 reason (the only reason?) that a package doesn't get promoted to Testing from Unstable, because it has known bugs and they haven't been fixed. This is Debian policy manual 101.

Fix the bugs, release a new version, if no more bugs are reported on the new version for two weeks, then it gets promoted to Testing (as long as it's not a freeze?) and it will be in next Stable after the freeze is completed.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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sandGorgon wrote: post #18

Anki is great - the original Supermemo algorithm on which Anki is based[2], makes for fascinating reading [1] However, I daresay that this is a usecase that is tailormade for the mobile rather than the desktop in any which way. I wonder why the core team is spending effort behind a desktop app, rather than go full mobile. [1] https://archive.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_w... [2] https://www.supermemo.co…

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Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by nextos »

jhund wrote: post #22

Anki is great. I've used it to learn the 100 most common Clojure expressions. You can get the Anki file by signing up for the newsletter at http://www.lispcast.com/100-most-used-clojure-expressions

There's also a great org-mode extension that implements most SRS algorithms, including Anki's:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by wahnfrieden »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #20
[deleted] wrote: post #3

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Apple charges a ridiculous amount in order to be allowed to develop software for their platforms. It is no surprise that developers might feel the need to pass this cost on to the customer.

$100 is such a hurdle that commercial app developers need to center their pricing model around it? I think you're overplaying its influence.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by QuantumCookie »

nolite wrote: post #7
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There's another problem: there's no way to easily make cards from the mobile app! You have to do it on the desktop and then switch to mobile. Really kills the incentive for the mobile app

It's possible from the Android mobile app (though I believe that's unofficial), though it's more fiddly than on the desktop.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by tokenizerrr »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #26
tokenizerrr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple charges a ridiculous amount in order to be allowed to develop software for their platforms. It is no surprise that developers might feel the need to pass this cost on to the customer.

$100 is such a hurdle that commercial app developers need to center their pricing model around it? I think you're overplaying its influence.

Anki is a commerical app developer? Last I checked it's non-commercial/open source except for the iOS app.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by nextos »

temp wrote: post #8
tormeh wrote: post #2

>It's highly recommended that you install Anki from this package instead of relying on the version distributed with your OS, as the packages in the official repo are often very out of date. Why is this still a problem in Linux-land? Why can't we just make some but not all packages rolling-release? Making Anki rolling-release won't make the distro unstable by any sensible meaning of the word.

>Why can't we just make some but not all packages rolling-release? Does that include Anki's dependencies? And if it does, does it include all other packages that depend upon Anki's dependencies? Also, does it include thousands of other packages similar to Anki that also "won't make the distro unstable by any sensible meaning of the word"? Don't think you'll have a "just some rolling-release packages" distro by the en…

I think the trick for this is to embrace distros that allow for more aggressive installation and removal of packages, plus different versions of the same package to co-exist. Like NixOS or GuixSD. Then, one doesn't need to keep the whole package tree in sync.
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