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35, 上海 Education Technology Learning to do more with what I have

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Comment · 10 years ago

i don't have that many fingers

Comment · 10 years ago

Amen

Comment · 10 years ago

Charging $ to use Atom? No thanks.

Comment · 10 years ago

I love Buku. Using it daily now!

Comment · 10 years ago

Interesting. The Chinese devs I work with hate Kylin (probably because it's approved by the Party) and seem to really prefer other Chinese-created variants, particularly Lubuntu and Xubuntu. I've got no experience with Kylin, so it's interesting to hear these points.

Comment · 10 years ago

Why Kylin and not Xubuntu or Lubuntu?

Comment · 10 years ago

With that said, reputation and word of mouth is everything in China. Before an app like Didi was the king, people were changing ride share apps every month. New deals, new coupons, new rumors, etc... The tide changes really fast here. Didi just happened to be the only app that could hang in there.

Regardless of how many people there are, if 10 people online say something is not worth using, no one else is going to use it.

Comment · 10 years ago

I regularly use version control, atom, markdown and syntax highlighting in preparing education materials.

Comment · 10 years ago

is this just 'showing' a sign up page?

Comment · 10 years ago

"Most Simple" seems like the least simple way to say "Simplest"

Comment · 10 years ago

Why not allow self-hosting?

Comment · 10 years ago

Really appreciate your perspective. Looking forward to giving it a shot. I've found Pocket to be bloated and getting slower and slower in China, so the speed and minimal UI is really attractive to me.

Comment · 10 years ago

Oh. Now I wish I didn't ask, haha. 1 link per day is a pretty steep restriction.

Comment · 10 years ago

Really love the UI and simplicity of adding tasks/task groups, but this app is (for some reason) a beast on my battery life. I sent you an email about this as well, but it was using well over what I had anticipated. From the OS X 10.11.4 Activity Monitor:

    Alloy
    Energy Impact: 651.4
    Avg Energy Impact: 24.6

This is compared to Google Chrome, which, with 15 tabs open, has an impact of 11.2. When I looked into it, the energy impact of Alloy is near that one would expect on a stress test (ex: http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/use-activity-monitor-energy-tab-...).

Any ideas what would be causing this much energy consumption?

Comment · 10 years ago

Love it. But I don't understand this bit:

https://larder.io/account/

    Bookmark limit
    Trial: 1/day
    Paid: Unlimited

So far that's not true, unless I'm reading it wrong. I've started a trial account and have bookmarked at least 20 sites. Is there a restriction I'm missing here?