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Perhaps is because of what we are used to, but I read much better with page turn than with page down.
I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page.
But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way.
And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way.
Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.
>Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time.
You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game.
Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).
On programming searches DDG goes better for me (than Google) because it uses the English data. Google insists on using Spanish data even though I disallow results in other languages than English or Catalan.
For other searches, mostly local information but if it's something recent too, Google goes better. So I use DDG at work, and Google at home.
With friends we do the same when we meet to LAN play. We copy the games into a USB stick and pass it around. It's waaaaay quicker than downloading from steam, and quicker than copying through the local net.
If you know the right folder you just copy it there, buy the game if you didn't already have it, and just wait a little for it to check the integrity of the install.
This article has me almost wishing to start a data courier service. Flying around the globe transporting data.
You have an old car, and you want to renew it. If you buy it brand new and toss the old one, you are destroying the old one. If you keep changing pieces of it, testing them to see they work, and keep going until you have replaced the whole car, it's still the old car, just brand new.
There's not much difference at the end, except that you can consider that the second way of doing things will let you still use the old car, only it'll be new.
Could be useful IN a startup, but not AS a startup.
AFAIK YCombinator is for creating startups, not for letting outside people be a part of one.
You want to prove your will? Ask your neighbours, parents, friends, people you find in the street, ask them for what troubles them, what little things they have to do what would rather not. Find a way to solve it, charging money, low enough that they would rather pay, high enough that you cover costs.
Then you either have a nice startup of your own or at least you have some experience that you can share here. Repeat until success or bust.
When you travel to a different timezones you just have to adjust your clock and, without asking, you know that shops open at 8~10am until 4~8pm with or without a midday stop for lunch (12~3). You have dinner at 18~22, and breakfast at 8~10. All the divergences depend on the country you are in but you can get good aproximations that work for 90% of them (breakfast 9, open shops 10, lunch 13, close 17, dinner 20).
But, if you go for an universal timezone, you've got to learn the different times for the different activities again and again and again. You change a one step correction (change time on your watch) to a constant struggle.
With universal timezone: You wake up when travelling, it's 17:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? You start to calculate and... too late to decide, you are already woken and could not get back to sleep even if you wanted.
With different timezones: You wake up when travelling, it's 2:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? No, time to sleep some more.
I love what I do (my hobby - swing dancing). I do it for 3-5 hours a day (after work). I would improve much faster if I danced less, spent most of the time doing hard work (cleaning my moves, learning more moves, more cardio, ...) and rested more.
Right now I'm always on a tired state, and improving quite well, but finding myself lacking in a lot of ways. When I take a break my improvement is greatly enhanced.
It depends. A shooter? Yeah, piece of cake. An RPG? Sorry, but depending on the country no that many people could understand it well enough to follow the story.
TV Series do get around the moment they get on a torrent site, but many many people can follow them thanks to the subtitles provided by fellow viewers. If not they would have a harder time following them.
Or it could also be that people that were eating less salt where the ones that had a history of heart problems (their own or their parents) so it had nothing to do with the sodium intake.
Kudos to him. Only 1 year and 5 months to reach 2000 hours! I'm impressed.
I began dancing Lindy Hop on 31st August 2009 and have been counting my hours (swing classes and dancing, not just lindy but also related styles) and I am not yet at the 1000 hour (almost there). I'm one of the most active dancers in the local scene and at 2nd or 3rd tier of the local dancers, the first being really good, so I have still lots of room to improve (not counting that I also go abroad).
He does about 4 hours a day of practice, that's 28 a week. Only in the most intensive workshops I have made those hours, and that wasn't deliberate practice.
I'll have to follow him just to motivate myself a bit more :D
They could add google groups to the google+ environment.
Create a minecraft group with only the manager being able to post there but that anyone can see and you have what he wants.
Create a minecraft group with open/moderated subscribership and you have a typical forum.
Create a minecraft group with private subscription and you have your private channel.
For this groups should be both a persona and a circle. The group persona is who you follow to read, the group circle is who will have access to the information (like in the google groups).
Now it recognises the groups and gets the images from there if you add one, but there's no place in the group to add "accept posts from google+", and no place in google+ to "read from the groups I'm subscribed".
I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page.
But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way.
And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way.
Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.