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tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: A Closer Look at Swift Playgrounds for iPad

A young person in our family was using this. It's a beautiful app, but typing and editing code on an iPad without a physical keyboard appeared to be extremely frustrating. Cutting-pasting, refactoring, etc. all become cumbersome and she had to spend time fighting with the editor instead of focusing on the problems.

Waiting for them to make a Mac port, since coding happens on a "real" computer (for now, anyway).

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements

"The incident was described by two entrepreneurs who were told about it in the weeks after it occurred but were not authorized to speak about it."

May be unfair to all parties involved that a situation is described on hearsay, with the source not identified, and not even being a direct source (someone who wasn't at the event, and who heard about it weeks later.)

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete

Just wish everyone would hop onboard quicker. We still need a lot of consumer education.

For example, Apple Pay works great at Whole Foods. I use it every time. Other people in line painstakingly pay with credit cards, despite holding an iPhone in their other hand. The new chip cards take longer to process, even, 5 seconds or so.

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: What Is Ethereum?

"This book is five dollars" vs.

"The price of this book is five dollars" vs.

"This is five dollars" (meaning "this book's price is") vs.

"This is five dollars" (meaning "five dollars are sitting here on the table.")

I know what you're saying, there is ambiguity, but these make sense to people based on context.

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: Will Seattle figure out how to deal with its new wealth?

I'm a firm believer that Americans don't understand how to zone cities. In Asia (e.g. Japan) you can have beautiful high-rises mixed with things useful for daily life, be that small shops, restaurants, or convenience stores. Even Ginza has useful things if you walk a couple of blocks.

On the other hand, if you take Seattle's Belltown, there will be art stores, realtor offices, and other things you rarely ever ever need, and yet you have to drive five minutes to buy a bottle of water.

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: New Skype Update Is Horrible

Yep, previously they had a web app only (not even Electron, just a website). The MAS version came after that. We use it heavily day-to-day.

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: New Skype Update Is Horrible

WeChat, while excellent on iOS, is also a lifesaver on the desktop given that they provide true native apps for Mac and Windows (no Electron!) Video/voice calls, file sharing, group chat, stickers, everything is there, but the performance alone makes this more usable over other chat apps today.

It seems that over the years, their PM team is more confident (capable?) in keeping a good balance between core chat usability and all the "extras", perhaps because they are not playing catch-up in the market.

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS

Sometimes doing one thing well is all you need. Anki is like the assembly language of flashcards apps, higher-level solutions can be very handy too. (Speaking as a multi-language learner.)

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS

If I swipe long enough vertically, the card does seem to go away, so I figured it's a "come back to this later" feature. Didn't realize could do up/left/right to mark status, that's handy!

tsukaisute | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS

Just downloaded.

Quick feedback: flicking away a card takes too long (vertical distance) of a flick. I have to carefully drag it from top to bottom for the card to flick away. Wish it was more sensitive. Perhaps 30% of the screen height is enough of a threshold. Otherwise, thank you. Going to be using this!

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