I agree and in the first rendition you could feel the borders between the gel sheets, which was quite distracting.
An encasement that made those lines invisible might be too thick and negate the benefits of using the gel. When the fitted sheet is over the mattress, you cannot see the lines.
I didn't say there was no difference, just that whether you think one is better than another is not "objective" but a matter of personal preference.
Clearly Dan Brown and Don DeLillo are different. They write different sorts of books that appeal to different sorts of readers. But I struggle to see how those differences make one "objectively" better than the other.
If there are objective criteria by which one could judge whether the one is better than the other, I'd like to know what they are.
There are fairly standard criteria for literary criticism that include psychological and social insight, use of vocabulary, use of advanced writing techniques, use of form, and many, many more.
It is all opinion, but there’s a difference between the opinion of Alan Kay and of someone who has two days of Python and a copy of Angry Birds.
Your example of Alan Kay isn't a very good one though, because we can objectively test their opinions on say, the best way to implement `malloc` by having them do it and testing the results against the computer. There is no such equivalent for literature.
What do you think is a fair price for one of our 3000 word language decks? In the previous iteration of the app, people showed themselves willing to pay $15.
Repeat revenue makes it easier for me to make a living as an indie dev, so I wanted to give this model a try while charging what I think is a fair price. I'll keep an open mind about it and adjust if enough people want it. Appreciate the feedback!
> Repeat revenue makes it easier for me to make a living as an indie dev
Of course it does! "And a pony."
You have to realize that most people are exceptionally leery of subscriptions as they are open-ended long-term commercial relationships with some random entity. There gotta be rock-solid clear benefits for a subscription to be justified. There are none in your case. What you have is a product, not a service. A subscription makes no sense whatsoever.
With regards to the fixed pricing - 3000 word pack is not the best option. What's more useful from the language learners perspective are packs that cover specific domain area - foods, kitchen utensils, car parts, body parts, weather elements, household tools, etc.
"3000 words" = "Unclear what you are getting"
"100 words, Garage" = "I may be able talk to the mechanic"
If you have smaller packs, you can sell them at few bucks a piece. You can try and experiment with discounted bundles of packs. And you can also try an all-you-can-eat option with a monthly access (yes, subscription), but as one of the options, not the only one.
PS. Have an option of switching off photos on cards.
I don't think domain specific packs are very useful for language learners. You need a rather large vocabulary just to follow a normal everyday conversation. Basic conversation and reading skill are the foundation upon which you can build. You need to consume and produce a large amount of material in your target language if you want to master it.
Buying the language a few hundred words at a time won't get you to fluency as quickly as learning words by frequency until you have covered the most frequent ~80%. Only then does it make sense to focus on specific domains that are most interesting to you.
Actually, it does make sense to have packs that are structured in a particular way.
For example, I am learning German. I would rather have a pack with the 25 most frequent nouns, 25 most frequent verbs, and maybe 25 most frequent adjectives. Then I have a foundation of vocabulary to learn the dativ and akkusativ. I don't need the adverbs yet.
Also, if I'm learning the modal verbs, I'd like a pack of those.
Domain packs are not for those who are trying to master a language, but those who are starting up and merely need to pick up some day-to-day vocabulary quickly.
So I googled "And a Pony" and it looks like one of the first uses of it is from a coding horror page in 2006 where the guy is asking all websites to scale down properly for a phone and then scale up properly for a desktop. He's then ridiculed because asking such a thing from websites would be obviously impossible. (Remember: 2006.) It is now of course expected everywhere.
I just think that's interesting in the context of your use here.
True on the smartphone. On the computer most Japanese speakers I know just type romaji. However, this is pretty much irrelevant to this article, as romaji->kanas (the phonetic alphabets) is a pretty straightforward and solved problem (there is a clear bijection between both).
The real problem is transforming the phonetic transliteration into the correct word in either kanji (for most Japanese words) or katakana (for words with foreign origin).
This problem is akin to disambiguating between two homonymes (which are much more frequent in Japanese). In some cases it is easy by looking the previous words, but in some it is heavily context dependent.
Nowadays, most japanese typing system will propose a list of kanjis as you type that corresponds to the most frequent writting of your transliteration, but sometimes for unusual kanjis o(or people's name) you have to dig deep into the list.
I can see how such a system could improve typing speed in Japanese.
Do people really use romaji on keyboards in Japan? This strikes me as an odd way to type, as it means that you first need to learn romaji in order to type. I thought that hiragana keyboards (hiragana mapped onto the normal layout) were the norm, especially on laptop keyboards.
But none of the Japanese I know use the hiragana directly. They told me it is mostly old people who use it. Almost every Japanese knows romajis now, there is no additional cost of learning a new alphabet.
Not sure what you mean by dial type input system, but if you mean that people use the number keys 0-9 to input text, that's the exact thing the grantparent meant.
Why not? You bought a cable for every monitor you'd ever connect to. The hdmi cable your monitor came with definitely didn't plug into your MBP from 2015.
While true it's beside the point that was made earlier on. The Parent complains about "dongles", but really it's not much different than having to plug a portable computer into all of the accessories that are there already, there's just something extra tacked on. It's not like other vendors and set ups are immune to this; my previous work place had a Dell contract and their desktops came with some stupid video card where there was only one out-put and the only way to get dual monitors was a Y splitter from Dell.
In custom setups, if your card isn't Dual [connection], you use an adapter for DVI or HDMI, and so on.
Apple does have a lot to answer for, and their idea of "dongle for everything" does get tiresome and Apple should be above that. But it's not like it's unique to Apple or even new in the computing world. This has been standard for a long time.
I used to work at a place with a Dell contract, and I had a laptop ...with a docking station.
I always pooh-poohed proprietary docking stations before I had one -- all the cables went to it, dock the computer, done. Best of all, it wasn't having plug something in where you need to set the computer down, then navigate something with one hand -- the dock felt nice and intuitive to set the laptop down upon with two hands, as if it was meant to be part of setting your computer down. Even worked flawlessly with my Linux install.
Sadly the E-series dock was not as intuitive -- I found it easier to manually plug in my headphones as the dock was a different sound device.
It's funny because there isn't a single non-standard interface on the new MBPs and the old ones had magsafe (apple only) and thunderbolt (might as well be apple only)
Cool, so you say it has USB 2/3, HDMI video, audio in/out, and Ethernet compatible with standard equipment, and without the need for dongles, that's awesome! I'll buy one tomorrow at the Apple store right after I confirm that you are telling the truth.
>Cool, so you say it has USB 2/3, HDMI video, audio in/out, and Ethernet compatible with standard equipment, and without the need for dongles, that's awesome!
What's this condescending bullshit for? Fuck's sake man, I never said it had it HDMI or ethernet (the audio situation hasn't changed) and if you had read this thread higher up you would see I was refuting someone who suggested they never had HDMI. They did, and now they don't. They haven't had ethernet since 2012 and for what it's worth they still do support USB 2 and 3, they just don't support those protocols over a type A connector, they support it over type C. Those dongles are standard (you don't have to buy Apple's) and can be had for $10 for a two pack: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AUKU1OO/?tag=thewire06-20&linkC... Adapters were much harder to find for the Thunderbolt 2 ports on the older MacBook Pro, you basically had to go with Apple for most things. Now you can buy the cheapest one Amazon will sell you and it should work.
But you know they don't have those ports, so I don't know what your deal is. I said all the I/O is now standard including the power connector. You can't say that of the older MacBook Pros much less any other PC laptop.
IIRC, the Anova cooking was originally one guy at the lab devices company that saw the Nomiku or Polyscience and said, "we can do that" and started basically doing this as a side business.
At the time of their first product launch, before the $1.8MM Kickstarter campaign, they already had 3 cofounders. Anova, Nomiku, and Sansaire all sort of started at roughly the same time. Sansaire is (IIRC) the Seattle Food Blog team, the people behind one of the more popular DIY Sous Vide kits. Nomiku was a DIY SV team from New York.
The thing about all these products is, the fundamental technology isn't difficult. The challenge is just straightforward hardware product development and execution, the basic stuff that's hard for everyone to get right --- along with marketing and inventory and channel management.
PolyScience, on the other hand, has been doing serious equipment manufacturing for a long time.
I don't have a source handy but the guy was present on a ton of food forums at the time, gathering feedback and responding to inquiries. He was pretty open that this was a one man side project at the time. I still own one of the V1 Anovas and sent him some UI feedback (including uncovering a bug where the calibration was done backwards on an early batch of machines).
Well, they do have a reputation for deleting sub-reddits they don't like. It would be better, I think, just to come out and say, "we will delete sub-reddits we disagree with."
I like having all my subscriptions in the same place so I can easily see what I'm paying and cancel.