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Comments like these are why I lurk on HN. Genius solution.

As a birder I have thousands of bird photos and would pay for this service.



This would be primarily aimed at the large number of students who have to take organic chemistry as a requirement.

For organic chemistry graduate students and professional organic chemists, all this stuff will largely be so ingrained as to not to require these kinds of resources.

There are, however, a large number of people who are in chemistry fields who need occasional refreshers on introductory concepts and for that purpose, these are excellent.


On one hand I love this level of nitpicking.

On the other hand, by the standards of what an undergraduate organic chemistry student is looking for from a free online resource, and given that it is just one guy doing this, in his spare time, I think this is absolutely fine.

(I have a competing website on organic chemistry and I think this guy does a much better job on graphics than I do.)


Oh I agree entirely. I totally don't want to detract from the work!


I don't think we need to bend over backwards to avoid any kind of criticism of this project. It's clearly a personal passion project and nobody is saying it is less than "fine". I guess it's an American norm to be very circumspect about any kind of negative appraisal.

It takes time and training to pull off design like this, and while it might work as a fun infographic, it is not as polished or beautiful as it could be. There is room for improvement.

As far as the "graphic design POV" goes, that involves intuitive assessments of things like negative space, colour, and density of graphic elements and text. It involves things like the five Gestalt principles, or the CARP principles, although these are not prescriptions that anyone can follow. They're more like rationalisations of what has been found to work.


A childhood friend of mine invented the Lumitone, a microtonal keyboard with colored backlit hexagonal keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfNIxTiApig

About 10 years ago I visited him in his studio where he had all mocked up in paper and cardboard, putting all the pieces together. Fun to see it finally out and in people's hands.


Isomorphic keyboards are so cool! I hope the Lumitone comes down in price and becomes more of a "regular instrument"... AFAIK it's just as suited for regular tonal music as microtonal.


I've been dying to get my hands on one of these :) I think there's a pretty large and unexplored possibility space in using these MPE controllers for controlling things other music, as well...


/Lumitone/Lumatone/

It is a very fun-looking instrument. Isomorphic keyboards are an internet black hole to me.

What kind of velocity-sensitive input sensors do these things use? Definitely not regular computer keyboard ones.


Started in 1924 and still going strong 100 years later. The gold standard for organic chemistry procedures.

"If you can't reproduce a procedure in Org Syn, it's YOUR fault" - my PhD supervisor


https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com

Been doing this 12+ years, mainly focused on teaching sophomore organic chemistry. Started as a blog, don't know if it really qualifies anymore as I've organized many of the posts into chapters that follow the typical order of topics as taught in most North American schools. Still write rants from time to time


Similar situation here.


Put "Pieces of me" in quotes and I get reddit discussion. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pieces+of+me%22+is+actual...


Having read both the book and the article, I think the article was sufficient in getting the main point across.


the agile manifesto is even shorter and look at the industry it's been build from that.


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