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by BSeward 15y ago
Can anyone who's used this gather whether it's built with iOS APIs or HTML5? Looks a little too perfect for HTML5, which is too bad for Android tablets (and the three people who own one). Since this has been tried lots of times and no one h
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by BSeward 15y ago
Warren Buffett's argument was "anecdotally the über-rich wouldn't mind paying more and (demonstratively?) won't invest in US markets in markedly different ways". That other sundry taxes are out there doesn't seem like it matters in that con
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by BSeward 15y ago
This would have happened. The odds that it would have gone to a charity and not to an iPad are pretty small. I see a lot of irate comments on Jonathan's blog and the card's Facebook wall from people who likely cannot appreciate the ease wit
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by BSeward 15y ago
As a straight translation of percentages, sure. But who cares that 1.3% of the population Likes something except in the context of total population? "1 out of 77 kids has an awful haircut, an equivalent to over 5,000,000 awful haircuts in A
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by BSeward 15y ago
With occasionally obtuse syntax: yes; with bonus space parentheticals: no (see?). Most non-code writing is going to be read linearly, rarely more than onc. Parentheticals in a reading context are secondary, not deserving of additional empha
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by BSeward 15y ago
This is my personal preference too. I like that the condition is visually separated from the wrapping. I'm also prone to borderline-too-complex conditions, and this syntax makes those easier to focus on.
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The Science of Word Recognition(microsoft.com)
1 points by BSeward 15y ago|0 comments
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by BSeward 15y ago
Five years ago I bought an iBook with a what-felt-massive 80gb 4200rpm drive. Today I'd toss an 80gb drive in an electrostatic bag and probably forget about it. Five years is a sufficient warranty for my consumer use, even for cutting edge
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by BSeward 15y ago
It looks like Alexander Chen played a large role in this. He was responsible for the NYC MTA conductor piece that made the rounds earlier this year: http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/ Cool to see how this concept and code h
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by BSeward 16y ago
I haven't dug into this code at great length, but it looks like the images-only limitation is totally artificial, gated by the isImage method on line 23 of https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/blob/master/files/mo... Anyways, Dropmock'
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by BSeward 16y ago
I'm a little disappointed to see min.us making headlines—it started off as a fairly obvious clone of http://www.dropmocks.com/ . I guess min.us has built out their feature set a little more, and DropMocks was just a side project of Glen Mu
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by BSeward 16y ago
API access for subscribers only is a really interesting idea. I'm curious how it will play out. Are there examples of other apps using a similar scheme?
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by BSeward 16y ago
Stanford has materials for a good Intro to Java course online: see http://j.mp/cSpFgw I think it's a great course for learning the basics. Its exercises and assignments are gratifying, it holds your hand through early environment setup, a
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by BSeward 16y ago
Every time someone tries to tell a friend about your site, they'll need to say "cardly, but with a 'k'." It's a minor thing, but I'd favor a name that didn't require auditory clarification.
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by BSeward 16y ago
Seam carving? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg Person-silhouetting seems more difficult to do well than content-replacing. I wonder how this falls apart in complex scenarios? Still, an interesting idea.
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by BSeward 16y ago
I'll definitely have mine next time I have a garage sale. I think semi-licensed SF street cart vendors should be overjoyed. Et cetera. I think there's a long tail of uses for debit/credit for which an easy solution has not existed.
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by BSeward 16y ago
Apple has a few frameworks floating around, internally and out. See http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/286536824/apples-myriad-java...
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by BSeward 16y ago
Appropriate amount of well-selected content. Catches my eye. I'd suggest that the information architecture flow is a little lax. You have a clear conversion goal--get users interested in your services and contact you--but to accomplish it i
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by BSeward 16y ago
This change provides an added benefit of cleaning up the Twitter app ecosystem. Twitter is changing, and if an app developer won't make this change they probably wouldn't ever be inspired to update their app to use new features^, and users
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by BSeward 17y ago
Yes, there's a pretty comprehensive multitouch API available in JavaScript. See http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/07/10/touching-and-gesturin...
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by BSeward 17y ago
It's an easy feature to implement (Just add an element to <head>: "<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />"). The downside is that going to other domains/subdomains from a webapp launched that way forces a
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by BSeward 17y ago
I'm reasonably sure this is not true. Anecdotally, for starters, I've never seen a site do this for mobile. Even sites with robust liquid layouts cannot be expected to condense to fit in 480px. At that width even ubiquitous things like a 2-
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by BSeward 17y ago
I don't think it's people running XP who are disappointed. If this news means much to you you're probably tech-savvy enough to have installed a more capable browser. Developers must be disappointed because this means the millions of non-tec
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by BSeward 17y ago
I thought this may have been a statement of fact rather than an imperative. In the "new" queue I see 5 [of 30] iPad stories. That seems... not too bad. Of the five: two are duplicates; those two are about updated code that's useful for iPad
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How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac(createdigitalmusic.com)
213 points by BSeward 17y ago|193 comments
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by BSeward 17y ago
A snapshot of my subscriptions of the moment is at http://brianseward.com/feed-me.opml I am constantly impressed by the curation of applications on http://www.creativeapplications.net/ . Their posts inspire me to imagine creative, engag
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Ask HN: Post your OPMLs? What are your must-read sites?
3 points by BSeward 17y ago|1 comments
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Redesign: Divvyshot Friends Page(monicaokubo.com)
2 points by BSeward 17y ago|1 comments
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by BSeward 17y ago
Analyst reports on Apple developments are particularly cringe-inducing to me. Many are clearly unsubstantiated guessing by folks who are perhaps only marginally familiar with Apple's plans. The only thing that makes this particular article
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by BSeward 17y ago
You won't be able to use Greasemonkey to surface information that is inaccessible, like who upvoted what, unless I'm missing something? You could write a Greasemonkey script that would would track what users who have installed it have up-vo

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