LokiSnake

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by LokiSnake 15y ago
When you start applying real numbers to n, using O() doesn't make sense. When comparing the two in a slightly practical sense, the constant factor has to be taken into account.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Yes, 50% of users, but from various posts with statistics of actual web use, it iOS is still heavily favored. Same can be said about actual app purchases. iOS users seem to use the smartphone more than Android, at least for now.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
It wasn't so much of a question of why, but when. I don't think any sane person expected Groupon to stay up there.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Do realize it's not Apple not letting South Africans to buy games. It's South African bureaucracy that's preventing South Africans from buying games. The barrier for entry is too high to justify the ROI for Apple to bother. Otherwise, there
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Interesting. It seems like it isn't just a problem with Apple though. I've heard similar stories with Xbox Live accounts, where they won't move accounts between countries. I think there may be some laws/regulations involved which are preven
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
He did introduce the original Macintosh 17 years ago (1984). Sure, past performance doesn't necessarily mean much, but Jobs has had a hand in so many different areas.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
I believe they will come November, according to their store page.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
It's definitely dependent on the LCD monitor. I have a TN monitor, which works with the demo page, but on my IPS monitor, the text never really disappears from any angle.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
I would imagine that the extra RAM doesn't help battery life either.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
True, but it's the absolute size (in pixels) that matters on the desktop because the mouse (a pixel precise) pointing device is used. This becomes a problem on touch based devices with limited screen real estate where balancing info density
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
The problem is that desktop computing is based on mouse interaction, and the precision unit is the pixel. On touch-based devices, it is the human finger. The actual physical dimension of the buttons and other UI elements, including spacing,
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Apple also provides very detailed human interface guidelines for all their OSes. They are all more than 100 pages long, and describe how every single UI element should act and what the user should expect. When designing a UI using Apple's p
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Achieving cohesiveness in such a system will be very difficult though. There's a reason why Apple chose to keep OS X and iOS separate. I do agree that cohesiveness is important to the user experience. It makes me a little disappointed that
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Gruber just posted about it: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/14/for-realsies
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Can you provide a little more detail on this? What percentage of users actually use the defaults (for both start and end date), and how many change it anyways? Have you thought about doing some A/B testing on providing a default and not?
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
I love your site. It easily has the best UI. I knew in the back of my mind that you have the "flexible" feature, as I've seen it before, but never thought about or even bothered to use it, because it just isn't visible enough. It may help t
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
This is also one of the benefits of Apple's huge cash reserve. They can easily make these commitments and investments as they see fit.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Might also be nice to have a very simple push notification enabled mobile app for active reminders in addition to passive checks via Twitter. It'll be way less actions from a user's point of view compared to email when on the go.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Also, do you plan on adding something like a "confidence radius" for the output? Are there cases where the GPS was not able to return an accurate lock and was only able to give a vague estimate? By the way, very cool app. Looking forward to
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Those numbers are a bit off, I believe. The 2-4m is probably devices shipped to carriers, not necessarily devices sold to consumers. Also, considering the number of device activations on Android, this is a drop in the bucket.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
But it's a huge oversight and the kind of thing the designers would have come across when designing the system. They decided to use the shared id, either with the assumption that no clients will ever collaborate and share data or they just
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Google having more control over Android would make a better UX and platform, but it would not have allowed for Android to take off as it has. One of the key reasons it's selling is because it's not an iPhone. It's open, and comes with all t
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
An immediate expiry would not solve the initial problem. A user can easily click on the link on an iPhone, then want to read the content on his desktop. A timed expiry would work much better.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
There is good reason to not offer alternatives. There will be platform fragmentation, and end up being a worse experience for both developers and users. Devs probably need to publish on all stores to cover their bases, otherwise users need
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Do you have an estimate of the storage/transfer costs if doing self-hosting?
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Deeply invested indeed. Just make sure you've got a clean exit strategy though!
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
This will be bad for device manufacturers though. Many users will think "iPad with Flash still can't use lots of Flash" when many Flash sites depend on things such as mouseovers and other events that don't make sense on a touchscreen UI. We
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Were you at the LA iPad hackathon event right after the iPad's release? There was a team that worked on something similar.
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
Left foot braking can be done for very different reasons. First of all, you're probably driving an automatic. It's much trickier to use your left foot to brake when it's also on the clutch. ;) In the context of F1, it allows for less time b
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by LokiSnake 15y ago
I looked into this a while back, and here's what I still remember. Please correct me if I'm wrong. * CMU has a good range of research, along with good aid. * MIT (CSAIL or Media Lab) is good for novel interfaces. * University of Washington

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