MWinther

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by MWinther 16y ago
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say that the constant fanboy angle on practically all Apple stories a) gets tiresome and b) takes away from the discussion of the article at hand.
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by MWinther 16y ago
"Swedish bureaucracies inspire trust"? Really? Maybe from the outside. Living here, my personal experience is quite the opposite, swedish people don't hold their government agencies in particularly high regard. This feels more like romantic
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by MWinther 16y ago
I really like that they're linking to others writing about the same point they're making.
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by MWinther 16y ago
I seem to remember having user experiences where the first couple of times I did something wrong, I got a short warning sound or flashing menu bar, and after a couple of more of them, a dialog box popped up with a more elaborate description
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by MWinther 16y ago
I assume the comment referred to Safari 5 for Windows.
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by MWinther 16y ago
At least some of the problem is that at least here, cost is prohibitive. It's ridiculously expensive per minute compared to normal calls. I don't know if FaceTime is going to be a hit or not, but I definitely see myself using it more often
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by MWinther 16y ago
Isn't it cool that you won't have to anymore, though? The Objective-C requirement for native apps might still be a problem in a lot of places, but other than that, I can see the iPad being a relatively cheap platform that could work well fo
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by MWinther 16y ago
Zotero seem to have the right idea, the behavior should be in the browser. Although they seem to want to do a lot more than that, an additional simple "Copy with annotation"-command in my Safari would be useful. Preferably with formatting s
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by MWinther 16y ago
First, I dispute saying that just because it's touch based, the iPad doesn't have a Graphical User Interface. Second, another kind of device which got a no-holds-barred canvas to create beautiful and stylized interaction-based content was t
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by MWinther 16y ago
It's the normal difference between quantitative and qualitative research. This kind of study is of the exploratory kind, capturing what's going on while the users interact with in this case the iPad for a while. This study is very useful to
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by MWinther 16y ago
Isn't this a bit of a complacency issue? To compete with the web, you're going to have to create an experience that's significantly better than the web. I get the feeling most content providers want to rehash the same thing in a different w
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by MWinther 16y ago
I believe they suggest you write custom logic as a template tag, rather than in the view. However, I do agree that the naming conventions are unfortunate, to say the least. In my experience not doing this separation encourages people solvin
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by MWinther 16y ago
Wasn't this sort of thing discussed back in the heyday of Palm, when their devices started to get some wireless connectivity? I seem to remember thinking about the potential of just such a system back then, even though I never did anything
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by MWinther 16y ago
That they are used by Google makes them somewhat special, in that one would assume they have put some thought and experimentation into choosing them. Also, that would make for pretty good field-testing of them.
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by MWinther 16y ago
Well, not necessarily. You could argue that the ebook is searchable, for instance, which the paper book is not. So I would say that the paper book and the ebook each have a few unique merits that might or might not be worth paying extra for
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by MWinther 16y ago
When it comes to authentication, wouldn't it be rather easy to subclass the ModelBackend class to simply use email instead of username if that's what you want? And if you want to extend user.Auth with more user data, they have a way of doin
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by MWinther 16y ago
Isn't it nice when you not only understand what an article is about from the headline, but also get all the necessary information from it alone? Short and to the point.
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by MWinther 16y ago
That's quite some benefit you've got there. The letter doesn't seem to be more proof than Steve calling and asking for his stuff back whilst gritting his teeth. It could be fake Steve calling, but having it sent to Apple, c/o Steve Jobs, 1
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by MWinther 16y ago
Interesting reading, but way too many examples dilute the message.
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by MWinther 16y ago
At least over here, Colleges are struggling with quality of education and therefore hollowing out the worth of the degree because of larger classes.
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by MWinther 16y ago
They screwed up, admittedly. On the other hand, getting 0.2 seconds of open wifi hotspot data is most likely a lot more embarrassing for Google than any of the wifi-users affected.
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by MWinther 16y ago
Being able to postpone job-related e-mail coming in after 5pm until 8am the next workday sounds intriguing... I like the idea, not sure about the implementation. (oauth IMAP login and parsing of your gmail inbox)
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by MWinther 16y ago
Of course you can use open source code in C, C++ and Objective C. A framework isn't anything special in and of itself.
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by MWinther 16y ago
We had a scam over here a bunch of years ago that took the low-tech route instead. Easy-to-use, painless and fast mosquito-killing system advertised. Upon payment, the lucky owner received two pieces of plywood with a handle on each, plus i
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by MWinther 16y ago
Many websites out there would benefit from following these tips. Unfortunately, layout seems an underappreciated art on the web -- or maybe it's the variable widths that just makes it too hard?
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by MWinther 16y ago
From what I understand, that quote is about the performance of Chrome, not HTML5. And isn't decoding of video something that's _not_ in HTML5 in the first place, but rather up to the browser?
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by MWinther 16y ago
I think it's just because 10.6 wasn't a very UI-oriented release. There were lots of changes under the hood, but since the design awards are usually awarded to software implementing cool new OS features. Software that implement Grand Centra
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by MWinther 16y ago
I don't believe 8 local friends constitute a relevant metric on which to base a refutation of the data.
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by MWinther 16y ago
I'm guessing more like getting people to install Steam on their Macs. Worked on me! installing

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