Splines

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by Splines 14y ago
Interesting. What's the usual cause for complaint?
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by Splines 14y ago
In Chrome 19 on Windows I don't see any apparent difference. Display is 96dpi at 1920x1200. I checked on my iPhone 4S and when I zoom in I can see a difference (that I might be missing on my desktop). It is incredibly subtle.
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by Splines 14y ago
Exactly. Microsoft charges a license fee that represents what it thinks is fair value for the work involved in creating an OS. Apple marks up the price of the iPad over the hardware costs, some of this includes paying for the iOS engineers
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by Splines 14y ago
> Sharing files between people who do it infrequently is still an unsolved problem. How do I send pictures of my kids to their grandparents for example? It is still easier for me to just email photos to them. That sounds pretty solved
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by Splines 14y ago
> I don't think Facebook has the data yet to detect that you are about to buy a car. If you start liking car reviews, maybe, but that's not a typical behavior. I think they have the data, but maybe not the means to mine it. I'm guess
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by Splines 14y ago
I know what you're saying too, but (at least for me) a program that is only written down and not run is typically a dry affair. Seeing a thing come together as you fiddle with it is just satisfying.
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by Splines 14y ago
> The only real benefit I could have seen for myself was if I lived outside of the US for more than six months of the year from time to time. Pretty much this. Should I choose to move back home, it'd be nice not to have to go through
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by Splines 14y ago
That's pretty hostile. I came here and now have a green card, with the intention of eventually gaining citizenship. Now I'm wondering how much I've harmed my future mobility (should I choose to return to my birth country).
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by Splines 14y ago
I'm sort of surprised at that - the level of detail you'd need to care about 4:54 vs 5:00 would imply that you'd have stuff like "take a shower" in the schedule somewhere. Unless Ryan's not the showering type, which is fine. Personally I f
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by Splines 14y ago
I think it's a great example of a game with a bad learning experience. Something you can do in Minecraft to improve the learning experience could be applicable to productivity applications. The problem with comparing Portal to Photoshop is
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by Splines 14y ago
It also helps if you have a will (and your family members know where to find it). When you're gone it'll be easier for them if you have explicit instructions about what to do. One more data point of "they wanted to donate/not donate their
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by Splines 14y ago
Somewhere in the world exists a poor soul named Dev Null.
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by Splines 14y ago
Makes me wonder if this is too little, too late. Anyone who is an avid steam user already has a Windows partition for their games, and probably has a large library of games that will not work in Linux. It's great that Valve games will work
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by Splines 14y ago
Do you work at Google? I'm curious, because according to others, while 20% time does technically require management approval, it's usually not a problem. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703018 Also, inferring company culture from th
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by Splines 14y ago
> The more the iPhone succeeds, the less leverage the carriers have, Mr. Kuittinen explained. All they have is bandwidth. So what's the concern here? Carriers aren't idiots - is carrier commoditization necessarily a bad thing?
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by Splines 15y ago
> He also told The Guardian that his habits on his computer indicate his health and places he's been. Technology can definitely make a difference. Last week you sat on the bus next to someone who has been diagnosed with Avian flu - w
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by Splines 15y ago
It's not a great name for search though. I couldn't find it on Google, and it's nowhere near the top in App Store search. It's possible it'll get better as the name gains popularity, but telling someone "Search for 'Pocket'" isn't going to
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by Splines 15y ago
> 6 Paparazzi - Start with a lousy camera, have to take photos which are graded for score. Get better lenses and access to better hiding places as level ups. (This is like a FPS, but with no guns, and with the ene
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by Splines 15y ago
> People don't want clear warnings, disclaimers, or notices - they want the things they dislike to simply not exist. They want an excuse. Being told "you should have tried harder" is not an easy pill to swallow, however truthful it may
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by Splines 15y ago
It's not a technological problem, it's a hardware problem (at least from my non-visionary point of view). Twin thumbsticks are required. Anything else and it's a recipe for frustration. Metroid Hunters on NDS was probably the best I've pe
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by Splines 15y ago
It still isn't. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey Mac HW numbers are in the single digits. Apple needs Valve, not the other way around.
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by Splines 15y ago
They could do something for Android, but iOS and WP7 would never allow a 3rd party "store" application. They do have a Steam iOS application, but it's an adjunct to the PC Steam application. I wouldn't mind for them to create cool stuff for
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by Splines 15y ago
I wish - I've had attachments that I've tried to open in Google Docs that appear mangled on my iPhone (which is not fun when you don't have a PC anywhere nearby). It's unfortunate that the case where you wouldn't really need to attach a Wor
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by Splines 15y ago
> This is the danger of having a 'test org' separate from the 'dev org'. I completely agree with you, in light of how MSFT categorizes their ICs these days. There used to be three test/dev disciplines when I started (in 2001): "Softwa
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by Splines 15y ago
Hey Evan ;) > We all realize there is no benefit in testing if you ignore failures rather than acting to fix the bugs, but in much the same way that doing nothing when tests fail has no benefit, doing nothing when tests pass also has n
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by Splines 15y ago
I think part of maturing into an adult is realizing that future-you is not the same as present-you. Understanding that fact can help you solve problems like getting up in the morning; in fact the OP offers such solutions: Schedule an impor
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by Splines 15y ago
Who needs NFC when you could do this instead? Tap your smartphone on the iPad register, and you're done.
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by Splines 15y ago
I was redirected on Ars to some other site today as well. disconnect.me seems to block whatever is going on.
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by Splines 15y ago
"Dear Everyone at the Giant Listserv, Boy, do I love Snickers! They are my favorite snack, I eat them all the time. Their crunchy texture and silky smooth chocolate satisfies my cravings like nothing else. Love, IEatSnickers PS: eat snick
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by Splines 15y ago
There's a neat interactive version of the same thing here (Java required): http://benfry.com/zipdecode/

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