Zev

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by Zev 16y ago
1. The iTunes Store is pretty big by now. 2. Apple's Genius recommendations suggests that they are, at the very least, toying with this concept as well.
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by Zev 16y ago
I like this post; it echos my own thoughts. Well, vocalizes them in a very smart and public manner. Anyway, while making dinner last night, I realized that I care more about why hot dog and hot dog bun packages are differently sized than I
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by Zev 16y ago
A lot more goes into a font than random shapes put together.
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by Zev 16y ago
To get that A/B/C, demonstrate that you’re interested in the material, do all the reading, and show up to class every day. Go to the professor’s office hours to ask intelligent questions—like whether you’re on the right track regarding a p
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by Zev 16y ago
What phone do you have? It might cost a dollar or two, but, chances are that there's an IRC client for it already.
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by Zev 16y ago
I was a moderator in #xkcd-signal (the original channel ROBOT9000 was run on) for awhile. In the past 12 hours, #xkcd-signal had 55 messages. #xkcd had over 4,000. Its a fun attraction, but not much more. And not something people stay aroun
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by Zev 16y ago
I'd focus more on l10n into Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Italian. Not necessarily in that order. Look at places the app isn't as highly ranked as you'd like it to be. Extra attention to markets where you've had a review or two th
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by Zev 16y ago
Find motivation. You're not going to get something handed to you on a golden plate. Suck up whatever it is that you're confusing for pride and go to a local community college. Take some classes there. It'll be cheap. As in, work a shift at
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by Zev 16y ago
I don't think I've ever gotten any spam from HN. Have gotten a few nice emails that started an interesting conversation, though.
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by Zev 16y ago
I've been under the impression that despite being advertised as such, I've never actually had unlimited data with my plan on Verizon. Been limited to 5GB.
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by Zev 16y ago
A text file. Well, a bunch of them. Lets me edit/append to them quickly, from almost anywhere on my system.
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by Zev 16y ago
Don't underestimate the usefulness of knowing what people are interested in at the moment. Social networking and the like may be gimmicky, but, they don't become popular for no reason. // edit: A better "but, …" might be: "but, Facebook has
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by Zev 16y ago
No more so than three years ago, when I started lurking. Or two and a half years ago, when I signed up. Or however long ago when I first commented. People are interested in what other people are doing. Techcrunch happens to be a big resourc
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by Zev 16y ago
So countless hours of tutorials and books later, I ended up using InDesign. It's the best tool you can use. Out of curiosity, have you checked out Quark XPress at all? I very much prefer Quark to InDesign, given the choice. Its UI feels b
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by Zev 16y ago
"Google Chrome 6.0.472.62" is hardly better.
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by Zev 16y ago
Not being able to torture, maim or murder someone is a good thing. Really. If you're not sure about this, you'll just have to take my word on it. But, thats pretty far off-topic. The essence of my point still stands, even if you disagree wi
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by Zev 16y ago
The whole "an eye for an eye" thing doesn't exactly scale terribly well.
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by Zev 16y ago
As little as I like the RIAA/MPAA/etc's policies of suing everyone, I'm finding it even harder to like what amounts to petty cybervandalism.
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by Zev 16y ago
Mobile Colloquy makes it really easy to get into our chat room ("Join Support Room" button if you don't have any IRC connections enabled, and again on the view we have to let people join rooms). There's maybe one person every two or three
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by Zev 16y ago
Not really. If your app is free and has something that vaguely resembles usefulness, you'll likely get a decent number of downloads. And if it reliably crashes, you'll get a decent number of people telling you as much. They usually seem wil
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by Zev 16y ago
It isn't a rumor. It really has stopped. A few months ago, with iOS 4.
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by Zev 16y ago
When I'm in a non-chain coffee shop, I make sure to tip well and to make sure to keep an eye on how active the shop is. Plus, buy a coffee or a small thing to eat every so often if I plan on being there for awhile. If it gets busy and its b
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by Zev 16y ago
I try to get at least 7, preferrably 8, but not more than 9. Any more and I feel tired for the rest of the day. Less, and I don't feel like my mind is as sharp as I'd like. Left to my own devices, I don't get very much done at either end of
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by Zev 16y ago
To expand, you really can't determine if a touch UX works or not by looking at it on screen and interacting with a mouse.
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by Zev 16y ago
Not quite, you should read the press release[1] more closely (emphasis mine): HP’s existing and upcoming ePrint enabled printers will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices. Also, if you have access to the iOS dev progra
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by Zev 16y ago
1) A bubble burst weeds out apps that don't have enough intrinsic value to the customer in the first place (E.g. T-pain, fart apps, and so on) You might not like the T-Pain app, but the code behind it is likely a hell of a lot better than
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by Zev 16y ago
The Crucial RealSSD C300 drive he cites has a theoretical max of 355MB/s. I happen to have have this drive. Writes comes close to 150MB/s at times, after a month and a half of use on OS X (which apparently lacks TRIM). Thats not too shabby.
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by Zev 16y ago
15 minutes in a coffee shop is one thing. 45 minutes in an office is another.
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by Zev 16y ago
I forgot about that one. It is much simpler to implement on the client-side, as well. And Bram and Arvid apparently contributed to its development. The main benefit that I can see to the bittornado spec over getright is that it wants to be
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by Zev 16y ago
And the spec for HTTP-based seeding: http://bittornado.com/docs/webseed-spec.txt

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