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by _neil 13y ago
Seriously awful. All of my instagram shots are blurry/grainy. The upside is that I've had a reason to practice sniper-like breathing techniques. Not that it helps with photo quality. What's weird is that the preview snap migh
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by _neil 13y ago
Previous discussion, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426142
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by _neil 13y ago
It seems this is what you get when someone who wants to learn more about a handful of technologies grabs what is readily available and well documented. They aren't creating hardware products. They took a few hardware items, pieced them
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by _neil 13y ago
Happens to me as well. I don't experience the lag you talked about in other comments, though.
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by _neil 13y ago
Is Passenger really the default for most people? I tried it once and honestly prefer just dropping thin or unicorn behind nginx. And with this discussion, I'll probably be trying out puma in the near future.
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by _neil 13y ago
If you aren't already, and depending on how big your app is, you may want to compile your app into a single file using r.js. Keep in mind, you lose the "load only what the current view needs" aspect of it. I've usually f
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by _neil 13y ago
Sorry, how is this relevant to HN?
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by _neil 13y ago
FYI, Mark Wunsch's video seems to be cut off.
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by _neil 13y ago
I got it to load at some point. Looks like a flippa.com for side projects.
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by _neil 13y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you. The bounty part of it didn't cross my mind.
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by _neil 13y ago
I think it refers to the Hunter S. Thompson quote: "No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." Basically meaning you may be getting in over your head, but you'll probably have a good story t
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by _neil 13y ago
Genuine interest and the ability to blacklist hackernews via /etc/hosts
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by _neil 13y ago
Rap lyrics seem to be just one use case for their technology. And rap itself is a niche that's easy to build an audience/test case with. I think the tech itself applies well to things like books as demonstrated by things like nota
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by _neil 13y ago
We're building a small-ish site now with Backbone where we do something similar with PhantomJS. In our `grunt build` task, phantomjs saves static versions of subpages. Each of those pages loads up the same backbone app, but the user (a
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by _neil 13y ago
Along the lines of building an audience pre-publishing, the second edition of nickd's book about interaction design, Cadence & Slang, is currently on Kickstarter[1]. (I'm a backer) In this case, he's used kickstarter to b
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by _neil 13y ago
Maybe his logic favored the fact that bicycles are the most efficient mode of transportation.
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by _neil 13y ago
This is getting further off-topic, but I generally treat stop signs as a yield when I'm riding. I approach slowly and if there is a car stopped/nearing the intersection, I will absolutely yield to them as I would in a car. The onl
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+POOL, Tile By Tile. A water-filtering swimming pool in the East River.(kickstarter.com)
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by _neil 13y ago
Agreed, one of my favorite product blogs as well. It's also prime example of using your blog to educate, demonstrate domain knowledge, and eventually win customers (worked on me, anyways).
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by _neil 13y ago
This looks pretty nice for designers who happen to know a little bit of code. Most designers I know do their mobile mockups in After Effects so they can really demonstrate interactions and animations.
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by _neil 13y ago
Definitely this. Switching to Android was, if nothing else, an exercise in finding out who really owns my data.
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by _neil 13y ago
Agreed on iTunes content. I switched to a Nexus 4 a few months ago and this was/is the biggest pain point, but is really only an issue in the car. I've filled the gap with my little iPod shuffle or Spotify on my phone, but it's obviously no
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by _neil 14y ago
That's fair. Yes, we did consider changing. But we haven't had any issues ourselves or a real need for a structured database at this time. If we do in the future, transitioning won't be extremely painful because most of our historical data
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by _neil 14y ago
This. We have a small team for a particular project I'm on and we were initially hosting mongo ourselves. After reading so many horror stories, we felt much more comfortable outsourcing configuration, management, and backups until we get to
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by _neil 14y ago
The 'jango' is silent? I'll see myself out.
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by _neil 14y ago
This probably won't be seen since this thread is off the front page now, but the reason package cards (and all GMail based cards) don't work is because I'm using Google Apps. http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/mobile/B-jW1pAZpdM/Pdm...
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by _neil 14y ago
There are green badges next to their added comments. And a big bold part at the top that says "Click the green links below to see our responses", but I'm not sure it was there before or after they saw these reactions. edit: I agree with you
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by _neil 14y ago
Click on the yellow/green bits. Rapgenius is a lyrics site that allows people to give context to lyrical meanings inline. See alexdevkar's comment below.
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by _neil 14y ago
I noticed that on the original blog post as well. Very clever. Though it seems on the blog posts that some people maybe don't understand what rapgenius does and end up saying things like 'WHAT ARE THESE BOXES WHY AM I HERE WHY DO I NEED TO
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by _neil 14y ago
I don't recall the origin of this, but it's also true of most Apple screenshots.

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