andreyf

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by andreyf 16y ago
The individuals working for minimum wage are not imposing, they're trying to do their jobs. Your beef is with a group of people who allocated millions of funds in a bill passed years ago. Harassing the people hired to implement the bill isn
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by andreyf 16y ago
These are all criticisms of bad implementations of lightboxes. Used correctly, they can be quite useful. The trick is to realize that you're interrupting whatever other workflow the user is considering on this site. For example, a lightbox
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by andreyf 16y ago
Tabs: ⇧⌘T Apps: double tap Windows: Good idea! If only there was an OS that treated those as vital UI components...
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by andreyf 16y ago
This.
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by andreyf 16y ago
You can't be serious. Just because people are willing to pay money for it doesn't mean it's worth your time. There's nothing wrong with making money on the side with a couple of apps like this, but just as AIDS or cancer research is more "u
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Python thread about adding an identity function to the language [2007](mail.python.org)
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by andreyf 16y ago
It's non-trivial to compare cell phones with the combustion engine or flight, but I think we can agree with Kasparov that more inventions of that magnitude are something we should strive for.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Oh man, Chrome shipped 8 versions already? They've achieved version-number-parity with IE! :)
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by andreyf 16y ago
This has been happening over the centuries with games like chess: after enough people spent time on them, openings began to develop. Now we've got iPhone apps to teach use SC2 openings: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/build-calculator-for-s
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think your points really get at the heart of the matter, thanks :) I think the flick-and-stop gesture is truly brilliant HCI, and Apple went through a lot of testing before figuring out exactly how fast things should scroll for each piece
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by andreyf 16y ago
Why so zealous? PayPal has been focused on competing for small business accounts with Chase, and WePay is attacking them with UX formerly focused on p2p payments, and moving into developer mindshare. PayPal is moving (slowly) to defend (but
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by andreyf 16y ago
I hate being the city snob, but are we really cheering on the incoming mass of people that are OK with using resistive touch screen onto our apps/websites? Try this test: take a resistive touchscreen and a capacitive touchscreen, and scroll
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by andreyf 16y ago
E-mail headers would be much better evidence.
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by andreyf 16y ago
I've used Macs for years, and I haven't seen a Java app I didn't hate. They're UI is never native and the UX is much slower than good webapp's?
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by andreyf 16y ago
It doesn't take astronomical amounts, though, as I think most cable lines can support at least that much bandwidth ;) What we're really seeing here is that the majority of the population is moving to internet video instead of their televisi
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by andreyf 16y ago
Thought that, too: good thing he's not CEO anymore, I could just imagine him in a meeting "Why does A4 run RISC? We got burned by that already, we're sticking with CISC this time!"
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by andreyf 16y ago
Right, and it was also mentioned in the article. Alan Kay's essay by the same title is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080107173514/http://www.iam.uni... Some other similarities off the top of my head: Alan Kay also often speaks about
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by andreyf 16y ago
He felt the computer was going to change the world, and it was going to become what he called "the bicycle for the mind." I'd heard Alan Kay repeat this many times. I don't know of much hard evidence (I'd really appreciate some, if you do
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by andreyf 16y ago
It's curious that you mention college freshmen because GMail saves Universities boatloads of money in infrastructure costs.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Which of the above services do you think wouldn't exist if Google avoided less tax? Easy: how many of the above services are profitable? The more taxes Google is forced to pay, the less they can invest in experimental and long-term projec
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Apple releases new MacBook Air, OSX Lion, AppStore for Mac(businessweek.com)
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by andreyf 16y ago
A friend pointed out that Jobs spoke as one of the few people in the world who's used 7" and 10" iPad prototypes side-by-side, and thought hard about which is better, so that his memes catch on is probably a good thing ;)
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by andreyf 16y ago
What is Steve Jobs so afraid of? Easy. He says it right in the call: he's fighting for developer mindshare. That's the reason one of the first things he says is that Apple is activating 70k more devices per day to run your iOS apps than y
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by andreyf 16y ago
Even ignoring that 99.9% of users don't know the meaning of "open source", I'll believe Android is truly open in the FSF sense I care about when RMS uses one. Until then, I have trouble as seeing it as much more than rhetoric. Sure, you c
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by andreyf 16y ago
Bingo. While analyzing the sales call from a perspective of rhetoric is fair, and the analysis is valid, there is something to be said about how good the perspective models are at creating something users want . Just as in science, Arist
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by andreyf 16y ago
Bingo. If job positions advertised themselves with clear examples of projects I'd be expected to tackle within my first year on the job, I'd be a lot more likely to consider switching.
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think he means that a side-business making $24k/year without daily supervision will give you a comfortable a comfortable safety net outside of your primary income.
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'd never have expected so much technophobia from a NYT article...
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by andreyf 16y ago
You might want to check up on that: does your MacBook keep playing music if it's "ram-sleeping"? If so, it might not really sleeping as hard as it should. I've kept my MBP's in "I shut it and put it away" mode for days without noticeably lo
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by andreyf 16y ago
In their defense, I really don't see how my MBP is any slower at waking up than my iPad. And you really only have to cold boot them when there are updates to the OS...

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