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by benaiah 13y ago
My favorite Android app is Hacker News 2 - it has the best tablet support (my only Android is a Nexus 7) of any that I've used, and it lets me log in, vote, comment, view my profile, view threads, etc. EDIT: This is the one whose creator co
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by benaiah 13y ago
It's beautiful, and the animations on the mobile site look great. It's also one of the best-performing web apps I've used. Nice job.
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Too bad I missed you - I've been growing up here for the last 18 years. Lived in Talkeetna for a while, now I'm near Wasilla, soon to be in Anchorage for school. And you're absolutely right. Palin's accent is very atypical of the accent her
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by benaiah 13y ago
Except Google+ and Gmail are very different things. Hotmail and Outlook.com are exactly the same thing with a different UI.
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by benaiah 13y ago
> Gmail seems like a service for the ages; but once upon a time, so did Hotmail (even in 2012, 8 years after Gmail’s launch, still the #2 email service) - yet, RIP Hotmail (1996-2013). That's silly. Hotmail didn't go away; it was rebran
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by benaiah 13y ago
To all the people complaining about text formatting in Gmail, I strongly recommend Markdown Here: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here . It lets you write emails as markdown and compile them to HTML in the email composition form. (I hav
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by benaiah 13y ago
Correlation != causation. Come on - you're not even trying.
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Wow, this actually looks very impressive. Do you have any idea why most of the "simple" game-making platforms are using Lua nowadays? Is it just because of its ease of embeddability into other systems, or is there something else at play?
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by benaiah 13y ago
A Metro-style launcher for Android actually sounds quite nice. The only problem is that few to no widgets actually adhere to that style, so it would look a little weird. Still, I can hope.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Subtlepatterns.com is hardly a bastion of skeumorphism. Sure, there are some "realistic" textures there, but they account for probably less than half the textures, and, more importantly, they're not used for UX. The problems with skeumorphi
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by benaiah 13y ago
Realistically, however, gold's utilitarian value does not even come close to accounting for its actual value. Sure, you wouldn't lose all your investment if the gold market suddenly collapsed, but you would still lose the vast majority of
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It's not really UX, it's just a fancy animation - looking cool is its only purpose. You don't have to scroll to see anything, so it's not actually obstructing your use of the site. I don't really see the problem with it.
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Narrative.ly is actually using Marquee as its frontend - http://marquee.by . Great product with excellent customer service. I highly recommend it. The editing isn't quite as nice as Medium's at the moment, but the posts look nicer, particu
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You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral—corporations did(qz.com)
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by benaiah 14y ago
"Dogfooding: Building stuff you use means recursive happiness" This is the best and most succinct explanation of why dogfooding is awesome that I have ever read.
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17 - and I'd like to note that this is one of the few forums on which I can have that information public and still be able to participate in (mostly) civil public discourse, without put-downs, pats-on-the-head, or pandering. It's a breath o
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by benaiah 14y ago
There's the ASUS UX31A Zenbook model, which I have. It's not quite what I'd consider high-performance, but the screen is beautiful.
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Looks great. I've been using the Phoenix theme, which I really like (after configuring it a bunch), but I'll definitely try this one out.
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Just to be clear, since my post may have seemed inflammatory, I wasn't trying to correct anyone else so much as put in a good word for a correct usage that others often consider incorrect (such incorrectness was implied by my original post'
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by benaiah 14y ago
You're right, and it's fixed. Thanks for the spelling correction. For purely practical reasons, I don't think it's a good idea to go around saying "niggardly", and I acknowledge that some people use it in order to offend. The point I intend
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by benaiah 14y ago
I'm still of the opinion that "gender" should refer to the grammatical concept alone, and this new usage should get its own word. It irks me even more when people use it as a synonym for "sex". But I'm pretty lonely in that opinion.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Mostly OT grammar nerd musings: I use male singular pronouns for people whose sex I'm not aware of because English male singular pronouns are actually also its neuter singular pronouns (I believe this is true for several other major languag
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by benaiah 14y ago
A large, open source app. For evaluating how to solve big-app problems, size, on its own, is meaningless, except to show that the hard problems can be done, because it doesn't show how ; and open-source, on its own, is meaningless, becau
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by benaiah 14y ago
This is cool, but you should really add underscore to the page, as it makes it much easier to deal with large arrays (pixel arrays being the perfect example).
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I was able to reproduce the first two problems in FF on Linux, but not Chrome (everything seems to work perfectly there). It seems to be FF's problem, not Linux's.
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Forgive me if you already knew this, but Go is open source, and has been from the start.
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You make great points, and I think you're right. While I think the OP's advice is appropriate for most situations, particularly in general JavaScript code you have to share with other developers, jQuery's use of it is probably entirely appr
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by benaiah 14y ago
He explicitly mentions that short ternary expressions like this are fine. My rule of thumb is that if it fits comfortably on one line, it's fine to use the ternary. (Of course, my real rule of thumb is to use CoffeeScript in the first pla
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by benaiah 14y ago
From the video, he also seems like he's greatly overhyping the whole thing (as is everyone else, of course). Genetic algorithms are not even remotely close to human intelligence, quantitatively or qualitatively, so his claims to that effect
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by benaiah 14y ago
I think that compile-to-JS languages are going to explode in popularity even more than they already have when they can compile to an optimized asm.js. I might be misunderstanding its impact, but I'm hopeful.

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