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by bengillies 14y ago
I don't think Google's going to kill off Gmail (at least any time in the short to medium term). On the other hand, I can see the following things happening: 1) Google kills of Groups in favour of Google+ 2) If not (1), Google limits Groups
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by bengillies 14y ago
> If you're walking into a situation with your eyes open, then go for it. I pay money to Spotify on a monthly basis because I view it the same way I view cable TV - I'm paying for access, I'm not purchasing something. But if you want to
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by bengillies 14y ago
The best RSS clients that I've found (Reeder for iOS and Pulse for Android) both use Google Reader as a backend to keep the feed list in sync. I don't really want a whole ecosystem, any social features, a fancy web site, etc. All I really w
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by bengillies 14y ago
He's done quite a good job of increasing Android adoption, so my guess would be that he'll be working on the hardware/nexus side of things.
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by bengillies 14y ago
Cool, thanks for the rapid reply. For the record, most of the interface seems to look and work just fine on an iPad. Keep up the good work.
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by bengillies 14y ago
Yep, I find it helpful to think of D3 as a data manipulation/data binding library rather than a data visualisation library.
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by bengillies 14y ago
Very cool. I really like the simple approach and feel there's a _lot_ of mileage in it. However, a couple of questions/points: 1: How do I give my documents a title? 2: Does it support Markdown/how do I link to stuff? 3: The home button doe
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by bengillies 14y ago
Indeed. Google Docs suffers a lot from discoverability and, while you can collaboratively edit on it, it feels too much like a locked down blob of content and so suffers from a lot of the same problems that Word suffers from (in my experien
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by bengillies 14y ago
I've often thought that something like this is what's missing from the various online Markdown editors that exist. Many of them have some way of quickly previewing what you've written, which is important, but some sort of content-focussed a
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by bengillies 14y ago
I think mean comments, such as you get on Hacker News often have a grain of truth to them. That such emotion is attached to that grain of truth suggests that someone likes your idea or cares enough about your product or the area you're focu
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by bengillies 14y ago
I totally get that it's different to what's in other frameworks (the router is similarly different), it's just that, for the most part, on the surface, it pretty much serves the same purpose (other than some relationship stuff that half wor
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by bengillies 14y ago
Without meaning to offend, I'm afraid I have to take issue with your points about Ember-Data. Yes it's optional, and yes you can use jQuery.ajax or whatever, but in reality, it's not quite that simple. The official guides in Ember default t
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by bengillies 14y ago
As long as the person saying it understands that the majority of people already working at said company, and the majority of people who would otherwise be interested no longer will be, I think it's fine.
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by bengillies 14y ago
> (Dear “just use vim lol” trolls – and I know you’re reading this: I’ll switch to vim the very second I truly believe it will make me more productive. Promise!) I'd be interested in why he believes this isn't currently the case.
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by bengillies 14y ago
It sounds like they're making an iSlapBracelet to me. That means the whole surface would potentially be a screen with just the part facing you being active. I kind of wonder where else would be appropriate to wear it other than on your wris
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by bengillies 14y ago
> To be honest I still see headphones as an utilitarian thing only. FTFY. There are a _lot_ of people who would disagree with you (which is why Beats/Skullcandy/etc headphones are so popular).
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by bengillies 14y ago
Can you explain this please, as I'm pretty sure you can totally sue the NHS if you want to.
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by bengillies 14y ago
It's funny because (on Chrome at least) you can select the "request desktop version" option from the menu and this goes away completely (although you do still have to login).
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by bengillies 14y ago
It seems that most people here would like it very much if SEO died a horrible death as quickly as possible. Let me try and paint a (probably somewhat sketchy) picture of why it should exist (I have nothing to do with SEO consulting btw): 1.
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by bengillies 14y ago
I believe the point is that he was fired because he spent a full day coming up with a complex solution to a trivial problem and that when he eventually did arrive at a solution, it was impossible for everyone else to understand and verify.
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by bengillies 14y ago
One of the main problems I've found when trawling forums looking for answers is that the answer's often buried somewhere far down in the thread. I think Discourse suffers from this same problem and doesn't really do anything to address many
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by bengillies 14y ago
It really depends on who your intended user is. If the slides are intended to form a presentation (quite likely), then the user is often the person making the slides in the first place. In such cases they're not a usability disaster at all.
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by bengillies 14y ago
I'm fairly new to Clojure, but am not new to bash (and its ilk), so tend to view the threading stuff as Clojure's version of bash's piping syntax (I realise they're not the same thing).
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by bengillies 14y ago
Salted and hashed passwords? Companies emailing affected users? What is this the future?
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by bengillies 14y ago
Those three may be fine (and indeed all you really need for representing most data) in some fields. In other fields though, they're entirely unsuitable. A lot of people have mentioned scatter plots. I'd quite like to know how you'd represen
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by bengillies 14y ago
You might want to checkout the HTML sanitizer from the Caja project [1]. You'll need to build it with ant first, but it's pretty good and should be able to do what you want it to. [1] http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/wiki/JsHtmlSanitiz
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by bengillies 14y ago
If Ember-Data isn't ready for production, and Ember is, then why is it in the documentation on http://emberjs.com ? Either it's ready to be used, and can go in the official guides, or it isn't, and the guides should recommend something tha
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by bengillies 14y ago
> Basically, the main reason why an app store or marketplace is important, is because the web suffers from a discoverability problem. Isn't it the other way around? There's no effective way of publicising you app or helping people to fi
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by bengillies 14y ago
While the untimely death Aaron is tragic, the constant fawning over celebrities on Hacker News is frequently depressing. Both in the sense that we, as a community, are not able to rise above it and, rather more selfishly, that I am not one
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by bengillies 14y ago
I hate to be picky (well actually...), but you appear to be complaining about a bug on the site causing all content to disappear and then concluding that the scrolling effect is rubbish. Your conclusion may be valid, but I don't think the b

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