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by benofsky 16y ago
Seems overly complicated, I have no idea what's going on when I visit Area 51, I guess this is their strategy for turning away uncommitted users. Also, how are they going to make money?
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D8 Tech Demo: Kno Takes on the Textbook Industry (video)(video.allthingsd.com)
0 points by benofsky 16y ago|0 comments
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by benofsky 16y ago
Note taking where you can just scribble on the page is critical. Problem with the iPad is the lack of a stylus (you can't really write with your finger or type in the way people take notes...)
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by benofsky 16y ago
It looks cool but it's massive and with two screens that size and the batteries that would be required to support them, I can imagine that it is very heavy. Which is definitely one of the biggest problems with paper textbooks, something w
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by benofsky 16y ago
Only once one gets over a certain karma threshold can they downvote.
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by benofsky 16y ago
They're advertising to a corporate audience who may still be on IE6/IE7, I can imagine that's why.
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by benofsky 16y ago
It's really beautiful and brilliantly laid out, congratulations!
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by benofsky 16y ago
Looks very unpromising, there is however huge potential for a text editor on the ipad. Don't think we're quite there yet.
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by benofsky 16y ago
The front page is your primary problem, I have no interest in reading that much text when I visit a website I haven't visited before (and will leave pretty quickly). You need big text, screenshots, videos, demos, short precise bullet points
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by benofsky 16y ago
Small things like the project drawer which is quite outdated.
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by benofsky 16y ago
To be honest, all I want updated in TextMate is the interface, I could care less about how well "abstracted" the code is on the back end. I would also be happy to pay for 2.0 even after the free promise and I think that's true for 90% of Te
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by benofsky 16y ago
I think you should allow per-line comments like in Github, so someone could go through and explain what's going on, or ask questions about particular lines, etc. Great idea though!
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by benofsky 16y ago
Nice idea, but there's a lot less money in a closed facebook than an open one. It will never happen. The portion of users that are A. aware of the privacy problems and B. care at all is so so small, probably less than 1%, that Zuckerburg co
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by benofsky 16y ago
Yeah, I never understood the charging for incoming calls but more so the charging for incoming messages, you have no control over that. Insane!
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by benofsky 16y ago
Does no one else think the impressive statistic here is that for every 2.5 new Firefox users there's a new Chrome user; considering how young Chrome is (and how old Firefox is)?
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by benofsky 16y ago
It's weird to see how less prevalent prepaid phones are in the US. Here in Europe, they're everywhere, hell I bought my iPhone on prepay . I wonder what lead to this difference.
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by benofsky 16y ago
I'm not exactly sure how this helps Twitter.
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by benofsky 16y ago
Ignoring any claims that the man is a crackpot and any other problems one might have with the science. Does anyone really want to live to 1000? I think you might get a little bored :-/
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by benofsky 16y ago
As an owner of a Nexus One, I have to say this is one of the downfalls of Android. The lack of an equivalent "Human Interface Guidelines" that there is for iPhone and shockingly, the app approval process leads to a very inconsistent exper
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by benofsky 16y ago
Awesome, looks good!
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by benofsky 16y ago
This is only a little nit-picky but I found the image next to "Real time conversations" on your homepage very very distracting. Otherwise looks pretty cool!
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by benofsky 16y ago
That seems to be very blog-specific, Bolt is intended to be a lot more generic. :-)
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by benofsky 16y ago
Great! Let me know, how you find it, or if there's anything you want that is missing. It's in very early stages at the moment. :-)
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Show HN: Bolt, my (somewhat dynamic) static website generator(benofsky.github.com)
1 points by benofsky 16y ago|5 comments
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by benofsky 16y ago
They seem to have got it right this time, would have been better for them if they had gotten it right the first time. I feel very sorry for them, it was a somewhat minor slip (albeit, a complete pain for the users involved), but could poten
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by benofsky 16y ago
Yeah, that's a good point the whitespace thing would be very frustrating. I guess Ruby could definitely be written in an easy to understand way as long as it's kept to a strict definition of what should/shouldn't be used.
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by benofsky 16y ago
I personally love Ruby but as a beginner language, I have found people find it a lot harder to understand than say Python, C or Basic. Ruby has a lot of what looks like "magic" syntax to an unfamiliar user. I would probably go with a differ
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by benofsky 16y ago
Considering how much is abstracted from the user these days, I've always wondered why something as technical and meaningless to the average user like " http:// hasn't been removed before. Good move I say.
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by benofsky 16y ago
Sure, nor the others (except maybe Flickr), Yahoo's problem is that they seem to acquire and then do nothing but rarely have they run acquisitions into the ground as such.
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by benofsky 16y ago
Am I the only one which really does not see location in the sense FourSquare implements it becoming a mainstream thing in the next few years. Perhaps I'm being naive but I juts don't see it as something people want that much. EDIT: Removed

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