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by blehn 16y ago
You know how Apple has been gobbling up share in the the university market over the last few years? I have a feeling the Air is going accelerate that growth and become the notebook of choice on college campuses.
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Jason Schwartzman demonstrates the New Yorker iPad app(newyorker.tumblr.com)
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by blehn 16y ago
Well, then I'm left with two copies and I have to go back and delete one. If OSX had a cut/paste, that might work better. Even so, with the way Finder currently works, it's easy to have 10-15 Finder windows going at any moment, so cmd+` can
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by blehn 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you think you'd react if Apple implemented something that closely resembled 10/GUI? Do you have any patents for it? Didn't they interview you for a job at one point? Did they indicate if they were experimenting with
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by blehn 16y ago
- A new Finder. I want tabs (like TotalFinder) and two instances in the same window, so that drag+drop doesn't require multiple windows. Like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12925/finder.png Other than that, I'd like to see it continue to g
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by blehn 16y ago
It's important that CarWoo be mindful of how their fonts render on different systems, but I also think you should send that comment to Microsoft. It's 2010 — there's no excuse for font rendering like that anymore. Time to fix it.
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by blehn 16y ago
"Fanboy" or not, if you really think about it, Jobs's achievements (Apple computer, Mac OS, Pixar, iPod, iPhone, iPad) are significant in that they have inspired or facilitated the creation of countless other significant achievements, from
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by blehn 16y ago
I still don't understand the benefit (for the user) of the screencast format for programming tutorials vs plain old text and code snippets/screenshots. In some cases, the screencast might be helpful as a supplemental format, but otherwise I
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by blehn 16y ago
Good idea, but I don't see a Caps Lock either...
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by blehn 16y ago
It might work with Mac, but it looks like you'd have to sacrifice a modifier key.
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by blehn 16y ago
Can you elaborate? I think the store is frustrating, but I've found the player itself has been pretty stable and usable for the last 6-7 years on OSX (I have 40GB of music btw). It's a big ol' spreadsheet with instant search and drag+drop p
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by blehn 16y ago
That's a purely subjective matter. I might like the typefaces you mentioned more than Clarendon, but I don't think it's absurd for someone to think Clarendon is a good one to have. Why did Pitchfork and Wells Fargo and Ruby Tuesday choose C
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by blehn 16y ago
Seriously, you think Clarendon is a great "back pocket", "top of my tool drawer" typeface for designers to be using? If I'm theoretically limited to only 25 typefaces, there should be room for a few slab-serifs, and I don't see why Claren
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by blehn 16y ago
I'm not really commenting on your taste or the article, but the manner in which you criticized the article. I agree that the article lacked substance and isn't deserving of so many upvotes. However, your comments about specific fonts were
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by blehn 16y ago
I don't think it was a great article by any stretch, but you're sounding really foolish. Helvetica and Akzidenz (and Universe/Avenir/Frutiger, Clarendon/Rockwell) are plenty different. And yes, there are designers that spend their careers a
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by blehn 16y ago
And isn't he the one who said, "I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." Not that innovative companies are inherently ethical, but I'd say using
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by blehn 16y ago
You only have to double-click once. Then you can TAB to the other fields. That's roughly equivalent to having a clear button.
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by blehn 16y ago
But if the guerilla were 800lbs, it'd be only 4-5 dudes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_lb_gorilla
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by blehn 16y ago
If you click the mailto link in the listing (not copy and paste it), your email will be pre-populated with title of the listing as your subject line, and the URL in the body.
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by blehn 16y ago
Uh, the first thing the guy said was,"That's none of your business." I wouldn't call that a polite refusal. More like an FU refusal.
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by blehn 16y ago
I hate to be so negative, and I have a lot of respect for people who take the time to write articles and publish them, but the quality of design-related content on HN lately has just been... lacking. Paraphrasing... This website has a butt
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by blehn 16y ago
No. After careful examination, I have concluded that it is, in fact, abominable.
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by blehn 16y ago
Yeah she doesn't need or want the social features, but it seemed like there was a way to install without having facebook, twitter, etc. accounts. And I figured the Jolicloud UI might be a little more straightforward for her than the standar
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by blehn 16y ago
I've been thinking about setting my mom up with Jolicloud ( http://www.jolicloud.com/ ), which I believe is based on Ubuntu. She has an HP netbook with an 8GB SSD, and WinXP gives her "running out of space" warnings all the time. She doesn'
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by blehn 16y ago
Just because you can doesn't mean you should .
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by blehn 16y ago
On a tangent, I'm glad Apple went with a matte black case for the Apple TV. Hopefully that will help kill the highly absurd Piano Black trend.
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by blehn 16y ago
I'm assuming you were using a Kindle DX (the others don't auto-rotate). But anyway, you can lock the orientation: http://thekindle.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/screenrotationd...
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Seeking technical co-founder in NYC
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by blehn 16y ago
I think the author makes a valid point re: emotional design, but he also seems to confuse "pleasurable" design with his own personal taste (which appears to be bright and bubbly with heavy illustration). I'd say that sites like Reddit (and
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by blehn 16y ago
why were you designing web layouts in Photoshop? It was a company practice at my first job — didn't have much choice. I've always found Illustrator to be equally bad for web, though. It's a vector tool, but the web is still a pixel medium

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