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by blehn 16y ago
Photoshop is incredibly powerful, but not for interactive design. - type rendering looks nothing like any browser or OS (as described in the article) - subpixel rendering makes drawing shapes and lines with clean edges a chore. - direct sel
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by blehn 16y ago
Agree that emulating browser type rendering isn't necessarily good in the long term, but why not build in support for a variety of different type rendering engines? Adobe is halfway there with Smooth, Strong, Crisp, etc... they could simply
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Ask HN: Programming books that are more like math books?
31 points by blehn 16y ago|19 comments
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by blehn 16y ago
Imagine the problem was with ATT (not hard to imagine), and Jobs sends the CEO an email expressing his dissatisfaction, to which the CEO replies, "Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it." I wonder how Steve would
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by blehn 16y ago
I'm not saying tap-to-click is the optimal paradigm, only that I had to employ it as a means of avoiding the shoddy trackpad button.
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by blehn 16y ago
It's definitely a subjective thing, but I think it just sucks. I set my machine to "tap-to-click" within a few minutes.
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by blehn 16y ago
- incredibly noisy - requires too much force to depress - the travel distance is too far - the hinged design means that the necessary pressure varies at different locations I've noticed there is a bit of variation between machines, but most
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by blehn 16y ago
Apple is so good at making buttons, it’s almost enough to make one wish they made button-laden devices. Oh come on...Pro mouse, Mighty Mouse, Magic Mouse, current and previous gen macbook trackpad buttons, the previous gen desktop keyboar
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by blehn 16y ago
Yeah I upgraded mainly for the new Mail features (grouped conversations and archiving for gmail). The phone isn't jailbroken, but I'm going to try a full restore and see what happens.
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by blehn 16y ago
Thanks, I'll try that.
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Tell HN: My iPhone 3G is unusably slow since upgrading to iOS 4.0
37 points by blehn 16y ago|34 comments
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by blehn 16y ago
The study says refined carbs are bad — that's an important distinction. Also, some research (The China Study, for example) suggests that proteins (not fat) from animal-based foods are a cause of heart disease (and cancers).
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by blehn 16y ago
Atlanta in theory: Warm weather, lots of opportunity, Big City living without the high price. Atlanta in reality: Terrible weather, terrible traffic, terrible public transportation, mostly dull jobs and local commerce, incompetent public of
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by blehn 16y ago
I care about pixel density, because you can't improve interface definition without increasing pixel density. I think the improved interface definition is implied when people talk about pixel density, hence Apple's term,"retina display." Th
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by blehn 16y ago
Really, it's not that hard. Conservative estimates: Wages: 35k Taxes: 10.5k Rent: 1000/mo = 12k Utilities: 200/mo = 2.4k Transportation (car): 200/mo+200/mo = 4.8k Food: 400/mo = 4.8k Total: 34.5k Get a roommate, use public transportation,
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by blehn 16y ago
Thanks for sharing that article. The kid's letter to his lawyer was remarkably clever. If it wasn't for everybody manipulating the market, there wouldn't be a stock market at all...
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by blehn 16y ago
I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape about this sort of thing (see also: rackspace, twitter, gmail, etc). Do they expect 100.00% uptime? There are 8760 hours in a year, I'm not sure how many hours wordpress hosted sites ha
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by blehn 16y ago
Exactly. Teehan+Lax tested that theory, and while I'd probably disagree with some of their choices, the results are pretty impressive. http://teehanlax.com/uxfund/
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by blehn 16y ago
I think that is an actual alarm tone that's already on the phone. Personally, I've found it's one of the few that are tolerable as a wake-up alarm.
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by blehn 16y ago
It's rather telling that they're marketing Digg as a way to get traffic. Yes, it's good for that that, but that's not what it's for . It's (well, used to be) for finding interesting news, articles, links, etc. Getting more people to post t
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by blehn 16y ago
yeah definitely agree -- it shouldn't slow down with more messages if one of the primary selling points is, "never delete another message."
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by blehn 16y ago
interesting. i guess I have about 7k emails stored in my account. maybe 10 labels. a bunch of labs featues enabled. and everything is usually pretty instant for me. searches never take more than a second or two. There's an occassional hiccu
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by blehn 16y ago
...my theory that you should buy stocks in the companies that you hate the most Wow, that's a pretty sad statement. No wonder our economic system is so fucked up. We've got people out there investing in companies they'd otherwise prefer n
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by blehn 16y ago
I don't think your logic makes sense. First, it takes ~3 lbs of grapes to make a bottle of wine (and the grapes aren't likely the same as the ones you buy in a store). So that would be ~$9/bottle based on the 2.99/lb you mentioned, which i
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by blehn 16y ago
aha, got it. thanks
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by blehn 16y ago
email address in profile
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by blehn 16y ago
I'm not hiring, per se, but I've been playing with a project management app idea for a while (unoriginal, I know). I do UX/design, so I'm looking for a programmer to partner up with. I'm thinking Node.js would be fun--I'm trying to do some
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by blehn 16y ago
So really the best thing to do is leave things alone until oil becomes scarce (i.e. expensive) and an alternative will be developed. Best thing to do for whom? You're saying that if we continue to find oil for 300 more years, we just keep
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by blehn 16y ago
Or they might be anticipating an iPhone release on Verizon, in which case about half their iPhone customers would jump ship, and would probably be happy to spend $175 to do so. Edit: the article says the change doesn't apply to existing con
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by blehn 16y ago
Yeah, maybe even better for that.

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