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>why is the Compose button a floating button taking up space in my Inbox list?? There still exists a toolbar at the top for search and navigation. Why can’t the Compose button be there?? YES! That's where you scroll! Why would they
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bluthru
12y ago
Or: Execution is everything.
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12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451
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12y ago
>I haven't visited it in a while, but a common sentiment on AskReddit was a total disillusionment with the chauvinistic "support the troops" mentality and a belief that military service does not make one righteous in of it
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bluthru
12y ago
I find iOS 7+ design language to be very clean and legible compared to iOS 6. When screen real estate is limited, all of the bevels, divisions, and shadows adds a lot of clutter where they can't be afforded. This is a good example: ht
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12y ago
So many horizontal bars. I wish that the top two bars could be unified and shortened. The bottom bar for only three androids buttons is a huge waste, but they've painted themselves in a corner, there.
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12y ago
It would have been much more useful to put the panel above the path to shield from precipitation.
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bluthru
12y ago
>So if gadget = functionality I don't mean this. I mean that Microsoft's band looks decent... for a gadget. Apple's watch looks decent for a watch.
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12y ago
I'm surprised so many are drawn to the industrial design of this. It seems quite clunky with the electronics distributed throughout the band. The flat portion is also too long. Microsoft wants to sell you a gadget while Apple wants to
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12y ago
>Single payer probably looks good on paper And in the many first world countries that have used it for decades. It's a proven model. >I would never trust someone with that much money and power. That's how they're able t
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12y ago
>but as someone who was rationally uninsured It's not rational for anyone to be uninsured. Any healthy person could get in an accident.
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12y ago
Compare this map to states that accepted or refused Medicaid expansion: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1119617/thumbs/o-MEDICAID-EXPANSIO...
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12y ago
Have there been any reports of this actually happening in the past year?
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12y ago
These videos are so homogenous. Virtually any phone app could have been interspersed in the video.
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12y ago
>The risk with a powerful government that can do this is it can be bought. Only if it is weak and has incentives to do so. Policies like Citizens' United weaken the government and permit capital to further influence politics.
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12y ago
>Gates rightly (and self-servingly) also points out that Piketty does not consider philanthropy as a means to correct some of capitalism's imbalances. It certainly helps, but in a well-designed system philanthropy wouldn't be r
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12y ago
>would be more convincing if US corporate tax policy was more in line with international norm Ok, just as soon as we tax the wealthy at the same rate as international norms.
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12y ago
This is the same company that recently released an iOS update that broke touchID (and WiFi?) for their brand new phones. Humans aren't perfect.
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12y ago
The iPad has had such a weird naming convention: - iPad - iPad 2 - The new iPad - I don't even know what the 4th gen was called. - iPad Air - iPad Air 2 I was hoping for 4 speakers (one at each corner) for stereo sound in both orientat
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12y ago
No example site?
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bluthru
12y ago
Is .webm hardware-accelerated?
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bluthru
12y ago
>Kill the profit motive and you'll kill (most, not all) of the innovative new drugs. Of course not. The alternative is to make the research a public-supported effort. We can hire more scientists with the same amount of money since i
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bluthru
12y ago
I like the idea of using Greece every year (like we used to). Their economy needs the support more than a country that get by on seedy banking practices.
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bluthru
12y ago
Personally, those toolbars looked like something 15 year-old me created the first time I opened Photoshop.
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bluthru
12y ago
There might be a market for an e-paper based version of this that shows an entire day or week of schedule.
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bluthru
12y ago
What's an example of a city that wasn't planned? I associate unplanned areas with developer-dictated sprawl.
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12y ago
The battery life might be better if you virtualize linux instead.
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12y ago
You're essentially calling the entire graphic design profession "mostly arbitrary, touchy-feely stuff". No, it's graphic design , not art. The visual design of something performs many functions and solves problems. I ta
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12y ago
Why didn't they just copy Apple's Lightning design?
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12y ago
>Engineering is about making things work, visual design is about creating an emotional connection. No, they're both about "making things work". Visual design isn't arbitrary, touchy-feely stuff.
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