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by bobbles 14y ago
Do dishonest creative people make worse design decisions than honest creative people?
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by bobbles 14y ago
Wow, thanks for that tip. I don't even use my gmail THAT often, but removing the connected apps I don't use has basically made opening my GMail instant (it would take a few seconds on the 'loading' bar previously)
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by bobbles 14y ago
"As for myself, I had fallen in love with the iPhone, so using a Mac on a day-to-day basis was a must." What? How? I've got an iPhone and have never felt like having a Mac was a must. Am I missing some major parts of the system that don't w
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by bobbles 14y ago
I found myself in a similar situation and decided to just 'walk' to get my mind out of the funk. I just made sure I was going for at least 30 mins and just listening to some music with no real goal in terms of fitness. Eventually I just got
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by bobbles 14y ago
My two favourite games on my iPhone were Draw Something and Words with Friends.. until they were bought by Zynga. The apps have become so 'social' and zyngafied to the point of almost being unplayable. (Constant spam for other apps, 'fake'
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by bobbles 14y ago
I live in a block of flats in a suburb near North Sydney and one of the 2 bedroom flats like mine was sold for $695,000 AUD. It's completely ridiculous. (The flats are pretty bad quality) Meanwhile a friend of mine just south of Newcastle b
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by bobbles 14y ago
AKA: "I don't see a use for it and neither should you"
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by bobbles 14y ago
I think people are judging prawks a bit harshly here with all the downvotes.. doesn't seem like he mean 'cast-off' with a negative connotation to me. More like a 'previously-associated-with'.
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by bobbles 14y ago
Can't we just display both? 2012-08-23 1PM (2 hours ago)
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by bobbles 14y ago
North Ryde station in Sydney has a really open area around the escalators which is quite creepy for people afraid of heights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_Ryde_station_escalat...
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by bobbles 14y ago
..and from the very same article: "It’s Phil Schiller, spending an entire week on the East Coast, repeating this presentation over and over to a series of audiences of one." He wasn't the only one getting the special treatment, they were co
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by bobbles 14y ago
ok replace 'the small joys' with 'some small joys' the point is still the same. It's similar to what John Carmack said when he was testing out the Rift VR Headset with Rage. He said he was fascinated in just looking at the bricks in the wal
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by bobbles 14y ago
So the author of this post can't see the reason why anyone would want to pay for this, and yet backed the project himself anyway? It reminds me of the people you see who write forums posts like 'I just got my first Mac, now what?' when the
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by bobbles 14y ago
You pay $50. Email them asking for alpha access. They give you the account. $100+ accounts are for developers & access to APIs.
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by bobbles 14y ago
He also provided no context and no relation to the article, so downvotes aren't surprising on HN for that.
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by bobbles 14y ago
Now a (member) backer for this project. I think there is definitely a market for this style of approach. (ie. charge for quality instead of ad-supported.) Good luck guys
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by bobbles 14y ago
A lot of the browsing that I do from my iPhone is via either the AlienBlue reddit app or viewing HackerNews through the Pulse app. As they strip everything out of the web-pages except the text content (most of the time) it makes reading stu
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by bobbles 14y ago
"Click here to promote your status update on the surface of Mars ($100000)"
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by bobbles 14y ago
Dropbox should allow you to send a shortcut to a file (on dropbox) along with your email so that the recipient can just grab the file when they actually want it instead of clugging up the email systems with useless junk.
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by bobbles 14y ago
Just keep in mind that the ACTUAL answer to the security questions doesnt matter, just whatever you type into the box the first time. What was your first car? "spaceship" is perfectly acceptable response, and its not discoverable by public
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by bobbles 14y ago
The 28 days referred to as 'standard' in the UK includes their public holidays.
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by bobbles 14y ago
The culmination of these billions of dollars and research and engineering will be a real life manifestation of 'clippy'.
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by bobbles 14y ago
Generally (in Australia anyway) government software also has to meet a series of strict accessibility guidelines before it is considered complete. Things like high-contrast modes, adjustable font sizes, naming conventions (for screen reader
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by bobbles 14y ago
The branding mistake was calling the second iPad the iPad 2
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by bobbles 14y ago
If I subscribe to this can I get all the magazines on my iphone somehow? (I'm not sure what formats are required for iBooks or if you can add custom links to the app?
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by bobbles 14y ago
It doesn't force you to read through three introductory paragraphs to find out if the answer is yes or no.
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by bobbles 14y ago
Did you stop reading halfway? The entire point of the article is that you would never hire a creative writer using these criteria, and yet they are the types of criteria being used for 'creative developers'.
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by bobbles 14y ago
Mandatory form fields? Is that what you mean?
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by bobbles 14y ago
I wish there was a job search website where to actually advertise a position there were mandatory requirements like the company name and salary being displayed as part of the ad. Whats the reasoning behind posting completely vague job descr
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by bobbles 14y ago
Also, anyone that never turns off their computer would know that 'stopping' isn't required for dust to build up on the fan blades, dust will quite easily build up on even moving parts.

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