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by bodhi 16y ago
I agree. I'd say it's because they are balanced across the total height of the font, rather than the x-height. Sitting next to capital letters or numbers it would probably look ok, but that size dwarfs the lower-case letters.
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by bodhi 16y ago
Doesn't it have something to do with international licensing issues? Which seems odd to say as it's not been released worldwide yet.
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by bodhi 16y ago
Actually I don't see it as ridiculous, and neither do a lot of people[1]. Recognising the technical features/limitations of the device, the kind of software that would be useful is obviously different to that of the iPad. Your two reputat
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by bodhi 16y ago
I'm not asking for anything. I'm saying that I think it is a flaw of the device that without paying $100/year, I can only install applications from the App Store. If you disagree, that's fine, but can you accept that my opinion is not as bl
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by bodhi 16y ago
I'm not sure how any of your comment is relevant to this thread? I don't want technical changes, I think the iPhone is quite a fine feat of interface design and usability -- I haven't seen an iPad in person, but I assume it's just as good.
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by bodhi 16y ago
Ok, so you see the iPad as a "a specialized device for a specific set of activities", whereas I and others see it as a general-purpose computer, that is artificially restricted. An iPad could technically run Emacs, but won't due to poli
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by bodhi 16y ago
I've heard this line of reasoning many times, and I've just figured out what I dislike about it. The iPad is a computer. It has a general-purpose operating system, and a very general-purpose input method. The reason that people like me
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by bodhi 17y ago
Hah, funny you should mention that. I noticed it when I stumbled across Preceden a month or two back, but it's always seemed a bit buggy, and put me off trying out the site. In Firefox & Chrome, if you drag the timeline to one side and
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A subjective comparison of a Mondrian and computer generated picture (1966, pdf)(noll.uscannenberg.org)
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Ask HN: Scientific studies on LCDs & Eye strain?
5 points by bodhi 17y ago|0 comments
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by bodhi 17y ago
It's not inconceivable that Adobe would then have motivation to contribute to existing open source renderers, so that the exported flash animations run faster. This would be a win/win situation for everyone! Or are my dreams too utopian?
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by bodhi 17y ago
Except that Jobs wasn't at Apple between 1988-1994, when the lawsuit was in progress. But maybe he still had some emotional investment in the matter? :)
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by bodhi 17y ago
Related: Nu, a lisp implementation on the Objective-C runtime http://programming.nu (I haven't used it, just know of the project)
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by bodhi 17y ago
previous posting has some good discussion on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535
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by bodhi 17y ago
In case you didn't know, the different sizes are to help out blind people. I've heard that US notes area all the same size? That must be a pain for anyone with poor vision.
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by bodhi 17y ago
Really? I get ripped bills pretty often. Some shopkeepers have that habit of flicking bills, and that will occasionally put a tear in one. Admittedly, I've never tried to rip a fresh one, so the torn ones might be several years old.
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by bodhi 17y ago
Not to pick on you personally, but people keep mentioning how good direct marketers are. Does anyone have any (scientific-ish) references for this? I'd like to read more about it.
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by bodhi 17y ago
> I just write the document and the computer does what computers are good at doing. Which is: Interpret your instructions very literally, so you still need to go over your document carefully to fix problems like urls running off the e
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by bodhi 17y ago
The first comment made an excellent point I believe: > Owners never visit their own websites after the initial presentation by the web designers because they don't need to. However, the design firm pitches to the owner, not to the custo
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by bodhi 17y ago
irb(main):033:0> 20.years => 20 years # ?????? irb(main):030:0> 20.years.to_i => 631152000 # number of seconds in 20 years irb(main):026:0> 20.years.from_now => S
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by bodhi 17y ago
I think it's a 1st-gen Apple remote, with a bit of help from photoshop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Remote And I agree with japherwocky. It seems awfully cynical and the author seems to just want to complain about a pithy phrase.
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by bodhi 17y ago
Except that your example is valid HTML 4.01/5. Closing tags are optional. Also, "Be conservative in what you emit, and liberal in what you accept" - Postel's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle [edit]: I'm incorrect, s
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by bodhi 17y ago
They were much of a muchness. Like a lot of things Microsoft, the early versions of D3D were pretty poor, but they listened to feedback from devs and so on and iterated it up to a worthwile competitor to OpenGL, which stood still for many a
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by bodhi 17y ago
The W3C CSS working group is the browser makers -- and others -- getting together to agree on something. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members.php3
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by bodhi 17y ago
In the design highlights, it has a diagram of the materials used in each section of the plane. The pointy part at the back is the only part made of titanium in the whole plane, does anyone have any idea why that would be?
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by bodhi 17y ago
I think you're right, and diN0bot was referring to "Wiggle stereoscopy". Here's a few more examples, that to me are more effective than the one on the wikipedia page: http://www.stereomaker.net/sample/ani/ani_e.htm
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by bodhi 17y ago
True, but it'd be a neat party trick, along similar lines to shuffling a deck of cards in one hand.
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by bodhi 17y ago
Just curious, for your MRI tests, were you using 1.8? You probably already know, but 1.8 has green threads but 1.9 threads are native. Someone mentioned in a sibling that 1.9 still has a GIL, thus making concurrency a bit painful. I wonder
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by bodhi 17y ago
I think the trick was folding it with one hand
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by bodhi 17y ago
A good tool built on R is rattle[1]. It's open source and is used at the Australian Taxation Office (Australian equivalent of the IRS?), so it must have something going for it. The version I used in a data-mining course last year was a bit

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