brianwillis

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by brianwillis 14y ago
I'm surprised that a person in your position would even bother to use the search page instead of your browser's search box.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Loving that Google Glass empty grave at the bottom of the page. It seems to be a product many have already written off as DOA. I'm not sure if that's fair or not.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Nice touch with the bobbing ship on the side there.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
How would it be better suited than any of the other companies competing in that space?
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I haven't found a perfect answer to this, but here's a few questions I've asked in interviews that I've found useful: 1) Do you do exiting interviews? If they say no, that's a huge red flag. Even in a small company, asking someone "why are
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Friction(smh.com.au)
1 points by brianwillis 14y ago|0 comments
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The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor(hypercritical.co)
102 points by brianwillis 14y ago|117 comments
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I certainly do feel that way. The market has handed Microsoft several monopolies. Many times they've squandered those opportunities, leaving a bunch of pissed off customers in their wake. I don't really see any evidence that anything has ch
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Thanks for this. It's some pretty insightful stuff. I'm not in a place where I can make changes right away, but I'll trim back the measure and fiddle with the line height until I find something I'm comfortable with. I'm not sure about the c
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by brianwillis 14y ago
As a guy with a light-text-on-a-dark-background blog I've got to ask, is it really that bad? I've always thought that light on dark was easier on the eyes, not harder. This is especially true if you make the font size reasonable, which is s
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by brianwillis 14y ago
The first wave of accounts is up for renewal on April 14 — just seven weeks from now. So App.net has seven weeks to convince its early adopters that it’s worth paying more money for another year of service. I'm pretty sure this is incorre
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App.net’s new direction(marco.org)
138 points by brianwillis 14y ago|80 comments
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by brianwillis 14y ago
This is pretty personal stuff to say using an account that's tied to my real name, but hey, we're all friends here now, so why not. I'm in the target demographic for this post (I turn 29 on Tuesday), and I'm seriously considering making a c
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by brianwillis 14y ago
The work’s irreverent message appears discreet due to its small size and almost apologetic lower-case lettering; the blank expanse of the rest of the page, however, gives the words disproportionate weight and presence. This simultaneously
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by brianwillis 14y ago
No easy way to maximize window and full screen mode weirded me out. On Windows, I’d just double click on the window title. But on Macs, I had to carefully hit the green plus button. I'm a Windows refugee who made the switch in 2006 and I'
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by brianwillis 14y ago
This doesn't seem too bad to me. This message is straightforward, not nasty.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I'm still relatively new to git, but rebasing is something I'm struggling to wrap my head around.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Let me speak in App.net's defense and say that I'm really enjoying the service. I know that's not really a popular opinion around here, but there it is. Yes it has a stupid name, yes it has fewer users than twitter/facebook, and yes it's ha
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by brianwillis 14y ago
To be honest I'd think nothing of wearing back socks and grey/khaki pants.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I own ten identical pairs of black socks. Any sock can be paired with any other. I use a rotation system so they all wear out (approximately) evenly. Every 18 months or so I throw them all out and buy a new set. This reduces the amount of t
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Interesting. I haven't encountered this problem.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
To select text in Mobile Safari you have to tap and hold, not double tap. WebKit views are only place in iOS where this is inconsistent. I suspect it is this way because double tap was reserved for zoom-to-fit in iPhone OS 1.0, and now we'r
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by brianwillis 14y ago
There's a bunch of people in this thread making the case that developers shouldn't bother supporting retina devices because they represent such a small section of the market. Ordinarily I'd agree with that sentiment. I don't spend a whole l
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by brianwillis 14y ago
If you used this many gratuitous visual effects in a Power Point presentation I'd think you were an idiot with no sense of taste, but because it's being rendered in a web browser I think this is impressive for some reason.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I don't have high hopes for the first generation of any Amazon product. The original e-ink Kindle was expensive, slow, ugly, and had an extremely limited range of books. The original Kindle Fire was slow and buggy too. In saying that, Amazo
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Attention Authors: I Tripled My Royalties, And You Can Too(tuckermax.me)
6 points by brianwillis 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianwillis 14y ago
That last photo is just hilarious. A group of people wearing safety goggles so they can pour ketchup out of a bottle. Those lab coats also look brand new. You can just imagine the photographer saying "quick! everyone! do science!".
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I agree with Dustin's point that life is "markedly better" by having the best available. In saying that, I'm often happier to outsource some of the responsibility for deciding what is the best product to someone else than do the leg work my
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Scrolling vs. Pagination(ignorethecode.net)
5 points by brianwillis 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that goes back and checks their comments. I know it's superficial, but it still gives me a buzz to wake up in the morning and see a bunch of up votes and replies to something I wrote the night before. I

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