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by cpmsmith 7y ago
A lot of the new TLDs are brand names. https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
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by cpmsmith 7y ago
The "if done properly" is carrying a lot of weight there, though. Keeping on top of accessibility that way is a challenge in apps that are their companies' entire business, to say nothing of apps that are companions to a &quo
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by cpmsmith 7y ago
I think the "Thing" in Next Big Thing as this article uses it is rarely a business, more often a technology. WhatsApp has never been considered a toy, but IM as a medium has—WhatsApp's genesis as a valuable business is itself
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by cpmsmith 7y ago
That's what the X axis is for.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
I've found it extremely dependent on fine differences in the primary thing I'm doing. e.g. I have no problem following if I'm going on an uneventful or familiar drive, but will automatically tune it out if I don't know w
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Apparently you technically should, but you aren't expected to because it would be impractical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_tax
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
They put a really strong emphasis on lowering the barrier to entry. While you're right that it still requires you to write code, so did the MySpace weirdness of olde. I think the difference is it allowed you to only write the code, a
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
They take a cut of in-app purchases/subscriptions as well, for apps distributed via the store. That's not to say there isn't likely a special deal in place, though.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
A 4K 13-inch display feels like absurd overkill to me. Am I in the minority on that?
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about that. Gary Hustwit is the same person that directed Helvetica, which is a classic design film IMO.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Humans make all those same mistakes.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
As mentioned in that issue and the linked one, subsetting makes a huge difference, and can be done yourself. As not mentioned there, you can even split the subsets by Unicode range and let browsers handle which chunks to download. Browser s
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
It's a very similar style with very similar objectives, so it's not entirely coincidence. It's also very similar to Google's Roboto for the same reasons.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Their logo is an obvious (and admitted) ripoff of Barbara Kruger's work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger#Supreme_lawsuit
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
They're at Parliament Hill in Ottawa very regularly.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I've found it happens when image scaling by a factor other than 2. Affects my setup of a 4K display at 2650x1440 effective resolution, or 1.5x scaling.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181210211633/https://mwi.usma....
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
We've also dealt with it by being extremely flexible, error-tolerant, and context-aware on the parsing end.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Pinboard employs a whole one person. It's a good model, but its aims are pretty different from those of your average startup.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
That's true, but the Galaxy S series has used AMOLED since it was introduced in 2010.[0] Looking in more detail my guess is it's not majority market share but it's definitely significant. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
I don't think that's true. Apple has been the major holdout on OLED for a while, and they're now into their second year of using it.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Firefox easily. They're not as good as Chrome's, but Safari's lag behind.
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by cpmsmith 8y ago
Is there really that much free economy to get from scale? LiIon cells are hardly a niche good as it is. The whole gold rush around batteries right now seems specifically trying to get out in front of that demand.
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by cpmsmith 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
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by cpmsmith 10y ago
Sure, I use them as examples because the parent comment did.
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by cpmsmith 10y ago
I share the pessimism, but there are a couple of glimmers of hope. Firstly, Acompli merely got rebranded, and Sunrise is (purportedly) getting merged into it. More cynically, though, if Apple wanted to shut it down, there are easier ways th
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by cpmsmith 10y ago
In this case, scale counts as a specialization IMO.
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by cpmsmith 10y ago
The caption to https://www.xkcd.com/934/ is finally coming true.
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by cpmsmith 10y ago
Unfortunately not, I believe because when handing off web links, you have to demonstrate to Apple that you own a domain to be allowed to link to it. What that practically means is if I'm on ycombinator.com, iOS won't let Chrome, a
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by cpmsmith 10y ago
IMO, any messaging in the format "sorry, $thingYouDid, the technology considers that as $notWhatYouDid" is a recipe for customer loss.

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