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by dictum 10y ago
> this would be easily remedied by just charging your phone while you're sleeping This goes well and according to plan until you go to bed really tired one day and forget to put your phone to charge. And then it happens again a week
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by dictum 10y ago
Honestly, gifs in blog posts instantly add 50 years to my age. Before you give me the No Fun Allowed badge, let me explain: I'm probably reading your post because I'm searching for something, in a hurry ( software: it breaks apart
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by dictum 10y ago
If there was a way to progressively enhance based on available resources (connection speed, usage metering, device performance, battery charge) we wouldn't have to compromise. As it is, you either design something really bare for the w
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by dictum 10y ago
The iPad 3 was an extreme version of that, having been superseded by the iPad 4 in only 7 months. Never used an iPad 3, but I have a feeling the silicon wasn't quite ready for a display resolution of 2048x1536.
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by dictum 10y ago
This is foreshadowed in section 1: – Post PC products now 66% of our revenues – iPad outsold Mac within 6 months – Post PC era = more mobile (smaller, thinner, lighter) + communications + apps + cloud services – PC now just anothe
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by dictum 10y ago
"Mega Commuters" makes it sound like a great subject for a Hoarders -like television series.
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by dictum 10y ago
I'm an UX/design person and I notice that too. I think you could put two capable teams to create a website for some company, one required to do a lot of research and documentation, and another left to design it as they please, and
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by dictum 10y ago
I joke about their headline clichés, but the NYT solved this a while ago. Their standard headline format is [motivation, action] . So it would probably be "To protect consumers' privacy, web companies remove a feature" (Actu
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by dictum 10y ago
Incidentally, it's the same tradeoff Apple may have made. Stare into the abyss etc.
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by dictum 10y ago
I am not a doctor, but speaking from experience, the one thing you want to be strict about is sleep. Get plenty of sleep and make sure your sleep routine is mostly the same every day of the week.
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by dictum 10y ago
Rest in peace, Keith. I'll always hold a special place in my heart for the NeXTStep interface and general look. ---- Anyone notice some visual parallels between the icon aesthetic since El Capitan and Keith Ohlfs's icons? ---- Thi
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by dictum 10y ago
Ah, my mantra for rough days with side projects: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
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by dictum 10y ago
The one upside of this MBP generation is that it will force Apple to milk every last drop of performance in future macOS updates. (I'm still running 10.11, hope 10.12 is still stable)
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by dictum 10y ago
If we stretch this approach, Apple will become good at making the iPhone and nothing else. The display was the soul of the desktop Mac. It's easier to perceive your Macbook as another PC when your window into it is another mostly gener
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by dictum 10y ago
On a desktop Mac with a lot of RAM, would you pick Safari over Chrome for general browsing? I've been using Chrome for a while but I'm thinking of switching back to Safari. I no longer have a big need for extensions that are not a
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by dictum 10y ago
In addition to the link ceejayoz posted, here are some other instances of this complaint: https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot/issues/2 https:&
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by dictum 10y ago
It's probably to prevent any association with slavery (i.e. "master" owns slaves ) (Personally, I think `latest` conveys the intended meaning with more clarity, but I don't like the way Node/npm deals with language
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by dictum 10y ago
I also settled into something similar. I only use 4 main directories. One for code projects, one for design projects, ~/Downloads for transient files, ~/Documents for files that don't belong to an specific project. Once in a
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by dictum 10y ago
For over a year Google Maps changed my street name to something like (Actual Street Name) (Name of street far from mine). Every time I had to reschedule a package delivery I found myself more cynical about AI. You can't work around GIG
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Why is Chrome version 29 disproportionately popular?(stackoverflow.com)
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by dictum 11y ago
> Also, you can't "zopfli" something - it's a noun! They should have googled it.
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by dictum 11y ago
That's the problem with acronyms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export
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by dictum 11y ago
> Yet another reason to disable custom fonts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492028
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by dictum 11y ago
>it's a plant, it isn't going to hurt your stomach Let me be hyperpedantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants
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by dictum 12y ago
From my experience, the proper capitalization is also atypical. Edit: nevermind — that may be induced by iOS automatically switching to uppercase in the first character after a period and a space.
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by dictum 12y ago
Yesterday I was working on something that required reading through old paper documents and taking notes, and I thought of how Google Glass could be useful in that situation. Google Glass has a bright future in B2B — minus the stream everyt
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by dictum 12y ago
Jaywalking is not a crime here, but I'm always amazed when a TV segment indignantly shows people jaywalking and talks about its risks. I actually find it safer to cross the street somewhat away from the crosswalk. Crosswalks are usuall
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by dictum 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract
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by dictum 12y ago
Obligatory non-US HNer snark: I wish I my credit card processing rates were 2.9% + 30¢ expensive , not 8.9% expensive.
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by dictum 12y ago
You say that as if cross platform development was easy.* * (without cheating and effectively embedding a browser engine in your application.)

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