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by divtxt 15y ago
> What does "definite" mean? ... Either you made it to orbit or you didn't The difficulty of defining what probability is is not a defense. People are able to calculate a value called "probability of launch success" and use this num
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by divtxt 15y ago
Your original comment should read: > The number of dead people whose ashes got a known-to-be small but definite odds at being put into space by Elon Musk? 208. It's well known that new launch platforms fail a lot initially. Soyuz sti
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by divtxt 15y ago
Good catch. That looks right now you've pointed it out. I was thrown off by the word "translation".
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by divtxt 15y ago
Translated words and phrases often have to be very different than the literal translation. For example: "sack" in english can also mean firing a worker, or plundering a city. The word for "a large bag" in most languages will not have thes
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by divtxt 15y ago
It's not opening up a Pandora's box to say that Windows is more user-friendly than a Mac in some aspects, and anyway you're using the phrase "rare occasion". Having said that, your example is bad because: - your "simple os option" is hidden
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by divtxt 15y ago
Thumbs.db is the correct comparison in this case because we're talking about behavior i.e an unwanted file that is silently added and propogates. desktop.ini is closer from a functionality point of view, but in practice I see much less of i
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by divtxt 15y ago
> You just can't ignore the boost My small data point supporting this: I have a free utility which gets 20+ downloads/day with no marketing and not enough ratings for stars to show. All of these are people who find the app via app st
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by divtxt 15y ago
Agree - easier to restrict functionality first and relax it later.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Android is taking off here in India because it's creeping into the low-end. I'm sure the same thing is happening in most countries. Last week I got a Samsung Galaxy Y. It's small, sturdy, has swype input and has great battery life. Gmail,
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by divtxt 15y ago
I think you mean 10,000 DAYS (which is still 27.4 years).
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by divtxt 15y ago
Eating lunch for "free" is not something to be sneezed at. I'd say it's good for such a simple app. Thanks for the data point.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Slightly off-topic: are there any Linux options between a $25 Raspberry Pi and a $200-$300 Atom-based nettop?
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by divtxt 15y ago
More generally, this kind of legal corruption is an obvious and yet unacknowledged flaw in representative democracy. By obvious, I mean in the game theory sense i.e a system of selfish rational humans acting under the rules of "democracy".
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by divtxt 15y ago
Wow, I'd love to know if you're really get sales for this at $1.99?!!
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by divtxt 15y ago
Everyone here agrees that it's left/right. (even if that's not correct) Left/right is so much easier to both remember and understand the terms.
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by divtxt 15y ago
we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... I suspect that an urban ancient Greek would adjust to a western urban world pretty well. I'd expect the shift from hunte
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by divtxt 15y ago
Practically, if you let her become much smarter than humans and trust her enough to indirectly control stuff - e.g. write software, correspond with people, etc. - she could engineer an escape. (less sensational versions of plots like Eagle
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by divtxt 15y ago
Even if we build an AI that can be controlled, I expect it would be used to enable a fascist dictatorship by few in control. :P
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by divtxt 15y ago
It blows my mind that people can't understand that scrolling "feels right" is a show-stopper feature for a touch interface. Meanwhile, at Apple, they would have got it right in version 0.1, and Steve Jobs would treated that as prototype qua
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by divtxt 15y ago
Ok - will use free as introductory/lite pricing. I wanted to keep the app simple in features, but I will definitely look at a UI for non-photoshop people to choose/move layers & save the resulting PNG.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Hopefully they use a standard size of paper so you can just buy BPA-free paper.
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by divtxt 15y ago
The only thing I use that causes the fans on my Core 2 Duo MacBook Air to kick in is Flash, so I would definitely consider a slower CPU. Also, note that the savings/benefits can be in ways other than more battery life e.g. price, fanless &#
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by divtxt 15y ago
Thanks - I'll definitely try "FREE for a limited time" till I hit enough sales & ratings.
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Show HN: PSD Screenshot - please review my Mac app
6 points by divtxt 15y ago|4 comments
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by divtxt 15y ago
It's not really personal preference if that's what you mean. It's about your work splits across apps & windows. For example, chat is mostly fine. I'm either switching between multiple chat windows or mentally switching from chat to an
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by divtxt 15y ago
I'm guessing the justification is that switching apps is consistent with the fact that the OS X Dock shows apps, not windows. Probably Unity & Gnome 3 made the alt-tab change to match their move to the Dock model? Whatever the reason,
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by divtxt 15y ago
Thanks - using these settings! I get a warning that some apps might not like command-tab being taken by Witch - have you faced any issues?
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by divtxt 15y ago
Thanks - trying it now! The MRU behavior is spot on, including across Spaces! I'm finding the list style still has high mental overhead compared to the Windows/Linux style of bringing the target window (or it's outline) transiently forward
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by divtxt 15y ago
On the Mac, I no longer think about this level of workflow optimization because there's a much bigger negative that make these irrelevant: the Mac's Alt-Tab behavior. The most basic web page development exercise - 1 browser window and 2 ed
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by divtxt 15y ago
Can't tell if humour, stupidity or trolling. Upvoted! :)

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