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by eykanal 15y ago
Excellent answer, and I love your thought process. Why have all your work go to waste not publishing it? This way, you don't have to worry about the inevitable "Why doesn't it do <random fringe feature>? I NEED that in my workflow
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by eykanal 15y ago
Check out the site now, it looks like this has been fixed. At the very least, not bad response time on their part once they got wind of it.
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by eykanal 15y ago
I agree with this completely. It's one thing for the concept itself to be hard to understand. It's another thing for the concept to be simple, but proper execution to be tough, frustrating, and prone to error.
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New law bans warrantless cell phone searches (edition.cnn.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
Good post. Having just started reading Duncan Watt's "Everything is Obvious" ( http://amzn.com/0385531680 ) critique on common sense, this looks like exactly what he's talking about... people who aren't familiar with the difference between
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The Familiarity Rule(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
I've recently also started learning RoR. For me, the best motivator is to have something in my head that I want to accomplish as soon as I finish the "learning" phase. For this language, I have two projects - one as a "I just learned this
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by eykanal 15y ago
Someone from GitHub needs to see this comment.
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by eykanal 15y ago
Stick it on Github as three files - image, html, css - so folks can "watch" it. I've found that the watch feature of github helps me remember all these little nifty snippets of functionality so that, one day, when the need comes around, I a
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Legislation proposed to ensure that boards of directors don't suck(economist.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
Good point. Still, this relies heavily on the use of palettes, which we haven't seen in Metro. Maybe they'll have some UI elements like that in Metro, I don't know.
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by eykanal 15y ago
But what would it look like? Consider Powerpoint. There needs to be a way to switch slide layout, add elements to the slide, work with animations & transitions, reorder slides, etc. And that's just some of the things that users will w
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by eykanal 15y ago
If I'm reading this right, Gruber's effectively saying, "Metro, and Metro alone (i.e., no desktop), is a good competitor to the iPad." That's wonderful; a real iPad competitor. But what about all the rest of the computers? You know, those b
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by eykanal 15y ago
This is an excellent point. For some reason, this pre-release has everyone all excited. There hasn't been this much buzz in the tech circles over a Microsoft product in probably over a decade. Uber's comment below makes me wonder what every
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by eykanal 15y ago
Gruber is popular on HN because he consistently writes high quality, thought-provoking tech-related articles. Gruber is unpopular because many of his pieces contain enough smug to choke a small giraffe.
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by eykanal 15y ago
If that's the case, why are so many tech bloggers treating this as though it's the "OS that will defeat the iPad"? If everyone thought as you do, then they would realize that comparing this to a shipped product which has already been evalua
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Too much touch in Windows 8? (shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
So, it's not "Windows Tablet 8", or "Windows Mobile 8", just "Windows 8"? Does this mean this is also going to be the desktop OS?
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by eykanal 15y ago
This article is kind of confused; it's talking about two separate things. 1) Report bugs. Yes, do that... do that a lot. Everyone benefits, and it doesn't take you a lot of time. 2) Exhaustively test every bug report you submit. I d
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by eykanal 15y ago
I think the likelihood of this story being even close to 100% true is very remote. Yes, Apple likes to keep their secrets closely guarded. Yes, they go to extreme legal lengths, including intimidating the press (and early-access developer
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Windows 8 UI is Microsoft's faster horse(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
Excellent overview. Thanks for posting the link.
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What I learned from (almost) consulting(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
They're two completely different products. With instapaper, you visit a page, click a bookmarklet, and the page is saved to your instapaper account. You can then go back later and read the article. It's basically a huge "read later" list. T
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by eykanal 15y ago
If the story is a blog link, I use Instapaper ( http://instapaper.com ). Highly recommended!
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by eykanal 15y ago
First feedback - redesign the front page to make the "sign up/sign in" form much more prominent. See tumblr's front page ( http://www.tumblr.com/ ) for a good example of how to do this; I'm sure there are other very good examples.
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by eykanal 15y ago
I see no mention of "security" or "encryption" on your site. I assume that all files are uploaded as-is? Is there an option to have files encrypted on upload?
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A post-Jobs world: the design talent vacuum(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
You can probably find it with a google search, but I'm almost 30. I would hardly call it a "daily affair". It's the sort of thing you do when you look for a job. That being said, that sentence is somewhat vague. I was referring to the consu
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How To Sell Dirt(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
45 points by eykanal 15y ago|14 comments

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