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by f00 17y ago
There's also that little thing where Intuit and Citysearch fail to innovate and have terrible products. That just might have something to do with Yelp and Mint's success.
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by f00 17y ago
Funny, I assumed it was a thinly veiled jab at Mark Pincus. I didn't attend SUS09, but by the video clips, it seems he committed this very "presentation sin."
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by f00 17y ago
I absolutely admit that OS X has a somewhat fuzzy appearance, particularly at small point sizes. This gets exaggerated with the MS Core/Web fonts, which were designed for the screen (stems that line up with pixel boundaries, etc), and have
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by f00 17y ago
1) OS X. A tad fuzzy, but everything is rendered _accurately_. Consistent thickness and character tracking (spacing). 2) Windows. Everything is slammed into pixel boundaries, making it look clean. Verdana is optimized for this style of r
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by f00 17y ago
Being fair to the parent, you don't seem to have the MS web fonts installed on Ubuntu, so the two OSes are rendering different fonts. Still.. even if you do install the right fonts, the results will be the same.
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by f00 17y ago
Run, don't walk, to your nearest optometrist and get your eyes checked. Ubuntu and OS X are not even remotely comparable from a typography standpoint. Using Freetype (the Linux/X11 lib for font rendering), tracking and stem thickness is in
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by f00 17y ago
This line toward the bottom really caught my eye: "Cselle said reMail will soon add a feature allowing users to upgrade by inviting 10 friends to to download the app." This is a brilliant move. I might have to borrow a page from Gabor's p
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by f00 17y ago
If you're disappointed with the quality/performance of Fusion 2, why would you pay more and blindly upgrade to 3 without actually knowing that it has measurably improved? Either way, please report back after the upgrade. The 'new features'
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by f00 17y ago
Looking at your list, I see universities that have some amount of cachet or prestige, but not necessarily with specifically solid Engineering/CS programs. Further, many of them are in locations that are not traditional startup hubs (StL, N
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by f00 17y ago
> It's pretty clear that the core simulation objects have to be written in C++. C is too painful, and anything else is going to give an unacceptable hit in speed The author lost me right here. C is too painful, and C++ is materially
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by f00 17y ago
Disagree. Chris's point regards direct seed-stage investment from a VC, where a "pass" on funding an A-round indicates that the VC lost interest over time (suggesting that they might be disappointed in execution, think the market is no lon
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by f00 17y ago
Yep, pretty much. Just because preying on ignorance is easy and lucrative does not make it okay.
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by f00 17y ago
I can answer your question quite simply, and it's not about aesthetics or the magsafe power connector. The aesthetics are just icing on the cake. Very, very beautiful icing, but icing nonetheless. I have better things to do with my life t
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by f00 17y ago
Bug with the most spectacular results: As a (former) hardware engineer, I've worked on many projects where bugs have physical effects. This can range anywhere from amusing to seriously dangerous. One such bug involved a mistake in the asse
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by f00 17y ago
> C++ does not guarantee floating point operations happen the same every time... Can you elaborate more on this? Are you implying that two identical calculations will return different results?
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by f00 17y ago
Requires further explanation. :)
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by f00 17y ago
Very, very cool.. and I love the name. That said, I regularly test APIs using actual usernames and passwords via HTTP Basic Auth. It will be a cold day in hell before I toss my credentials in cleartext into a web form. :-) I really like th
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by f00 17y ago
..but a bitch ain't one. ;-) (With apologies to Hova.. and HN. I couldn't help myself.)
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by f00 17y ago
You're probably right. I was feeling negative, because I had hoped that Capital Factory would provide seed funding for innovative development and help kindle some entrepreneurship among top-notch hacker types in Austin. I'm not really sure
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by f00 17y ago
Austin, TX. A YC-ish group called 'Capital Factory' recently began operating here, but if you look at the inaugural group of funded ventures, they're either: a) Not attracting Silicon Valley caliber talent/ideas/entrepreneurs or
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by f00 17y ago
I haven't worked in a Windows-based environment in a while, but I do recall in the Fx 2.x days that it was significantly faster on Windows. Perhaps this is just a case of Mozilla catering to the largest audience. If that's the case, then I
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by f00 17y ago
Argh. I want to love Firefox 3.5. Really, I do. Modern web standards. Faster. Smaller memory footprint. Native Aqua widgets (effing _finally_). The problem is, compared to Chrome and Safari, it's a dog. I've been running the nightly (