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by ftio 5y ago
This is insanely cute, and posting WAV audio files on a website in 2000 strikes me as pretty sophisticated! Did you or someone else convert some older audio-playing mechanism to <audio> tags? I don't remember those existing back
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by ftio 5y ago
Prioritize. Start from your goals and values. What do you want to achieve? Why? You can't beat physics, so if you're running up against time constraints, you need to prioritize more. Let your goals and values guide you.
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by ftio 5y ago
Tangentially: love to see the Dreamcast Junkyard podcast in one of these images. The community around the Dreamcast is small but passionate, and the Junkyard is a big part of it.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents?
261 points by ftio 5y ago|179 comments
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by ftio 5y ago
My first childhood computer was an IBM P70 luggable. I loved that thing. It had such great feel — so many clicky parts — that really appealed to me as a little kid. The keyboard, which snapped into the case, also had these little legs on th
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by ftio 5y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google. Opinions my own. I love Gmail. I've also been an iOS user since day one, and 99% of the time I prefer apps that feel like iOS apps. I use the Gmail app instead of Mail, even for my personal email, because
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by ftio 5y ago
What's the difference? My family members who repost these things don't feel manipulated at all, by any of this. They agree with it, passionately.
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by ftio 5y ago
Had my creepiest-ever encounter with face recognition recently. I was traveling home from our first international trip since The Before Times. The country we traveled from has a US Customs office in the airport. We walk up to the counter, l
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by ftio 5y ago
My sense is that the quality of these Cars cars has gone down over time. Our nephews, who got them when the movies came out, have really nice ones that have lasted 10+ years. The ones we got when our son was watching (2-3 years ago) are dec
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by ftio 5y ago
Welp I stand corrected. I confused the names — these cars are, in fact, Matchbox cars, which were made in England. And they're awesome.
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by ftio 5y ago
For about two years, our oldest son was obsessed with the Cars movie. Over that period, friends and family have overwhelmed our house with die-cast Cars toys, of which there are thousands. We have hundreds. We have many that have no speak
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by ftio 5y ago
That web interface is a customer acquisition and retention play. It enables FaceTime users to stay in the ecosystem when their friends don't use the platform they do (vs going to Zoom, which is available for everyone). And it enables n
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by ftio 5y ago
Having watched the demo video, I think this looks interesting. A lot of the (overly nasty) comments here are talking about the pricing for this from a consumer/individual perspective. Frankly, they're right: I think that, for indi
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by ftio 5y ago
So how'd your dates go?
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by ftio 5y ago
So, this looks pretty nice, but does anyone else feel like there's been a surge in San Francisco clones? If you'd consider using this, why not just use San Francisco itself? I believe Apple supplies it for download so you can use
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by ftio 5y ago
And perhaps a fellow Italian will invent the first non-fungible, blockchain-powered pasta sauce, Moneronara, or even its Roman cousin, Carbitnara.
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by ftio 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "USD wasn't up to the task"? Don't the vast majority USD transactions occur digitally?
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What would happen if a golf ball doubled in density every hour?(quora.com)
11 points by ftio 5y ago|1 comments
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by ftio 5y ago
Oof. I have no idea. But since it'll be fun to guess: Absent some kind of magical (from today's POV) AGI, I think I'd probably say yes, but I'm not sure that means software engineering will continue to look the way it do
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by ftio 5y ago
I worked on engineering productivity research and measurement at Google for two years until about a month ago. (Opinions my own.) Compared to my former colleagues, I'm an infant in this area, so take this with a heaping of salt. In gen
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by ftio 5y ago
The open-mouthed chewing, soda slurping, and bag rustling is unbearable for me. It completely takes me out of the film, particularly during quiet scenes.
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by ftio 5y ago
Ages ago, when I had a small Hackintosh netbook and a Mac mini, I used a great little app called Teleport to do this, and it was great. Apple's UI for establishing the connection — the little squish and pop thing that happens on the fi
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by ftio 5y ago
So, tens of millions of people. Seems like a reasonable strategy for attracting non-iOS users to the iOS ecosystem by enabling their massive user base to exert social pressure.
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by ftio 5y ago
As an espresso enthusiast with a rather robust prosumer setup, I considered 'overkill' commercial options, which are widely available and roughly the same price (sometimes less, with work). The overkill options...well, they'r
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by ftio 5y ago
YES — you're nailing something that I've felt but haven't been able to articulate. The worst children's books are ones that don't roll off the tongue, that use too-complicated phraseology, that through circumlocutio
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by ftio 5y ago
I echo all of this, including in appreciation of Carle's work. Despite the simple language, there's a sophistication and depth to the best children's books that mediocre ones lack. My favorite to read to my little guys is _Th
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by ftio 5y ago
My personal website, which is admittedly quite simple, is (IMHO) totally readable and usable without CSS enabled. As I was building it, I'd constantly check it with CSS off in order to make sure it had a reasonable flow for folks using
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by ftio 5y ago
Protip: Cmd+tilde (~) cycles through windows in the current app. Coming from Windows, it can be annoying, but once you build the muscle memory, it can actually be quite nice to have the two methods separated.
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by ftio 5y ago
Spot on. I had a similar thought. Another major change is that the App Store is now the default way for 99% of users to download and install software. Pre-App Store (say, in the Tiger-Snow Leopard days), Mac users with even limited experien
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by ftio 5y ago
As an Italian-American who rarely gets to speak Italian, my visits to my family in Italy are full of these kinds of things, but in the other direction, naturally. I end up using less common, typically larger words mostly because they have d

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