funkah

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1. 271.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   He's right about positioning the cursor. It currently sucks, really really badly.
2. 272.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   Good point. This is a bunch of garish, inconsistent user interfaces. "Fragmentation" means something else.
3. 273.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   Get over yourself
4. 274.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   If my Grandma had balls she'd be my Grandpa.
5. 275.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   "I'll read reviews on books I'm interested in on Amazon and go to a local bookstore to buy it. I appreciate the book reviews but I'm impatient and want the book now." Great point, I didn't even think about this while reading the article but
6. 276.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   What? Kids cry all the time, come on.
7. 277.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   Well, would you rather see companies in this market stop doing this pointless crap, or see Apple suffer? The answer to this question will dictate whether you think this turn of events is a good thing or not.
8. 278.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   Use Readable. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
9. 279.▲
   by funkah 15y ago

   > Apple never designed the iPad. They undesigned the tablet. They focused on creating the simplest form possible. Every single decision is based on usability, readability, comfort, and focusing your eyes on the content itself. IANAD,
10. 280.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    It's "pretty" and "clever", not actually useful to actual human beings. You know how nerds can be, sometimes.
11. 281.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    You can easily flip the question around, though. Who benefits if OS X keeps this key binding? A few people who still use some arcane, 30-year-old text editor. And the rest of us are stuck wondering what the heck just happened when we accide
12. 282.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    Anyone's strategy is easy to game if you already know what it is.
13. 283.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    Wow, no way. Wow.
14. 284.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    I love it, slow-playing intelligence is the best. I have a ton of respect for those with world-class intelligence and the ability to refrain from constantly showing it off.
15. 285.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    TraceMonkey, JaegerMonkey, and IonMonkey. Well, the names are nothing if not consistent, but impossible to keep straight. I think IonMonkey is the new one?
16. 286.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    Probably good advice. I couldn't imagine being happy in a life where I didn't get decent sleep, or where it would be possible to say "I haven’t slept well for years."
17. 287.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    An earlier report said Carrier IQ was definitely in iOS 5, and perhaps earlier versions. So, which is it? Either way, ugh. Bad Apple.
18. 288.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    I have never really used HAML so I can't comment on it specifically, but I really agree with his point about typing not being the bottleneck. It's much more important to me for code and markup to be readable than to make it easier to write.
19. 289.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    Before reading, I guessed that "millions of phones" meant millions of Android phones. Because if this was happening on iPhones, that would merit mention in the headline. Funny how that works.
20. 290.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    I largely agree with this, but reading it made me realize that I'd rather be interested than interesting. I love soaking up interesting developments in tech and the world at large, I love reading and stimulating my brain. But I don't really
21. 291.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    yes
22. 292.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    So accept the initial offer, do the interview with the #1 choice anyway, and if it works out, drop the runner-up. They don't need to be on your resume. The first choice doesn't need to know about any of this, though you might have to get cr
23. 293.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    Simple, scorn of the abstract. The hour spent watching tv is valued more highly, right now, than the consequences that come some point in the future. The tv-watching hour presses the brain's reward buttons harder than the abstract notion of
24. 294.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    I would be seriously pissed if I donated my time and effort towards something like ASF, trying to help the open source world, only to be "considered harmful". WTF.
25. 295.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    I suppose you've got me there. If the argument is "but it's an extra click", I can't say I feel much sympathy.
26. 296.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    It's a click that I would have made anyway, because the type in a normal web page is not good for log form reading, where long form is more than a few paragraphs or so. ie, even if there were zero ads I would use Readability (or Instapaper,
27. 297.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    Readable sweeps all that shit away and puts the plain text on a plain background. Use it and you'll stop caring what lightboxes and other crap web sites festoon their pages with. Safari's reader is nice as well, it even auto fetches all the
28. 298.▲
    by funkah 15y ago

    So, the system works.
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    by funkah 15y ago

    I've been wondering how Grooveshark's existence was even possible. I assumed they just hadnt been messed with yet by content owners, and that was why it was still around. Maybe that's about to change.
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    by funkah 15y ago

    You can print out the boarding pass, but you need to stand in the line for the bag check ticket, and so they can check your ID before putting the bag on the conveyor belt (or telling you to lug your bag to the conveyor belt around the corne