heyitsnick

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by heyitsnick 14y ago
My big question watching this webcast (and reading reviews of windows 8 online is), how does it all work when you step outside the ecosystem? I want to keep using chrome, not IE; dropbox not skydrive, gtalk not skype. VLC and a third-party
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Fwiw, I have an Android Nexus phone and 10.1" Galaxy Tab and found i rarely used it, and phones just aren't big enough for watching video, typing anything but tweets/short SMSs. But I recently picked up a Nexus 7" and i've found a lot more
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Readability does a very good job of single-paging.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
It's not just hindsight; a lot of people, commentators here and elsewhere, were bemused by the entire Color story. A ridiculous amount of money for a product that didn't exist, had no market, likely had niche interest at best, and had no cl
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
The article it mentions in the preamble i believe is this (it took be a couple of googles): http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/10/tumblr-continues-its-quest-... Bizarre they don't even interlink to their own pando articles.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
> Can you imagine doing that every single day of your life(putting the monitor face down on the desk surface, then bringing it back up)? If every day i was collapsing my bed to get to the desk, sure. Just a minor extra step.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
What does the copyright of the code and legality have to do with the issue being discussed?
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
> But really, it seems like it's way less than 95%. No monopoly. Although there are no hard and fast rules, to be considered a Monopoly in the UK, for example, you only need to have a minimum 25% market share. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Please do not post subjective opinions stated as fact. Personally I found it amusing. The upvote/downvote system will effectively aggregate these subjective opinions and display the comment appropriately. Your post, however, just comes acro
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
> I still think it's funny that for a culture that was so at odds with the French ... they still spell things like the French ("colour" being one example, "theatre" another). But the word descends directly from the French language; 30%
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. The article can seemingly be reduced to "Responsive design is not worth it (except when it is)"
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Interesting. When you say 1004 'sounds like angel', do you mean saying 'one thousand and four' in Korean sounds like cheonsa? or 'one zero zero four'? Or the numbers look like letters than spell out angel? / tangent
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
That could be true. But how many people do you think actually change their PIN? I think it's will be low single figure %; I think many aren't aware you can make PIN changes.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
In the UK, cards are issued with random PINs. I believe some have the facility to change them, but i would guess the majority do not. I was wondering this when reading the article; so I can take it to assume that in the US you define your o
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
> That's £2.65GBP/month (about the same as two loaves of reasonable quality bread a month) Reminds me of one of my favorite analogies from a TV news report: "And the new widget weighs in at just 2kg; that's about the same as 2 1kg bags
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Just gave this a try and it looks very nice, you have a new customer. Question, how do I remove my own tweets from the mentions inbox? Would entering my twitter URL as a blocked URL work? spelling mistake on the windows GUI: "Personnal Sett
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Very well written, measured and well-paced satire. I think the picture at the end is unnecessary, but understandable.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
It's this kind of negativity I wish I never read on Show HN threads. Woeful? Seriously? Deplorably bad or wretched [1]? It's an MVP of an interesting concept and this is how you respond? 1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/woefully
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
This is probably the 4th or 5th link this week that has been barely legible (windows 7/chrome). Note to blog authors who want to use custom webfonts: If you are not testing on non-IE windows, you could be alienating a very large percentage
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
So you've never bought a newspaper or magazine? Bought a ticket for a sports competition? Pay for a TV subscription? Watched a film with product placement in it? Ever seen product advertising in an aeroplane? Ever bought a paperback book? T
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
One perspective is you pay to have the adverts removed; the other is Amazon sells an optional lower-price kindle at cost and subsidizes it with advertising.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
(meta question) image credit here links to flickr, where the photo is shared under CC non-commercial license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ ). Is a techcrunch post really considered non-commercial usage? (non-rhetoric
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Python IDE PyCharm Now with Flask Support(jetbrains.com)
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
That would require a lot more escaping when you aren't writing markup (as using parenthesis in regular writing is so common).
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
This really is an amazing interview. Def. would recommend sitting down and enjoy all four parts; fascinating, honest and inspirational.
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
> == is bad. Don’t ever use it. Could someone expound for the ignorant?
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
I see the author's point, and users should be aware Quora does this and have the facility to disable this but ... is this not an over reaction? Viewing a question titled “Should I come out to my parents?” or “What is the best way to hide a
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
So as a heavy Google Reader user (processing about 300 articles a day), can someone sum up the advantages to switching to NewsBlur? It's not entirely clear from this article or the NewsBlur site. Or perhaps its target audience is not me?
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
Not true in the UK. Evasion is very low. "The latest official evasion rate for the United Kingdom is 5.2% of all licensable places (for the 2009/10 financial year). The official evasion rate estimates the percentage (not the number) of all
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by heyitsnick 14y ago
I'm not sure if you are disagreeing? The stark contrast is exactly what I'm trying to highlight.

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