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by isnotchicago 14y ago
Reminds me of Neil Gaiman's recent commencement speech at the University of the Arts. I definitely recommend checking it out if this little tidbit of advice from 37signals was inspiring at all. EDIT: forgot to link to the speech: https://v
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by isnotchicago 14y ago
Coincidentally, AskMetafilter has a good thread about fixing the redesign: http://ask.metafilter.com/213264/You-dont-know-what-youve-go...
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
I think my old LG VX8700 (from 2007) had this functionality as well. Interestingly, it only recorded the other side of the conversation (not powerful enough to record both phone-in and mic-in at the same time?). I wonder what caused manufac
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
http://www.mapstd.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784025
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
This is probably a matter of preference. Personally, the OS X way is often more elegant. When I am working with a lot of windows in a particular program (say, five text files) and have another application I want check in on (say, an instant
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
Agreed! Sadly, the video is H.264, so no love for Firefox and Opera.
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
In the author's defense, the advice is from a talk by Rian van der Merwe: http://speakerdeck.com/u/rianvdm/p/an-introduction-to-user-e...
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
I do not think iFixit had any part in rooting the Kindle Fire. They took it apart, yes, but for more information on the actual rooting, see: http://androidforums.com/kindle-fire-all-things-root/446276-...
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
Amen. Buttons are a hack: http://globalmoxie.com/jhc/prez/buttons-hack-w2e.pdf
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
And the texture problem is being worked on: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26506/
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
The idea here doesn't seem to be helping newspapers succeed, but helping newspapers transform into entirely new businesses. It seems like a reasonable way to make money, I just don't think it has a lot of relevance to the troubles facing th
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
Is this like a real version of http://jotly.co/ ?
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
200GB x 5 users (what Dropbox gives you) would cost $1950 per year on Jungledisk ($4 + 190gb*$0.15 per user). In practice, Jungledisk could be much cheaper since you only pay for what you use on Jungledisk. But you would have to do the math
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
The site focuses on after-school usage; have you thought about in-classroom texting? For instance, in classes where 100% of kids have cell phones, this could be used as a cheap, more usable alternative for response systems. (Definitely a ve
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3026580
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
This is...just a bullet-point summary of Joseph Perla's original bullet-point article?
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
Not long at all, actually. The first time I added people, Google was recommending around 600 users. So I just selected all, the dropped them into a new circle. Same process to get the rest of the remainders over the next few days. Now, Goog
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by isnotchicago 15y ago
This isn't quite "hard evidence", but as an...experiment...a few weeks ago, I added every single person Google recommended, a total of 1118. Of those, 65 complete strangers have added me back, which is 5.8%. This percentage is not "most", "
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by isnotchicago 16y ago
Are you increasing the rates for Archival accounts, too, or just the Basic?
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by isnotchicago 16y ago
Agreed. And if I remember correctly, the previous version DID have examples.
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by isnotchicago 16y ago
But not everything is a button. Designers need to be extra careful when displaying non-interactive fields on the same page as buttons if they are going to remove UI chrome. Twitter for Android is an example of how nonintuitive a flat interf