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by ivanzhao 16y ago
Right now it's only streaming, but the purchase will be recorded and the viewer can stream it as many times as she likes. It's easy to do the downloading option but less secure in terms of piracy issues.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
We tried many solutions, currently using Zencoder.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
just like Vimeo, we are trying to target at the "indie" and more serious group of video makers than YouTube, by providing them lots more room of customization and personal branding. the focus is very different: Vimeo and YouTube are more li
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
Thanks. We worked really really hard on that.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/ HN equivalence of subculture musics radio, very diverse. My favorite is the sunday afternoon program "Minimal Wave Electronics"
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
surprised nobody mentioned "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant, which not only talks about philosophy, but the lives of the philosophers and the historical backgrounds. philosophy is gradually becoming more literature-like, which is ha
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
You need a one sentence tagline, as not too many people are familiar with this market.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
Objective-C is fairly simple, while Cocoa is vast and complex. The distinct is important. It might take you awhile to get familiar with Cocoa and all its patterns built on top of NSObject. "Cocoa Design Patterns, by Buck and Yacktman" is a
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
This single-window design might be hard to run it on 13 inch Macbooks given their limited screen.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
instead of learning new abstraction like this, maybe more useful to sharpen up text editor skills? I found css very vim-friendly
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
Similar to that 19th century as a inflationary time for typography, why in our time eye candies like this, with low legibility, are considered as good design...
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
seriously need to do something about the logo
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
it's not madness. humans are capable of so much if we put a bit devotion into it (e.g. hard-waring finger movement X with vim procedure Y, or even touch typing) this makes me wondering the limit of human interfaces. how far can we transform
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
It's proper name is "Parallel Coordinates", popularized in the 90s. Pro: - Spacing saving. Cartesian space is expansive as the X/Y axis can quickly take up the entire 2D plane. Turning the axis parallel to each other saves a lot of space he
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
there's a world to steal from the cartography and typography traditions, not only because these are already established "visual languages", but also their subtlety and respect to the viewer. it is a shame that today's infograph designs are
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
Quite difficult UI for Calibre.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
Tufte's data ink is too extreme in my opinion. Human perception might be too messy and complex to handled by simply mathematical calculations. User behaviors might be a more approperiate approach to evaluate the new design.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
"The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know"
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
looking to the past.
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by ivanzhao 16y ago
"... the new iPhone is so miniaturized and packed that there's no room for the tapered, curved surfaces... " Where is Apple's Human Factors guy? Tapered end is one of the best ways to deal with the variates in hand sizes, reducing hand stra
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
having been using Vimperator for a long time now. How is this comparing to Vimperator?
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
When t-shirts and sweat pants roaming around town everywhere, who still cares about jazz? a jazz party in 1957: http://www.ivy-style.com/shoulda-been-there-dizzys-jam-sessi...
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
I don't usually smoke pot; but when I do I usually end up with Coltrane, and he makes me want to cry.
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
you need a better designer. too chaotic in the front page; too many different fonts, sizes; and the browsing flow is not smooth.
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
at first it appears to be a reply by an autistic person. but if you finish reading it, actually makes some sense. Cocoa/Interface Builder could be a good example...
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
can't live without it. now even in Safari, i sub-consciously press "d" to close a tab, "/" to search with regular expression, and most frequently "f" to jump to a link by referencing number on the current screen. ------------ hooking up my
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by ivanzhao 17y ago
information visualization, visual analytic ... etc. they are the HCI when done right, aesthetically and empirically; they will transform us into human cyborgs for the coming future
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by ivanzhao 18y ago
Good point ---- altough somewhat exagerated ---- but all points to that software development, after years, might finally catch up the hardware development a little bit.
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by ivanzhao 18y ago
you need to change it to finer selection from 16-30
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by ivanzhao 18y ago
not really sure. I found it through an arbitrary google search.

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