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by jokermatt999 15y ago
They are serving a different market, and I've seen less demand since Android came out. I know at least a dozen people who have Android phones (that are quite happy with them) off the top of my head, and I can only think of two who own an iP
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I'm an Android fan, but marketshare between Android and iPhone doesn't tell the whole story, at least for developers. I haven't seen numbers on it in a while, but iOS is much better for devs in terms of making money. iOS users buy more apps
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It's sort of like TreeStyleTabs, but nowhere near as powerful. With TST, you can configure the placement and look of the tab bar (or autohide it), group tabs into trees that you can collapse/expand/reload/close separate trees, and a number
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Do you still work on it, or have you just worked on it in the past?
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Could you set up an RSS feed for your blog? I'm interested in further developments.
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I really wish they hadn't backed down. Yes, it's Apple's store, they can do what they want, but I feel like they get away with ridiculous changes like this because, well, they're Apple.
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
So basically the Motorola Atrix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G
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From what I've heard, not really. He tests a lot (he posts about it on the devlog), but I've heard he doesn't use version control even.
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
If you're ever worried that a feature will be too complex to implement, take a look at the ridiculous number of things Dwarf Fortress keeps track of and simulates some time. The article briefly touches on it, but like any look at Dwarf Fort
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Somewhat. Trees and other plants can be replanted via saplings and bonemeal, cobble can be made with a simple cobblestone generator, and water is extremely easy to make an infinite spring for. The more rare elements are things like glowston
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Actually duct tape vs duck tape isn't all that clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape#Etymology Duck Tape is trademarked, but it's possible that was the original term for it. It's weird.
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Lash out at Sony for prosecuting GeoHot, right?
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Attempts at humor typically get downvoted at Hacker News. HN is more interested in discussion than humor, so it's downvoted as noise.
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Search is somewhat optional, but I guess it got its spot because of Google. It is pretty useful, and I use it all the time, but that's just my behavior. Menu brings up options for what you can do in an application. For example, in the brows
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Then just hit Home? It makes sense with the way Android works. Applications are often interconnected. I can browse to reddit in Browser, click on a YouTube link and open it in the YouTube app, hit share, and open up GMail to send it to a fr
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Hmm, this got killed and then resubmitted within 15 minutes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754480 And what a coincidence, it's both submitters first submissions.
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Certainly, I missed that part of your post and was focusing on the "we are not animals". I agree that we remain responsible for our actions even we are predisposed to them, but I think we are more influenced by our predispositions than peop
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Thank you. I've seen so much proclamation ( especially on Hacker News) about how mobile and casual games are totally going to overtake console and PC gaming, and the current players are totally oblivious to this massive revolution. No, no
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How is that different at all from the online distribution systems that the PS3, 360, and Wii already have? The 360 has a fantastic low price indie market in Xbox Live Arcade, the PS3 does pretty well, and the Wii is steadily gaining the ent
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Recalls a recent article (anyone have a link? been looking for it) wherein the future of human space travel is deemed nonexistent because lobbing humans to another place is so hard with so few places worth expending that effort for. Do we
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
We do have some choice (ok, barring the free wil debate, which is for more than I'd like to go into), but we are also largely effected by our cognitive and biological biases. For some easy to dive into examples, check out http://youarenots
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That sounds like Google Contacts, but I'm not sure if it's taggable. It's what Google uses to automatically bring up your contacts when you activate a new Android phone, suggest friends in G+, and emails in GMail. Edit: It is taggable, sort
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Here's a link to a RWW story about what msbarnett is talking about: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_illiteracy_how_much... It surprised me at first, but I really forget what it's like to be tech illiterate.
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Powerpoint, not for usability, but for the many terrible presentations I've had to sit through. I'm ambivalent on the UX because I rarely have to use it, but the dull meetings it's created have caused me an intense dislike of it. That said,
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It doesn't really seem like a dig at the MtG subculture, IMO. It's just natural that a trading card site probably would focus less on security than a financial institution. This has nothing to do with the people or the hobby involved, and m
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Also the "average" person won't maintain 2 social profiles and will gravitate to where the users already are. The MySpace to Facebook transition shows that exactly this happened. I was in high school at the time, and I definitely remember
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In Google Reader, comments on items are visible to everyone that can see the item. Edit: this is meant merely to inform, not judge how it is or should be.
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Aeris' death is a bad example to show off the power of games due to the fact that most of the emotion in the scene comes from the players investment in the character. It's shocking and emotional because of the context, and you're right that
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Perhaps this is somewhat heretical to typography-knowledgeable people (I honestly don't know), but I've always preferred quotes to be straight up and down, as in this preview box: " It just looks cleaner to me. Curved quotes look good in la
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Please, don't start them off in Visual Basic or Java. I learned those 2 back when I was in high school, and when I taught myself Python, I was overjoyed at how much less annoying bits there were to deal with. I'm not that great of a program

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