jon_hendry

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by jon_hendry 16y ago
From the looks of it, he wants to clone Balsamiq not because he thinks he can do the concept better, or because he has a different take on it, or because he's inspired by that sort of functionality, but because they say they make a lot of m
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
I had to disable pinch-to-scale with mine. All too often I'd be reading something in the Xcode documentation window, and a slight, inadvertent movement of my fingers would cause the text to get really big or really small.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
I find myself supporing my fingers over my Magic Trackpad, which is tiring. At the very least I have to raise all my fingers except the ones I want to use in a gesture. My other preferred device is a thumb-ball trackball. I have a logitech
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Yes. But the more important thing is the non-negligible possibility of losing coverage completely due to job loss.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Except people post whole books to Scribed, while on YouTube, you can't post a whole ripped DVD in one post.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Sigh. Everyone has one or two symptoms, a little, occasionally. To actually have a personality disorder you have to have lots of symptoms, often, to a severity that it causes problems in your life. Lots of people have occasional headaches.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"I doubt this will do much - people have found out that you can download whatever tv show you want online, why should they pay for it on iTunes?" Simplicity. No need to deal with format issues, or un-seeded torrents, or corrupt files, or va
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
It basically comes down to this: Kurzweil's paralyzing fear of death demands that the human brain be simulated soon, before he dies, so that his consciousness can be preserved in silicon. Add in Moore's Law and an underestimate of the compl
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Exponential growth in IT is great, until you run into a problem that is exponentially harder than you originally estimated.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Also, you're born with a lot of neurons that are then pruned off during childhood. Newborns have more neurons than adults. Adults have more glial cells.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"Also, it's a fracking mobile phone you are holding in the palm of your hand and you want it to be as powerful as a desktop experience? Reality check!" This would be more persuasive if there weren't non-Flash video and non-Flash games for c
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
But how do you connect it to the cup of no tea?
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"How about the fact that the same guy institutes policies that ban huge swaths of apps (including anything not written in Objective-C)?" I doubt the ObjC/C++/C requirement was his call. He may be in charge of enforcing it, but something lik
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Maybe get checked for sleep apnea? If you have it, you repeatedly stop breathing during the night. It isn't long enough to kill you, but it's long enough to lift you out of deep sleep into shallower sleep, or keep you from entering the deep
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
And they never stopped doing surface application of DDT.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"And when and how did it resurrect itself?" Immigration and tourism from countries with less vaccination. Combined with reduced vaccination in the US.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"No, seriously, a @#$% goldmine! Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination." ie, high supply. Lots of competition.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"Yes it would be illegal in Germany, but here in the US we do have freedom of speech. From flag burning, to KKK rallys and in this case Nazi insignia are all examples of free speech, and protected by the Constitution." The 1st amendment is
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
The contrast of e-ink, in my experience, improves with brighter lighting. Outdoors in sunlight it's quite good. Also, I find a bright white CFLs to give better contrast than similarly-bright incandescents. Your mileage may vary, of course.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"The article's goals are noble, but in this one spot, we seem to be flirting with flaunting one's ignorance and thinking it wit." There are plenty of valid reasons to not be a member of the lisp cult. "Anyhow, here's a slicker way of doing
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Check out the archives of the blog Yorkish Ranter. He ran a Bout-tracker, that scanned the air flight databases of places like Sharjah, to track the flights of Bout-connected shady air transport companies. Very interesting.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
They certainly go out of their way to NOT tell you the resolution of their screens. Nowhere on that page does it tell the resolution. Click to configure one, and it still doesn't say. At best they say "HD", but that's meaningless, as there
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Android also has the MemoryFile class, which can be set "purgeable". "MemoryFile is a wrapper for the Linux ashmem driver. MemoryFiles are backed by shared memory, which can be optionally set to be purgeable. Purgeable files may have their