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by jrajav 14y ago
So THAT'S where all the water on Mars went...
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by jrajav 14y ago
Who said computers couldn't be made out of meat?
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It might not be hardware anymore, but there is still a ubiquitous back button. And depending on how you look at it, the rotation change could be a good thing - the intention is to keep the ubiquitous button set closest to where your hands w
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by jrajav 14y ago
I have long cited this one difference (the ubiquitous back button) as the tipping point that makes me consider Android feel more usable, on average, than iOS. I never considered that one reason I feel that way is because of the placement an
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by jrajav 14y ago
Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but I find the article version to be much more faithful to "no elaborate logic or clever variable names." Most programmers are intimately familiar with for loops and the 'i' index variable convention by now
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by jrajav 14y ago
I disagree. I think the best writers work precisely like the best coders. They don't compromise on a single letter, they ruthlessly rewrite and refactor their own work as many times as they need to, and they value simplicity, elegance, and
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by jrajav 14y ago
I'm curious what value this really offers over existing suites like Dreamweaver and Coda that already offer live preview and site integration. On the flip side, it also doesn't seem to appeal to the vanilla crowd that prefers vim + some fil
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by jrajav 14y ago
Why on earth do they shy away from saying the word "Python" anywhere? Seems pretty relevant, considering it's a Python library. It's a pretty important fact for potential users, and one they would probably want to know sooner rather than la
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by jrajav 14y ago
So don't upvote. :P Personally, I think it's a valid point. The icon in question definitely seems less professional and (ahem) iconic than the well-known TextEdit icon. Even without the Greeked text, the perspective, shading and typography
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by jrajav 14y ago
What's with the insta-downvotes whenever someone mentions Coffeescript's debugging issues? I am not an active Coffeescript developer, but I thought that debugging line-by-line was prohibitively difficult, especially in the browser. Has this
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by jrajav 14y ago
Arguably, the existence of a full and demo version - along with limits on features or usage period of the demo - will be all the "promotion" you need.
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by jrajav 14y ago
> It's a fact that you can create functional abstractions in JavaScript. This is basically just restating "Javascript has first-class functions." While first-class functions are nice, it's only the barest tip of the iceberg when it come
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by jrajav 14y ago
The PS Vita browser is an oldish Webkit build with JS 1.7, half-implemented HTML5, and a handful of features disabled. Its user agent is something like "Mozilla/5.0 (Playstation Vita 1.50) AppleWebKit/531.22.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Silk/3.2
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by jrajav 14y ago
"Can Betteridge's law be applied to literally every question, even when it's a real question and not an article headline?"
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by jrajav 14y ago
I'm assuming this still has the 500-item limit like the full site? It bugs me a little when apps aren't full-disclosure about their freemium model (Nothing in the app store description indicates it's anything but free to use). It seems slea
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by jrajav 14y ago
Large amounts of sodium are bad for you, of course, but it doesn't fill you with cheap energy and mild euphoria.
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by jrajav 14y ago
You probably already know that you can do Win+<Left/right arrow> to maximize to half of the screen, Win+<Up/down arrow> to maximize/unmaximize, and Win+Shift+<Left/right arrow> to send to other screens, right? That's
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by jrajav 14y ago
A Spectacle fork on the HN front page* was the reason I submitted Slate (which I also have no affiliation with). Now the circle is complete! The more attention paid to these excellent apps, the better. We sorely need a solid, mature, and op
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by jrajav 14y ago
I don't think ShiftIt has been updated since 10.6
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by jrajav 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, but kudos on having a large banner leading from your blog back to your flagship product. Too often I read an interesting post from someone I've never heard of and have to click on obscure "home" links or even chop off th
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by jrajav 14y ago
I submitted Slate separately after seeing this post ;)
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Slate: Tiling window management for OS X(github.com)
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by jrajav 14y ago
Email has been very closely integrated with task management in Outlook for a while now. On the same note, I've been hoping that Google would flesh out Google Tasks for a while now -- technically Tasks ties in with Gmail and Google Calendar
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by jrajav 14y ago
I had this problem on OS X too, but it had to do with login, not the shell. Try `touch ~/.hushlogin` and see if your shell starts up faster.
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by jrajav 14y ago
So what would the brilliant programmers do?
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by jrajav 14y ago
> Another option of course is to use the Google Drive desktop program, and edit your plain text files locally, which will be synced to your Drive. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the Google Drive desktop syncers leave quite a bit
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by jrajav 14y ago
Well, 1) It clearly wouldn't be difficult for them to do this, or even to integrate it with the existing Docs editor. The Docs editor can already view them, in fact, so it's kind of baffling why they stopped short of editing. 2) It would be
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by jrajav 14y ago
They've had "DrEdit," a plain text editor, as their example Drive app for a while now. Kind of ironic, since you still can't edit plain text files in the vanilla Google Drive web app.
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by jrajav 14y ago
From the name, I was expecting a hack to take away the "Search" page, leaving the rest intact. Less useful, but that would be a more interesting statement on perceived bloat in Google.
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by jrajav 14y ago
Anecdotal counterargument ho. I've owned a unibody MBP for only a year or so and it has several visible scratches, especially on the underside. It doesn't bother me, at least not as much as a case would, but based on my own experience I def

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