kylec

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by kylec 14y ago
Or it could be used for seasteading. Who wouldn't want to live on board The Enterprise?
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by kylec 14y ago
The fireworks and sound were extremely annoying. I'm not used to web pages making noise on my iPhone and was unprepared for it.
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by kylec 14y ago
I wish Netflix would come out with a first-party native app for the Mac platform. Silverlight never gained any traction, and if it weren't for Netflix I could get it completely off my Mac.
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by kylec 14y ago
The problem I foresee is that, by its very nature, The Crossover is intended to have on multiple hosts from other shows, and as such it's likely that he would have to share the episode with people other than Dan. While this could work for s
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by kylec 14y ago
Given the amount of prep he does for each show I imagine it's very time-consuming, so if that's the reason it's understandable why he wants to stop. However, it's not as though he has to either podcast every week or not at all - he could re
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by kylec 14y ago
I used to go to a summer camp on Chemo Pond when I was growing up. Not that that's relevant to this conversation, it's just not every day I see a discussion of the area in which I grew up on Hacker News. Nice area. I hope you guys do well.
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by kylec 14y ago
Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4767698
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by kylec 14y ago
There doesn't need to be any server-side auth, you could have the opponent's device to check the validity of the word when it's played. If it's not in their dictionary, it rejects the play.
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by kylec 14y ago
This is actually a really interesting product, but there are very few details. My big concern is one of trust - if I'm going to literally route all my network traffic through this device, how can I trust that it's not doing something nefari
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by kylec 14y ago
Presumably they'll keep the devices continually updated to keep up with the changing code of websites. Plus, they don't really have to block everything everywhere - this would still be useful even if it only blocked most or even some ads. R
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by kylec 14y ago
There's also: http://www.tripadvisor.com/CheapFlights?geo=1&travelers=... More Kayak-like in terms of the results list. Cheapest rates match Hipmunk, though curiously for different flights.
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by kylec 14y ago
I think programming's a bit different - with an ugly design, the customers see it and know it's ugly. If a software application works fast and flawlessly, the customer sees that it just works, and it doesn't matter if the code has been neat
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by kylec 14y ago
The Thunderbolt display is expensive, but it also has a lot more than just the panel - it has a webcam, speakers, USB, firewire, ethernet, and a MagSafe connector to charge a MacBook, not to mention that gorgeous aluminum and glass body. Wo
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by kylec 14y ago
If you're not going to use the screen then it's probably not worth the premium over the MacBook Air for you. However, the rMBP does have other advantages over the Air, namely faster processors and two Thunderbolt ports instead of the Air's
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by kylec 14y ago
Here's the discussion from yesterday about the article Marco linked to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4750276
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by kylec 14y ago
The Displays section of System Preferences says that "using a scaled resolution may affect performance", but if it does it doesn't seem to be noticeable, at least for the kind of stuff that I do.
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by kylec 14y ago
This is definitely true. Also, it's worth noting that I had to fake the screenshot - screenshots taken in "more space" mode are taken at the res they're rendered at. I took a screenshot of my screen at that res, switched back to "best for r
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by kylec 14y ago
This is what it looks like at the 1680x1050 scale factor: http://cl.ly/KhRt
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by kylec 14y ago
The way the high resolutions work is that the screen is rendered at 2x then scaled down to fit the display. This does lose a bit of that subpixel antialiasing, so you're right that it doesn't appear quite as crisp as the native retina sca
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by kylec 14y ago
I think the choppiness of scrolling The Verge was overstated. It's noticeable if you're looking for it, but it doesn't affect the use of the site. And 99%+ of sites scroll smoothly, even when multiple monitors are attached.
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by kylec 14y ago
If you need more screen real estate, you can change to a different scaled resolution in the System Preferences. If you need it, you can go with an effective 1440x900 or even 1680x1050 resolution. It's not an integer mapping between virtual
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by kylec 14y ago
According to Apple both variants of the 13" MBP use the same CPUs - either a 2.5GHz i5 or a 2.9GHz i7 - so I imagine the CPU performance is identical between the two. Of course, there might be a bit of a CPU hit for apps having to deal with
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by kylec 14y ago
Sure, I was just picking a few generic examples, but there's lots of "pro" stuff that doesn't need a super beefy GPU - developing software, editing audio and images, etc.
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by kylec 14y ago
I think the author's primary complaint was that it wasn't worth the premium; if you've already bought it, haven't you already made that decision? Yes, it's not completely smooth scrolling The Verge (something that, as a Verge reader, I didn
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by kylec 14y ago
Whether it's "underpowered" depends on what you're doing, I'd say. Writing text, looking at photos, watching videos, browsing 99% websites, etc it performs just fine, and I'd venture to say that that's probably what most people will be doin
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by kylec 14y ago
The solution to this is to design for the iPad mini. If you make the user interface elements large enough to tap on a mini, they will also be large enough to tap on a full sized iPad. This also has the benefit of presenting a single user ex
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by kylec 14y ago
I could definitely see them going ARM in the MacBook Air line, but I think they'll keep Intel for a while for their desktops (power usage isn't a concern) and the MacBook Pro ("pro" users will need the extra power and compatibility of the I
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by kylec 14y ago
When it comes to Facebook, never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
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by kylec 14y ago
Regarding the 'Kickstarter style', I think it's a bit disingenuous to refer to the people that preordered as 'backers'. The term connotes an investment, when this seems to be a cut-and-dried preorder - the production run is certain, and the
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by kylec 14y ago
I agree. I asked about this a while ago on Super User: http://superuser.com/questions/235937/does-e-mail-address-ob... The top answer links to a study done a few years ago that showed that revealing your email in plain text did result in

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