lachenmayer

19 ms·

91.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
If that average time is a mean time, then that would mean that you do have a significant number of people reading the entire article. I would assume that people who are skimming the content, or just leaving straight away would only spend a
92.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
I had exactly the same thought. Also, the "separation anxiety" he speaks of is hardly due to "love" for the iPhone, but rather to the fact that people would rely on us to carry the phone around with us to be available at all times.
93.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
...which is exactly what they're doing, right? By having let's say a Yelp competitor, they have an entire market that can be described as "anyone who eats" out at their fingertips...
94.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
95.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Just tried it with iOS 4.2.1 on an iPhone 3GS. Nothing appears around the paragraph.
96.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Well, the chamber is supposedly filled with an inert gas, so the lifetime of the microfilm should be much larger.
97.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Quite the opposite; the web is becoming so ubiquitous that no-one has to find out more about it anymore.
98.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Awesome idea, had great fun racing other people I finally ended up talking to! Some qualms/suggestions: - Text wrapping doesn't work properly, the text box doesn't resize with larger messages, the text just gets cut off. - If you miss a m
99.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Very ironic that this is on a site for "Sony Security"...
100.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
The article speaks of an "officially accepted Unicode 6.0 Emoji / ISO 10646 standard", but of course a standard has nothing to do with whether it is Linux supported!
101.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Many of my friends do; also many older more "technically-challenged" people I know do. I don't appreciate the downvote.
102.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Well, part of the reason for that is that people never actually need to learn about URLs, Google is perfectly adequate for the average web browsing needs. And I would say most people know how to copy/paste URLs to share them, so it's not a
103.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
I think I discovered a tiny problem in your 'relative proportions' formula picture. you have y' y - = - z' z' in the first line. The z' on the bottom right should be just a z, right? Other than that, this is perfectly
104.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Well, in a way the same thing is true with "iPod" now: It's used to refer to "any kind of MP3 player". But search for "ipod" on Google, and the Wikipedia page telling you all about the history of the iPod is not the first result, it's a pag
105.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
You're right. URLs like Sony's are exactly the reason why people completely ignore URLs, and the only URL that any average joe ever types in the address bar is www.google.com.
106.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
A solution to this would be to not have the omnibar scan through the entire history when typing in it. Instead, if the history does become too big, it should only wade through frequently visited pages and pages visited in the past month (
107.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
100 days and $100,000 to get a company into beta, a working product that can be released to users for feedback. In this day and age, do you really need $100,000 to get a company into beta? What are they spending all that money on, apart f
108.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
There's a similar story that the Porsche 911 was originally going to be called 901, but that Peugeot had claimed all 3-digit numbers with a zero in the middle and forced Porsche to rename their model.
109.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
...build cages instead of fences.
110.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Shouldn't ICANN's decision to allow the registration of new TLDs more or less solve this problem?
111.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
I was wondering, what the fuss was all about... Then I opened it in Safari, and yes, it's very impressive.
112.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
There is one sentence I have a problem with in this post: "Shadows and spotlights suffice to show that there is no logic in this suggestion, because they can certainly go FTL and still be seen." Now, I was only scanning over the article and
113.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Chrome updates so often, even I don't know what version I'm running at the moment. Not that it really matters either.
114.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Resolution-independent logos/interfaces and high-resolution printing of scaled-down web images come to mind!
115.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
I find exactly the same when I switch from German to English. I find that German is so extremely structured that it really forces you to think about what you're going to say. One thing I love about German too is the fact that complicated wo
116.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Nice article, but one thing struck me when reading the code examples posted in the article: What's the use of using kwds in __init__? class Shape(Root): def __init__(self, **kwds): self.shapename = kwds.pop('shap
117.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
Well, it's not a competitor for Flash, the technology (which HTML5 is indeed a competitor of), but of Flash the program which is part of Adobe's Creative Suite and used to create Flash content. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Ad
118.
by lachenmayer 15y ago
However, for most kids in that category, piracy is a very viable alternative. And such access to tools which would otherwise cost hundreds of dollars can, and does, foster huge amounts of creativity in kids.
119.
by lachenmayer 16y ago
I found this article extremely interesting, as I felt that I found my own personality perfectly mirrored in it. To clarify, I'm currently in my final year of high school (doing the Irish Leaving Certificate) - my entire life I have been "ac