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by mattkevan 13y ago
I imagine it's because they had already compromised the Huawei networks and knew full-well what the Chinese government were up to.
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by mattkevan 13y ago
> When you say glue, I'm assuming you actually mean WAX. We used to use a rubbery glue called Cow Gum. It too was repositionable and invisible to the camera. I haven't seen it for years, gone the way of Letraset probably, but i
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by mattkevan 13y ago
You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet... http://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
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by mattkevan 13y ago
Not really. Launchpad was introduced in 10.7 as an additional way to browse and launch apps, making things more familiar to people who'd only used iOS. The previous methods, like apps in the dock (introduced with OS X) the applications
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by mattkevan 13y ago
I think the problem is not that the start menu is a fantastic piece of UX (which it clearly is not), it's that Win8 takes away a key method of interacting with the system and replaces it with something worse. Do something better and t
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by mattkevan 13y ago
I have no idea how easy this would be, I imagine rock hard, but couldn't they do a responsive interface, like Canonical is trying to do with Ubuntu? Apps come packaged with both a mobile and desktop UI, and depending on which input dev
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by mattkevan 13y ago
Please, yes! That would be amazing. I used quark for years back in the day and when InDesign CS1 came out it seemed like the industry switched overnight. Until then even though both Quarks 4 and 5 had been released no one I knew, including
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by mattkevan 13y ago
Funny that, I've downloaded plenty of things from t'internet but the only time I've had a security issue is after I signed up for an Adobe account and they exposed my email and password.
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by mattkevan 13y ago
> Do any married couples randomly intermix clothing, like all shirts go here, mine and yours, even the non-heteronormative couples? Yes, and not even sorted by type. This is due more to limited space and getting bored half way through so
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by mattkevan 13y ago
Fundamentally, it's because we're tool-using primates. For most of human history we've created things to use on other things to do things. Selecting an app isn't any different than selecting the right tool for the job at
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by mattkevan 13y ago
I worked in a TV repair shop in the early 90s. The firstt thing they taught me was to discharge CRT. Leave the TV plugged in but off at the mains, get two big screwdrivers, touch the end of one on the outside of the tube (which is coated in
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by mattkevan 13y ago
You're right, but for the wrong reasons. As far as I understand it, the Pi foundation doesn't have much in the way of open-source roots. Their aim wasn't to produce an ideologically pure device, but to create a dirt cheap but
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by mattkevan 13y ago
I heard a similar story about Listerine. A canny marketing manager boosted sales by realising everyone used the cap to measure doses. He made the cap bigger.
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by mattkevan 13y ago
This is going to be bigger in the upcoming Drupal 8, but Drupal can already be used as more than just a CMS. HTML is just one interface it can provide, along with JSON/REST/XMLRPC/SOAP etc. This means you could have a native
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by mattkevan 13y ago
As has previously been noted, this is a poor article. It compares a default Drupal install against a finished (as finished as Gmail can be, considering they keep tampering with it) product. I bet Gmail looked pretty janky before the front-e
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Show HN: A curated marketplace for contemporary illustration(illustrato.rs)
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by mattkevan 13y ago
Extract the UX part and the article could be a primer on how to blag your way in pretty much anything. That's not to say I disagree with what it says. As a UX designer I've been on the receiving end of most of these - and probably
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by mattkevan 13y ago
+1 for living in Croydon. It's cheap, there's excellent transport links to the centre and it's easy to get out of the city and find some countryside. Also to add to @brackin's comment, the Croydon tech scene has been gai
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by mattkevan 13y ago
I don't understand why people expect Apple to release a market-shaking new product every year and are actively disappointed and say things like 'Apple are done innovating' when it doesn't happen. This is not how it works
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by mattkevan 13y ago
A friend of mine's surname is the same as a large US private bank. He bought the .com address for his own company years before the bank got online and so regularly receives emails from the bank's customers containing sensitive inf
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by mattkevan 14y ago
> Which is why I don't and can't do any significant development, or work of nearly any kind for that matter, on Android, or an iPad. That's about picking the right tool for the job, not dumbing down. It's like complaining that a trowel
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by mattkevan 14y ago
Why do we want the layman to be using Linux? To give Valve more Linux customers or something? Idiot users are toxic; anything that touches them rots. Wow. The level of arrogance and elitism on display here is breathtaking. This is why L