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by micampe 11y ago
I don't know if it’s on par with Fairphone yet, but Apple have also been helping make some good improvements in their supply chain. http://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/progress-report...
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by micampe 11y ago
This is what Tog and Don Norman have been saying for more than two decades now, so I’m not sure how you can be surprised by what they said. They have always advocated for an extremely “literal” and explicit design of user interfaces. It’d b
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by micampe 11y ago
I think you picked poor examples. All the ones you listed are power user accelerators for actions you can do in other ways that are slower but more straightforward. Except this one: > Swipe notifications from the left to perform the def
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by micampe 11y ago
All these years I’ve been told that web is better than native because it’s cross platform and future proof.
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by micampe 11y ago
There is a controversy and lawsuits going on in Half Moon Bay for five years so far http://martinsbeach.blogspot.com/
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by micampe 11y ago
> Sometimes 'smart code' is not necessarily better I would argue that it's usually not, especially in large and long lived projects. “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program”.
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by micampe 11y ago
For popular science articles, yes, the narration is useful for the purpose of scientific divulgation and awareness. If you want pure distilled science this is what you are looking for https://scholar.google.com/citations?vie
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by micampe 11y ago
Another example: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure This uses zsh-async: https://github.com/mafredri/zsh-async
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by micampe 11y ago
I wish HN prevented new accounts from commenting for one day unless verified by a mod.
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by micampe 11y ago
I suggest you also get the mentioned Lumix 20mm lens with it: it’s simply a beautiful lens, even compared to more expensive ones. Its only downside is a not exactly state of the art focus speed, but it’s manageable, especially if you plan t
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by micampe 11y ago
I like how Hacker News is all about exploring new things and playing with technology.
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by micampe 11y ago
Kerning and tracking are often adjusted differently at different point sizes, especially if you are designing logos and can easily tweak them manually.
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by micampe 11y ago
Very often you just need to adjust levels and white balance to see a significant improvement on many photos. You don’t even need Lightroom for that, even more basic photo editors like OS X Photos work fine.
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by micampe 11y ago
I think the largest difference in that portrait is the warmer white balance.
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by micampe 11y ago
This didn't really tell me why Facebook needs 400 people to work on the iOS app and 75 commits per hour.
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by micampe 11y ago
Well, that’s true, but you went to the other extreme of the spectrum: Piaget’s specialty are ultra thin watches, I don’t think it’s a much better example. Mechanical watches under 7mm are already considered thin; more usually they are 9-11m
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by micampe 11y ago
> ads being indistinguishable from the surrounding content I think this is an improvement, compared to the current situation of ads getting in the way of the content I want to read.
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by micampe 11y ago
I'd like Peace in reverse: with a blacklist instead of a whitelist.
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by micampe 11y ago
I disagree. HN should not do this.
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by micampe 11y ago
> created: 2 minutes ago Please stop. You clearly don’t know who Mike Ash is. If he wanted to work at Apple he wouldn’t need a blog post.
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by micampe 11y ago
I called it a competition myself. My issue is only with the part where people look for an overall “winner”. It’s an evolutionary process, there is no winner. Your ending question will likely never have a meaningful answer.
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by micampe 11y ago
Can we stop talking about market competition as a battle where the only outcome is a single winner? That is almost never the result and almost never what you want as a customer/user/consumer.
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by micampe 11y ago
I think Tim just doesn't realize how privileged he his just by the fact of being Tim Bray.
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by micampe 11y ago
I usually don’t like to link to competing projects, but this seems to be only for Linux so I think I can link a similar one (as far as I can understand from the screenshots) for OS X and iOS: http://acqualia.com/soulver&#x2F
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by micampe 11y ago
It says that people don't understand what Kickstarter is: you are investing in a project, not buying a product. Investments carry risk.
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by micampe 11y ago
Security researchers have learned that marketing works.
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by micampe 11y ago
What does “design can be something very divisive” tell you about “why do you need a citation, if you have two eyes” and the original quote that started this thread?
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by micampe 11y ago
> IMs have had those features for decades Yes, and 90% of my contacts have been “away” 100% of the time for just as long. Presence information is useless, I’ve been ignoring it for years. What is the problem you want to avoid? People i
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by micampe 11y ago
Signing my commits doesn’t prove that I didn’t do an unsigned one.
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by micampe 11y ago
If you really want to be a stickler you should use PPI, not DPI.

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