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by mirkules 15y ago
"Mac OS: The button instructs the app to make the window larger to fit the open document." As others have pointed out, the zoom button is completely arbitrary, and doesn't simply fit the open document. --- Examples --- Terminal: fills the
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by mirkules 15y ago
If you have an electric toothbrush and a digital clock, it makes the numbers dance while brushing your teeth. Humming could work too
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by mirkules 15y ago
Indeed, the problem is that the f-word, in your example, is a purposefully vague adjective to add shock value without working hard to captivate the audience and add meaning. "Lazy" was a great word for that.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Swearing is a last resort. It can be very powerful, but it can also signify loss of emotional control or lack of imagination. Hearing swears from a person who never does (e.g. my mother) would be shocking and cutting. Hearing swears from a
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by mirkules 15y ago
Can you explain what the metal plate and calibration circle are for? (edit: I meant, how do they work?) To me, the plate looks like Death Star blueprints, so I'm a little relieved to hear that it's not what I originally thought :)
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by mirkules 15y ago
The headline says it all. Both the Facebook page and the website offer no additional information. I'm glad she's safe.
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by mirkules 15y ago
There used to be a version called MacAmp, back around the 2000s. Back then, it resembled the current windows version 2.7-something. I haven't tried installing it, but here's the link for MacAmp. http://www.macamplite.com/
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by mirkules 15y ago
This is how I classify articles (loosely based on a famous quote by Eleanor Roosevelt+): -Articles on ideas: +1. Examples from current homepage include "Why we moved off the cloud" -- and that's kind of stretching it. - Articles about event
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by mirkules 15y ago
Can anyone open any of the app descriptions on http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/ ? I tried on FF, Chrome and Safari with no luck - I click but nothing happens. Copying the link seems to go to a page without any styling...
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by mirkules 15y ago
At the state level, there are some states that have already implemented facial recognition. I can tell you that even at the state level, integration was not easy. At a federal level, IAFIS is not limited by capability, but by sheer size of
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by mirkules 15y ago
Great post, especially about the Accessibility niche. You might be onto something there. A quick note: "I am losing possible customers because it's not 100% clear what FinalTouch is and how it works." Nowhere in the blog post did I see a de
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by mirkules 15y ago
This is a standard customer service trick - externalize the cost (time) and minimize business losses (disclosure of data). Make an action difficult enough to discourage more casual users but stay within the legal limit. This is why checks t
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by mirkules 15y ago
Remember, this is Arrington. Either the $1500 was exaggerated or he's being sensationalist. Likely, both. However, my personal experience with bureaucracies like these has led me to collecting these little red-tape gems and writing a book.
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by mirkules 15y ago
The responses from Mozilla, Asa especially, have either been, "We don't think that's a problem", or sometimes, "go piss up a rope". I don't think this is very fair to the Mozilla folks. From the few people that I've met (and complained to
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by mirkules 15y ago
You nailed it. As an example, recently I got back into music, started playing with a band, and then it hit me - there is an opportunity to make some iPad apps to help when on stage and in the practice studio. You can spend your life as an e
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by mirkules 15y ago
I was too reminded of Randy Pausch, specifically the last pages in his book "The Last Lecture." In my mind, there was an obvious parallel between the ending chapters going by much quicker than beginning ones, a lot shorter, more succinct,
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by mirkules 15y ago
I thought the same. Nice homage, to be sure.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Despite getting voted down, I believe you meant "He will reform tech in heaven like he reformed it on earth." The downvoters might have thought you meant he left for a different company, and that you were being cynical. Whatever the case ma
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by mirkules 15y ago
I was thinking a vinyl banner, to have it easily interchangeable -- plus painting it yourself could be prone to error.
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by mirkules 15y ago
In the late 90's we saw a shift from brick-and-mortar stores to online-only stores. It seems like you just can't do some things (like hard sells) with online-only stores. I think this decade is going to find a good balance between online an
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by mirkules 15y ago
Seems a little pricey. I'm not sure what dimensions would be visible from space (if that image is any indication, you need about 20x20 feet?). How much would it actually cost to print a weather-proof banner that size (and it doesn't have to
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by mirkules 15y ago
Indeed. It is extremely annoying to have my arrow keys hijacked for no apparent reason. I know how to scroll a page and click on links, thank you very much. I tend to look through a page before scrolling, and use the arrows to scroll down a
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by mirkules 15y ago
Using Firefox with NoScript produces (OS X 10.6): "Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 27,775 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours." But turning on Javascript, but leaving FlashBlock on, produces the same mess
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by mirkules 15y ago
Oxygen... What an idea. At Six Flags Magic Mountain, they sold oxygen with a sign that read: "BENEFITS OF OXYGEN". They must have sold out of ice cubes in Alaska.
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Netflix lining up sale to Amazon, analyst says(marketwatch.com)
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by mirkules 15y ago
I'm glad that it did take you so many words. I remember reading about this a while back, but could never remember what it was called, or why the light particles actually didn't break the speed barrier. I really appreciate your laymen explan
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by mirkules 15y ago
Interestingly, one of the hardest aspects of human rendering is hands. Hands flex, bend and the skin stretches in ways which are difficult to represent mathematically, which is why in the late 90s and early 2000s (when human rendering start
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by mirkules 15y ago
Honestly, I have to believe that it is some sort of homage to The Simpsons' Qwik-e-Mart. Otherwise, it is probably the worst name I have heard in a very long time, probably since Motorola's consonant craze started by RAZR (ROKR, PEBL, etc)
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by mirkules 15y ago
I remember that when a movie became available for streaming if it was in your DVD queue, you would get notified in the UI. I don't know if that is true anymore?
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by mirkules 15y ago
First off, some of us have lives and families. Some of us work more than just 9-5 and commute for more than one hour each way. Secondly, none of my pet projects are OSS. I have a lot of pet projects, some in their infant stages, some pretty

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