mitjak

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   by mitjak 15y ago

   The problem is, IMO, that it is a very narrow use case with a very specific user base that is willing to be very very flexible with this particular user interface (apps timing out when backgrounded, swiping instead of switching via Command+
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   And yet the most major popular MP3 player on the market can't play FLAC, which will probably mean it will remain as obscure as it is now (i.e., mostly used among audiophiles).
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   > maximizing the interactions...optimizing it to be viral.. You lost me.
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   That's how 5 year olds draw clouds.
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   Thanks! That is the best picture of Steve I've seen thus far.
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   I can't stress #2 enough: it's extremely difficult to do any complex playing without keyboard mapping. Try doing a disco hihat, a tom roll, or a repeating bassline pattern.
7. 247.▲
   by mitjak 15y ago

   I personally never even made the turtles connection and assumed that, since they are drawing libraries, they are surely referring to the artists.
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   DreamWorks Animation, not DreamWorks. That's a much smaller subset of the DreamWorks catalogue. Link bait.
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   by mitjak 15y ago

   It's still the next major OS release, regardless of the price.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Man, I wish she stopped talking in that tone. "#staycoolmybabies" shudder
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    They should ideally not be the only ones designing it.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    To add to the other voices here, it's massively popular in Eastern Europe not so much as a computer replacement but as a symbol of wealth, regardless of whether you actually possess any.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Actually, I think you missed the point of the article instead. It never argued that having buttons for common functions is bad but instead that some of the most bizarre and rarely used functions, e.g. Invert Selection, are showing up in a m
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Sounds like a potentially useful experience but, what does a development lead have to do with designing good UI?
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Are you referring to tapping and holding images to save them to the library?
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Why can't I ever find anyone who liked it then? Everyone in my family and non-geeky friends are struggling to find anything on the ribbon or are complaining it takes entirely too long to find something that was just fine living in the menu.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Is something like this better? http://homepage.mac.com/jdarnold/ars-m/finder_ec.jpg If so, that view has been available in Finder since at least the first version of OS X I've used which would be 10.3 Panther. These days there are 4 diffe
18. 258.▲
    by mitjak 15y ago

    …which is particularly easy to press if you remap Caps Lock to be another Ctrl.
19. 259.▲
    by mitjak 15y ago

    Is HP ceasing production of these yet?
20. 260.▲
    by mitjak 15y ago

    Another vote. Easily editable, searchable via Spotlight or similar solutions; easy to present in a formatted way especially if you keep notes in Markdown; easy to edit on the go with something like PlainText ( http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    If you're using Chrome's omni bar to search, you can permanently append that query parameter in the search engine settings in the preferences to avoid having to specify it explicitly.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    I don't have much to add to the thread except for: set undofile which will allow for persistent undo, i.e. undoing changes even after closing a file.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    <Ctrl-C> works the same as <Esc> and does the same job of jumping back into normal mode.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    What exactly are they rethinking? To me it looks like a desperate attempt to catch up with the tablet trend without leaving their massive existing customer base out in the cold.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    Indeed, a very long-winded way to say "don't forget about us, we are working on something ".
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    I cannot do both!
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    This is Hacker News. schappim came to ask for critique of his website. I have provided critique and pointed out mistakes in the website. There's a chance I'm wrong but I think I've provided exactly what the author was looking for when he po
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    I'm not the target audience but wanted to chime in with a few things about the design and copy: * Why is the iPhone 3 times larger than an iPad? I got a little confused the first time the site loaded trying to figure out what the giant blac
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    But people will still find it through search engines if you write it up on your blog and link to it from here.
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    by mitjak 15y ago

    What is so difficult to imagine about an Ubuntu machine running server software?