mtinkerhess

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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
I'm on the 2nd generation Touch with OS 2.2. Here's what I think the problem was: I was on wifi shortly before I tried out Numbrosia so my iPod thought it was online. I can reproduce this at home by turning off my wifi. It goes to the "Sync
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
A few points: I'm trying to play this on my iPod without wifi. Touching "Puzzles" from the main menu left the application hanging on "Syncing with server..." -- I have to quit the app, start over and figure out to disable server sync. Then,
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
The idea behind "no black on white" is that the contrast on most monitors is high enough that using the darkest color for text and the brightest color for background ends up being uncomfortable to read. So, use black on off-white (like HN),
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
According to Firebug it's #333 on #fff.
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
I hope you're right -- I'd be happy to be developing for a more open system.
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We also have Mother 3, which makes 2 out of 3.
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
I read this yesterday about some changes Nintendo made between pressing the gold cart and later versions: Eventually the Muslim community complained that the chanting was in the game, and it had to be removed, along with the original Mirro
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
To believe in social welfare is to acknowledge that everyone has a responsibility to help those in need, and that the state should enforce that responsibility.
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
I'm not sure the Android market is any less saturated. The rough numbers I found show fewer apps per device and a higher attach rate for iPod / iTouch: iPhone + iPod touch sales: 37,000,000 iTunes Apps: 25,000-35,000 Apps downloaded: 1,000,
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Then wouldn't the board start to destabilize until an edge hit the ground? So it wouldn't be floating exactly, just sort of eerily resting.
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
IANA physicist, but how could magnets be strong enough to lift the board off the ground but not strong enough to flip it?
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
A lot of people do want a physical keypad on their smartphones: look at the Blackberry, G1, or Pre. As for an iTouch netbook, the potential utility would be greatly improved with a couple of usb ports and bluetooth for keyboard, mouse, hard
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
It looks like it's released with Arc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494421
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
Time acknowledges that the vote was hacked: TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote. I don't think it's obvious that a hack went undetected by Time and gave the vote to Moot. What seems more l
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
Pitch and speed adjustment are useful features for learning music from recordings, but Audacity has those for free. Are the features your program offers over Audacity (marking sections, drag-and-drop importing) there for convenience or do t
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
Know your craft. Find inspiration in everything. Practice, practice, practice.
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
Nifty idea, but I can capitalize words and remove spaces pretty easily on my own without using a web app, especially under a 140-character limit.
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by mtinkerhess 17y ago
A pentatonic scale such as the one in this app consists of scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6.
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by mtinkerhess 18y ago
I think the joke is that suppressive, unconstitutional legislation is acceptable if a side effect is that people can't comment on YouTube -- a site which is notorious for its low signal to noise ratio.
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by mtinkerhess 18y ago
Here's John Perry's essay on structured procrastination: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/