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by noamsml 14y ago
It's interesting to see that the focus in this video is on showing as much information on the screen at the single time, a sort of "swing of the pendulum" that has now gone the other way with mobile UIs such as iOS, Android and (to a lesser
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by noamsml 14y ago
Good to know there's a place where RMS can get apps for his phone.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Here's to the hope that an android counterpart is not far behind.
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by noamsml 14y ago
On the one hand, lawsuits are bad and innovation is good. On the other hand, I'm happy to see Google defend its ecosystem against Apple's square-with-rounded-corner lawsuits.
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by noamsml 14y ago
I doubt it. If Mayer wanted to play second fiddle to Page, she'd have stayed at Google.
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by noamsml 14y ago
I don't really see any universe in which Windows 8 is a minor update.
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by noamsml 14y ago
If there's any company I won't be sad to see hit with an Apple lawsuit, it's Xiaomi. The MIUI ROM is great, but it copies the iPhone Look&Feel to an absurd degree. I get that MIUI is all about "usability" and "beauty", but WinPhone has
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by noamsml 14y ago
Not impressed. This sort of technique only works if you have good fine motor control. If, like many software engineers, you have terrible drawing skills, well... good fucking luck.
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by noamsml 14y ago
"Mainstream" is often content that is polished enough, well done enough, and original enough that it can stand on its own without referring to fringe cultural appeal. "Alternative" content often relies on the fact that its fans like its par
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by noamsml 14y ago
Gah, not every product on the planet needs to be open source.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Assuming you save all of the $4752 a year, which is dubious, that's barely enough to send you to a low-tier university or community college. Mind you, that's better than nothing, but if you think the opportunities open to students who go to
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by noamsml 14y ago
Apple always denies they will make things -- until they do.
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by noamsml 14y ago
And companies that have millions of developers making money off their APIs (and, in one way or another, paying some dividend back to the API creators) indeed do tend to keep their APIs fairly backwards-compatible, with some notable exceptio
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by noamsml 14y ago
I dunno. Shadow physics had much more visual and gameplay polish when demoed, but Perspective has a simple idea that, without any additional gameplay mechanics, makes for many interesting puzzle mechanics. To me, at least, that is very impr
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by noamsml 14y ago
They showed off a working physical prototype at the press conference.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of the BUILD tablet, running the Developer Preview (roughly akin to an alpha)? Unless I'm mistaken, the Surface is a Microsoft Hardware product, distributed by Microsoft under the Microsoft brand.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Oh come on. That is possibly the most absurd criticism I've ever heard. They "don't get it" because their marketing team used a design rendering instead of a photograph? Clearly, a product shouldn't be judged on features, user experience, p
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by noamsml 14y ago
All learning is by immersion. The best way to start learning flirting is to observe couples on dates, and note their body language. You don't need to be close enough to hear their voices, since body language will be your important leader. I
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by noamsml 14y ago
As someone with borderline autism, I find this sort of guide extremely helpful, because things that may be obvious to you take me immense amounts of time to learn and internalize. Normally I find myself having large amounts of "rules" gover
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by noamsml 14y ago
That's not burtally honest. It's just plain juvenile.
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by noamsml 14y ago
It's less a matter of security and more a matter of consistency. MS's/Apple's rules are geared towards ensuring apps don't affect battery consumption too wildly while in the background. Android has no such restriction, and any app you have
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by noamsml 14y ago
It's possible glasses use paper (or any other large-enough white surface) as an info projection area, "inserting" information from the glasses directly into real life. This could be a more comfortable user interface for data-heavy interacti
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by noamsml 15y ago
I know when I write TODOs, it's usually because my solution isn't clean or misses an irrelevant edge case that may become relevant if requirements change.
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by noamsml 15y ago
This vaguely reminds me of Microsoft's CHESS testing tool: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chess/ . An interesting research project that (IMO) didn't get its proper day in the limelight.
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by noamsml 15y ago
...because the Windows UI doesn't fit tablet use cases.
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by noamsml 15y ago
Interesting take on fun and relaxation: Try going to a party and drinking non-alcoholic beer. It tastes kind of meh, but overall delivers the same experience. One surprising result of that is that drinking non-alcoholic beer (which has the
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by noamsml 15y ago
I know a lot of people who go out to bars, drink, and spend the entire night shouting about how drunk they are and how drunk they were all those other times they went drinking. I don't get it. I've never been a heavy partier, but my crazies
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by noamsml 15y ago
> Journalists will love it. This is probably the most important point. Boycotts of SOPA-supporting companies, as many have pointed out, do very little to stop the bill from passing. What they do succeed in doing is making sure oppositio
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by noamsml 15y ago
Agreed. Having used VBA in Access back in the day, I can attest that JS would be a godsend.
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by noamsml 15y ago
You're forgetting bootstrapping costs. Sure, an industrial machine may be cheaper in the long term, but he'd have to raise $500k to buy one. In addition, buying an industrial machine lacks the immaterial benefit of bringing manufacturing an

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