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by odbol 10y ago
Could be easily fixed by one line of CSS to make the dang buttons larger, but apparently Hacker News can't be bothered to improve their shitty website. EDIT: great community, shitty website.
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by odbol 11y ago
Persona is a neat idea, but there's a better one: get rid of password logins altogether. I should just be able to enter my email on ANY site, and they'll send me an email with a login button. I click the login button in the email,
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by odbol 11y ago
"eventually have to start selling you something" I'm pretty sure they already are. See any ads on Product Hunt? Turns out the entire site is an ad. I wouldn't at all be surprised if companies like Microsoft paid PH to ge
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by odbol 11y ago
Not to mention that Product Hunt violates their own rules all the time: I see plenty of posts for big companies like Microsoft announcing products that aren’t available yet (e.g. Hololens, Windows 10 before it came out, etc), even though th
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by odbol 11y ago
Tappur does exactly that: http://tappur.co It's a widget in your notifications bar and your lock screen with buttons for remote control. Also has a smartwatch app. I use it all the time and it's so much faster than the
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by odbol 11y ago
It seems a little disingenuous to recommend a product that hasn't even shipped yet. You have no idea if they work, or if they'll even be built.
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by odbol 11y ago
iPhones can't even send files to other iPhones or Mac or anything over Bluetooth. In fact iPhone doesn't even HAVE files. It's 2015 and still the only way to share files from your iPhone is to plug it in.
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by odbol 11y ago
Or just wait for Google to release Weave and Brillo. Those are both open platforms for communicating with IoT devices. Which is the exact opposite strategy as Apple's, who is SO CLOSED DOWN you actually need to buy a physical chip from
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by odbol 11y ago
If only there was other bridge hardware that could communicate in a more open manner. Unfortunately, Hue is one of the only companies that even OFFERS an SDK—most other systems are completely closed down.
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by odbol 11y ago
Powerful AI has already caused mayhem in the human world: http://www.wired.com/2008/09/six-year-old-st/ You can be malicious and destructive without traditional weapons... perhaps even more so with AI presidi
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by odbol 11y ago
So "Photoshop on Linux" means "Photoshop on Windows on Linux"... that's not really a solution. That's Windows.
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by odbol 11y ago
I'd love to read that post... what's your blog?
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by odbol 11y ago
Low cost of entry? It's actually quite high... my company still has to distribute instructions on how to disable Gatekeeper on your Mac so you can install our app. We don't have the resources to pay the $100/year "Apple
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by odbol 11y ago
Technically, they're not manipulating the clipboard at all. That is definitely disallowed by browsers. What they are doing is extending the selection to an invisible part of the page, so you're copying more than you bargained for.
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by odbol 11y ago
Oh my god please yes. HN is terrible to use on mobile. Look: .votearrow { transform: scale(2,2); margin-right: 10px; } I just improved usability on the site by like 100% for mobile users. In two lines of code. HN, please get on it.
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by odbol 11y ago
This is a small nitpick, but I'd say Dropbox competes against sysadmins setting up a corporate network share or FTP server (or even email attachments) for storing documents. They basically automated the sysadmin's job, with a slic
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by odbol 11y ago
It's probably not. It's just no one is buying USB-C cables yet. Once they are common and produced at massive scale, the price will drop considerably.
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by odbol 11y ago
Aren't the preinstalled versions insecure by default?
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by odbol 11y ago
It's definitely noticeable. I disabled the fancy UI on a cheap little HP laptop I bought a year ago, and it runs way faster. Maybe it has a crappy GPU, but turning off all that extra visual stuff definitely makes a huge dent.
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by odbol 11y ago
It's not an uncommon practice to A/B test your branding, even your brand name. The other wesbite could be targeting a different market, different geography, etc. The point is we just don't know at this point and perhaps we sh
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by odbol 11y ago
Also, when he says "a disabled" is quite cringeworthy. You're supposed to say "person with disabilities" because it's not a "label", just a description of a normal person who happens to have different
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by odbol 11y ago
Especially if they need thousands of people to maintain it, when WhatsApp needs 50 employees even though they process an order of magnitude more messages.
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by odbol 11y ago
Dear Team, What do you say... you do here? Jack
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by odbol 11y ago
To counter, Facebook has been around the same amount of time, and would you call them a startup? Are you saying if a company is successful, they are not a startup, and if they aren't, we'll just keep calling them a startup until t
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by odbol 11y ago
Oh wow I've been looking EVERYWHERE for that. Thanks so much! Also, a tip: an easier way to change the icon of any app/folder/anything: 1. Right click it -> Get Info. 2. Drag an app that has the icon you want onto the icon
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by odbol 11y ago
hahahaha I see you've never tried to use rsync on a Mac. Some (documented) command line options just DON'T work. They're in the manpage, but they don't do anything. There's lots of other little gotchas in other util
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by odbol 11y ago
Oh hi there! I'll probably get banned/downvoted for saying this, but what's up with the lazy web design? Ever think people might want to use your site on mobile? And have it be readable/be able to click upvote buttons?
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by odbol 11y ago
They are optional. You have the option of just buying a different device.
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by odbol 11y ago
If he was actually concerned, and not just outraged, he would have called the police and reported Chrysler for endangering thousands of people's lives.
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by odbol 11y ago
The author of two.js uses it for interactive art, like Patatap. It's great for creating fun motion design easily. I worked with him on a project where a live drummer plays drums and triggers sounds and shapes projected behind him: htt

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