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by pak 17y ago
Most of the "bad design decisions" that were lampooned in the project were more religious preferences than obvious missteps. It's sort of like a vi user creating emacs as a joke, and then people picking up this emacs and going "hey i can ac
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by pak 17y ago
Intriguing. Somebody secretly took apart the 3G model and found this: http://i.imgur.com/It9To.png
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by pak 17y ago
A few qualms I have after attempting to use it as my default for a while: - the layout and font of the results page really bugs me. Century Gothic and Trebuchet are a lot harder to read than Helvetica/Arial, and it just looks goofy for som
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by pak 17y ago
They are actually GIF's. I agree they are kind of small, but this is a free online copy of a book, no?
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Glims, a Safari plugin that fixes everything that sucks about Safari.(machangout.com)
5 points by pak 17y ago|0 comments
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by pak 17y ago
Ehmm. For this thought to make sense, all your windows would have to be text only, one line that you always want to read and doesn't wrap, with no other way to dismiss except the close button, and with your cursor always following along wi
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by pak 17y ago
I see you are getting some real work done there in your terminal...
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Youtube's video page redesign(google.com)
12 points by pak 17y ago|11 comments
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by pak 17y ago
Had to laugh at this: "Since $ has become the coolest way to do completely non-standard lookups in an almost indecipherable way"... It is true that this has practically become a meme amongst the JavaScript libraries. (did jQuery start the
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by pak 17y ago
This reminds me, nearly every Apple video has the iPad on the leg of somebody sitting crosslegged, sort of stuck there with magic velcro or something. Having balanced a fair share of laptops on my legs, and not enjoying the precariousness
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by pak 17y ago
And therein lies the insanity that is a BOM: it's a character that's meant to be invisible, even to your UTF-8 capable text editor. With this in mind, it's not clear what is supposed to be able to view or edit this character, short of a
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by pak 17y ago
Anything running over Ethernet has packets with checksums. Yes, noise will cause packets to drop, and that results in lower overall throughput, while connectivity still remains possible. The signal running over HDMI is not packet-based. Y
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by pak 17y ago
Yep, this issue bit me. There's no real fix, but to keep sshfs working you can grab the Leopard static binary: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS and mount your volumes from the command line. This has happened before;
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by pak 17y ago
ODF or not, no "open" office document format is going to catch on until everybody can cheaply and painlessly open them. That means a variety of editing suites and viewers installed by default or trivially installable across every major PC
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by pak 17y ago
yawn... does this apply to anybody on HN? Also, security articles with a condescending or arrogant tone are a big turn-off.
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by pak 17y ago
I never liked the idea of putting passwords into URLs... it just gives people the wrong idea about how they should handle their password. To me, URLs and passwords are orthogonal. One says "this is where it is", the other says "let me in p
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by pak 17y ago
It just gives you a sense of scale.
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by pak 17y ago
There are ways to use goto effectively... in fact, the other day I was working with an awkwardly nested try/catch that would have read much clearer as a goto (and more efficiently; an empty Exception was being used to trigger the catch). I'
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by pak 17y ago
With individual meters you can usually find a spot between two meters, or on the border of a fire hydrant zone, where other cars cover all the meters and you get a free spot. The nebulous sphere of influence of the per-block meters compels
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by pak 17y ago
You're oversimplifying on both assessments.
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by pak 17y ago
The first two campaigns you mention are of a different era and no longer used. Haven't seen the third. The dancing hipsters, you'll notice, has been neutralized over the years with iPod ads focusing more on pop artist appearances, e.g Mar
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by pak 17y ago
This isn't a bad way to do it, but then a two wheeled vehicle is in the unpleasant situation of taking up an entire space, or not knowing which spot to pay for if between spaces.
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by pak 17y ago
If you can tell me how to secure the printed receipt in a motorcycle, I will agree with you that the "box on the block" idea works better. Let's also not forget that with the muni-meter, you have to make an extra trip between your vehicle a
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by pak 17y ago
In jQuery UI 1.7.1, there was a function $.fn.disableSelection() that would toggle all the right browser-specific CSS and attributes so that text selection would be disabled. I would recommend that the author use it during the instantiatio
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by pak 17y ago
The sample Themeroller themes look goofy for a few reasons: 1. they all seem to be catered to show off the glassy/noisy textures 2. they all use the more ugly fonts. Verdana/Arial for great joy. It is in fact possible to use Themeroller to
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by pak 17y ago
There are conservative folks with plenty of expendable cash... it's not like Apple caters its products to liberals. In many ways Apple tries to position itself as a BMW or Mercedes Benz of the computer market; think of the target for those