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by phillco 15y ago
Seriously. Red text on a white background? Yellow selection color?
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by phillco 15y ago
> Who registers for download.com?!?! I did. 10 years ago.
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by phillco 15y ago
Do as Facebook (or GitHub) does - make replying to the e-mail reply to the person.
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by phillco 15y ago
I've really never felt that WinForms was "clunky". Compared to Win32, it's amazingly consistent and intuitive - you can learn 75% of it just with the form designer and IntelliSense. Doing anything in Win32, by comparison, almost always re
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by phillco 15y ago
I think Microsoft's biggest mistake was waiting way too long to bundle the .NET framework with Windows. They waited until Vista to do this, and since Vista was so poorly received, even now you can't be 100% sure. Making things worse is that
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by phillco 15y ago
Can anyone recommend a standing mat? I've just switched to a standing desk myself and am looking to help reduce the fatigue.
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by phillco 15y ago
> Name one outsider who’d be accepted both inside the company and on Wall Street. Maybe somebody from Pepsi?
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by phillco 15y ago
Fascinating! I always assumed (as did everyone else, I think) that the countdown, coupled with the stern warning in bold text, was to make you think twice about downloading extensions, not to thwart malicious websites. So why's it gone in F
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by phillco 15y ago
The irony.
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by phillco 15y ago
Reddit is like an enormous spotlight. They have so much traffic, but it's focused on just 25 spots on the front page each day. As a result, whatever gets on the front page receives a truly astonishing burst of traffic. And this effect only
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by phillco 15y ago
Just three months ago Dropbox was the darling of the tech world. Now they're putting out fires every other day. Just goes to show you how tightly you have to control your image — and how quickly things can slide out of control.
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by phillco 15y ago
Facebook's quality seems to be directly linked to their need to acquire users. When they started out they were excellent — I remember being very impressed that a social network could be this nice. Now that everyone uses them, they have no h
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by phillco 15y ago
When I was in high school, almost everyone used AIM. Then Facebook Chat came out and practically crushed it. Why? It wasn't better (it was far, far, worse, actually — you couldn't chat with somebody without one of you complaining about it),
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by phillco 15y ago
Clever. I assume the only way for Facebook and Twitter to circumvent this would be to fake all of the HTTP headers sent by, say, a modern version of Firefox. I don't think it's cheating - even though the tools are bots, their job is to pr
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Avoid Useless Confirmation Dialogs(usersinhell.com)
3 points by phillco 15y ago|1 comments
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by phillco 15y ago
I think the reason for your success is that Ninite is simply an excellent product. If your product is truly great, it'll usually overcome problems in naming, promotion, design, etc. (I remember there was a Joel on Software post about how Na
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Clever Names Aren’t Always a Good Thing(usersinhell.com)
111 points by phillco 15y ago|72 comments
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by phillco 15y ago
Try SeatGuru: http://www.seatguru.com/
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by phillco 15y ago
> The perfect Java replacement would have - local type inference, less verbosity (e.g. public by default), full closures, anonymous blocks, no generics, special syntax for arrays and hashes, operator overloading and the ability of a var
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by phillco 15y ago
In fact, they should add this permanently to the UI, like Gmail.
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by phillco 15y ago
Agreed. This would be like a major bank saying "for a 4-hour window yesterday, anyone could withdraw money from anyone's account. But don't worry, it's not a problem, because only a few people actually did."
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by phillco 15y ago
I agree. He should remove the picture of that Darth Vader token immediately, it's clearly a very important Apple trade secret.
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by phillco 15y ago
I laughed when he projected the estimated percent increase in trees. I hope this filters into future presentations. "We're here to announce the iPhone 5, but first...we've been really, really happy with the growth of our tree population her
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by phillco 15y ago
Upvoted? Nope. Ctrl+W'd.
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by phillco 15y ago
MacHg is pretty good.
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by phillco 15y ago
-- Sent from my ivory tower
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by phillco 16y ago
That part seemed really interesting. Has anyone used it outside of GitHub?
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by phillco 16y ago
Interesting, especially since Dropbox stores its files on Amazon's servers (S3).
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by phillco 16y ago
Thanks for mentioning that! I had no idea they gave free private repos to students. For anyone else, you can apply for the free student account here: https://github.com/edu
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by phillco 16y ago
Interesting. This sure is boosting their pageviews/developer ratio.

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