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by pkamb 15y ago
FYI I read that as "quitifier", as in a stop-smoking app.
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by pkamb 15y ago
>I suspect it goes the other way, too: touch friendly apps won't feel right with a mouse. That's the angle I'm looking at it from too. Why should I install this on my non-touchscreen Thinkpad? Will I need to constantly 'flick' and scrol
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by pkamb 15y ago
From the video: "[The apps] are designed for touch... but of course they work well with mouse and keyboard as well if that's what you have." Sorry, but that's not how it works. Microsoft needs to realize this. Everything he was doing there
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by pkamb 15y ago
What does "Prototypes that actually look good!" mean? The thing about prototypes is that if they "look too good" the people who see it forget it's a prototype. Then you get bogged down in details like "why is that button so orange?!?" every
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by pkamb 15y ago
The Trackpoint. You'll learn to love it. And once you do, you'll never buy another brand.
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by pkamb 15y ago
FYI, if one of the "expectations to be understood" coming in is that they likely won't be getting a job, tell them that straight up. That's what I'm talking about. The expectation of interning at Microsoft or whatever is that 70% of the i
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by pkamb 15y ago
Either potential equity or the potential to get hired. Make that a stated goal for them, and have regular meetings/mentorship as to how they're doing. It sucks to bust your ass on the offhand hope that one day your boss will say "you're hir
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by pkamb 15y ago
Sure, I'll bite: I haven't really touched the "guide" section of my site since throwing it up. Do your worst. I'd like a very simple guide page to explain the somewhat complex concept I'm trying to teach. Any ideas? Let's get rid of that wa
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by pkamb 15y ago
P.S. I'm not talking about letting any old content open itself automatically. Just a list of pre-approved things, like Google Docs, a Wave, a text document, etc. So instead of getting an email notification that someone has shared a Google d
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by pkamb 15y ago
I posted this late in the last thread you made, don't know if you saw it. I think it would help. The [ask a question] -> [get the link] -> [upload mutations] workflow seems very backwards, threw me off at first. The site would reall
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by pkamb 15y ago
Yeah, exactly what I mean. Rows in the inbox = links to a type of content. This is in my opinion why Google Wave failed. No one wants another inbox to check. But, instead of an email, having the option to send a "super email" with advanced
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by pkamb 15y ago
I'd love to see "non-email" things living in the inbox. I'd receive or could create a new Google doc, a wiki, a blank 'pastebin' type document, a Google Wave type thing, etc. It would sit in my inbox, exactly like an email. But clicking the
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by pkamb 15y ago
The big rotating picture banner is way too much. Who are these people? Immedite turn off from the site. Use this space to tell me (simply) why I would want to use this. Overall you're trying to accomplish WAY too much with your first releas
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by pkamb 15y ago
I can kinda understand Office. Tons of commands, you grew up using the menu bar to access them, etc. It's hard to change. But for browsers? I'm genuinly curious what menu bar commands you're hitting in a browser on a daily basis. There can'
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by pkamb 15y ago
Whether or not it's stored in "real" plain text is not the issue here. The real security issue is that they email you your password at all. So anyone who has access to your inbox, even for 5 minutes while you step out of the room, now has a
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by pkamb 15y ago
See also: Chrome removing the "Go" button.
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by pkamb 15y ago
The menubar is useless cruft from the 1980s. Can't believe that it's still such a huge part of the OS X user interface. Bravo to Microsoft Office, Chrome, Firefox, etc. for abandoning the menu bar entirely in their new versions.
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by pkamb 15y ago
Does the UK not have something like FDIC Insurance?
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by pkamb 15y ago
There's a long-standing Chrome bug where middle-clicking target="NAMED" links opens them in a new tab in the foreground , not the background as is expected. So annoying. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62319
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by pkamb 15y ago
Here's the blog post from Lenovo/Thinkpad as to why they switched to 16:9 screens: http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/2009/04/display-rati... They say that PC makers have no say in the issue, screen manufacturers are all wide-screen
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by pkamb 15y ago
This. It kills me that the new top-of-the-line Thinkpad ultraportables have the same vertical resolution as my x40 from 5+ years ago. Not much incentive to upgrade...
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by pkamb 15y ago
That's what I keep thinking every time I see a picture of the thing. Looks like it would just rotate in the round headphone jack every time you swiped a card.
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by pkamb 15y ago
The site would really be helped by a WYSIWYG editor. What you see is what you get. Basically, a new user creating an A/B test isn't going to understand the flow and terminology of the site. The workflow is quite confusing really. But a new
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by pkamb 15y ago
Sometimes you have to stay on the desktop out of necessity. Can't intercept low-level keyboard events or manipulate the file system, for example, from the web. Not a 'startup' per say but I'm in that boat. If I wrote this as a web app, it w
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by pkamb 15y ago
http://hackerne.ws
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by pkamb 15y ago
Cool. Undercutting (plus doing it better than!) the expensive hardware solutions is my main goal.
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by pkamb 15y ago
Thanks, definitely on my shortlist.
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by pkamb 15y ago
Immediate goals for http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/ -Make/upload an example video -Content... guides for different ailments, etc. -First sale!
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by pkamb 15y ago
Ugh, it almost gave me a seizure.
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by pkamb 15y ago
Exactly the kind of person I'm trying to reach! How did you manage while you were recovering? Did you search for any alternative layouts or guides?

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