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by portman 16y ago
This is just one person's anecdotal experience, but: when I first saw ninite, I thought "yeah I'll definitely use that next time I reinstall". Then I promptly forgot about it. I've probably reinstalled 8-9 times since then. I think part of
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by portman 16y ago
Facepalm.
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by portman 16y ago
No, you do NOT need an API key to use their AJAX CDN.
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by portman 16y ago
Does anybody know approximately where our solar system is in that picture? It's about 75% from the center of the galaxy, but would it be on the left side or the right side? (I know I won't be able to SEE it, but it just sort of feels good t
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by portman 16y ago
I'm can't propose an equity split, but given those facts I think Eddie deserves more than Mark who deserves more than Fred. This will be a full time job for Eddie, a part time job for Mark, and a side project for Fred. (Yes, I'm sure Fred w
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by portman 16y ago
Anecdotally, the kitchen computer is used: - as primary email device for the stay-at-home parent - for recipes and online shopping - for playing music - for looking at family photos - for Skype/iChat
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by portman 16y ago
Amazing that Facebook has ONE THOUSAND pageviews per unique visitor compared to about 100 pageviews per unique visitor on the rest of the sites.
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by portman 16y ago
This comment was extremely enlightening for me, since I can't think of a single kitchen amongst my friends and neighbors that doesn't have a computer. It's split about 50/50 between notebooks and iMacs. Also, when we remodeled our kitchen
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by portman 16y ago
>> Secondly, Apple doesn't make that much money off app store sales, they make by far the most money off of the hardware. Do you know this for a fact, or are you speculating? They don't break out app store sales in their 10-K, but c
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by portman 16y ago
>>since Android wipes everything between updates My G1 upgraded from 1.0 > 1.1 > 1.5 > 1.6 without wiping. My Droid upgraded from 2.0 > 2.1 (and will > 2.2 soon) without wiping.
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by portman 16y ago
>> Although people who buy iTouches love all the apps and the ability to browse the web whenever they have WiFi, in the end, they're buying an mp3 player. They're buying it so that they can listen to music. Our family has three iPod
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by portman 16y ago
Link? Would love to see it...
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Daring Fireball's iPad and Android Web Traffic Share(daringfireball.net)
2 points by portman 16y ago|0 comments
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by portman 16y ago
The built-in navigation app has an exit button. It will continue speaking directions even when it's running in the background, unless you explicitly exit. Please explain to me why that is bad design?
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by portman 16y ago
The ability to apply a label or a star to a particular EMAIL, not the entire thread. Use cases: - You send out an email to a large-ish group asking for their opinion, and want to categorize the responses. - You have a long thread discussing
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by portman 16y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking or not but... Odeo turned into Twitter. Hence the comment "The people involved seemed to turn out alright".
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by portman 17y ago
Serious question: I've been using Quantcast to do these types of comparisons. Is there an advantage to Google Trends over Quantcast?
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Randomness in game design: Blight or Bane? (2009)(playthisthing.com)
27 points by portman 17y ago|1 comments
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by portman 17y ago
Try to copy " http://news.ycombinator.com to the clipboard.
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by portman 17y ago
Even better, but there seems to be tons of enthusiasm on the Chromium team for removing http. I'm just hoping they minimize the collateral damage.
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by portman 17y ago
There's another use case, maybe it's just me, but at least once a week I need to insert a single "s" into the URL to go from the non-SSL to the SSL version of a page. My proposed solution: go ahead and hide the http:// , but when you click
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After 19 years, http:// prefix is getting ditched (in Google Chrome)(code.google.com)
98 points by portman 17y ago|89 comments
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Tips and gotchas when designing sites for the iPad(8164.org)
2 points by portman 17y ago|0 comments
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by portman 17y ago
That is not what I was told when I asked last year. Thanks for jumping in and clarifying. Just to be clear - does that apply to Joel and Michael too? If so, a tip of the hat to both of them.
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by portman 17y ago
I just spent 36 minutes searching the transcripts, but I can't find the episode where he talked about this. https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/?W4 However, I distinctly remember, and later confirmed, that Fog Creek only publishes the salar
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by portman 17y ago
Thank you for this link. I had never seen it. This is an amazing quote that I wish he had said on Conan: If you had a jetpack, you'd be like, "I have the shitiest jetpack. I can't believe I got this jetpack. Who's your service provider? Di
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by portman 17y ago
I'll make the same comment I made when this was posted last year: Fog Creek has secret profit-sharing plans. All Joel has done is move a portion of employees' compensation from the "salary" column to the "profit-sharing" column. If Joel w
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by portman 17y ago
Apple has to increase the pixel density. Android phones have sported 240 dpi displays since November (Motorola Droid). Competitively, they need to increase the pixel density. I don't think Gruber has any firm sources, but just assumes a
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by portman 17y ago
You're right, that was too flippant. I also hope people didn't stop reading at that point, as what I'm really advocating is the volunteerism. If I had edit powers remaining, I would remove that line.
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by portman 17y ago
"long-term girlfriend (hopefully soon fiance)" Propose, then ask your finace to take a three-month leave of absence from her job so you both can volunteer in a developing nation. Use idealist.org or a similar website to find a location an

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