primatology

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by primatology 14y ago
Sure, it's not a gorgeous next-gen startupesque web design, but I think it's more than visually appealing enough.
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by primatology 14y ago
BMW is a for-profit business. MIT is a non-profit educational institution. I'll agree that copyright in the digital era is a mess, but the line in this case is fairly clear. Yes, fair use (regarding parodies/satires) is convoluted, but the
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by primatology 14y ago
Very sorry to hear this. Wikipedia informs me Crispin was born in 1956, which would put him at 55 or 56 years old. Far too young.
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by primatology 14y ago
Ah, that just got updated.
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by primatology 14y ago
Agreed, it's a terribly ambiguous name. Rather than "Google Free-Zone" (which is read as "Google-Free Zone"), it should be a "Free Google Zone."
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by primatology 14y ago
There is a better alternative: surveying students. Standardized tests attempt to assign one number to teacher performance by quantifying student performance on one three-hour test. The survey examines dozens of metrics while allowing stud
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by primatology 14y ago
"Its founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos is a computer whiz-kid from Bankers Trust, not a bookseller." Might've been a negative in '97, but no investor today wishes Bezos were a diehard bookseller.
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by primatology 14y ago
You can also click the black areas to the left and right of the slide.
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by primatology 14y ago
The idea is that much of the code from Tapbot's mature Twitter client (Tweetbot) was reused.
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by primatology 14y ago
There are several. Cheeaun's is fantastic: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/
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by primatology 14y ago
Commits are by no means an accurate measure of developer contribution. ripley's lead is probably undeniable, but the differences in commits between the next four could be developer preference of code per commit.
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by primatology 14y ago
Increasing the accessibility of Git isn't treason. Quite the opposite: Git is now used by far more developers. That's a win for the "Git way of life." And the original, "expert" workflow is still available for those who want it.
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by primatology 14y ago
Agreed. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my 4GB MBP to 16GB of memory. Officially unsupported, but it works like a charm.
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by primatology 14y ago
From the FAQ: > What are the maximum benefits under the program? > Amazon will pay up to 95% of the tuition, textbook and associated fees up to a maximum of $2,000 per year for four years. Tuition for an associates degree is usually
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by primatology 14y ago
Just in from Twitter (@mtdevans): "Chatting with a #Tesco insider, looks like they do store any discounts in a local db which is wiped every morning ~3am. #phew"
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by primatology 14y ago
Quite the opposite: GitHub would love if you signed up. You probably won't log out, and chances are you'll end up on GitHub again sometime soon. You'll discover the wonders of social coding now that you have an account, and soon enough, you
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by primatology 14y ago
And then 30% of all tips go to Apple. As much as I and others would love the convenience, I strongly object.
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by primatology 14y ago
Yes, but you're far more proficient. Those who plug away happily at 30WPM will not share your definition of quality. I'll take a beautiful product that sacrifices minor functionality (in my case) for aesthetics. My point is not that a MacBo
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by primatology 14y ago
What if he were writing straight CSS, though? No possibility for variables there. (Not yet, at least.)
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by primatology 14y ago
Not every screen needs a back button. You can't hide a hardware back button. I'm with Apple on this one. The back-arrow button in the toolbar reminds me I'm in a hierarchal app, and the label reminds me what the prior screen was. It's just
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by primatology 14y ago
Fair enough. Upon investigation, I've discovered there are a fair few OS X official system shortcuts which utilize function keys. But I think you're an edge case. Apple targets hard the average consumer, and there are plenty (my parents) wh
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by primatology 14y ago
The only time I've ever used a function key (F1, F2) in a Mac application was in Photoshop. Most Mac applications use Cmd+? shortcuts. So in effect, the volume/brightness controls have their own dedicated keys.
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by primatology 14y ago
You can never stop the determined. But the courts could certainly pull the app from the Android store.
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by primatology 14y ago
I claim there is no original thought. We're too shaped by our experiences. I think you'll find most "original thoughts" are a) reversals of commonly accepted arguments for the sake of being contrary or b) bad ideas. Hence why most of us ten
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by primatology 14y ago
Fair, but shorter posts are far more relevant in the politics game than the developer community. I think it's a content length issue, not an ecosystem issue. Most of those developers were/are on Facebook before they adopted G+, and we never
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by primatology 14y ago
Oh, it works if you don't have "Show Dashboard as a space" checked.
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by primatology 14y ago
It exists for most directly-controllable animations. Show dashboard super slowly? Shift+12. Show desktop super slowly? Shift + F11. Show Mission Control super slowly? Shift + Mission Control Shortcut. :/
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by primatology 14y ago
> Second, perhaps cool URIs don't change, but it seems like http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html is kind of an unfortunate URI. What's "Provider"? Why are "Provider" and "Style" uppercase? Take a look at w3.org/Provider and w3.or
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Design Details We Loved and One We Really Hated at Apple's Big Launch(fastcodesign.com)
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by primatology 14y ago
That's his point. Political categorizations seem arbitrary from a scientific perspective.

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