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by radley 5y ago
That's too much work. I wrote a Perl script to detect if a tab has been unused for a specific amount of time based on a Vim spreadsheet I wrote back in grad school and send a command line prompt to kill the page after updating all cook
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by radley 5y ago
If it's academic, Android makes sense because it's easy to side-load experimental apps. iPhone appears to be better for consumers due to native solutions.
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by radley 5y ago
I'm rereading Asimov's Foundation series on a Kindle and writing this on a wireless keyboard to a website. In his 70 year old series, everyone still uses film :)
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by radley 5y ago
Proto is latin for primitive and/or precursor. Protomolecule also sounds like something a scientist would come up with if they were trying to expand their research funding and had a fickle investor (i.e. Mao). So while protomolecule so
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by radley 5y ago
I think it's more like a paid version of YouTube for businesses without all of the YouTube baggage. The only downside is Vimeo's 10 year old, tiny video player design. Edit: also relevant because YouTube terms changed so YT can pl
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“This app forced me to give it a good rating before I could use it.”(twitter.com)
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by radley 5y ago
The UI standards mess goes all go back to when Microsoft needed Windows to look more like Mac OS. They didn't want to "copy" Apple, so they reversed the order of UI elements like dialog and window buttons. This was fine when
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by radley 5y ago
There were tons of electronic dance tunes during that period of time. Blue Monday was a great tune and had some great original ideas, but it at the peak of synth pop. That same year, Phuture released Acid Tracks which influenced Hawtin to m
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by radley 5y ago
Actually, he definitely was a trance DJ. I remember when his first single was released. He understood how to make simple melodies with hooks which a lot of us respected. Over time, he learned how to make "epic" trance hooks that h
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by radley 5y ago
Heh... KLF worship
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by radley 5y ago
Telekom has been running a fun "Name that Techno Tune" series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfRh37c5lvivabQPDnLGR... It's pretty challenging to play along. Edit: I'll just add that t
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by radley 5y ago
Beatport has been a UI nightmare since the SFX acquisition back in 2014.
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by radley 5y ago
It depends which apps you have in the menu bar. Disney, Netflix, Apple, & Plex, they show continue playing shortcuts. Amazon Prime shows promo ads, so I moved it to the right so I never see them.
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by radley 6y ago
It's basic pricing strategy: Kevin Hale - Startup Pricing 101 https://youtu.be/jwXlo9gy_k4?t=578
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by radley 6y ago
> If you have 200 app ideas then I will set expectations. It's not 200 ideas. It's one idea that keeps evolving with feature creep. Low-price & unlimited mostly attracts cheapskates. If you're lucky, you'll have o
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by radley 6y ago
Some early Apple stuff: Powerbook 100 - first Mac notebook (still black & white) QuickTake 100 - first Apple digital camera Macintosh Quadra 840AV - first Mac with built-in video in / out
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by radley 6y ago
+1 the Logitech MX Master mouse with lots of buttons
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by radley 6y ago
> 10 times better than the second best option It's not who was first, just who seemed 10x better than the next best option.
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by radley 6y ago
My list is more digital-creative than hacker: - Photoshop layers (non-destructive editing) - Bryce (3D for consumers) - Flash (easy rich media web apps) - Flash video (online video explosion) - Plex (easy digital media collection) - Traktor
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by radley 6y ago
Adding a HN bio also helped, thanks.
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by radley 6y ago
1. New HN account 2. What kind of real start-up was it that relied exclusively on IG to make sales? 3. Without real details, this looks suspiciously like a competitive social-media attack on InstagramHelperTools.
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by radley 6y ago
> All the checkboxes are still there But they don't do anything. I have had all of the checkboxes off for years and I still get "Update Now" notifications. The only work-around is to say "Update Tonight" because
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by radley 6y ago
> it becomes more and more important to plan before you write. I'll counter that with a real-world experience. I worked at a well known company that did system design & documentation first, without doing prototyping, etc. My fir
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by radley 6y ago
> it becomes more and more important to plan before you write. I'll counter that with a real-world experience. I contracted at a well known company that did system design & documentation first, without doing prototyping, etc. My
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by radley 6y ago
Not sure how he overlooked: https://material.io/
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by radley 6y ago
I paid for it too. My music library is 33.8k tracks. I'm not tagging those.
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by radley 6y ago
I just tried it and it was in fact terrible. I made a Music library and added 10 random tracks. Instead of reading the ID3 tags, it labeled the artist for each of them as "Various Artists" because they couldn't find a match u
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by radley 6y ago
You won't have to enter your schedule - there's APIs for Calendars. You'd just have to determine which calendars are considered "busy". As for upkeep, I found that the app is self-motivating. It's not measuring
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by radley 6y ago
I'm working on something that. It's reactive instead of proactive (it asks what you did instead of what you're planning to do). Just jot something down for now and deal with your todo apps at the end of your day. It can do Po
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by radley 6y ago
I'm working on a Time Journal app for tracking what you actually work on. It offers a variety of timers that periodically ask "what are you working on right now?" and saves your entries as a journal. https://radley

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