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by rahoulb 15y ago
silent is a feature most people need on their phones several times a week - i doubt most people chnage their wifi setup many times once configured.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Simple example: pre-iPhone for the vast majority of people if you wanted to put your phone into silent you had to choose the correct "profile" (is it quiet? or is it meeting? what's the difference?). Post iPhone, you flick the hardware swi
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I don't know enough about patents, but Jobs was definitely obsessed with the "out of the box" experience and wanted Apple products to be unlike anyone else's products in that regard. I remember having a 12" Powerbook delivered to my Windows
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by rahoulb 15y ago
It's not that Apple don't force the HIG. But if you break them you need to have a good reason as your users expect you to follow the HIG.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Actually I'd say the difference is MacOS/OSX/iOS has a culture of ultra-criticism of UI decisions, meaning developers for other platforms don't have the same pressure to produce fantastic interfaces (just read Pierre Igot or Gruber's early
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I'm not sure that would work - in my experience, the reason that they are still on IE6 is they have hundreds of seats to upgrade and, more importantly, the entire network has been totally locked down over the years to deal with IE6 issues -
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by rahoulb 15y ago
actually today is the 28th
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Actually, reading this made me think that Gruber is getting better again. DF used to be great when it was Apple vs Microsoft/OSX vs Windows and not so good now it's Apple vs Google/iOS vs Android. He knows how to write about the former, le
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Slightly tangential, but this is my favourite Gruber article (from 2004 - some would say he's been going downhill since then): http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/location_field - "The Location field is the new Command Line". The article i
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by rahoulb 15y ago
That's why Apple started the Apple Stores in the first place - all those years ago, Macs used to get the same treatment so they needed somewhere to show them off.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Not strictly a webapp, but I love what Balsamiq did with Mockups - gave copies away to anyone who blogged a review. Great for spreading the word and a fantastic way of legitimate link-building.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
The checkout command moves you off the experimental branch and back onto the master branch. The merge command then takes the commits in experimental that aren't in master and puts them into master.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Or a carriage-return gesture, typewriter style? [EDIT: someone beat me to it]
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by rahoulb 15y ago
There's an assumption that "content creation == typing". Sketching and making music (Garageband) work very well on the iPad, videos too, to a lesser extent - certainly better than on a traditional laptop.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Just a +1 for Children of Men - I wasn't that taken by the story but the way it was put together was phenomenal with lots of beautifully choreographed long shots.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
So no SSH and no accessing git servers. In other words goodbye to any software development industry in PK
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Hmm - yeah the docs are sort of unclear, if you're not familiar with the convention. :categories_suppliers implies that the table is a join table (a many-to-many join between categories and suppliers) - which is why it has no ID and why it
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I'm interested - where did you learn that ActiveRecord does not require IDs? The only case where I can think of where it doesn't require IDs is when building a join table (for a many-to-many relationship). In every other case, you need to s
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I don't know about Windows but on the Mac it's not spatial mode (and hasn't been since OS9) - it's just a poor imitation. You can easily have two Finder windows open on the same folder, meaning you lose the immediate recognition that spatia
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Ask HN: How to time-shift my productive hours
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by rahoulb 15y ago
And he's spent the last couple of years building "Apple University" to ensure that the traits he thinks are important continue in his absence.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
They talk about MDMA tablets though. I guess it's just each generation putting a stamp on it - like I would say "draw" instead of "pot"
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Although my daughter and her friends call it MDMA - ecstasy is what old people from the 20th century (like me) call it.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Oh. When I tried (admittedly a while ago) I couldn't get it working elsewhere and found a few others who had the same problem.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
No lock-in - easy to take your images and use them elsewhere.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Yes and no ... "here - look at this interesting article on Wikipedia" ... she starts reading ... ... I get bored and go to make cup of tea, forgetting that I hadn't logged out of Facebook ... ... she finishes article, closes tab and finds h
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I often hand my laptop or iPad to my wife so that she can look at something/use it for a few minutes while sat on the sofa (her computer is a desktop in the other room). I normally don't bother logging out of whatever sites I'm logged in to
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by rahoulb 15y ago
What I like about Campfire is looking back through the transcript is easy - even for the times when you have left the room. Plus it has the ability to star parts of the conversation so you can see the important points as you scroll through
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by rahoulb 15y ago
The purpose of a corporation is to further the aims of England, under royal charter, and as a reward is allowed to make a profit. That's how it was in the 1500s.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
In old MacOS it was called "zoom", not "maximize" and the application developer was supposed to swap between the "ideal small size window" and the "ideal large size window". In this age of cross-platform apps, and people who are used to "ma

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