rsl7

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1. 181.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   I don't doubt that will be attempted, but it's ridiculous from every angle. If such things are remotely reasonable, then everyone with a product will be trying to do it. You'll be inundated with "real world products, discounts, etc" from ev
2. 182.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   It won't. Most of my work doesn't require precision pointing, but when it does, it really does. I often think that the need for precision pointing in everyday basic tasks is a problem that will be overcome by the constraints of tablet desig
3. 183.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   The gameification angle is a fad though. checking in and leaderboards for everyday bullshit will get old.
4. 184.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   I think you missed the point. The author is not trying to make a point about sex, but rather uses that as an example of something he thinks is currently out of scope for social networking fads.
5. 185.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   yup. i'm there.
6. 186.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   Steve would never have released the Cube! Or an ibook shaped like a toilet seat!
7. 187.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   The ideas that matter are the ones that survive short term tactical changes. If you don't have one of those, what are you really doing? Ever found yourself saying "well, the idea is that..." yeah.
8. 188.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   It's not hate, it's a big sigh. Like -- jeeeeeeez. Some cool stuff bubbles up in Redmond once in a while, and it gets squashed, hobbled, cancelled, thwarted, squeezed, hidden.
9. 189.▲
   by rsl7 14y ago

   Those are problems in the sense that software is a young industry, unlike other engineering disciplines (or "actual" engineering). We're likely to abstract away today's issues, whereas matter and physics are more direct, immediate limitatio
10. 190.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    I hate it. The content of that exam is like a list of everything that's wrong with industry. Those are problems to be fixed, not things to set in concrete as the way it shall be henceforth.
11. 191.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    So wait, it works for you in the Bay area so you don't get what everyone else is complaining about? I'm laughing too hard to type accurately.
12. 192.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    So we should roll over and accept ads everywhere?
13. 193.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    The problem is that these are exactly the kinds of replies given by Linux advocates throughout the years. I've used unix varieties for more than 20 years and never experiences like this for anything, ever. Nothing is totally supported, or w
14. 194.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    I imagine they're spending tons on focus groups and market research trying to find out what people want. They're probably not hearing "we want to turn lights on and off with our iPhones". Or at least not enough people are saying that to jus
15. 195.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    I've had a swopper for a good five years or so in my home office. It's good for a time, but I ended up getting a second chair to go with it. Seems ridiculous but I like to switch between standing and sitting in various ways. I guess I just
16. 196.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    I just love that plugin.
17. 197.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    Having to manage an externalized representation of your relationships is what is against human nature. Feeling social pressure to check daily, weekly, or even monthly on the activities of every person you may have ever met is what is agains
18. 198.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    or TaskPaper, http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper There's a vim syntax for taskpaper's file format.
19. 199.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    just for the record (very late, wow) the first laptops to ditch the latch iirc were the original iBooks, the "toilet seat" macs.
20. 200.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    doesn't matter. along with getting rid of the latch it's one the best things apple has done to laptops.
21. 201.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    I think I have always been better when I'm slightly hungry. When I'm satiated, I don't do much of anything.
22. 202.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    also there is always a posting bias. people post when they succeed, not when just treading water or failing.
23. 203.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    There may be no explicit quid pro quo, but he definitely functions as a shill would. He may be objective and contrarian in his own mind, and yet desire to please the powerful like any other human. He gets a ton of money for speaking to corp
24. 204.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    People will keep that in the car. In the unlocked glove box.
25. 205.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    Your kid can't be captain of the squash team if there is no squash team.
26. 206.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    it was a breakthrough, except for scroll wheel zoom. I think that is the worst UI concept I have ever encountered.
27. 207.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    And "Chinese".
28. 208.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    i imagine the best use is not interactive focus for the end user, but the creative possibilities of having all that source material. video with this could be amazing, one example being autofocus problems in poor lighting conditions.
29. 209.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    so the high cost keeps out the riffraff?
30. 210.▲
    by rsl7 14y ago

    We are restoring some old family photos and movies - all the black and white photos are fine, but the color photos are fading. All the old cellulite film from the 30s and 40s is pretty much dead, it's just disintegrating. There is no long t