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by scottjackson 17y ago
I don't personally know because I'm just a peon with a qwerty keyboard, but I think there are some great developers and talented architects out there who could figure it out and make it happen.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Maybe. I think that if we get enough smart, awesome people working on it, it could be secure, safe and open all at the same time.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
You're right -- that's almost certainly the reason you don't see stuff like this happen. Though, didn't Bank of America make that iPhone app a little while ago that allowed you to photograph a cheque in order to deposit it? They're obviousl
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I think it could be done -- I mean, Pine's an example of a secure client application that uses a kinda-API (SMTP) to deliver data. If we don't make APIs because someone might write an insecure client, would anyone make any APIs ever? I do
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Everything Should Have An API(words.scottjackson.org)
34 points by scottjackson 17y ago|42 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I'd argue that, in general, all software gets better over time. I'd also argue that there are as many exceptions to that rule in commercial software as there are in open-source.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I'm excited about the Droid. It looks good and it seems like it runs pretty well. It's the first non-iPhone that I've looked at and kinda thought "I would not mind one of those." However, not to bring the mood down or anything, but do you
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by scottjackson 17y ago
From the looks of things, no leetspeak was included in the list, thankfully.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
It looks like the guts of what Matt Constantine put into the Firefox add-on is covered by the userscripts mentioned here: http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/minimalist-gmail-how-to-get-rid... I'd guess that the Zen Habits article came first and
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Ask HN: Podcast Recommendations?
2 points by scottjackson 17y ago|3 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
To be honest, I hope they never "improve" Notepad (either of them: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/03/28/563008.... ). I think every operating system needs a totally-bare-bones text editor. Because of that, I think Notepad d
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HN Feedback: Shortcuts bookmarklets
1 points by scottjackson 17y ago|1 comments
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HN Feedback: Shortcuts bookmarklets
2 points by scottjackson 17y ago|0 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Twitter -- it's a popular service, and there are libraries for most of the languages I've tried to write Twitter-related applications in. Tumblr -- it's simple, it's clean, it returns a Tumblelog as XML over an HTTP request. You can also wr
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Very cool. Though the one thing I kinda wish it had is an undo button -- if I accidentally remove something when I don't really want to, I'd like to not have to reload the page and click in all of the areas again (except the last one, of co
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Pretty sure they offer mobile phone handsets, though I'm not sure how they're branded. How I know this: I heard an in-store advertisement last week at Woolworths for a mobile phone (a Nokia, I believe). It boasted "polyphonic ringtones." I
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by scottjackson 17y ago
As much as I agree with you that this probably isn't much of an infringement, I do know that the job of the legal department at companies like Apple is to jump on every single instance of a trademark that might even remotely infringe on A
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by scottjackson 17y ago
My one annoyance with Amazon: I live in Australia, yet Amazon item pages still say, even when I'm logged in , that I've qualified for "FREE Super Saving Shiping!" A quick check of Amazon's help pages will tell you that international custom
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by scottjackson 17y ago
It's Donald Norman's site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Norman You'd think a usability expert would know how to make a readable web page, right? When I come across a page like that, I use Readability to punch it up: http://lab.arc
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Ask HN: Best Unix Tricks?
83 points by scottjackson 17y ago|103 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I guess Merlin's argument taken to the extreme is that Apple should wait until every piece of software written for a Macintosh computer is SL-compatible before they release Snow Leopard? "Well, I don't want to go that far -- I just want the
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I have problems with iTunes for Windows because the QuickTime platform isn't the native way to handle media on a Windows box (which it is in OS X). So already you're dealing with a beast that's more complicated than it should be. That said,
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Agreed, Pandora is great! It sucks to live outside the US. I could probably access Pandora through a proxy (I haven't tried), but it's a barrier, and even one complication makes a lot of people not do something (look at sites where you can
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I think iTunes on the Mac is pretty decent (compared to the Windows version, at any rate. God, have you tried doing any heavy I/O stuff in iTunes for Windows?). I'd love the ability to have nested queries in Smart Playlists. The only "sol
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by scottjackson 17y ago
My bookshelf has (apart from books) scale models of the Thunderbirds on it ( http://is.gd/29V4K ). I'm not sure what that says about me. Rands is so right though. You can tell a lot about someone from their bookshelf (arrangement, order, pl
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by scottjackson 17y ago
> [Mobile Safari] totally dominates all other mobile browsers in real-world stats -- people actually use it. Saying that Mobile Safari dominates mobile browsing seems a bit self-defeating -- of course Safari is going to dominate if the
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I occasionally find them useful outside of Twitter. In my experience, some applications (email clients, etc) don't handle/parse really long links (Google Maps links or ugly eBay auction URLs, for example) very well, so giving someone an is.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
So I hacked together a quick and dirty application this afternoon that graphs your tweets based on when you sent them. you can look at the graph and see what time of day you tweet at most frequently. I know it's not an uber-cool application
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TwitterFreq - Graphs Your Tweets Based On When You Sent Them(scottjacksonx.tumblr.com)
1 points by scottjackson 17y ago|1 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
It's probably for profit reasons, but I thought it might be because having a 12" netbook in Dell's lineup would be blurring the lines between notebook and netbook too much, potentially confusing consumers. Does anyone else think that a 12"

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