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by seltzered 16y ago
question: how does the ubuntu upgrade process work? do you reinstall everything from scratch? or can you just apt-get your way to a new release?
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by seltzered 16y ago
I'm not a UX guy, but I found this to be a good infographic to encapsulate what UX actually means: http://uxbasis.hellogroup.com/
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by seltzered 16y ago
one use case where I'd hate facebook to be down: when I'm trying to find the party address of a friend I haven't got a number of yet. As much as I don't like facebook or most addictive 'free' services, there's many friends out there who tre
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by seltzered 16y ago
Yeah, I'll agree to that. For HW Dev, It's still easier to talk myself into buying a laptop with a docking station and a bunch of different ports than to buy a beautiful, clean, yet limited mac. Thank god Virtual Machines feel fast enough a
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by seltzered 16y ago
True, it's even harder if, you're an entrepreneur telling the whole truth while competing against a larger, slower, yet much more established organization that's completely lying and comes off looking better in the process.
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by seltzered 16y ago
Still, having a separate markup/scripting language for the UI layout has become an established paradigm for anyone writing apps that need to run in a browser. side note: this action I guess has prompted the creation of "visage" http://stev
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by seltzered 16y ago
I see you posted a question about this six months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1248389
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by seltzered 16y ago
I'm going to say if anything, one should optimize for 768x1024. 1) The ipad / tablets. I want to imagine that most users want to use it them in portrait mode when browsing sites. 2) Not sure about others, but I like keeping my browser resiz
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by seltzered 16y ago
Redesign more of the things we use to meet cradle-to-cradle standards (this includes changing laws/restrictions). Granted, there's many things that can't be made this way, but it's also an approach that doesn't lead us down a malthusian pat
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by seltzered 16y ago
What's really confusing is that I used to see both "Windows Live Photo" (a hyperlink to the live photo website) AND "Windows Live Photo Gallery" (opened the application)
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by seltzered 16y ago
The flexibility of tags makes sense, but this means that I then have to type in the same tag if I want to do multiple sparse collections of photos across folders. It's unintuitive compared to the picasa/iphoto workflow of dragging photos st
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by seltzered 16y ago
Thanks for posting this, as much as I hate MS at times, I was starting to get frustrated with picasa and have been migrating my family to use live photo gallery lately. UPDATE: I'm not liking how Live Photo Gallery won't let you create "alb
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by seltzered 16y ago
I'm trying to get off of still using pen and paper, and have been trying to get used to onenote. I'll agree with others that it's a bit bloated, but: 1) I like the possibility that I can freely draw and "whiteboard" in it. I like thinking s
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by seltzered 16y ago
what? I wasn't saying RIM is a "great artist" at all, they're terrible. The quote is supposedly from steve jobs. While I'm writing, my opinion is that the big problem with RIM's tablet is that they didn't think at all about designing hardwa
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by seltzered 16y ago
"great artists ship" I was having a hard time grasping the fact that they have three problems to manage (OS-wise): evangelizing BB 6.0 (for torch sales), keeping older versions of BlackBerry OS, and now Declaring that the QNX-based OS is th
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by seltzered 16y ago
here's my problem with google instant + suggest type "maple" into google. don't click enter yet. your eyes then wander down the results, wondering wait, what's all this "maplestory" stuff? I typed in maple. you then finally realize to click
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by seltzered 16y ago
but he took the risk, then immediately left the company. He tried but didn't stay to take actions/accept the problems. (Disclaimer: I'm assuming Rose left, and wasn't ousted out)
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by seltzered 16y ago
I'm still trying to understand the processing involved, but it could be interesting if one could use it to effectively do voip calls over EDGE using this - may require having an external dsp dongle though.
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by seltzered 16y ago
There's hn classic, but I honestly don't recall what it does: http://news.ycombinator.com/classic I try to just do my best to ignore the sensationalist stuff, but it's hard. Maybe one could make a firefox extension that only filtered by i
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by seltzered 16y ago
They missed the main reason I switched to chrome. I constantly had issues where firefox had a (memory leak?) that slowed my whole computer down, usually causing me to kill the task couple days. I love the extensibility of FF, and aza's usab
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by seltzered 16y ago
"I was told to maximize my intellectual, professional and social value for a company." I did too, and those same parents are now telling us not to bother after they went through layoffs and forced retirement. My dad worked ostensibly at one
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by seltzered 16y ago
I think I'm the only person that doesn't use adblock. Anyways on chrome: ireader, google reader "note in reader", hckr news (never noticed what it does though), and delicious. Using the dev channel build of chrome. On FF: Treeview, someone
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by seltzered 16y ago
was anyone else thinking of jesse schell's presentation of a gamelisted world when reading this? (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FSsztwbRW0 ) i wonder if i get more points for cooking a burrito myself.
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by seltzered 16y ago
well, that risk is exactly why they're testing the idea out in low-end markets first - so the people who would break the security for this probably don't even care for this laptop anyways.
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by seltzered 16y ago
We had some software at UT for EE 316, it was made back in the 90's though. It basically showed 1/0 states, let you probe areas in the logic, and had some ways to represent the logic as equations.
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by seltzered 16y ago
one pragmatic idea I had was to help support colinux efforts. There's been a lot of debate in that community over getting support for x64 revisions of windows.
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by seltzered 16y ago
I think a tablet with a) a non-glossy outdoor e-ink-like screen b) top-notch software to support note-taking and diagram-creation will complement laptops much better than they do now.
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by seltzered 16y ago
It'd be nice if this effort included some SL/WPF support as well. Java still has swing and (gulp) JavaFX, and last I checked they run on any OS. As of now, I'm starting to feel like one has to write in flex if they want a desktop app with g
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by seltzered 16y ago
I recently got a windows 7 machine. Some things that bug me as a programmer using it, and make me wish I just paid up and got a mac: 1) WPF - I am trying to use this in my work life. It scares me when I hear your ex-product manager twitteri
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by seltzered 16y ago
If possible, I want to start a project/patch to do full-screen photo slideshows (a la flickr). I may try setting it up if I have a chance, I'm assuming the packaging of it all will take time before it becomes something a layperson can just

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