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An app is not a blank canvas(sjmulder.nl)
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I feel this is entirely justified. There are a lot of people on HN who are very much in favour of a minimum of regulation in these sorts of markets, but the Dutch government has democratically opted to put rules into place for, amongst othe
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by sjmulder 14y ago
Shame is that at many sites it’s not really opt-in. If you disagree, you get a lecture on why the site is obliged to track you and then you can accept anyway or leave. A cookie wall, if you will. Examples: * http://tweakers.net * http:/
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I wish I could do the London tube but it’s cyclic. Even for Amsterdam, route 50 was a bit of a kludge as you’ll see in the tree. Here’s an image with tag/branch names for the lines: http://i.imgur.com/vXhLYry.png
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Show HN: an Amsterdam Metro map in git commits(github.com)
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I think the WTF was more about the requirement itself – why would the game require a retina device? In any case, congratulations on shipping your game!
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by sjmulder 14y ago
This: http://karaokewebstandard.org/ (from the video) is actually pretty funny.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
They see to have made a really nice custom styled app while still remaining true to modern Android conventions. Well done. It would be cool if banks could license their code (for a hefty fee) because the apps by banks here in thee Netherlan
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by sjmulder 14y ago
It’s like when you discover a new artist you like and you work through the back catalogue. Today’s news has made lots of people discover Swartz simultaneously.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
> we did agree on another good idea: a wiki to tell students what different jobs are like. That site should be launching soon. Did this ever happen?
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I can read it and it does appeal to me. The flow and explanation is really good. I’d like some more screen shots but then the lack of them might make people more likely to sign up and see for themselves. Bookmarking for later. By the way, I
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by sjmulder 14y ago
It would, but Apple did the same thing when they switched to Intel and worked out pretty well. They even shipped all the PowerPC binaries for a while, together with an emulation layer, so you could run old apps on Intel (albeit slowly). It'
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I agree that people do not have “the right” to use Facebook, neither are people obliged to. That doesn’t meant that you can’t just not use Facebook. Social networks, in particular Facebook, have become a central part of social interaction.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
It’s not about HTML5, it just needs to be playable in a browser: > All entries must be web-based, i.e. playable in a browser. HTML5, WebGL, Unity, Torque 3D, Node JS, Flash are all possible - just be sure the source is made available on
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by sjmulder 14y ago
He was speaking at Appsterdam a week later on October 24[1]. I thought it was a very inspiring project and the live demo he talked us through looked promising. Certainly didn’t see this coming, even though apparently these concerns were alr
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by sjmulder 14y ago
One problem I see with low cost custom-built gaming boxes is that the Windows licence takes up a massive share of the price. I hope that Valve’s push to Linux will lead developers there as well but I don’t see the big publishers jumping on
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I don’t agree with the point on convergence. It seems clear to me that Apple is not turning OS X into iOS. It’s still very much a WIMP interface best suited for keyboard and mouse. Windows 8 is a good example of PC/tablet convergence, and h
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by sjmulder 14y ago
That’s really interesting, thanks. Looks like I’ll be frequenting that one. By the way, the name reminded me of the uploaded lobsters from Stross’ Accelerando.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I used to work with a guy who built something similar: http://droppages.com/
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by sjmulder 14y ago
If you inspect the title of the comic with Firebug it shows up as: <div id="ctitle"><vid/>RTL Fun stuff.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
That shouldn’t be a Firefox-specific setting. You can opt to always show scrollbars from System Preferences already.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
The reason they look so much like the VS templates (on which many are probably based) is that the VS templates implement the very precisely set out UI guidelines. Microsoft wants to have a set of very consistent UI patterns, which I wholly
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by sjmulder 14y ago
It would seem to me that some variety of Lisp would be the ideal candidate as a sort of runs-everywhere language, a thin portable base language that runs on top of different runtimes, offering easy integration with whichever it is running o
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I’m very much looking forward to it! Good luck with the site.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
That looks great, I love the editor. So far it works great in Firefox (the site mentions it’s only tested in Chrome). You know what I’d love? A Codecademy for electronics. There are online courses and such but none seem to be as casual and
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I have the same issue. I’m on a Nexus S as well and it’s starting to show its age with the latest operating system and apps. But the form factor is great, and all these newer flagship phones are huge.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
Your screen's aspect ratio doesn't really matter. Desktop apps work like they used to. "Modern" apps expand to fit the space given. The minimum resolution for such apps is 1024x768, which is 4:3.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
If it’s anything like Google Maps on Android, there’s a small threshold before it snaps out of North/up alignment. And even then, you can tap the compass and it’ll reset the rotation.
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That’s really nice. My only gripe is that I find the definition font really hard to read.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
Of course the US laws on copyright only apply to the US, but the idea behind the first-sale doctrine exists elsewhere. I just looked up the Dutch rules[1], and it turns out it’s very much the same. When a work is sold, the copyrights are “e

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