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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Sounds like Celebration, Florida.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
That's what I don't get about these arguments in support of text editing on iOS. The mouse isn't bound to the physical dimensions of the screen. It also doesn't require you to put it atop/obscure the screen to work,
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Living on the SW corner of Lake Erie, I have access to the rawest water of all, with it ripening every July-August. For any intetested in the effects raw water can have on your health, I'd be happy to price-match against SmartWater at
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I bet they won't. I think there is a (or maybe a few) soecial and proprietary Panic libraries that they include across their applications. Open sourcing Transmit iOS would also mean open sourcing part of their other conmercial applicat
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Agreed on that! The iOS RDP app is pretty darn good, and VPN connectivity options are really good too. BUT... I discovered that if I RDP into my work machine/network, it totally negates the need for both Coda and Transmit on my local i
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Transmit/Mac when it's discounted is definitely worth it IMO. $45 is a little steep, but Transmit performs really well, especially when you have a lot of little files to move.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Both. I had a first gen iPad Pro for about a year before I gave it to my parents to use for their travels. The keyboard cover was super handy (I highly recommend it), and I admit that there are some cases where I could have gotten away with
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I hate to admit it, but I have both Transmit and Coda for iOS and I never use them. I've never really used them. I know a lot of care went into making these applications, so I don't want to say it was a waste of money, but I just
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I use an ad-blocker and have since 2011. To get around broken/hidden content, I just copy/paste the link into Terminal after $lynx. Works almost every time.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
More will be coming, and I won't stop until Classic Finder reaches parity with the original. Thanks for giving it a try! :)
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Yes, I love the feedback! This is a great list! I _completely_ forgot about the saved positioning of the windows. I'm definitely going to keep working on this and fleshing it out. I'll be using your feedback as a guide! Thanks! :)
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Thanks! :) I think that it would probably build mostly fine on GNUStep or Cocoatron. It's not dependent on any of the macOS UI controls - since all of them are drawn from scratch. And the APIs this is calling into... they've been
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Thanks! And yes, getting window resizing is on my list! I have a new appreciation for how tricky it is to get even some of the most basic controls and their functions right. Basic scrolling and scrollbars felt like a hurculean achievement.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Ahh yes. There's nothing really groundbreaking in there (in terms of API usage), so I should probably be able to set the build to an earlier version. ... let me see! :)
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I have been working on creating a replica of the classic MacOS Finder in Cocoa/Objective-C. After about two years of hacking and doodling, I have finally gotten it to a point where I think it's worth showing. Hope you all like it!
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Show HN: My First OSS Project, Classic Finder(classicmacfinder.com)
22 points by smashingfiasco 9y ago|12 comments
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I second that. Edge is fast and efficient, in my experience. But when I use it, it crashes just a little too often. I've never been a Chrome or Google kind of a guy, so I was actually using Edge instead until FF57 was released. I think
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I tried to make account named "Chip Ahouy" for this same purpose, but the sign up form told me it wasnt a real name. It was brutal.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Honestly, if Patreon would just invoice me like everyone else does and let me do an ACH/electronic check payment to get current, they could skip the CC payment fees all together. ACH isnt free, but my understanding is that it's a
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
What this post is lamenting is the loss of some actor like MECC. We had great software written for students (not adults) at one point. Many of us here have used it and fondly remember it. Titles like Oregon Trail, Reader Rabbit, etc... Unfo
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Oh, they definitely do keep tabs and actively participate in places like HN. You must have missed seeing this a few years ago... > Members of Apple PR seek tabloid photos of celebrities holding iPhones, while others read Apple-focused bl
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
It's complicated and treacherous. http://www.pruitt-igoe.com
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I've taken that same guess after the new fancy effects and animations for iMessage got fully implemented in iOS 10 and barely supported at all in macOS Messages. It seemed like an afterthought on the Mac.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Interestingly, Messages.app on macOS actually is a webview (well, the chat log portion of the window).
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Remember the time they kept the app open in the background on iOS devices by sending an empty audio buffer to the phone for playback? People started discovering that after iOS introduced the battery/power usage section in the Settings
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I mean, they did break iOS platform rules and pulled some tricks to keep the app open in the background all of the time by sending an empty audio beffer to the phone for "playback." So yes, really.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
I can add to that anecdote... I was discussing which podcast app was best for Android with a friend, and in the presence of her Android phone. The next day, she started getting served ads for podcast apps all over the place. Keep in mind, t
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
They missed the higher education bubble to include in the list.
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
So... am I mistaken, or didn't the W3C try to replace the web as we know it today, with XHTML? Didn’t that fail? I don't doubt that the author knows their web history, but reading this, it's like they've got their blinde
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by smashingfiasco 9y ago
Oh god, not Jean Twenge. People, please, please read the Strauss and Howe book (Generations), not Jean Twenge. She makes overly-cranky observations about generations (especially younger ones, like Millennials and Homelanders) without the co

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