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by sudont 16y ago
This is common thinking with everyone. My parents thought I should rather be a janitor, or maybe a shop mechanic than a developer because it would be "good, steady work" and I wouldn't have to move away to find a job. Utterly stupid, even t
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by sudont 16y ago
"Normal" window management is the reason I haven't jumped to Linux yet. The persistent muddle of window > application hierarchy is very annoying, especially for anyone who performs actions in headless GUI applications. Apple's UI hierar
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by sudont 16y ago
Other than saying my friend is a casual user of Android, I see nothing in my statement that bashes either Apple or Android. (Samsung, on the other hand...) Apparently one camp or the other is fairly touchy.
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by sudont 16y ago
I've got a cheap Samsung phone that takes phantom photos too. Why I'm not worried? A: It's front-facing, so it's never of me. B: The phone is completely worthless, so it never takes decent photos anyways. (Generally of my pocket.) The only
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by sudont 16y ago
No, at least not if the academic advisor knows anything. I was pushed into generals and certain key classes to get an introduction to my major and it's fit. In smaller US high schools there are vocational training paths, however it was limi
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by sudont 16y ago
Unfortunately there's not too much of a market for this sort of thing. It exists, but is called a scan-back, and is damn expensive, due to the sensor approximating the size of the film that goes in. Besides, the camera really has nothing
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by sudont 16y ago
I guess that would be my point as well? I felt my comment was less a retort and more of an addition.
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by sudont 16y ago
There's an appropriate saying about history: it doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. A good cross-platform app isn't just dumbly copied at the whiteboard stage of MVC planning. It needs to have certain similarities, sure, but the key interf
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by sudont 16y ago
Probably easy karma, same as all the Mattheij submissions. More conspiratorially, there may be an invasion of nontechnical co-founders who are finding out they need to be able to talk with developers.
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by sudont 16y ago
You're exactly correct, but the mindset is much different. Shit breaks when something's poorly coded, and has to be fixed (though, the DailyWTF would suggest otherwise). Whereas most people don't care if something's poorly designed and fe
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by sudont 16y ago
This seems fairly reminiscent of video card vendors. They're built on a single platform, but if they screw up the card, nVidia or ATI gets the blame. And the same issue with Windows. Sure, it could be a terrible scanner driver, but it's e
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by sudont 16y ago
http://www.opensource.apple.com/ Your link was wrong.
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by sudont 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime Sterling's been harping on this for quite a while. And, like all predictions, I assume it will be partly wrong. However, it will be interesting to see what is correct. I think the biggest thing after s
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by sudont 16y ago
I would have to agree with this. More likely, the same design team was on both projects and they used a set of proportions to create a visual harmony across the entire product line. Phi doesn't change, why should your proportion change if i
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by sudont 16y ago
None of these issues are relevant to the typical use of a tablet. The fact that he leads with the lack of a CD drive shows little he understands the device's role. I would bet that he beat up Apple when they dropped the floppy. The iPad i
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by sudont 16y ago
I've always gotten comped stuff: Backlight went out, they replaced the keyboard part of the case (dents), iSight went out, they replaced a lot of worn keys, iPod was broken, it was replaced free. I'm a plain-looking dude with old equipment,
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by sudont 16y ago
I would have to imagine it's an exception that makes their policies look asinine. Think about it through the typical workflow: googling an article for research, and finding a link to NYTimes, and reading it, versus something similar to hitt
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by sudont 16y ago
Interesting, however Apple's intake level implementation must be solely pegged to the input box from Apogee. The standalone app works great for sketching, playing and people making background noise for videos, but any type of advanced use r
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by sudont 16y ago
We shouldn't discount criticism entirely, lest we give the world to the Uwe Bolls out there. Your post would have gone from being "critical" to being a critique if you had provided both: an explanation of why it's bad, and insight into how
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by sudont 16y ago
Those may exist, but check the URLs in Google’s global navigation. mail.google.com/ maps.google.com/
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by sudont 16y ago
Opting into a lifestyle does not mean that they opt in to the work, it's that they opt in to the culture that surrounds the work. It's like a music fan, but one who professes to be a musician because he likes the concept of music. There's
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by sudont 16y ago
How so? Maybe I'm just burned out, but I've found the design world to be extremely hostile.
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by sudont 16y ago
Gated Community, Blog, Blog, Blog. There isn't anything even close to HN for designers, for three reasons. One, design has traditionally had tenets from on high and views that since there are actual physiological limits to what the human
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by sudont 16y ago
If it's not streaming, it isn't competing with Netflix. I have to assume they're competing with Apple's claim of 100-200 million "iTunes-linked credit cards." Since we've seen that Apple's monopoly isn't in volume, but in customers willing
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by sudont 16y ago
"Webkit only" Most likely targeting certain mobile platforms that don't support Flash, so that they can still claim their tool is "write once, build everywhere," even if one build target isn't. Kudos, I'm happy to see Adobe move back towa
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by sudont 16y ago
He said further down that he likes to turn the assumption of boring mormons on it's head. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeop...
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by sudont 16y ago
Be prepared for Roman fire brigades.
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by sudont 16y ago
Hopefully this will put a dent in SMART's Sympodium series, which in my experience is vastly overpriced for the way it's used. Three grand will buy you a pen-screen monitor that is wired in-between the computer and projector. Because of t
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by sudont 16y ago
This makes no sense. NTT is a telecom, and analogous to one of our companies: Verizon. They specify things to all manufacturers too, but things like V-Cast and buttons that "accidentally" launch the internet on their phones. I think this ha
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by sudont 16y ago
RGB is not able to represent all possible colors Indeed, but it’s not completely an issue of gamut: the hue is always off even if it’s balanced against a card.

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