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by tammer 11y ago
I've always thought Apple's missing a huge opportunity by not releasing 30-40 inch iPads. Think about it: ultimate tabletop gaming, makes smartboards obsolete, interactive movable secondary television, revolutionary sign/kios
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by tammer 11y ago
It's been clear for a while that overall traffic from mobile is going to eclipse traditional PC's. I'm interested in seeing stats on whether or not traffic from native apps is increasing over mobile websites. I'm sure tr
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by tammer 11y ago
I don't think Apple sees Pebble as a competitor. In terms of sales, you can find their competitors right here.[1] [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Watches/zgbs/watches
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by tammer 11y ago
I find it funny that in all of these critiques of the watch's complexity the comparison is always to an iPhone/iPad. Compare it to the type of watch the average consumer might buy. "Hold buttons A & C for 8 seconds then p
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by tammer 12y ago
I never cease to be amazed at Apple's willingness to pour custom details into their products' internals. Even though it looks like a luxury car engine, there's no way to just pop the hood. Most normal consumers will never see
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by tammer 12y ago
I concur - to elaborate, I'm not actually the one installing Discourse. I support a 'Kumbaya' group of data scientists who have never heard of docker. Quick directions like these aren't questioned by users who just want
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by tammer 12y ago
Am dealing with this situation right now. Apparently wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh as root[1] is the "supported" way of installing Discourse [1]: https://github.com/discourse/discou
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by tammer 12y ago
It's so odd that gopher sounds like a fresh solution to this over-proliferation of design. I wonder if there's potential for a modern version. I guess the problem is our attention economy. As a designer your job is to hold atten
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by tammer 12y ago
This is what I was really excited about when I first heard about Lucas selling everything to Disney.
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by tammer 12y ago
The article specifically mentions that lossless formats offer advantages over compressed formats. The argument is 24/192 encodes lossless files vs 16/48, which I feel the author soundly confirms.
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by tammer 12y ago
Of course the other comments are true, but I could easily see Apple justifying this as a reduction in power draw. They made a big deal out of the mini's efficency at the keynote.
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by tammer 12y ago
The other comments recommend better options to simulate xmonad/other tiling wm's (FYI there is a version[1] of xmonad in development that works with native OS X windows) but for distraction-free work I really enjoy OS X's ful
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by tammer 12y ago
Google and Apple both see the writing on the wall. We (affluent technophiles) will be using our watches as a primary interface and the "phone" category will evolve into mini-tablets for composing longer messages and web browsing.
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Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers(extremetech.com)
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by tammer 12y ago
It's easier to understand when you see that the laws simply don't apply to everyone.
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by tammer 12y ago
Don't forget a long history of systematic prevention of wealth accumulation through redlining, contract mortgages and predatory lending! http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case..
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by tammer 12y ago
A similar feeling, but more to much more intense.
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by tammer 12y ago
The "ancient public health initiative" explanation of religious taboos is a specious argument. Yes, there are arguments to prove eating pork in the biblical middle-east was more dangerous than eating other kinds of meat. But to sa
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by tammer 12y ago
I don't know if it's good or bad. But, it leads me to an interesting thought experiment. If the trend of using emoji in Western discourse continues to increase in popularity indefinitely, could the English language of 200-500 year
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by tammer 12y ago
It's very clear where it's going. The number of administrative staff at colleges and universities have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. Just like in the corporate world, corruption and the proliferation of unnecessary management
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by tammer 12y ago
I disagree. The MFi program is specifically for headphones, not other accessories. Take a look at the bottom of your iPhone (if you've got one). The headphone port is significantly taller than the lightning port. At some point, even if
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by tammer 12y ago
For me it's been a Google replacement. The results have become really good recently. At this point I feel the main difference is the personally ranked results. Once you get used to the page you want being 4th or 5th on the list rather
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by tammer 12y ago
My 2008 Mac Pro has been rock stable since 10.9.2 (before that, just the 'mail, are you drunk?' issues). Sounds a lot like the problem is graphics switching - everyone with issues here has two graphics adapters.
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by tammer 12y ago
I don't think this is contrary to the article. The problem is not that nobody will buy the Surface Pro, or that it's not a great device - it's that not enough will buy it to justify an entire hardware business. Perhaps we&#x2
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by tammer 12y ago
As crazy as it sounds, I did some back-and-forth tests to find things nearby and I got the same or more relavent results from Apple Maps. I switched over and the service has gotten a lot better from where they were at launch. Google Maps ha
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by tammer 12y ago
Interesting that almost all the comments thus far are regarding the actual content of the article and intention of the page rather than the relative novelty page itself. I think that alone is evidence that the Times has hit its stride as a
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by tammer 13y ago
Exactly. If you got your first Mac post 10.7 (and you're the average user) you've got no idea you have such a feature. Maybe you find it one day trolling through the menubar. Maybe you don't.
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by tammer 13y ago
Anyone else find the new 'slide to unlock' animation hideous compared to the 7.0 one?
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by tammer 13y ago
As evident from the comments above, one of OS X's biggest weak points is feature discoverability. I love how OS X stays out of your way, but most regular users never get to take advantage of greater complexity. You have to be in the mi
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by tammer 13y ago
The problem is, we don't live in the year 2003. Grandma has a PC. Sure, she doesn't know how to "use" it in the grand sense that we savvy users might. But, she knows how to do things. She knows how to Facebook, she knows

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