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Ask HN: Has something changed with HN's IP ban rules?
1 points by tammer 13y ago|0 comments
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by tammer 13y ago
Funny, I picked today to re-evaluate my use of XMonad. I'm currently trying Gnome 3, and I'm really impressed. I love how they cribbed some great small details from OS X and iOS but the final product feels fresh. If I end up going back to X
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by tammer 14y ago
This is great, but I'm surprised it leaves out the single best split hotkey: C-w C-w This moves to the last used split, i.e. it's a quick way to jump between two.
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by tammer 14y ago
I also went to take a look at the X1c in a local store, and I was ready to purchase it. Looking at it, however, I couldn't get over how poor the display really looked. Everything was washed out with light blue. It drove me crazy even in the
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by tammer 14y ago
It's really a preference thing. I have the opposite feeling, i.e. why keep OS X when you can run Arch? As for battery life, Linux can very greatly depending on settings and distro. Don't expect to beat Mac OS without any configuration/twe
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by tammer 14y ago
Funny. The title gave me the expectation of something I've been thinking about a lot lately, which is in fact the inverse of the article's content. Mobile apps are video games. The moment someone (apple) designed an app-centric fullscreen O
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by tammer 14y ago
This is possible, and I suggest it. You need to be one step ahead of both your insurer and your doctor, or they'll be ahead of you. Our 'system' is broken. When will it be fixed?
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by tammer 14y ago
This article encapsulates the frustration I felt this weekend trying to help my parents find their way via their fancy new in-car GPS. I eventually realized their difficulty wasn't just the result of Ford's piss-poor UI,[1] but also a basic
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by tammer 14y ago
I could imagine it, but its 100% keyboard driven and seamlessly uses an external editor. Basically, muttator without bugs.
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by tammer 14y ago
I think your second point is the most salient. Advertising does one thing, and one thing only: create symbolic associations. (Well, I guess web ads are a departure, since the goal is a click). What does Coke's advertising budget actually
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Ana Somnia - lights out(anasomnia.com)
1 points by tammer 14y ago|0 comments
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by tammer 14y ago
I can vouch for the terrible ethernet controllers on the new iMacs. Random dropped connections, reboots required after waking from sleep. Interestingly, we haven't had any problems with 21.5 inch models, only the 27's (although we've got mo
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by tammer 14y ago
"The world is full of..." is not a totalizing phrase. "Each," refers back to this clause. The semantics leave space for people in power to work against that power. It does not imply what you believe it does. You seem to take issue with ques
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by tammer 14y ago
The key here is intention. While of course it's quite possible for images to be reproduced in one way or another, the fact that they must be reproduced, and not simply 'shared' or 're-*ed,' changes the user's relation to the app. I think
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by tammer 14y ago
Slightly off topic, but anyone know if anything is happening in terms of Linux/X11 and HiDPI? Or will we need to wait a few years?
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by tammer 14y ago
I entirely concur. abook is great, but I've always wanted something that worked a bit more like this project. Great work!
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by tammer 14y ago
I've always found the reading-in-the-car/motionsickness thing to be very interesting... I was affected by it for a long time, then suddenly I decided to simply try to 'will' myself out of it, psyching myself into believing that it was all i
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by tammer 14y ago
I think that's the challenge of good UI - being visually informative without overloading the user. Subtlety is a difficult thing to achieve in any field. Silence, however, is anything but subtle.
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by tammer 14y ago
I'm not on a Mac at the moment so I can't tell you the exact wording of the preference, but I just set it up through the hotkeys section of the keyboard system preferences pane. One of the options allows switching window focus, and another
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by tammer 14y ago
Let's not forget there's still a model that allows storage/RAM upgrades easily, the Mac Pro. I've always seen the iMac as one of these TV-like devices, just due to the form factor alone. The display is one of the primary elements I like to
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by tammer 14y ago
I've run into the same issues. My solution is to reach a sort of balance between portability and usability. My xmodmap + XMonad config is designed to be reproducible on Windows via AutoHotkey and OS X via SizeUp + PCKeyboardHack, that way I
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by tammer 14y ago
Great! Except lately I've come to despise ui elements that can only be discovered by accident. An easily usable and effective feature that I only find via a blog post is a feature that could use some visual feedback.
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by tammer 14y ago
I found some time. First and foremost, there is simply no recourse for smsm42's argument, no recourse that that holds reason to a higher degree than nationalism. Particularly, nobody cares how they behave once they fulfill that one simp
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by tammer 14y ago
Are you honestly deluded enough to believe there have been no civilian casualties in the United States' war? Are you honestly too callous and/or imbecilic to think that calling this "collateral damage" changes the situation for someone who'
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by tammer 14y ago
It is precisely your neo-imperialist, 'preemptive strike' mentality that is the cause of contemporary terrorism. It is, in fact, terrorism itself. If you think your life as a Western consumer is somehow non-violent and unrelated to the gl
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by tammer 14y ago
Ah, quite similar but not the same. The BIG difference is the lack of visual indication. You get a red X over the icons in iOS, and holding down app icons is a means of interaction throughout the OS (and you're given an introduction to this
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by tammer 14y ago
The Mondaine design is powerful, timeless, and most importantly popular. By using it rather than designing their own clock, Apple taps into an aesthetic of affluent European influence. This subliminal association is what Apple is paying for
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by tammer 14y ago
Anyone know any desktop or web apps with similar functionality? I don't have any iThings and am bored with conventional color pickers.
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by tammer 14y ago
I read somewhere that the FaceTime developers learned that fact from Steve's keynote as well.
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by tammer 14y ago
Good analysis. 'Pro', to me, means more screen real-estate, not less. Consumer, as in the consumption of content, means a sharper, prettier screen with a lower effective resolution. It's interesting that in this iteration, it seems that the

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