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by unalone 17y ago
The theme still disappoints me. Camino's not much better; Safari still beats anything on the Mac (I'm still using it as my default). But they finally added smooth scrolling, which was the major killer for me earlier. It made using Firefox a
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by unalone 17y ago
Hirst isn't as bad as people say he is. It's an instance where people don't understand something and take it out by claiming hatred.
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by unalone 17y ago
The Internet's changed the world of education. I can tell, in some of my classes, which of my fellow students were "raised" on the Internet and which weren't. There's a surprisingly large group of people that's stunning professors by unders
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Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid(engadget.com)
47 points by unalone 17y ago|33 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
I gave my grandfather Chrome and renamed it to Internet Explorer. It worked. As an aside, the Firefox 3.6 beta came out recently and it might be the first Firefox on the Mac that doesn't suck. I was very pleasantly surprised.
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by unalone 17y ago
Mozart's got a real sense of fun to his pieces. My reaction to him is the opposite of mine to Bach: I've never heard a Mozart piece that didn't sweep me away. His work is so rich and so full. I just had Chopin recommended to me as far as Ro
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by unalone 17y ago
This needs to be voted up to the top. Possibly the best industrial designer that's ever been. Definitely top three in my book, along with Fukasawa and Ive.
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by unalone 17y ago
There's still a lot of good stuff today. I really doubt we'll see any painters that revolutionize the form as much, at least not without significantly changing the tools of the medium. He turned painting into a pure creation of content, whe
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by unalone 17y ago
That's incredible. I have a small crush on those pieces. Thanks for sharing!
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by unalone 17y ago
Both, however, are instances of expressing disapproval without in turn adding something valuable. It was a ridiculous simile, but I understood his feeling because it's one I have also. When I take time and effort to argue something and get
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by unalone 17y ago
This is a very HN-focused point. No reason he can't just post it directly, in this case.
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by unalone 17y ago
2. Add to that Steve Reich and his Music For 18 Musicians. 3. I've never been particularly fond of Bach. His music's technically incredible, but it doesn't grab at me emotionally.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm not much of an art person, but I love Duchamp. Just saw his exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art a few weeks ago. I'm also an enormous Pollock fan. Smaller artists include Leonid Afremov, Rob Gonsalves, and David Lanham. With the e
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by unalone 17y ago
Banksy's not bad, for what he is. In a lot of ways he's the cultural opposite of the Damien Hirst sort—everything Hirst likes Banksy hates and vice versa. But he's not particularly interesting stylistically, and a lot of his work is derivat
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by unalone 17y ago
Last year I was in a place where I hated going out. I wanted to go out but hated the available options. This year, I found something interesting: While I go out much more than I did last year, and always find something or other to occupy my
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by unalone 17y ago
Speculating is silly unless there's evidence. This isn't for Hacker News.
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by unalone 17y ago
Coke's product is less sweet than Pepsi. What that means is that if you're drinking a lot of soda, Coke takes much longer to start tasting repulsive than Pepsi does, even though at first sip Pepsi might taste more delicious for some. That w
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by unalone 17y ago
My only computer's the laptop, a 17" Macbook Pro. It's probably a bit too big—next computer I get I'll drop down to 15"—but it's not a computer I anticipate getting rid of any time soon. It's a bit grungy, but it works beautifully. OS X for
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"Check this out": A defense of marketing and advertising(marinich.tumblr.com)
1 points by unalone 17y ago|0 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
The problem with Achewood, and why it's never been a hit, is that you have to read from the first comic to really get into it. The humor is character-driven and very rich, and you don't get any of that without starting from the beginning. B
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by unalone 17y ago
Blackberry's an enterprise product. It's still one of the most reliable workplace phones you can get. iPhone's trying to compete with it, but I think BB's still got the lead. Android's got nothing unique to it beyond its being open source.
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by unalone 17y ago
What I find funny is that Randall fell victim to exactly what he accused Jim Davis of a long time ago. Early XKCD was, if not necessarily brilliant, unexpected and often very clever in its jokes. I know one of its earliest influences was Ac
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by unalone 17y ago
The Blackberry's not mentioned at all, which I think is a little sad. It's the only phone that's got a solid set of features that set it apart from the iPhone. Looking at the rest of these I basically see a bunch of me-too phones with no
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A detailed look at iPhone photography(philcoffman.com)
5 points by unalone 17y ago|0 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
Quietube? http://quietube.com/
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't see your email address listed anywhere. Can you email me? Always a delight to talk to a self-identified artist. i.am@me.com.
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by unalone 17y ago
The reason you couldn't cut and paste was that Apple doesn't release a feature until they polished it. They didn't let you make apps until they'd made the App Store, and there was a year of complaining, but when they finally did it they nai
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by unalone 17y ago
> What I meant by "open" was that anyone with any kind of computer that has a reasonably modern browser can access and use a 37signals application. You don't need a special proprietary application or framework running on your own device
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by unalone 17y ago
You just made an argument by completely ignoring what Ballmer said . Ballmer was making an insult to the effect of, every application on the iPhone is trying to make the Internet look good, which is a fucking bizarre insult . The iPhone m
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by unalone 17y ago
The iPhone's got Apple's ridiculous attention to detail. It does small things right that are thoughtful beyond any level of attention Google can afford Android, not just because Google's never been capable of matching Apple in design qualit

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