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by xinsight 14y ago
Youtube version: http://youtu.be/d7kJdFGH-WI
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by xinsight 14y ago
Reversing engineering apps is always educational. You can see a lot just with a class-dump of an unencrypted binary.
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by xinsight 14y ago
Update: If you add "www" to the URL, you get a 404. I'm having a hard time believing that this is run by Apple. The appear to be the registrar in the domain records - and the technical note clearly indicates they control appstore.com https
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by xinsight 14y ago
I only see redirects to an itunes search. curl -I http://appstore.com/startrekapp HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: somethingNice. Date: Tue Jun 1 12:48:03 PDT 1999 PDT Referer: http://appstore.com/ Location: http://search.itunes.
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by xinsight 14y ago
Same in Germany if you want to file your taxes online. However, using a java applet to login is slow and painful. Maybe this move my Apple will increase support costs and encourage these govt agencies to drop the java requirement.
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by xinsight 14y ago
Yes. And as an added bonus: If you're sitting, you have two hands free to read hacker news on your phone. (Pinch to zoom with one hand is damn near impossible.)
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by xinsight 14y ago
I've tries using pixelmator as an alternative to photoshop. The main problems: No layer effects, no pattern fill, no paths. Good for simple stuff though.
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by xinsight 15y ago
Great work and a fantastic writeup. One crucial interaction missing for the native scrollview feel is tapping the time in the status bar to quickly scroll back to the top. Does mobile safari expose that event? Edit: it scrolls to top if you
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by xinsight 15y ago
It's actually an iPhone 4S. I just updated to iBooks 2.0.1 and it works! Thanks for the follow up.
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by xinsight 15y ago
fyi - Trying to read the epub file in ibooks and i get this error: This page contains the following errors: error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty error on line 1 at column 1: Encoding error Update: PDF works, but requires a lot of
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by xinsight 15y ago
clickable link: http://www.photohackday.com
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by xinsight 15y ago
I think you're missing the OP's point. He isn't suggesting ending postal service, but coming up with new and better services instead of trying to scare people away from email. For many people, the post office is just an incredibly slow, jun
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by xinsight 15y ago
No matter how environmental the paper is, sending paper to people who don't want it is a huge waste of resources.
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by xinsight 15y ago
I'm fond of skeleton as well. The only drawback I've found is that it uses a 16-column layout. I find I often want to divide the screen in thirds and 12-columns would be much handier.
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by xinsight 15y ago
In case any one else wants to follow him on twitter (only RSS is linked on his site): http://twitter.com/swombat
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by xinsight 15y ago
So people can be jailed for copyright violations now? What happens to a corporation when it violates copyright? Seems we should all become corporations simply as insurance.
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by xinsight 15y ago
How do you know if music is RIAA music? (That could be a useful web service.)
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by xinsight 15y ago
My solution to the problem of studying the animated radar images was to ditch the VCR metaphor to control the animation and use the mouse or finger position. Example (Toronto): http://radar.xinsight.ca/
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by xinsight 15y ago
Seems like people with their own domains who use google apps should have been be the ideal lead users to seed google+. A missed opportunity.
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by xinsight 15y ago
Agreed. It's frustrating that I can pay money to larger companies online (phone, cable, internet, etc.) but I can't send money to another person. Clearly it's technically possible, but the banks don't want to enable this for normal people,
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by xinsight 15y ago
Totally agree. There is so much to hate about the DVD watching experience - the menus, unskippable ads/trailers, poor image quality, getting stuck on a scratch - I can't wait for them to disappear. But, i'm guessing the DVD fans are actuall
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by xinsight 15y ago
I used to love the Singleton (anti-)pattern. It's a huge improvement from using your AppDelegate as a global storage area, but it still encourages sloppy code. I find it the code much cleaner when you pass in the objects a class needs inste
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by xinsight 15y ago
My concern with the wordpress cacheing plugins I've looked at is that they require the webserver to have write access to the webserver directory. This is particularly dangerous on shared webhosts, as a malicious customer on the same server
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by xinsight 15y ago
Agreed, I wouldn't want to backup my entire laptop on s3. But since the first 5GB on Amazon's s3 are free, I find it's a great way to keep an extra backup of my current projects.
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by xinsight 15y ago
I agree - it's best to not let your enemy frame the debate. And agreeing to points is certainly not going to help your case. That said, there is lots you can say. This is my favorite example of a great smackdown response from a small cable
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by xinsight 15y ago
It's funny that you mention Settlers, since every time I've played it's always been quite obvious after the initial pieces are laid who will win hours later. If you don't have the good spots, it's a painful, slow grind to defeat. However, i
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by xinsight 15y ago
That's how I always used Wordpress, but it's not exactly elegant. You always have to make little edits in a small textarea box. No syntax highlighting. Need to submit the entire article to save (instead of command-s). You lose your cursor p
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by xinsight 15y ago
As a kid in Canada, I had this radio shack battery club card, where I could get a free battery every month. I always got the 9V size, which was perfect for little projects, handheld games or just sticking on your tongue. Sad to see what the
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by xinsight 15y ago
I try to read as much as I can about design - try out the latest tricks (e.g. grids, golden ratios) and pay attention to what works and why - but somehow that's not enough. To get to the next level, web app developers need proper design cri
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by xinsight 15y ago
Yes it's painful. I find it's best to use safari to browse netflix and then when a video plays it launches the app. Funny how netflix constantly sends surveys about picture quality (which is always fine) and their website ui is so clunky an

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