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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Don't apologize for harshness: Your view's completely valid. I prefer a system that's that locked in, because it means I can figure out the computer's philosophy once and then everything gets easier. (The Mac's incredible dragging and sprin
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
So far I still find grocery stores incredibly exciting. I find it slightly bewildering that people get bored of a store with hundreds of thousands of products. You may think that's a long list...but it isn't. Remember when I said hundreds
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If you're ever worried, do what I did: Make it a goal to take a picture every day of something you did. Could be as small as yardwork. Just try to make the picture interesting, even if you're not doing anything interesting. If you can't get
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
How many "exclusive resorts" can you stay in until all the ultra-master-upgrade-penthouse suites look the same? Hell, in Las Vegas alone I have no problem imagining there're a few dozen unique ultrasupersuites in existence. That's enough
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But they do have a choice, thanks to the aforementioned app. I have it, yet I'm still using only half my screen for Safari, despite no other apps being open. I like not being forced into this maxed-or-not mentality; on Windows, it was too
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This is going to be a tedious list. I'll limit the list to things I can do without much money, because honestly given any more than a few hundred dollars the possibilities are endless. (They're endless anyway, really.) Explore the suburbs w
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Only a few hundred thousand things.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
What about the Leopard UI is snarky? As an interface geek, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it. The specific issues the OP mentioned were installing drivers and tweaking system preferences.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The reason: Apple designed OS X to focus on using multiple windows at once, and they didn't want developers making single-window apps that ate at the screen. It's why, of their own applications, the only ones that allow full-screen are thei
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's simply that it's non-free, and the whole ecosystem of software for it is generally non-free. I know lots of Mac users and this doesn't seem to bug them or occur to them at all. That's because the exchange for a lot of OS X stuff is:
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Gmail stays the same; the external set-up changes. I saw no advantage to using Outlook over Gmail, whereas Mail.app offers substantially more than the Gmail webapp does, even when used with Fluid.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I've used OP once or twice, actually. Cheers!
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The simple fact is that people have lost interest in scientists and people with brilliant minds. Who cares what scientist came up with what, Jon & Kate broke up, Brangelina went to the toilet five minutes ago . . . pop culture has degr
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The question is what OS we're using, not what OS we're using. From my own experience, using Gmail is a different experience in each OS. I can't stand to use it on OS X, whereas on Windows it was always open.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Yeah, because the iPhone was conceived of right before it was announced, not half a decade earlier. Come on.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
My comment was joking. I actually don't believe in the labels, and I find that labels generally only apply to the people who worry about them. I've known some very cool people who LARPed, some of the biggest jocks I've met play WoW, D&D
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
On the Mac, the trick is to figure out what size you want for your apps and keep them there. Safari's always big for me, iTunes I almost always keep shrunk down, Mail shows a few messages at a time and has a large window for message display
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Please let's not argue terminology. Article opening: Growing up without any noticeable athletic skills, the nerd-jock duality was a pretty important part of my childhood. Nerds were the kids who carried calculators, wore glasses, dressed
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Hacker News is like the nerdiest of nerds. Dungeons and Dragons players, Star Trek geeks, anime fans, weapons geeks, LARPers, fantasy enthusiasts. Wanting to make money instantly boots you a step or two above the absolute dregs.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You offended me, by suggesting that Michael Jackson posts can all be easily grouped together. This one was fascinating and in-depth.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's always kind of funny seeing people who work with interaction design messing up the format of their own writing. In this case, I don't think it's the blog theme. I think it was his choice not to have line breaks between his bullet point
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
When's the last time a design concept actually turned into a design? Concepts are essentially waste-of-time pornographic images. Look at the old design concepts that claimed they'd be here by 2009. To quote a favored director: "Total fuckin
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
* You want traffic for your blog. * Either you can take a risk and attempt something insightful, or you can stick a superlative after a number, which always works. * Today you're feeling ambitious. Let's go for 20. There are 20 brilliant la
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
As somebody who may apply for a job at Apple in the near future: Because working for that multi-billion dollar corporation means getting to work on possibly the best set of electronic devices on the planet. If I work for a company rather th
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Sarcasm?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
What absolute horseshit. People who go to college as part of a calculated attempt to make a profit aren't the sorts of people who ought to be in college. College is for living with people who share the same interests as you, learning to dev
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You know how I was talking about your habit of snarking pointlessly by taking things out of context? You're doing it again. I pointed out the lack of logos while looking at the screen . Obviously an Apple product has a logo, on the back wh
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You said: But it's sad that people will buy hardware that conspires against them to make their life difficult. ubernostrum said: I can't honestly say that my iPhone has made my life difficult. You said: You aren't trying to write free
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This is where the disagreement comes in. (Keep in mind that this is one person's view and I'm upfront about this being a personal set of opinions.) The Hero looks very nice, but it suffers from having a lot of unnecessary junk. It's shaped
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
No. He's using it for the applications written by developers who are fine with their code not being free because they're given incredible access to millions of people or because they have some of the best developer tools there are. The pe

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