Samuel_Michon

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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Food hacker news.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Having a native English speaker proofread the copy would’ve helped as well. It’s amazing how many mistakes they managed to make in such a short text.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
I just went through the first 30 titles in the AFI top 100. Out of those 30, only four are not available in the iTunes Store: Sunset Blvd., Some Like it Hot, Star Wars, and The Grapes of Wrath. The other 26 are available and cost $3.99 to r
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
http://orise.orau.gov/files/reacts/radiological-terms-quick-...
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don’t. If Apple decides a device is too slow to run a new major version of the OS, the decision will be condemned by people like u/jheriko. If Apple does let a 4 year old model run the new
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
http://memegenerator.net/instance/30817716
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
The iPad and Surface RT have native apps that work offline. The iPad runs iTunes. Surface RT tablets run Office. Both run Office365. The iPad runs iWork, a good alternative to Office for many. Surface RT tablets run Windows. I think that co
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
I find it interesting that Microsoft claims in this clip that a laptop isn’t a laptop if it doesn’t run Apple iTunes. Personally, I can’t stand iTunes on Windows, but hey, clearly Microsoft knows what consumers want.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
TL;DR: “If an article has more comments than votes, don’t add your comment to it or you may kill it off entirely!” Rings true to me and, if indeed accurate, it seems like a good practice for HN.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
No, Circa has a large team of actual human editors. That’s why the content is good. Also, Circa started out as an iPhone app. The iPad and Android versions came later.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
As a citizen of the Netherlands I can tell you that the country is as neo-liberal[1] as they come, and yet, we have universal healthcare, gay marriage, euthanasia, and abortion. (Also, racism is rampant, culture and education spending conti
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> the "socialist left" is far more intrusive in our lives You’re giving the movement way too much credit if you believe the “socialist left” has any clout in the US. I also hope you don’t think the Obama administration is socia
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> Thou shalt not kill IMO, the question at hand is more like: ‘should we keep someone on life support when there is little to no chance that person will get better?’. And is taking someone off life support really the same as murder?
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> I'd argue that its far right and right Amein, that is my view as well. I was born in the Netherlands but have lived in the US for 8 years and I still spend 3 months out of the year there. My opinion is that US voters don’t really
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
When I was growing up, I thought crocodiles were the closest thing to dinosaurs. I’m fairly sure that’s what I was taught in school. Then came all the drawings of dinosaurs with feathers and my mind was blown when I read that birds are actu
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
If anyone else was wondering, it was supposed to read ‘thermite’. (I had to DDG it, and then still, I had never heard of the stuff.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
/u/aivaomo is hellbanned, but here is his reply to my earlier comment: Make that the 5S’ home button/TouchID sensor. Plus the outermost element of the rear camera lens is rather sensibly sapphire, IIRC.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> the kind of technically correct that isn't very constructive Fair enough. That’s not to say Apple won’t ever update Safari for Windows, but I too won’t hold my breath. Apple’s software offerings for Windows haven’t been great for
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
The iPhone display is covered by Corning’s Gorilla Glass (not sapphire). The iPhone 4S’ TouchID sensor (the home button) is covered by a small synthetic sapphire pane. However, given Apple’s substantial investment in GT Advanced, the compan
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> [Safari] was temporarily distributed for Windows Meaning from June of 2007 to this day. 6 years is temporary for a browser as much as living on earth feels temporary for a human.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> for most people watching this from outside of the US, it looks like protectionism racket disguised as a legal verdict. If that is so, how would you explain that Apple has gotten several injunctions (Australia, Germany, Netherlands) and
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
As I understand it, that's for 2 devs. Subtract the Kickstarter fees, sending out the Kickstarter rewards, and various taxes, that leaves them with maybe $20k per person. Of course, that number is meaningless by itself, not knowing how
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
They guessed at the revenues, not the profits. Apart from Apple and Samsung, no one is making money selling tablets.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
It depends on what you mean by a ‘tablet market’. On the hardware side, sure, there are plenty of companies that sell Android tablets (albeit often at a loss). On the software side however, I don’t think there’s a tablet market, there’s jus
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Jobs said he believed he could make a greater impact on the world by working at Apple than by using his time to organize charities. Given the title of his essay, Gates seems to agree. Several parties have said Jobs donated to causes, but wo
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
ITT: reddit-style comments that don’t get downvoted. I’m all for it. http://i.imgur.com/lrlFq0y.jpg
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
iOS 7 was released less than 2 months a go. According to Mixpanel, 76% of iOS users have iOS 7. I’d say that’s quite a contrast to Android 4.3 adoption. https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
So it’s actually closer to 2.3%. That’s sad.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
I looked at the covers of your books: those are good. I also looked at the interiors on some of your books: those seem to not have received as much attention. InCopy makes it easy to add styles that translate well to InDesign. The same is t
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
As you self-publish, wouldn’t it make more sense to use Adobe InCopy[1]? There is no other app I know of that integrates better with InDesign. As a publisher, that’s what I ask authors and editors to style copy in. If you’re a Adobe CC subs

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