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by evandavid 15y ago
+1 recommended reading for "In Defense of Food". It's way outside my regular reading tastes (pop-ish science + nutrition related), but I enjoyed every moment of it, and it's definitely changed the way I think about eating.
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by evandavid 15y ago
You could still keep a record of all calls made, and the tower(s) used to make each call, without getting down to this level of granularity. I might be wrong here, but it seems that they're storing a stream of triangulated location data for
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by evandavid 15y ago
I'd also like to know whether this information can be or has ever been used in court as evidence. "Where were you on the night of such and such...?" may become a question of the past. Frightening.
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by evandavid 16y ago
Thanks! Moving to San Fran in 2 days (from New Zealand). Hopefully there's some useful stuff in there.
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by evandavid 16y ago
The new layouts for both gizmodo & lifehacker seem quite buggy to me (Mac, latest Chrome). Most obviously, there is a grey line that tracks its way up the screen as I scroll past 'the fold'. And I agree with earlier posters: user test
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by evandavid 16y ago
I think the better all round solution (in terms of privacy, functionality and maintenance) is to go with a free private git hosting provider like assembla.com. I have tried both the dropbox solution as well as setting up git+ssh on a vps,
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by evandavid 16y ago
Haha. Make that three.
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by evandavid 16y ago
I like the idea. I have two quick questions: - what happens when my site is experiencing issues and you receive massive volumes of complaint/problem emails - how do I continue to integrate support in our product/feature management workflow,
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by evandavid 16y ago
Fair. Would you feel the same way about a web application, as opposed to a content-heavy site?
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by evandavid 16y ago
Not trolling. But I admit that I'm overstating my position a little bit to see if any interesting discussion comes of it. The reality of my current situation (a one, sometimes two person team) has meant that I have indeed been following the
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by evandavid 16y ago
For the time being, I will personally continue to build #!-only websites, designed exclusively for javascript enabled browsers. Maintaining two versions (along the guidelines of progressive enhancement) is just too much work (maintaining an
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by evandavid 16y ago
I worked in Biometrics for a few years. I was on a fingerprint team, but I was part a wider team that was also responsible for forensic-quality facial recognition technology (a world leader). To put it bluntly, the technology is still very,
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by evandavid 16y ago
I'd also like to hear some pragmatic CSS professionals weigh in on this topic. From what I've seen so far, I agree that some of the resets are over the top, but I'm not sure whether the opposition to them is a result of purism over pragmati
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by evandavid 16y ago
Requires a Linkedin profile to sign up!? Really!? There are so many reasons that is a stupid idea.
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by evandavid 16y ago
For people who can't remember if they ever signed up: Go to gawker.com and use the 'forgot my password' utility. It's under login > forgot my password. Enter your email address in the field provided. It will tell you straight away "That
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by evandavid 16y ago
Often times, efreedom ranks higher than StackOverflow, and in some cases SO isn't even on the first page (for some reason the official source 'misses' with my search terms). In those cases, I open up the efreedom link and click through to S
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by evandavid 16y ago
Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it. Like I mentioned in my original post - it's so hard to keep a clear head looking in from the outside and seeing all the media reports etc.
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by evandavid 16y ago
Yeah I had thought about that fact - I wouldn't want to get into a lesser position by applying for a job remotely than what I could achieve applying in person. I think I will follow some of the other advice mentioned here and do a sort of
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Ask HN: How far in advance should I look for a job in the SF Bay Area?
4 points by evandavid 16y ago|7 comments
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by evandavid 16y ago
This is a kind of obvious problem to approach, but as people here have mentioned, it would be extremely difficult (milo are trying, as have others). An idea I had once upon a time was that you could essentially solve it by building a kick
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by evandavid 16y ago
I found it possible to absorb more knowledge (wisdom?) about UX by performing user tests than by any other method of studying the subject. Grab a copy of "Rocket Surgery made Easy" by Steve Krug, a copy of Silverback for Mac, and start doin
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by evandavid 16y ago
"that you I be able to" = "that I won't be able to". I have no idea how that came out so wrong.
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by evandavid 16y ago
I've been using spoon.net on and off for cross-browser testing for about 2 years. It's a decent product, but remarkably unstable. It's very common by the middle of the day that you I be able to launch an app from within Spoon, and if I look
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by evandavid 16y ago
Keynote is a great, flexible application. I like to use it for wireframing, and then use Photoshop to create the individual page graphics (rather than designing the whole site layout in there). Check out http://keynotekungfu.com/
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by evandavid 16y ago
A large part of the customer base for our premium web app is corporate. That means a lot (about 30%) run at 1280 x 1024, which I don't see in the poll as an option.
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by evandavid 16y ago
Just read about how it works. Agreed.
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by evandavid 16y ago
It didn't even need a restart. Cydia is on the home screen, and all the previous data and user configuration is intact. I'm quite dumbfounded with how easy that was. It will be interesting to see how Apple responds.
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by evandavid 16y ago
Just doing this now on girlfriend's iPod touch. My question: how are they kicking off this process from within the browser? It's pretty seamless.
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by evandavid 16y ago
The dishes needed rearranged in order to fit more in there. The original arrangement was never intended to be more than a prototype. I swear.
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by evandavid 16y ago
That said, I'm sure there is a target market out there who will be more than willing to use the product in its current format. I'm looking forward to seeing where this idea goes.

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