gelstudios

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by gelstudios 7mo ago
sigh palm, we all miss you. > Your product needs enough features for the optimal user experience and no more https://cs.uml.edu/~fredm/courses/91.308-spr05/files/palmdoc...
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The Complexity Fetish: Why Are We Overengineering the Simple?(medium.com)
2 points by gelstudios 1y ago|2 comments
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Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?(blog.hyperknot.com)
56 points by gelstudios 2y ago|48 comments
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The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device(vfxblog.com)
65 points by gelstudios 2y ago|4 comments
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Ghosts in the ROM (2012)(nycresistor.com)
155 points by gelstudios 2y ago|23 comments
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Giving everybody the same length of cable to equalize latency in HFT(strategy.rest)
3 points by gelstudios 2y ago|0 comments
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PCEImage – ASCII encoded pixel art format and editor(memalign.github.io)
1 points by gelstudios 2y ago|0 comments
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by gelstudios 2y ago
From the various links in the comments, the telescope uses special filters in front of the lenses to capture the faint glow in specific wavelengths emitted by the circumgalactic medium (a new word for me!) aka "gas" around galaxie
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Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem(fornaxis.org)
62 points by gelstudios 2y ago|5 comments
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by gelstudios 2y ago
Curious, what does someone gain with MacTCP? I'm not familiar with the space, but a casual glance (not an assessment!) suggests that OpenTransport was standard-ish from system 7.6 onwards. Does it boil down to compatibility with older
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by gelstudios 2y ago
I've been playing with this for a few hours and had similar questions about scrubbing custom tokens or headers from the submitted data. One concern I have about the instant-replay feature is the potential performance implications when
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by gelstudios 2y ago
I would love to see that, especially if the project builds cleanly on all those platforms.
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by gelstudios 2y ago
https://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.html > June 5, 2002 - Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services to assist the Mozilla community, today anno
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A tool to capture 2G/3G/4G (some 5G) radio frames with Qualcomm based devices(github.com)
2 points by gelstudios 2y ago|0 comments
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by gelstudios 2y ago
I'm trying to avoid sounding overly nostalgic about Palm OS but it really was a nice personal computer. This snippet highlights the focus on UX (beyond the look and feel!), and as creators I think many of us can relate to (and maybe re
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Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended(posts.decontextualize.com)
2 points by gelstudios 2y ago|0 comments
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The Sound of Sorting – "Audibilization" and Visualization of Sorting Algorithms(panthema.net)
1 points by gelstudios 2y ago|0 comments
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by gelstudios 2y ago
Come to think of it, I wonder if this is why (or a factor in why) Apple serial numbers don't have any vowels in them. I think only consonants and digits are used in device serial numbers.
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by gelstudios 2y ago
Not meant as a nitpick but lots of links to docs are "dead" or redirect to that placeholder. quick example: on your home page both compliance links go nowhere.
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by gelstudios 2y ago
Have you ever had an SMS get chunked into two? A segment is the character (really byte) limit for a single message.
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by gelstudios 2y ago
Interesting, how are you handling A2P? Curious, what was the worst thing about Twilio? FYI I went straight for api examples, and the docs page looks like a placeholder https://docs.postack.dev/quickstart
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Commit/Bullshit Ratio(spakhm.com)
2 points by gelstudios 2y ago|1 comments
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The eXtreme Go Horse (XGH) Agile Development Methodology(medium.com)
2 points by gelstudios 2y ago|0 comments
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by gelstudios 3y ago
Assuming some values of "modern device" :) That readme should include a mention of its intended platform .... "on a playdate" Luckily you can run it in the simulator without one!
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by gelstudios 4y ago
The patron saint of hackers is making the rounds again. Whether you are a fan or not, his book "iWoz" is full of these stories like trolling casino pit bosses with the pad of bills. A few years ago I had the privilege of meeting t
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by gelstudios 4y ago
In a time where every constraint was extremely limiting (batteries, storage, cpu / SoCs, IO, displays) there were many interesting approaches to hardware and software designs for ultraportable computing. Almost very PDA in the market h
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Getting a Psion 5 palmtop from 1997 online via PPP (and a Raspberry Pi)(kianryan.co.uk)
107 points by gelstudios 4y ago|26 comments
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CCPS – a new SDK for CAPCOM’s CPS-1 platform(fabiensanglard.net)
1 points by gelstudios 4y ago|0 comments
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by gelstudios 4y ago
Thank you for sharing, and I'm sorry for your loss, fellow HNer. About 8 years ago I was enjoying a lazy morning with my dear grandmother, who was feeling particularly chatty as she insisted on making us breakfast. Having previously re
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Brutal Chat – A Social Experiment(brutal.chat)
3 points by gelstudios 4y ago|0 comments

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