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by lajt 2y ago
I would do a Mobile app. It has a lot of benefits: - You control its release and marketing, so it's your show A to Z. - You talk to users about new features and bugs, which is great experience learning how to deal with user requests. -
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by lajt 3y ago
True re exploits, though I would think they would put more trust in the test proctors, since they have to by necessity anyway, and design with the priority on no data loss. The amount of stress on these kids and wasted time (5 hours for the
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College Board's Bluebook app crashes, loses data
7 points by lajt 3y ago|2 comments
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by lajt 4y ago
It makes me wonder how the vetting process occurred before? Did they ever have fake accounts sneak through in the past? I assume there was some contact with the real person/celebrity/company, but could a disgruntled ex-PR rep for
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by lajt 4y ago
Yes! The way it is now, the blue check's symbolism morphed from "verified account" to "paying account". It's very misleading from a UI standpoint to change the significance of the symbol like that.
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by lajt 4y ago
Another question: Why didn't Twitter just keep using whatever vetting process it used in the past on these Blue Check applications, but just charge for it now? From a semiotics standpoint, the signifier didn't change, but the sign
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by lajt 4y ago
Hey thanks for letting me know! That's great to hear. I'll keep an eye on it.
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by lajt 4y ago
We're building an iPad reader app that uses Apple's PDFKit, but we encountered JPEG2000s in the PDFs of the client's library, and PDFKit doesn't render them correctly. The frustrating thing is we're stuck with the i
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by lajt 4y ago
Fascinating article. When I taught my 16-year-old to drive recently (in the US), it became quickly apparent which auto controls are intuitive, and which are arbitrary and require memorization and habit. For ex: - Turning the steering wheel
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by lajt 4y ago
A small annoyance of Preview is that the PDFs it displays don't render JPEG2000 images correctly. I found this out due to the project we're on. Some of the PDFs were generated about 20 years ago with JPEG2000 images in them. Acrob
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by lajt 6y ago
The book "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig does a good job easing that "what if" regret. It shows how each "ideal/better" life can come with its own major negative consequences.
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NASA brings back worm logo(geekwire.com)
3 points by lajt 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: My iPhone app for mapping pins
1 points by lajt 8y ago|0 comments