lotides

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by lotides 12y ago
I've been trying to learn to code (I'm a designer) for a while now. I've read books, played around with making things and I'm now taking the JavaScript course on Codecademy. It taught me: var functionName = function
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by lotides 12y ago
The science is never done. I hate, HATE, hate when people treat science like we already have all of the answers. > and GMO foods have decisively been shown to have no health impact. No, the studies done thus far, with specific controls t
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by lotides 12y ago
I'm not sure the point of this article. She didn't spend much time attacking specific myths. I see so many people these days running to defend these giant corporations and their processes from creating food as quickly and cheaply
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by lotides 13y ago
(Haven't used this account in a while, not sure if it's shadowbanned. Hope you can see this.) No matter what you think of Apple, or Google, and their respective ecosystems, I'm curious what people think of Samsungs popularity
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by lotides 14y ago
My son is extremely allergic to wheat and milk. We have to carry an epi-pen with us everywhere. He swells up, including his face and throat, when he comes in contact with these allergens. It's cost us thousands of dollars in hospital bills,
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by lotides 14y ago
Dan Pallotta wrote an article titled "When My Business Failed". It included a quote that explains the Apple/Android war perfectly: > I've learned that the adage about innovation is true — that at first, people say your idea is absurd, t
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by lotides 14y ago
I guess I'll be the voice of opposition here. Unlike a lot of you, I live in Georgia and own guns. My family, friends and co-workers also own guns. I currently only own a small 9mm handgun. I'm licensed to carry it concealed on me and do fr
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by lotides 14y ago
> third party software feels a little bit more likable (UI-wise) than it used to be. That is the important thing so many Android fans seem to ignore. The OS isn't as important as the 3rd party apps. Android developers are of tremendous
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by lotides 14y ago
> Apple will go bankrupt again in the 2030's I hope not. Apple is one of the few companies making an effort to design software and hardware together. Until other companies realize you can't have a good user experience without considerin
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by lotides 14y ago
> Of course Windows Phone though the most beautiful OS of the three is well behind these two. Agreed. And iOS 6 is pathetic. I feel completely let down. Apple continues their push to make iOS look like shit with each release by adopting
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by lotides 14y ago
I've tried a few. Nothing too exciting. The 3rd party software kind of ruins the Android experience. Google can't do too much about that. I was far more impressed with the Windows Phone actually. I also liked webOS and I'm excited to see wh
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by lotides 14y ago
My point was if we're supposed to root for a winner (which is stupid), it hardly seems impressive to use an article like this as your argument. The reason so many care about these numbers is they want to use them to say their OS is better t
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by lotides 14y ago
You're right, I am an Apple fan. OS X has done amazing things for my productivity since I switched and I've done a tremendous amount of "creating" on the device people say is only for consumption (the iPad.) When my iMac had an issue, Apple
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by lotides 14y ago
So, the iPhone is almost even in sales with the entire Android ecosystem consisting of thousands of models, many of them cheap or free to consumers. Am I supposed to be impressed?
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by lotides 14y ago
Time to turn off the talk radio, buddy. People can't get jobs that don't exist. The people on unemployment, disability or other government benefits didn't conspire to ruin the economy. They're just trying to feed their families and survive
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by lotides 14y ago
I know I'll get a lot of shit for this but good riddance. I hope it never comes back. I've felt this way since I found my stolen accounts posted on Pastie and they ignored requests to take it down.
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by lotides 15y ago
No topic has made me more disappointed in the Hacker News community than this one. It's frustrating to see my livelihood attacked by the very people I try to help every day. It's not the "big agencies" that spec work hurts. It's people like
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by lotides 15y ago
This thread is the perfect example of why I don't participate on HN as much as I do other communities. HN has great articles but the FOSS extremists run the comments. 1. Repeated articles proclaim: Android overtakes the iPhone in sales. Wha
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by lotides 15y ago
> If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously. I don't use Facebook. But other people in my home use Facebook which means they're tracking what I do—as a
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by lotides 15y ago
I see no evidence to suggest Apple is trying to kill Flash. It looks like a bug. Due to performance issues, security issues (on a closed platform), battery life issues and finally, issues of building a strong and stable developer community
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by lotides 15y ago
For those that didn't read the Ars review: Apple has done major security updates in Lion, including the use of sandboxing. I suspect the OS isn't giving Flash permission to directly access the hardware. If true, Adobe will need to release a
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by lotides 15y ago
I'm very surprised by the reaction here. I always viewed this community as open platform advocates. Windows 8, which seems to have a new touch UI layer and ARM support, is far more open than Windows Phone 7. My prediction is the Windows 8 t
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by lotides 16y ago
That was very difficult to read. It was more of a rant filled with rambling generizations than a coherant argument. And what an inflamatory headline. I've read it twice and I'm still not sure what he expects to accomplish from his accusatio
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by lotides 16y ago
Kids aren't for everyone. For that matter, neither are marriage, startups or traveling. The only difference with kids is there is no "undo" and you can't quit. If you don't want to live a selfless lifestyle, don't have kids. My son just tur
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by lotides 16y ago
Sigh. I love design. I have for a long time. I went to school for it, read countless books, attended confrences, interned, learned the theory and execution and paid my dues. I just want to help small businesses and startups have great desig
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by lotides 16y ago
Why I don't contribute to open-source projects: I feel like a second-class citizen around developers. And I don't want to venture in to the lions den. After all, I "just make things pretty", right? I hate politics. Many open-source projects
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by lotides 16y ago
Can Gawker be held legally liable for maintaining poor security standards and incompetence leading to this? Can anybody cite related laws or cases?
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by lotides 16y ago
OS X users — Use MetaDataMover to move and rename automagically based on embedded metadata. I have folders for year, month and day. The file name includes the camera name (we have several) and a sequential #. We try to remove poor photos as
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by lotides 17y ago
I find the whole "spirit animals" B.S. a little passive-aggressive and quite offensive. That has nothing to do with the effect of design on business goals. And if you have a problem with your designer dragging things on then find somebody e
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by lotides 17y ago
Yeah. I did web development before I went to school for design so I've seen both sides. I even took a CompTIA A+ course at one point and run Ubuntu on my Mac. Developers and designers both have the same anal-retentive tendencies, this need

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