qwzybug

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by qwzybug 11y ago
Right back atcha, bro; your willful ignorance of the topic or any other solution is, I would say, a focus of your piece. Done: [x] Identify a problem ("overpaid millennial techies don't keep track of their spending because they ju
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by qwzybug 11y ago
"I didn't have time to actually make or keep a budget, or learn anything about the topic, so I spent six months writing an app that is basically Mint, but slightly prettier, and worse." Don't ever change, tech dudes!
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I've noticed the same thing with audio amplifiers. I just moved into a relatively small apartment, and have been shopping around for a compact stereo amplifier that apparently doesn't exist—good-sounding audio seems to exist in this weird m
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by qwzybug 16y ago
wget http://some.dudes.site/cool_stuff.tar untar cool_stuff.tar cd cool_stuff ls Oh but whoopsy-doodle, cool_stuff comes with this extra-cool script: cat ./ls #!/usr/bin/my-favorite-scripting-language
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by qwzybug 16y ago
See elsewhere in this thread: [Flash] appears to under-perform on every platform I have except Windows (Windows in VMware + Flash is better than native Mac Flash, I swear!). Flash has been an albatross for Mac users for a decade. It has p
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by qwzybug 16y ago
The neat thing about iOS and MacOS, compared to Windows in VMWare, is that iOS apps are never 'emulated' on MacOS—they're 'simulated'. In fact, I'd wager that during its development, Angry Birds was run on a Mac far more often than on an iO
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by qwzybug 16y ago
All very good points, and I think we agree on the major bits. Reading over my last post I think I might have been unclear on the main takeaway: desktop apps are fundamentally different from mobile apps. If Apple lets us write apps that run
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Disclaimer: I am an iOS developer. Dave might be right in broad strokes, but the post is very muddy on what it would mean for "iOS apps" to run on the MacOS. Fundamentally, it would be pretty straightforward for Apple to allow iOS apps to b
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Try to get all the way into W+K if you can. It's like an ad agency from a Valve game. Absolutely one of the craziest spaces I have ever been in.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
For some reason it always astonishes me how incredibly reactionary geeks are. We're supposed to be the neophiles. Listen: for the first time in history, ordinary people are actually using computers , every day, in their real lives, and we'
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Flurry iOS analytics: "the sale of virtual goods is overtaking advertising"(blog.flurry.com)
5 points by qwzybug 16y ago|2 comments
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Disk images are one of the most confusing things about day-to-day Mac OS X use, no question. The next time you're at a relatively non-technical friend's house, apple-click on Firefox or Chrome in their Dock. Dollars to donuts, it resides on
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by qwzybug 16y ago
The in-ear phones have great sound, but they fall apart after about six months unless you're super OCD about wrapping them up in the case every time.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I hate multitasking as much as the next guy (more probably), so I definitely empathize with your thoughts on maximization. (It's also interesting to note that the iOS, Apple's Next Big UI Thing, has no concept of windows at all.) However, I
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Pedantry: in iTunes the song plays when you hit Return; Enter will rename. Still different from the Finder (where Return renames), but not quite the same thing.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Ugh, the visual cacophony going on the background behind my applications in OSX are so f-ing distracting, I spend most of my time on a Mac moving the damn windows around and individually minimizing them so I don't have to look at them all
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I'm not sure how to take that.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Biking in DC is insanely dangerous, and the cyclists here are some of the worst I have ever seen. There is some kind of massive and fundamental lack of recognition that they should at least try to follow some of the traffic laws, sometimes,
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Sorry, should have qualified that. "No one has figured out how to make money on the Internet except by making games that people will pay not to play[1], somehow managing to sell poorly-animated GIFs for a buck as 'birthday presents' [file u
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by qwzybug 16y ago
That's the whole problem: iAds is, to a large extent, a capitulation to the fact that in 20 years no one has figured out how to make money in online digital goods with anything other than an advertising model. Apple has gotten the closest—I
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by qwzybug 16y ago
US CBP is always a pain in the ass. I never have as much trouble entering any foreign country as I do reentering my own. Ludicrous, really.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Nitpick: Nitpicking the historical accuracy of a reference to a '50s musical is a little nitpickier than average. (Next you're going to tell me the Jellicle Cats aren't really coming out tonight…!) But yes, point taken. :)
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I think King Arthur had the last word on this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZUibOUX28 He was the Joel Spolsky of the Middle Ages, I'm telling you.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Composing presentations, preparing invoices, sketching, Monkey Island, writing. The retina display makes a huge difference for reading, so I tend to use the iPhone for feeds and things, but for anything creative the iPad is the clear winner
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by qwzybug 16y ago
As I understand it, "well temperament" is something of a blanket term for many systems that attempted to find a universal tuning. We don't really know how Bach's clavier was tuned for his notion of well temperament.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Thanks! I love how it came out graphically as well. I think it succeeds at physicality without being too kitschy. Maybe. It relies pretty heavily on a lot of internal DNC technologies, though I'm sure the Republicans have similar systems. A
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by qwzybug 16y ago
We linked to the product page in an earlier submission and it was killed, which seems odd to me—people link to their iPhone apps all the time, and honestly this is a pretty nifty and interesting one. If someone feels this is inappropriate f
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Full disclosure: I developed this app, and Nancy's article really gets to the meat of why I'm excited about it.
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Technology in the world: canvassing on the iPhone(techpresident.com)
9 points by qwzybug 16y ago|5 comments
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by qwzybug 16y ago
A Clockwork Origin, two episodes later, pulled together the panspermia hypothesis, the debate between intelligent design and evolution, the singularity, and clear send-ups to Second Variety and Planet of the Apes. Plus, Bender learned how

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