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by scottjackson 13y ago
Pretty sure "Hell's Bells" starts/finishes in 19/16. A group of 7, a group of 7, then a group of 5.
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by scottjackson 14y ago
From the section of the iOS HIG about writing alert copy: > Avoid using “you,” “your,” “me,” and “my” as much as possible. Sometimes, text that identifies people directly can be ambiguous and can even be interpreted as an insult.
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by scottjackson 14y ago
> some more info on where you'll be gathering this information and how you'll choose to aggregate it My server basically spends the week trawling GitHub for trending projects, so the scope of what can appear in a newsletter is kinda lim
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Show HN: a weekly email about what's hot in your favourite languages(cccode.cc)
5 points by scottjackson 14y ago|6 comments
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by scottjackson 14y ago
> Website idea: show two random movies, ask them if they've seen both, and if they have, ask the user which one's better without prescribing what "better" means. Repeat 1 trillion times. http://flickchart.com
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by scottjackson 14y ago
> The best solution is to save the whole page, and annotate the bit of interest. Agreed. That's definitely something I'd love to see Gimme Bar do: in addition to showing me the quote I pulled out of the page, also give me the option to
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by scottjackson 14y ago
> I should not have to manually initiate the dropbox backup I'm pretty sure you only have to start it once. After that, anything you Gimme gets put into your Dropbox folder right away. At least, that's how my Gimme Bar works. I original
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by scottjackson 14y ago
I use Gimme Bar and love it. I also use Pinboard. Pinboard I use for pointers to things - GitHub projects that might come in handy in the future, development/design resources, particularly interesting Wikipedia articles, and other things li
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by scottjackson 15y ago
Related: a collection of custom UI controls for both iOS and Mac OS X: http://cocoacontrols.com/
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by scottjackson 15y ago
Great to see that the Chrome Web Store's URLs aren't any more usable than when it launched. "Oh, my app? It's at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omiekjeapoonbhieme...
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by scottjackson 15y ago
> If I remember correctly, Apple elected not to allow a 2 button mouse for a long time earlier in their history because they wanted to force developers to build apps that worked just fine with 1 button. I think you might be thinking o
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by scottjackson 15y ago
http://watchlaterapp.com/ will do offline caching (including Flash videos) to your iPad, but it's only a web/iPad service, so I'm not sure it ticks the "multiple device" box.
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by scottjackson 15y ago
There was the kerfuffle at the start of the month with QuickPick. Apple rejected an _update_ to an app that was already on the Store that duplicated (future) built-in functionality: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/08/quickpick-update-in-limbo-
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by scottjackson 16y ago
I sense you might be making a joke, but just in case: I'm pretty sure he means that three issues of The Daily have come out in the three days since the app's debut.
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by scottjackson 16y ago
Safari - vim. http://github.com/mutle/vim.safariextension Only a few keybindings, but I only really use it for the j/k page navigation. (Note: it does get overwritten by pages with their own keyboard navigation (flickr, tumblr's dashboard
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by scottjackson 16y ago
Agreed. I came here thinking the title was a Spies Like Us reference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lge2_H_8IQ Doctor.
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by scottjackson 16y ago
Agreed. Related: playing through Portal with the developer commentary on is really interesting. For anyone who's interested in this stuff, it's a must-listen.
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by scottjackson 16y ago
The first few panels (World 1-1 in Super Mario Bros.) reminded me of this: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=465 I love having any excuse to share this link. <quote> the big question of level design - and i mean that every level
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by scottjackson 16y ago
It's nothing like MT, but it's a fun site. A friend of a friend contracted someone on fiverr to design a logo for a project he was working on. I saw the logo the fiverr person produced, and it was the lamest thing I'd ever seen. Which you'd
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by scottjackson 16y ago
I stand corrected. Founders at Work , p. 41: <quote> The very first thought in my mind was, "I think I signed a document that everything I design belongs to Hewlett-Packard." Even just on my own time, I thought that they deserved i
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by scottjackson 16y ago
I was under the impression Woz didn't realise until after the Apple I was developed that HP might have the rights to it. From iWoz : <quote> Before the partnership agreement was even inked, I realized something and told Steve. Beca
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MobileDL - Instapaper for video(scottjacksonx.github.com)
1 points by scottjackson 16y ago|0 comments
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by scottjackson 16y ago
I believe the canonical term for them is "pages" (when you tap and hold a link in Safari, one of the options is "Open in New Page").
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I heard that people are just dying to get into that place.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
> HN is also running really pretty slow today. Just my luck. As soon as HN took a little while to load for me, I knew that someone would mention it in this thread. I made hn-api understanding that scraping HN is frowned upon, but also
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Oh, sorry. I didn't even think of that :) I'll look into it. Or, if some intrepid volunteer would like to contribute to the project, maybe they could.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
> It's not like you need karma updates every time you do a request to the API. Obviously. When a request is made to get stories from HN, no HackerNewsUser objects are created (and thus, no karma gets updated). hn-api will only update ka
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Thanks for the link. hn-api only makes one request when it gets stories or one request when you get a user's karma -- that doesn't seem like too much. I knew there was a velocity check on IPs (and that I was making an unofficial API), so
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I hear you -- in fact, I think I'll put something in the readme about that.
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Hn-api: a simple, ad-hoc Python API for Hacker News(github.com)
23 points by scottjackson 17y ago|10 comments

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