thebigpicture

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by thebigpicture 14y ago
Is "responsiveness" the same as "responsive design"?
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
But if you construct the chest so no one can verify what's used to make it, what's the point? If Apple's products are quality all the way through, why can't I easily open up my iPod/iPhone/iPad? If it's quality all the way through, why woul
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
In some cases the 3d party stuff might be better than what Apple sells. Apple is a lost cause.
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
What you find ambiguous may not align with what others find ambiguous. You, as a nerd, know there are many options that "save" could entail. Does everyone else know that? What if a user has no idea about "save options". To them "save" mi
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
Sorry if I came across the wrong way. It's just that I find the "replace program x" idea to be counterproductive. It makes it far too easy to dismiss everything. Maybe the goal is not to "replace" Skype (that would probably imply duplicat
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
It must be great to have such naive clients.
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
Thank you MS Research for a dose of sanity. "Big data" seems very potent as far as marketing buzzwords go. It plays on people's ignorance and the general sentiment of "too much information". I'll be keeping this pdf in my "rebuttals to id
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
I think icons can be arbitrary. That's because I've seen some that are so obviously idiosyncratic to the developer; they bear no relation to the function that I can decipher. Some of them I can't even tell what the heck they are. "WTF is
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
fmt 1 < file seems like it might be handy i don't understand his first one though. i thought both linux and bsd greps had the -H option (show filename). here's some more: 1. sed t file instead of cat file 2. echo dir/*|tr '\04
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
But a floppy disk is not a metaphor. The metaphor is a "file" as a description for a series of electromagetic charges on a floppy disk. It is indeed interesting that children may likely interact with email before postal mail. But postal m
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
Maybe he just meant from the user's perspective. If someone just wants to able to call their friends and family, they do not need 32 million users to switch over to anything. What they need are simple instructions and the code to set up t
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
Using a computer to do the things we normally do, e.g., sending bits to each other, requires that we adopt metaphors. Even something as basic as a "email" is a metaphor. How long does it take to learn a new metaphor? How difficult is it? I
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by thebigpicture 14y ago
Asking users to participate in "two-factor authentication" seems like a great way to match people's personal information to particular devices. So maybe we have a double-edged sword here. If you want to be able to authenticate you have to