thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage
Also, humans have spent a lot more time on computers and iPhones than they have listening to the Beatles.
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thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage
I think you're unfamiliar with the extent to which he's affected the way we interact with the devices we use every single day.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: You are getting sleeeeeeepy ...
I'm surprised nobody picked up on the seemingly obvious metaphor these metronomes are for people and behavior.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: The Flat Design Era
Very interesting. I'm pulling a lot of interface design inspiration from Layervault right now and saving it in the back of my head for later.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: New Apple maps app under fire from users
A car charger usb port has been a one of the more useful things I've gotten for my car in the past few years.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Amazon’s colorful new towers will put a bold stamp on Seattle’s skyline
Apple's new campus is designed specifically to increase collaboration and random encounters.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Moo acquire flavors.me
Could have something to do with their competitors (like Minted) becoming more focused on the community aspect of online stationery.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: IPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early
Don't these people have jobs?
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Why I switched to Spine.js
For #4, "Let’s say you fetched a record in one view of the app. Then you fetch and update that same record in a different view. In Spine.js, both records will update." This sounds like completely standard Backbone.js functionality to me. It just seems like the guy writing this post wasn't familiar enough with the framework to even begin making "why I switched" posts.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project
Any sci-fi book recommendations where I can read about this sort of thing?
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project
It's relevant.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks
"HN completely bans his name being mentioned in topic titles apparently."
Is this actually true?
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: How we keep GitHub fast
I just got finished reading his biography and I am nearly 100% sure he meant this literally.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop
At first I thought this would just be an easy CSS fix, and it almost is -- but the reason this problem exists is because they put that huge sidebar at the top of the page with the guy's face and four or five links under it.
Seeing as long posts and discussions are starting to become pretty common on G+ I hope that the G+ team invests some time into figuring out how to make everything more readable.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: What killed the Linux desktop
"Perhaps I'm set in my ways" -- I think this pretty much says it all.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Ghosts in the rom
Reading Steve Job's biography right now, and it was really surprising to me how little (almost insignificant) of a role Woz played at Apple after the first couple years there.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Why Ratings Systems Don't Work
In the context of a website like Netflix, where your recommendations and ratings for movies are based off of your history of ratings, aren't you the one rating the raters?
However, the type of rating mentioned in the OP and the type of rating on Netflix only seem to work in specific niches. I can't imagine how a website like Amazon would implement anything even close to what Goodfilms is doing.
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach
It's so upsetting being a 21yo just getting started in the industry. I finally find this awesome site with like-minded, motivated, and successful people, but all anybody can talk about is fixing it!
It seems like I'm always on the tail-end of communities. Is this just simply a case of the grass is greener for you veterans of HN?
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low
If there's one thing I've learned from my years of internet use, it's never use the word "irony."
thornofmight | 13 years ago | on: Filepicker.io partners with Aviary
Totally! Aviary is an awesome service. I was just asking for UI examples of good-looking image editors/uploaders.