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Re:Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:33PM (#49835755)
i personally have problems with tinnitus and hearing loss, and creatine use tends to trigger it due to water retention so i stay off the stuff.
Re:Claude Is a Contrarian on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:53PM (#49701036)
You mean like half the engineers I've worked with in my career? I wonder how we got here :)
Re:ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:03PM (#49540033)
Have you observed any humans and their decision making capabilities lately? :)
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:23AM (#48978540)
I believe that was an intent/goal of BAT in Brave.
Re:ubuntu.com is down on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:28PM (#47967798)
lots of canonical/ubuntu down https://status.canonical.com/
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:55AM (#47440582)
been in the python game a long time and i've seen so many tools in this space come and go over the years. i still rely on good ol pip and have had no issues. that said, we utilize mypy and ruff, and have moved to pyproject etc to remotely keep up with the times.
Re:Python Practical Package Packing 2024 on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:37PM (#40988303)
Yeah I gotta agree here, I'm not sure I've seen someone so opinionated with python. I tend to try to use things built into python or official recs until I hit an actual problem that needs to be solved.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:48AM (#8636629)
I'm not saying every choice they made is perfect. One of my qualms is the lack of backgrounds for button selection in areas with 'ok' and 'cancel' - which is one of the most important areas to give the user clear direction.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:32AM (#8635824)
Google is making a huge amount of progress in UI and UX; the company has historically been rather mediocre in terms of it's UI and UX, while Apple was always the star. Over the past year or so the roles have reversed, and Google continues making strides towards unifying their applications in a single user experience and ui paradigm that allows for simpler app use, particularly for new users.

It's easy to get upset when things change, but keep in mind that change can be positive and/or negative.

Re:Yahoo fires HR head. To focus on GPA for hiring. on Friday August 17, 2012 @08:05AM (#4395941)
Some big companies do, just not the ones you'd probably care to work at. If they make this choice they simply lose out on a certain set of individuals. Their loss, not yours.
Re:Google's garden in iOS on Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:54AM (#4391520)
Safari on OSX has always had the ability for a user to set their default browser preference (to chrome for example). I wonder if iOS will ever go this route.

I find it odd that Microsoft went to court for doing the same thing in Windows but it's okay for Apple to do it.

Re:Ask HN: Good iOS Tutorials? on Saturday August 11, 2012 @07:57PM (#4371350)
I just wanted to throw this out there:

you should first read the objective-c primer.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#referencelibrary/Ge...

You mentioned the apple docs feel complex to you but I'd honestly recommend truly taking your time and working through them as they really are the best.

As a long time Obj-C/iOS dev, web service interaction frameworks and/or best practices have been lacking for some time now. While RestKit works, it's learning curve is a tad steep and the sheer size of it can be a tad frightening in terms of 3rd party component reliance. If AFIncrementalStore is as great to work with as AFNetworking itself devs may have found themselves a new standard.
Re:Microsoft Moves from Followership to Leadership on Thursday July 05, 2012 @12:59PM (#4203828)
If Microsoft could actually release a desktop operating system that is properly designed visually and in terms of user experience, people could actually admire their PC's like they do in all of their stupid commercials. Their market share is so massive that a success in the desktop space could then drive growth in mobile as they actually have build a good UX there.
Re:Reality Greater Than Augmented Reality on Thursday July 05, 2012 @12:52PM (#4203784)
There _is_ usefulness to it if people would stop using it as a marketing/advertising tool and try to drive real value (which people need to be doing in general with mobile). We need to find uses within the enterprise or industrial space in combination with OpenCV.
Re:The Next Microsoft on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @03:07PM (#4195663)
I posted and complained about that same skeumorphic podcasts app today. Apple leads so much in the realm of hardware design but is starting to take steps backwards in it's own application/software design. I'm very anxious and hopeful for Microsoft to progress in this arena and give Apple some competition.
Re:Why RubyMotion Is Better Than Objective-C on Friday May 04, 2012 @11:56AM (#3928954)
Ramblings like this are a premier example of what is wrong with engineers today. If you are afraid to learn or use tools outside of ruby, you are not a true engineer. The world does not revolve around ruby.

Get some real iOS development under your belt before you make these broad assumptions.

Re:The Top Of My Todo List on Saturday April 21, 2012 @06:07PM (#3873162)
That list is now in my .plan
Re:Game versus App? on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @09:59AM (#3243300)
I think it takes a bit more deep analysis of what your skills & qualifications are along with what ideas you would have for either an app or game. Are you already an iOS dev?
Re:Jawbone UP Review on Sunday November 06, 2011 @08:38PM (#3204590)
I obviously can't say for sure how it works as I'm just an end user, but I can say you tell the device you are going to sleep and when you wake up. In between, it is obviously sensing your movement using the accelerometer, etc. My guess would be if you fidget around while you sleep this would be considered a light sleep.
Re:Jawbone UP Review on Sunday November 06, 2011 @08:35PM (#3204582)
From what I have seen thus far there is no export capability for the data. There's an outstanding question on the jawbone forums with no response http://forums.jawbone.com/t5/Product-Support/Can-we-export-o...
another facebook-only login... seriously guys, enough of this.
This has an uncanny similarity to Color, even that custom tab bar has the same exact icon placement. To me this looks more like a new version of Color with tight facebook integration... or perhaps FB got Color to to the dev for this while they are floundering right now.

I also find it odd that FB would spin out a separate app when all along they've been going for a unified experience in the iPhone app.

Re:Concurrent Downloads using NSOperationQueues on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @03:38PM (#2630540)
Nice tutorial summarizing this useful action. The ASIHTTPRequest lib is also good to note here as the ASINetworkQueue NSOperationQueue subclass allows for tracking progress of the entire queue in addition to a few other useful delegate methods

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use#about_ASINe...

another strength is this looks to be actively maintained

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