th3james
Inconvenience and dishonesty in programming
How will Nintendo monetise on mobile?
Re:Nintendo's Wii-U misunderstands what made the Wii a success
on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:39AM (#9456917)
Good point, I shall update the post to clarify
Re:Nintendo's Wii-U misunderstands what made the Wii a success
on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:38AM (#9456913)
Yeah, I'd forgotten about 'New 3DS'. Almost as bad as the iPad Air > iPad 2 mess Apple had going on.
Nintendo's Wii-U misunderstands what made the Wii a success
Building better products with Job-to-be-Done
Google Inbox and the cost of not making decisions
Re:Washing Machines: No Internet required (a rant about IoT)
on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @09:52AM (#8556721)
Good point. Consumer washing machines certainly don't seem to have much utility to me, but for shared appliances, something like what you suggested might make sense.
Maintenance and updates for machines and software could also be handled by a contract with the building (which isn't really desirable for consumer products).
Washing Machines: No Internet required (a rant about IoT)
How we test client-side JavaScript: Setup and Patterns
TDD is a feedback tool, not a religion
Re:Testing code is simple
on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:21AM (#6450207)
I absolutely agreed that writing high quality, maintainable tests is hard (in fact, I say so in the article). My point is really that the way testing is discussed, particularly in the Ruby community, makes testing seem more complicated than it is, and I think puts some people off.
Testing code is simple
BackboneDiorama - the fastest and easiest way to build Backbone.js browser apps
Re:ShowHN: BrowserLoop - Ableton-like music remixing in the browser
on Friday May 10, 2013 @08:07AM (#5685731)
Yup, just using audio tags, I wrote a short blog about it here: http://th3james.github.io/blog/2013/05/10/browserloop-remix-...
Re:ShowHN: BrowserLoop - Ableton-like music remixing in the browser
on Friday May 10, 2013 @08:05AM (#5685724)
Yeah, it is supposed to be in sync, and it should be work in both those browsers. What OS are you using?
ShowHN: BrowserLoop - Ableton-like music remixing in the browser
Re:Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:42AM (#5679691)
This is how iCloud works already, if all your music was bought from iTunes or if you're using iTunes match
Re:How iOS became an essential platform for making music
on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:57AM (#4250497)
This is definitely the big issue with iOS music apps. There is a lot of potential there, but unfortunately, doing anything serious is no fun at the moment, because you can't beat having proper hardware to control the real world interfaces apps try to emulate.
I've got a fair few synths for the iPad which I use with a akai 25-key controller, but even with that, knob-twiddling is really fiddly when trying to get sounds.
Would be good to see more apps trying to play to the touch interface's strengths. Figure from Propellerhead is a good example of something with a more thoughtful UI. A good Kaoss-pad like sampler/effect manipulator could also be really cool.