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Pretty sure "Hell's Bells" starts/finishes in 19/16. A group of 7, a group of 7, then a group of 5.

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 am…

> 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 t…

> 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 …

> 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 quo…

> 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 a…

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, part…

Related: a collection of custom UI controls for both iOS and Mac OS X: http://cocoacontrols.com/

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...

> 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 ju…

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.

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…

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.

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…

Agreed. I came here thinking the title was a Spies Like Us reference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lge2_H_8IQ Doctor.

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.

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. the big question of le…

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 prod…

I stand corrected. Founders at Work , p. 41: 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 …

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 : Before the partnership agreement was even inked…

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").

I heard that people are just dying to get into that place.

> 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 un…