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Chad Etsell

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cwe··on Apple is in danger of being boring
I don't understand why people need color monitors.
cwe··on First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images
seriously, though, what's with the blacked-out sections?
cwe··on First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images
So the sections of the horizon that are missing are the martian cities, yes?
cwe··on An Asynchronous Image Uploading Interface for Svbtle
How does the author control where this image appears? If there's no visual confirmation/representation, how can they be sure they put it in the right place? Are they inline? Some controls will be needed.
cwe··on Wikipedia Redefined
The capital "J" was pretty bad too, dropping under the baseline, for no other reason than to differentiate it from that stupid "I"
cwe··on An Unexpected Ass Kicking
I don't know about svg's, but Pages can do all of this stuff. It's not just a word processor, but a very good age layout tool. You might want to check it out before dismissing the iPad so quickly.
cwe··on Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
First, as others have mentioned, this guy has already rejected buyout offers. Secondly, these are game developers, not gaming system builders. These guys want this headsets in every house, but don't want to sell them. They want to build the games that everyone plays in these things.
cwe··on Uruguay could be the world’s first marijuana republic
And as Brennan mentioned above [1], what about Portugal?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4314916

cwe··on Purported photos of new iPhone 5
Yeah, I was coming back to this thread to mention this. The antenna around the outside works fine, so the back could be entirely metal, no glass needed. Very bizarre design.
cwe··on Purported photos of new iPhone 5
I find it hard to believe they'll take a step back in the design with that metal/glass back. Although I guess it would be their way of admitting an all-glass back was a bad idea. I'm still hoping they'll manage to fit the larger screen into the same overall size as the 4s (though still thinner). These longer bodies seem lazy.
cwe··on Why isn't iTunes shuffle random?
This is the best, simplest way to describe what's going on. Well said.

Personally, I think this is the ideal behavior. I want a random playlist, but want to play through the whole thing as time goes on. Pure shuffle would give me a new playlist every time I went to a podcast or some other random song, whereas shuffling a playlist means I can go back to where I was in that random list, and not worry about hearing the same stuff again.

cwe··on Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
Do you consider SMS private communications? Your cellphone carrier is just as likely to eavesdrop on your SMS history as FB does your chats.
cwe··on Hiring Employee #1
That and the frowny face say conflicting things. Are you happy to be working in the states?
cwe··on Udacity aims to teach 160,000 students statistics
I got into some of the basic codecademy javascript class, and did enjoy it, and also complete CS101 and CS253 in Udacity. That's in Python, so the comparison may not work all that well, but with the videos, homeworks, and forums, I learned a whole lot more from Udacity. As a beginner, I would recommend CS101. Right now Udacity is mostly programming, but in the article they mention a few new classes starting up soon in Math and Physics. Eventually they hope to branch out further and teach everything.
cwe··on Dear Marketers: Enough with the QR codes
ah, thank you. Always been confused by this.
cwe··on Dear Marketers: Enough with the QR codes
how can your favorite tumblr be empty?
cwe··on [dead]
It's too bad the link is for the dashboard for the project, rather than the actual project, prompting a log-in
cwe··on Show HN: Blockify
Please build an informative landing page. Even if it's just a couple sentences (maybe these two from your comment?) and a screenshot. Thanks
cwe··on The Case for Facebook
I would just like to thank the OP and the Atlantic for including a tl;dr section, is this becoming standard practice in our 140 character world?
cwe··on App2Card.com business cards for your App. Now supports Google Play
You know that tumblr is empty right?
cwe··on What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education
I took CS101 the first time around, which did have hard due dates. Now I'm in CS253 and the homeworks are much more flexible. They still have dates, but they are more for when the solutions are posted, and homeworks can be submitted after that. I think the actual grading will be on the final project. I like this method much better, as I have been in the same boat, falling behind because life gets in the way.
cwe··on IOS Low-Hanging Fruit
That sounds like an interesting project for an indie app developer. foursquare, highlight, and others have been working on geofencing stuff, so it's not impossible.
cwe··on Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?
That lackluster Google experience is exactly why Apple is building a replacement in-house. They are sick of dealing with Google undercutting them.
cwe··on Europe's space program heads to Jupiter
... in a decade. Hopefully.
cwe··on Go Back In Time: How 10 Big Websites Looked 15 Years Ago
Anyone else appreciate the irony of the lone Google ads appearing between the description and screenshot of Google's page?
cwe··on Atari Sketches of Laptops and Wikipedia from 1982
Some video game companies still are: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/13/2947088/valve-reveals-secr...
cwe··on Google Maps Floor Plans
Why would this be Android only? Isn't there value at all in having this on a full computer?
cwe··on FamilyLeaf's (YC W12) Y Combinator Application
Your experience may have been different, but it is less addictive than alcohol, caffeine, or chocolate. http://www.drugsense.org/tfy/addictvn.htm
cwe··on FamilyLeaf's (YC W12) Y Combinator Application
I'm glad to see people being more frank about this. As more people like you come forward, hopefully the stigma around it will fade. I've admitted it when appropriate, but been very hesitant to do so, even though I think the experience was incredibly valuable and shaped who I am.
cwe··on The pull-to-refresh patent
I am having a hard time figuring out where Apple would ever implement this. They don't have any news apps or readers or anything that could really benefit from this. The only app I can really see is Mail, since it does have a refresh button that could be replaced, but Apple doesn't really like to depend on gestures.
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