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danbee

300 karma · joined November 15, 2010

Web developer/designer in London. Photographer and musician.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/danbarber; my proof: https://keybase.io/danbarber/sigs/hxy03bGfbxc07m_mZ6jCOr676gQCRacfxdovvM0aEPM ]

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danbee··on Nintendo Opens Door to Smartphone Games
Remember the Nokia N-gage? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage_(device)
danbee··on Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M
I have a feeling this is the only way they can do it with iCloud. All other services take you to a service specific authorisation page.
danbee··on Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
Check the preferences :)
danbee··on UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
I see this ALL THE TIME. Makes me think that Apple did no testing with dual displays. I've noticed times where it's taken 2-3 seconds to settle down.
danbee··on 2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test
"email-instant reflexes" < This isn't the compliment I think they were going for!
danbee··on FreeBSD turns 21
I <3 FreeBSD! I run it on my HP Micro Server. Picked it for ZFS support and solid networking.
danbee··on The new archive.org
This is practically unusable in Safari on my MacBook Pro. It's a shame because once it actually loads it looks quite nice!
danbee··on Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape
Cats are very capable of looking after themselves.
danbee··on Ten years of Ubuntu
Ubuntu got popular during the 3 year period between Debian Woody and Sarge. I think many Debian users jumped ship because they got bored of waiting for a new release so a new distro that was basically Debian but up to date was welcome.

The joke around that time was that Debian was either obsolete or unstable.

danbee··on Please don't make us use iCloud anymore
Please don't add `letter-spacing: -1px` to Helvetica Neue. It's hard enough to read as it is!
danbee··on Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
Just a note: if your shell is set to something in `/usr/local` (e.g. `/usr/local/bin/zsh`), remember to set it back to `/bin/bash` before doing the move.
danbee··on iMac with Retina 5K display
Where are you seeing £300? It's £400 (well, £399).
danbee··on Logitech K480 – Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard
Wut? Dude, this isn't a mechanical keyboard. It'll be a membrane board or scissor switches.
danbee··on Show HN: The Artist Hunt – An intuitive way to discover music
Yeah sorry, perhaps I was a little bit harsh but I had the volume up on my speakers! I do however think it's very rude of a web page to start playing audio when it's opened and I'm glad to see that it's been fixed.
danbee··on Show HN: The Artist Hunt – An intuitive way to discover music
HOLY SHIT WHERE'S THAT MUSIC COMING FROM?!? [hits close button]
danbee··on Lytro’s Illum Is a Camera for Serious Photographers
You don't even have to spend that much. The f/4 version of Canon's 70-200 can be had for around $600 new and it's a fantastic lens.
danbee··on How a bug in Dropbox permanently deleted my 8000 photos
The moment you only have one copy of your files anywhere you don't have a backup.

I've heard it said that if a file doesn't exist in at least three different places it might as well not exist.

danbee··on Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
I'd really like to see some Mini-ITX/Micro-ATX choices on there for people that want to build smaller systems.
danbee··on Is TLS Fast Yet?
StartSSL offers free class 1 certificates. Don't know if that's any use to you.
danbee··on InstaNerd
"User 'instanerd' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 75000)"
danbee··on Font Awesome 4.1 released
Well, yes. But you can also upload your own SVG's.
danbee··on Font Awesome 4.1 released
[Icomoon](http://icomoon.io) lets you assemble your own icon font and includes Font Awesome.
danbee··on Static Site Generators
Could you post a link to your plugin?
danbee··on Bezier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial
If you're "that guy" I am too.
danbee··on OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone
My wife had the opposite experience with her 4. iOS 7 was quite a bit faster, particularly with regard to the camera startup.
danbee··on OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone
Ten years ago I'd get around 7 days out of my Sony J70.
danbee··on OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone
iPhone 4 is still getting updates after nearly 4 years.
danbee··on Does pono's 24-bit audio matter? Hear for yourself.
So I converted a few tracks to 8-bit with noise shaped dither. Have a listen and remember that the noise floor is now 48dB higher (8-bits) than it would be with 16-bit.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1h4z0quoybo60c0/O1SwT35Nve

danbee··on Does pono's 24-bit audio matter? Hear for yourself.
"Normal people use their equipment to listen to music. Audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment."
danbee··on Does pono's 24-bit audio matter? Hear for yourself.
It's probably worth pointing out that what you can hear there is dither noise. Quantization noise sounds far worse.
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