revolutions

Looks like this one: http://www.azfonts.net/load_font/high_tower_text.html

A bit off-topic, but I couldn't find this and was very curious: What font are the slides using in the code snippets? It looks very clean--I didn't realize it was monospace at first.

In general, I agree that Helvetica looks much prettier on a Mac than on Windows (one of the main reasons I despise seeing font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; on pages). Some other fonts don't look too bad on Windows, though.

I don't know much about font rendering; this is just what I've noticed. For what it's worth, some screenshots of the same text with font-family set to Helvetica [0], Myriad Pro, and Segoe UI on Windows 7, Firefox.

Helvetica(/Arial): http://snag.gy/Jneor.jpg Myriad Pro: http://snag.gy/f2IJx.jpg Segoe UI: http://snag.gy/ujvpX.jpg

[0] This actually defaults to Arial, I believe, because afaik Helvetica is not bundled with Windows. (Is there no way to use asterisks on HN?)

I agree that in the long run it would be better for users; yet as a user, I'm used to clicking on the Okay button on the left. Every time I see one isolated application with the Okay button on the right, I'm going to have a slower/harder time knowing which button I need to press.

If one of your users uses 50 applications, and he uses yours once in a week, he's going to be annoyed at your application for being different; even if that "different" is supposedly better, reflexes have taught the user to scan the buttons in a certain way.

I'm not suggesting that the order we have now is better; but until one of the OSs or an application like Facebook moves to the "better" button order, I can't see why a designer might do so for his own application.

Dunno about others, but this is what I see: http://i.snag.gy/LPiss.jpg. I assume the author was using a "trusted PC," which he had previously verified.

What's really annoying about Hotmail passwords is the 16 character limit.

Edit: This is what Hotmail says about verifying a "trusted PC."

"To use this feature, you must access your account using Internet Explorer and have Windows Live Essentials installed."

Some of the newer PCs aren't too bad with this. My desktop sucks with sleep, but the two laptops I use are pretty flawless (though one's battery is terrible). I haven't shut one down in 3 weeks, and the other in a week. They're pretty standard, too; the good battery life one was around $600.

Haven't used a Macbook, though, so can't compare.

Just curious, have you worked at Microsoft before? (Serious question; I'm not trying to discount your opinion either way)

Ah, cool. Thanks! I'll keep that in mind, and send you an email sometime. I'd like to work on some small projects, take a few more classes, learn some new things for a while before applying again. No point applying repeatedly without having added anything, heh. Thanks for the reference, though; I'll be sure to annoy you sometime this year with an email.

Any tips on applying as an intern? Are the online applications a decent route? Sorry; not entire on topic, but I've wanted to intern there for years.

Mentioned this above somewhere, but thought I'd leave it here, too. Try Console. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

It makes working in Windows much, much nicer.

Try http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/. It's wonderful.

If you could do that well, that would be amazing. There was a post years ago from a Mozilla intern on "Lifestream." It's a little bit like your idea, but I've wanted this for so long. Still haven't figured out how to do this, so I shall wait to see how yours turns out instead.

Take a look: http://weizhou.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/prototype/

I personally think some of the ideas there are amazing. I attempted to contact the intern on whether there was any work still being done in this area, but received no response. I really hope someone can create a browser extension, or perhaps that Mozilla might still consider implementing this.

I currently have an obsessively organized library of bookmarks, which still fails me at times.

Edit: Is there any way to organize bookmarks within folders on your website? I see it is not possible in the bookmarklet.

Do you have a list or such? I'd love to use these. I've only seen MetroTwit, Zune, and this.

'Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there".'

You can't try it as soon as you sign up. If you sign up, you'll "be notified." That being said, I was once signed up for a Bing Newsletter, and they weren't too spammy. Still, wish I could try it without having to sign up.

It might be a good idea to have a bit more description on your main page, since not many would be willing to provide their email address without understanding what the product is.

To those who don't wish to provide their email address without understanding what the company is:

"Classfy is a marketplace that makes it easy for anyone to buy and sell anything in Bitcoins or Dollars.Forget about exchanges. Just buy and sell."

From a Google search description.

Suppose the prices of _x_ amount of storage was halved recently. If they stored their data in three replicas, shouldn't their price become (1/2)^3, or 1/8th the original price? That would only serve to prove his point further, or I'm missing something.

> Strictly speaking, it was a movie by-the-numbers

I wasn't trying to say this movie has amazing merit; just that it served its purpose in an industry and to an audience where it isn't very easy to do so.

Excuse my ignorance, but how does this work?

> I can imagine them being put off by how they went about it

Remember that we're talking about the same movie industry where a man can slap another man and have him fly some 20 feet, after which he gets up and starts dancing with a lover. Relatively speaking, 3 Idiots was sane.

The movie is filled with impossibilities, true. But have you seen Bollywood movies? Have you known the Indian audience they cater to? The impossibilities are the reason the movie did well; no half educated person is going to seriously attempt delivering a child with a vacuum over a webcam. At the same time, these stupid feats brought people to the movie, and forced them to realize how pathetically screwed up our education system is. Sure, we didn't do anything to fix it from that one movie--but for at least a few months, every time the movie was brought up, people started caring about changing the way our kids were taught.

I'm not suggesting this movie was something that raised awareness about an unknown issue, but it did succeed in bringing it to the forefront for quite a while, as Aamir's movies have been known to do. If you've seen other Bollywood movies, you know that 3 Idiots is a godsend when compared to the literally thousands of song filled intellectually vacuous love stories that we've been inundated with.

Furthermore, that suicide wasn't for the helicopter. It was after the dean called his (sick?) father, and told him that his son was not graduating that year. I do not remember the specific circumstances (I have terrible memory and watched this movie a few months ago), but claiming that the suicide was due to an engineering failure is ignoring many aspects of the student's life.

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As for the string solution--I don't really see why you need precision in cutting a pizza in 11 slices for a random customer. It's an interesting solution, one I hadn't thought of, and I'd say one that many others hadn't thought of. The point was to deal with what a cook would have in his hands, not a mathematically sound approach. While the latter might be clean, it would be physically impossible to implement with a pizza cutter that might not be sharp enough, or a pizza where the cheese and sauce still oozed over the crust* (in which case you never could get equal slices).

* You can tell I haven't had lunch yet.