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papalalu··on Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer
that's interesting.. i would have said from feel that accelerating and especially sprinting up hills i was pulling up - but perhaps the benefit is just that my feet are stuck to the pedal at the top rather than lifting off.
papalalu··on Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer
i feel "panniers lol" is an appropriate response here.

my jersey pockets are full, that's the point.

papalalu··on Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer
i'm not! the rapha stuff is pretty high tech, merino/synthetic blend - i just wear shorts over the bottom half, partly because i feel somewhat exposed in just lycra, partly because it's kind of drafty without. another benefit is more pockets for longer rides. i'm not sure what the shorts are made from, but they're not straight cotton anyway - they don't seem to absorb sweat.
papalalu··on Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer
i just came back from a 100 mile ride - you're a nutter to be doing it without cleats - you lose so much energy and it's asking for foot/ankle problems if you don't have stiff soles. i hope you had straps at least.

as for the lycra i have to say i feel the same way.. it stays underneath or is replaced by too-expensive rapha stuff where applicable.

nice tshirts anyway.

papalalu··on Show HN: a tiny Instagram projector
it appeals for the same reason instagram appeals - why not leave your photos as they were shot, without losing detail by adding filters?

i like it, it's cute, cheap enough to be a fun gift, and the kind of ridiculous steps your photos have to go through appeals. kind of like http://instacrt.com/

papalalu··on Great design from Apple on an interaction with Siri
maybe you do if you're close to falling asleep.
papalalu··on Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI
something which you need to learn, and does not necessarily work with your design
papalalu··on Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI
give me a touch screen and i will prefer the slider
papalalu··on A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best
when it comes to charge times, is there any difference between a cable from my computer or kindle/plug charger?
papalalu··on Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving
it's cool. but it is in no way unnerving.
papalalu··on A new kind of fractal?
reminds me of points on a 3d grid..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60CnwbngWWw&t=15m10s

papalalu··on I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/designs to your clients
well i can't make ANY difference on windows (vista right now but i've tried 7) and chrome. http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ainmF
papalalu··on Why I Two-Space
unless you use Chrome on Windows http://i.imgur.com/aoPOh.jpg
papalalu··on I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/designs to your clients
I've never got that trick to make any difference, actually.
papalalu··on I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/designs to your clients
this is unrelated, sorry - but good lord font rendering is awful in Chrome on Windows..

http://i.imgur.com/cMren.jpg

chrome left, firefox right

papalalu··on You are getting sleeeeeeepy ...
london's "millennium bridge" mentioned briefly in the first article.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiaM_LZUsqM
papalalu··on To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
the test that your helmet has to pass is a 12.5mph impact.
papalalu··on To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
the fact is that a helmet is not enough to guarantee your safety - if cycling without one is "nuts", cycling with one is too.
papalalu··on NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch
presumably the 8 year old design would use already-proven tech too..
papalalu··on First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images
or wind.
papalalu··on This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars
they seemed to be expecting dust on the hazcams, which i think i remember them saying (it was very early..) still had covers on them for the first shots.
papalalu··on The GoPro Army
Really the only downside for average consumers is that the gopro doesn't give as spectacular images in low light - for obvious reasons at that price point, and i haven't seen any alternatives that do much better. this is also an aspect that is rapidly improving.. right now, i don't see any way to jump on this bandwagon. they do it too well.
papalalu··on Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
you're right - you didn't get it.
papalalu··on Show HN: An iOS AR game playable off of t-shirts
a sticker (i suppose peelable ideally) on the back of each other's device could give some interesting options..

i also think they are missing a trick not having the pattern on the front and using the then known position of the wearer's head in some way..

perhaps the two could be combined into some kind of shield/shooter duel, in which case you could still flog the tshirts as part of the game.

papalalu··on Device turns Android phone into computer. A reason to make HTML 5 apps?
thanks!

this makes a lot more sense now..

papalalu··on How I salt my own passwords and sleep a little better at night
in most password leak situations the issue is that you've used the same password elsewhere.. if it doesn't work, move on. It's unlikely you would be targeted specifically in such a situation.
papalalu··on On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of… Microsoft Israel?
no bluetooth..

also "back" doesn't seem to work, i have to go home/close manually

papalalu··on I can style a whole app with only four hex values and SASS.
It's not just something like changing colours, though i have had to do that - it's applying the colours in the first place.

Rather than trying to remember a previous hex, or looking it up, you can think ok, this should be the darker highlight colour - and as you say, looking later you know which colour that is.

It's not just colours - a good example is a clearfix. Rather than add it to the markup, you can add it via css, and of course if you change it, you change it once.

papalalu··on How To Design The Perfect HTML Newsletter
there is little worse in this industry than having to build an html newsletter.. i've got a bit of sick in my mouth just thinking about it.
papalalu··on MakerBot + Pinterest = $250 Million in Sales
so what does this have to do with pintrest? is it just the pictures of cakes?
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