> Mouse gestures:
> Firefox has that (with an extension), I tried it but never liked it. I tend to play with my mouse all the time, and triggered gestures by mistake
Opera's built-in mouse gestures are infinitely superior to the FF extension, and are actually very useful. Tabs and mouse gestures were the reasons I went with Opera a long time ago. They also had some useful keyboard shortcuts that were pretty handy ('z' to go back in history, 'x' to go forward, etc) which made it perfect for quick surfing since my right hand manipulated the mouse, while my left hand was naturally positioned over these keys.
Unfortunately, there came a time when Opera suffered some intermittent and annoying crashes. I switched to FF, but it was much slower and the gestures were horrible. Finally, when Chrome came into the scene, I switched to it and never looked back.
Also, since my switch to a Macbook Pro, I can use the double-finger swipes for backward/forward navigation, which are really the only useful gestures for me.
Not to be outdone, I wrote my own genetic algorithm in Perl to do the same. It starts from randomly generated triangles, and evolves them to match the given image.
Here is the result of my first trial after 5000 generations:
For this run, I used 50 triangles, each at 50% alpha (fixed), a GA population size of 200, a crossover rate of 0.91 and a mutation rate of 0.01. It took around 12 hours to run, but that's mainly because I opted to do it in Perl and didn't spend any time optimizing it.
I was once in a mall, around noonish, when all of a sudden I saw a group of those Israeli sellers quickly close their two carts and run outside. Turns out that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents were in the mall looking for them.
A couple of hours later, they came back and resumed working as if nothing happened.
At one point, my favorite desktop by far.
As it happens, a few weeks ago I decided to take E16 for a spin after many many years of neglect. It still felt great and snappy. I'll be trying this latest alpha for sure.
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Your website was hacked and this is our response to you.
> You might need more thumb-rest room on the sides than you do on the iPhone, but not nearly as much as you do on the full-size iPad.
Why? The iPhone is meant to be held in one hand and manipulated by the other. The iPad has a different use model and hence a slightly different design. How would the use model of the iPad mini be different?
Admittedly, I never used Lightbox (nor Instagram for that matter), but it seems like Facebook is really terrified of photo-centric startups, and gobbling them up as soon as they show any promise. Why is that?
Twitter duplicates a lot of the wall/status part of Facebook, and you'll notice hardly anyone has a social media suite that copies Facebook statuses to Twitter, it's always the other way around.
Nobody really cares about Facebook games. The business pages are there for the users, and the users are there to share photos.
One of the most attractive things about the HN community is that people understand that the big business opportunities are connected to pre-existing human domains of activity transformed.
Facebook has taken the whole activity of bringing a carousel of slides over to your neighbour's house and showing them your trip to Peru and put it under one roof. That is a big deal.
On the other hand, just like Googlers always say, "the competition is only a click away". The strength and ease of use of Facebook also derives from digital photography. Any other website can take advantage of how much easier it is to share digital photos and the future competitor will likely enjoy a similar opportunity to scale up because the departure from Facebook will start as a trickle and grow slowly before tipping over in the same nightmare scenario that Mark Zuckerberg awakes from in a cold sweat every night.
His destiny is controlled by the 100,000,000 users in aggregate. While there's a great deal of inertia in that many people, you can't deny the flexibility of the Web.
The only problem is that I couldn't find a link to buy it from. Is it available yet?