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by Gring 14y ago
Apple sells their devices around the world. They have decided to make the only way to get apps for them their own way, and to apply their american values to all countries. As a non-american I find these two decisions troubling, and they are
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by Gring 14y ago
Wow, absolutely love the Paparazzi concept. Have you got more ideas like these?
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by Gring 14y ago
No, but "tasteless horse radish" is a completely useless thing. Which is my point.
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by Gring 14y ago
That's a good point. But the end result should be "lots of great games". And I can't find them. This paragraph best sums it up: “Watch this—it never fails,” he said, bending over his computer keyboard. On one of his twin monitors, Hecker pu
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by Gring 14y ago
Sure there might be an outlier of a good game somewhere. But the current market drives future innovation. And the current market is "crap sells well". Let's guess what everybody is working on...
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by Gring 14y ago
Oh no, my point isn't about cause and effect. I believe that when they set out to do a great graphics engine, they don't have derivate, tasteless games in mind. They're actually doing innovative, great things well worth their time. The prob
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by Gring 14y ago
Well, an audience that doesn't look for variety, that instead only wants to hear the same story told over and over again - that's an uncultured audience in my book, no matter what story.
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by Gring 14y ago
It's my opinion, baddox. Look at this video (from the atlantic jonathon blow article), then tell me the state of video games is just fine: http://bcove.me/vf4eof01
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by Gring 14y ago
Yes. Portal was also an amazing use of modern game tech without being destructive.
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by Gring 14y ago
If you look at sales, 95% of Cry Engine game boxes sold were first person shooters. I don't expect anything different for the future.
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by Gring 14y ago
All that great tech, and the end result is just another game where you shoot people until they're dead, then repeat with more people. Sad, really.
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by Gring 15y ago
There are two books co-authored by Patterson and Hennessy. Which one do you mean? "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" or "Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface"?
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by Gring 15y ago
Agree. Larry was a child of its time. There should be no remake of "National Lampoon's Vacation", and for the exact same reason, for LSL.
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by Gring 15y ago
Great stuff. I'd love if it kept spinning if I released the mouse button during a movement.
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by Gring 15y ago
Note that while the iPad does indeed have a capacitive sensor element about every 6mm, the resolution when using a finger or stylus equals one pixel. The reason all those stylus balls are so big is to always be close enough to a at least on
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by Gring 15y ago
I had the same issue. Thanks for clarifying. This is something that should be improved in the next version.
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by Gring 15y ago
Didn't I just say I can tell the difference? What's your point? This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction!
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by Gring 15y ago
I just unpacked mine. Looks gorgeous. Although, I can still perceive the individual pixels if I look close enough. This is what I expected, because I often hold the iPad at about the same distance as an iPhone, and the iPad has still lower
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by Gring 15y ago
Not to forget that she is put into a glass box with the number five on it...
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by Gring 15y ago
Interesting. From your screenshots, Apple's maps are so bad it's not even funny. It's just very, very bad. Steve would've never allowed such a thing to ship. Is this a first sign that without an asshole with taste at the top, the erosion of
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by Gring 15y ago
Don't you think that submissions are motivated by getting to the home page? So with time, submissions become similar to what's on the home page. If the home page is so bad according to you, wouldn't you agree that the actual submissions sti
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by Gring 15y ago
As an alternative, just trust the HN home page algorithm. Stories seem to move up to a relevant max rank position, stay there and then move back down. Big stories stay in the top 5 for 20+ hours. Here's what I do: If I only have time to loo
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by Gring 15y ago
According to the screenshots, the spotlight icon is no longer on the top right, getting shuffled over to the left by presumably a new icon to invoke notification center. That's a really bad choice. The corners are the click targets fastest
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by Gring 15y ago
My problem with those responsive web sites is that they only react to changes of the browser window width, but not the height. For example, on this page, you can change the width so that we only see 3 short sentences. But if you change your
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by Gring 15y ago
My thoughts: - thanks for the free apps, I appreciate it - I don't like "roadblocks". Why don't you change the design on mahalo.com to feature your message prominently? - mahalo.com looks cheap, improve the design - why are you blogging on
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by Gring 15y ago
Me too. I was very unhappy with the way the mouse felt on OS X. I even considered switching. Then I found SteerMouse, and now I'm a happy camper. Highly recommended.
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by Gring 15y ago
The way I understand it, who controls the root servers can take down .se as a whole, but not individual .se domains. If the US would take down .se as a whole, big diplomatic issues would arise immediately, with the end result of either remo
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by Gring 15y ago
One of the things that might happen is that you get out of the car in the city, and the car drives itself to a parking space a few kilometers away. This will make all those inner urban parking spaces available for better use again.
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by Gring 15y ago
Why don't we let GPS satellites and NTP broadcast both "regular time" and International Atomic Time (TAI), and let each user use the one that fits best? So: satellite navigation, financial services and flight control systems use TAI, everyb
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Apple rejects Taposé because it’s too advanced(?)(nothingbuttablets.com)
2 points by Gring 15y ago|0 comments

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