JoelSutherland

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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Wait, if screwing over developers doesn't affect 99% of users, what is the point of doing it in the first place. To capture 1% more revenue? I suspect in reality they expect their change to ultimately affect more than 1% of the user base. A
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Here is a video comparing the 3gs to the 4s for internet browsing speed. The complicated sites are much different the simple sites are basically the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSYkdyfuTA I expected it to be more of a blowout on
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Raw speed per core is increasing DRAMATICALLY in mobile. Faster than even Moore's law would dictate. As the die process has shrunk, more transistors are fitting within the mobile TDP ceiling so modern processor methods are finally getting u
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Intel Medfield idles at 2.6 Watts and peaks at 3.7 Watts. The Windows 8 tablets will be using its successor, Clover Trail. there are roughly 40 tablets that will launch with it. Intel isn't efficient enough for phones (see the comment below
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Why would they build a Windows RT tablet? Intel now makes price/performance/power-competitive x86 chips that can run full Windows. Microsoft only made Windows RT as a hedge against another Intel mobile failure and as a way to push developer
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Pinch and zoom in 2001 on a capacitive screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waSXkJBKT1s&t=2m19s This was presented in the case. Apple argued it didn't represent prior art because: 1. The screen was a projector and therefor this show
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
I haven't made any IP statements, broad or otherwise. I agree that the issue is surely complex. It does seem fair to assume that I can use logic and literacy to at least isolate the items I don't understand. If you look a few comments down
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Awesome find. It's a shame that several of the relevant pages are not included in the document. I assume for trade secret reasons? Either way, the ONLY two Apple refutations are: 1. The display is not integrated in the device 2. The video
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
I don't buy that. A projector is a display, right? Otherwise this sentence would be possible: "I showed my powerpoint the the executive board without using a display". Either way it doesn't seem relevant since it is capacitive and display-c
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Hi, I'm a poster on Hacker News and I can read. Here is the core claim from the '915 patent: A machine implemented method for scrolling on a touch-sensitive display of a device comprising: 1. receiving a user input, the user input
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
"The new boss, Dick Costolo, realized that if the company wanted to make money, it would need to stop allowing all the food trucks and delivery services from taking everything made at Twitter." This was not the only option.
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
In 1985 the average age of a car on the road was about 6 years. In 2012, the average age is over 11 years. This has a number of obvious implications on new-car purchasing behavior of young people: 1. It's much easier to buy a used car now s
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Interesting. There are too many non-interesting, but pedantically correct comments that derail discussions. The community goal of an HN comment thread should be to unearth the most interesting, useful aspects of the submitted content. Corre
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
I started with the OTF files here: http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/ Then I messed around a bunch with the advanced options on the Font Squirrel @font-face generator: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator I don't re
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
When the survey initially came out I was randomly given Computer Modern. The day before, I had painstakingly converted Computer Modern it to a webfont for a friend's blog ( http://www.krisjordan.com ) and I was shocked to see it on nytimes.
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
A subtle point this article makes is that pure black doesn't exist as displayed by your monitor. #000 is just the darkest value your monitor can display. Across monitors, contrast ratio can vary by over an order of magnitude. I'm not saying
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Bloatware is only half of the problem that I mention. The hardware components they use are also cheap. I don't mean 'cheap' in the sense of 'good value', I mean 'senselessly cheap' and 'bad value'. They use the worst 1366x768 TN panels in
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Is there a company that better epitomizes the problems Microsoft has had over the last five years? Acer consistently puts out inferior quality machines made up of the cheapest components they can find. Then they install bloatware. Consumers
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
They absolutely need to price it low for their own sake. The point of the initial surface tablet, and Windows RT itself is to force devs to develop Metro apps so that Windows 8 can have a compelling tablet experience. The end game is not Wi
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
They could be morons for any number of reasons besides age. No need to speculate.
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
This is not new. In gym class 20 years ago the teacher put in an old "how to shoot with Rick Barry" VHS. Proper shooting included a moderate number of revolutions and focus on the back iron. Every basketball camp in the country explains how
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
For systems with a keyboard and a mouse, Windows 8 is just Windows 7 with a new, full screen start menu. If you unplug your keyboard and mouse, you get a UI that is designed for touch. Makes sense to me.
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
It's not slight, area grows as a square. It has over twice the screen area of a 4.6" phone. So it's half the size of a 10" tablet, and twice the size of the largest phones.
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Hardware-wise, this is competitive with the very best Android tablets that are currently out. Only the Transformer Prime Infinity seems to best it, and that isn't available for order yet. This is certainly a case of 'price as a signal'. The
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Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review(anandtech.com)
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Or, do the best of both worlds. Get your web server involved and it becomes brainless: http://www.gethifi.com/blog/Automatic-file-minification-on-n...
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
I use Drupal (when required) in exactly in the way you describe, building Views and customizing the output. It's workable, but compared to the alternatives it's a pain in the butt. If you haven't checked out other content management systems
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
If you really want to dive in deep, this could be a fun place to start since it covers the upcoming finals: http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/uweqv/nba_finals_play_a... It's done by a redditor, Mens_Rea who has written up tons of stuff
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Flagged. The title is misleading and the very first sentence is factually inaccurate. MS is not eliminating Aero ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero ) they are eliminating Aero Glass ( http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2
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by JoelSutherland 14y ago
I'm now seeing some HTML5 stuff. Certainly having an Ivy Bridge i3 available for $400 will accelerate that trend.

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