MrScruff

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by MrScruff 14y ago
The bigger problem (IMHO) is going to be certain elements and metals that aren't so easily replaced. I agree with the author that getting certain elements from space is going to be economically tricky (rather than technologically tricky) c
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I imagine this is an intentional omission based on Apple's own research. Personally, while I'm not in the market for an iPad mini it would irritate me if developers tried to treat it as a separate target for layouts. The whole point is it's
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Presumably because she would have been able to recruit support staff to delegate work to. Not all of us have that luxury.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
It's possible this wasn't actually an Apple designer - Siri was fairly well featured when they acquired it.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Competition is promoted instead of teamwork (not only amongst students, but also amongst teachers and civil servants in general). I've heard this from colleagues who've worked in Singapore. Teamwork and collaboration don't appear to be cu
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by MrScruff 14y ago
The fact that Android has more features than iOS doesn't really mean anything. There were existing smartphones that had more features than the iPhone at it's launch. It was the quality of the implementation of these features that made it st
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Which puts you in a very small niche among computer users. Most people want an appliance, like their TV.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Surely the problem could be solved by recruiting people with the relevant experience any talent, ie. throwing money at it?
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by MrScruff 14y ago
* An Android version would also bring added benefits of smarter/less battery intensive background operation which could make this run all the time. Constant GPS-monitoring like Latitude or this seems to run way better on Android for some re
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I think they relaxed that restriction long ago, hence the variety of browsers, email clients etc available.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
No, I don't think Apple is claiming to have invented lcd displays, multitouch, capacitive touch screens, solid state storage, 3G or any of the other core technologies used in an iPhone. I don't know why you think they are. They're claiming
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Engineers don't often build great products on their own. You also need great industrial design, great user interface design etc. In some ways I can relate to your view - as a software engineer myself I often fall into the trap of thinking e
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by MrScruff 14y ago
If the iPhone was obvious to many engineers, why did none of them develop a similar product? Why did Google's Android team develop an operating system that resembled a Blackberry, only to transition to something that closer resembled an iPh
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by MrScruff 14y ago
You said "Looking forward to plenty of truly dumb, ignorant comments like this in the future," which implies that the author of the original comment will be making such comments. This is an attack on the character or intelligence of the au
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I think the OP was being sarcastic.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
This release relates to subdivision surfaces, which provides a way of modelling smooth organic surfaces while dealing with an easier to work with lower resolution polygon cage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivision_surface This library
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by MrScruff 14y ago
As stated in the article, the iPhone alone brings in more revenue than Microsoft's entire product line, so it's difficult to see how they can dominate the consumer end by 'a very large margin'.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
You're going to have to work pretty hard to make reality not look a bit dreary compared to the average LSD trip...
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by MrScruff 14y ago
The point remains - they're adding a bunch of features for free and most users will benefit from them. I'm far more interested in account unification and improvements to the phone app than 3D maps. Your inference that the update is a dud fo
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by MrScruff 14y ago
There were more than two features announced. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Exactly. I remember hearing similar ramblings from Symbian and Windows Mobile 6.5 users when the original iPhone was released. Or how the iPhone would never achieve market penetration in Japan because it lacked all the bells and whistles of
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by MrScruff 14y ago
So what you're saying is that the 350m iOS devices sold and the 400m credit card holding accounts Apple has and the record breaking revenues - that's all going to go by the wayside when Microsoft release a version of Windows Phone OS where
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Perhaps tongue in cheek but it's normally easier to type sh install.sh
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by MrScruff 14y ago
There's nothing inherent in being an engineer that means you can't appreciate good design.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
The odds are incalculable, see previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3662890
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by MrScruff 15y ago
You're probably talking about Mova. Facial motion capture (of that quality) is very different from full body motion capture since the face has so many more degrees of freedom. So generally it is done in an extremely controlled environment w
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by MrScruff 15y ago
I think there's a fundamental flaw in your logic there. If I put tarantula behind your sofa, then we can say the probability of there being a tarantula behind your sofa is pretty much 1. If you have 5 sofas in your house, then the probabili
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by MrScruff 15y ago
I'm not sure how probability math would help you, since we have no way of estimating the probability of intelligent life spontaneously occurring outside of our sample size of 1. What if the probability was 1x10^-80 ?
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by MrScruff 15y ago
You're talking about the percentage of consumers who use price as a signal for quality. I'd agree this happens, but for the signal to exist in the first place the quality must usually be there. If Apple hadn't focused on the quality of thei
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Clearly that's a judgement call on both our parts and neither of us is going to convince each other to think otherwise. As an anecdote though, I was walking down Oxford St this morning and passed by a mobile phone shop that had two large di

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