MrScruff

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by MrScruff 16y ago
Not really. Visual effects are a bigger 'star' than any individual actor nowadays. Also, 'equally awesome' needs to be qualified. Most of the engineers working in film could get paid far more working in other industries but do it because it
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by MrScruff 16y ago
Exactly, the majority of what our minds are concerned with is evolutionary baggage derived from natural selection.
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No, I say it because none of the points I mentioned are relevant on mobile. At the moment I'm never without good Internet access. The biggest advantage of web apps is the idea that wherever you have a modern browser and a net connection you
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I would say that on the desktop web apps are 'good enough' for me to prefer them over desktop apps for several reasons: - high performance hardware - mouse and keyboard - larger screen - consistency of experience on work/home machine On mob
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> We are indeed small and insignificant, but alone? Doubtful at best. I often read this, but I have no idea why this should be the case. Since we only have a single data point, we can only really infer that the probability of life natur
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by MrScruff 16y ago
The popularity of Avatar tells us little about the long term commercial viability of 3D films. Avatar was the subject of a huge amount of marketing and hype (deserved or not) so there are reasons to think it would have done well regardless.
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by MrScruff 16y ago
About 3 years ago in the UK, business people had Blackberrys and everyone else had Nokia or Sony Ericsson phones. Fast forward to now and business people have iPhones or Blackberrys while teenagers tend to use Blackberrys (they're cheap and
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by MrScruff 16y ago
I keep hearing this, but never with any figures. Presuming Apple contributes a couple of patents to the pool, it doesn't seem likely that any income from MPEG LA would have any significance for them. Especially since they have to pay as a d
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by MrScruff 16y ago
That's hyperbole. Daring Fireball, Asymco and Arment are advocates for Apple, no doubt. That doesn't prevent them from being able to provide an interesting perspective from one side of the argument. There are plenty of Android advocates out
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Most commentators aren't neutral, this is nothing new. I'm not, and you yourself clearly aren't, based on your extremely one sided posting history on this subject. Would you prefer it if other HN readers read and responded to the content of
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by MrScruff 16y ago
... there’s nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the handset makers, testing the hypothesis that these things are central to Apple’s
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by MrScruff 16y ago
You're over thinking it. The people who line up at 5am are doing it because for them it's amusing to be involved in the event, not because they're victims of mass hysteria. Sure, you or I might fine it strange that people do this but so wha
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Are you seriously trying to suggest that the fact that apple makes highly desirable devices that people are prepared to pay more for is a negative?
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I didn't downvote you, but having read your comment I imagine some of the motivations of those who did were: - 'Horrid tools like Objective-C' is a value statement made without justification. - 'Imperious App Store overlords' sounds rather
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Presumably that's a rhetorical question and you're actually trying to say 'I believe this is engineered by the CIA and is directly connected with cablegate'. To which I'd answer, I'm not assuming anything since there is currently an absence
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Unless you are a female student in physical sciences or math, I don't think you can really understand what its like to be told, implicitly and explicitly, for most of your secondary and college education, that you are inferior to your male
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Isn't this a rather old trend? As technology becomes more complex, we rely on the creator to make sensible decisions about the interface to allow us to focus primarily on what is relevant to achieving our goal. Abstraction is the only way t
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The impression I have of WP7 is that it's targeting the average user, where the average user is, for example:- - Someone who listens to mostly major label music - Someone who's friends store their mobile number in their facebook profile - I
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Thanks for the Godwin invocation.
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I think this is a very good point. While at some point in the future it will likely be possible to buy 'beige box' phone hardware and run a hand built version of Android on it, it will in actual usage be a very different beast to the device
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Wonder why he left out the 'make install'? Oh, right...
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The first comment is let down by a silly closing sentence 'a year from now Android will easily match any fit and finish of the iPhone'. Really? Since you have no idea what the iPhone will look like a year from now let alone Android, this is
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I'm sure you've been told this before but it really matters very little what language you are taught in your degree. During the course of your career you'll learn many languages and APIs. It's the principles of sound software engineering th
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Linux (or more specifically the free desktop) is a great deal ahead of the Mac in terms of user choice, but falls down in terms of quality of implementation. I'm a Fedora Core user at work (and have been for the better part of a decade) and
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Why do you believe this to be true? While the Linux desktop has improved incrementally over the years it has remained a good distance behind it's proprietary rivals.
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It sounds like you wish to force your own platform preference on your students. I'm not sure how this article counts as evidence for anything other than one individual has convinced himself iPhone vs Android is going the same way as Mac vs
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It seems strange to disregard an entire article written by a Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience because a quick google session found a link suggesting a contrary view to a specific point.