ShirtlessRod

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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
"Touch beats pens, keyboards, and mice in the respect that you don't have to carry around a bunch of peripherals." That's the only way in which it beats those things, in particular keyboards. In most other aspects (e.g., usability) it fall
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
All that data needs to be stored somewhere...
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
That's a false dichotomy, though. There's no reason I can't have a minimal aesthetic about what I need to own while also getting some things that are "good enough" (maybe even "crappy"), and getting other things that may be considered the
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Thank you for stating this more eloquently than I could. I don't think it can be emphasized enough that not everyone is obsessed with playing "the game".
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
"if repeated often enough, this process leads to a house full of crap" So unless you buy the absolute "best" of a given product, it's just crap and couldn't possibly be satisfying? There's no middle ground there at all?
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
My point is that a good review (not necessarily a "positive" review) is a good review whether I know who gave it or not. Is a detailed review from an anonymous user giving something 2 stars somehow worth less than a one-liner review from a
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Writing a quality review should be all that is needed to add weight to your opinion. Why does it matter if I know it came from Tom Jones in Skokie, IL?
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
If you want to point to general manufacturing processes and advancements as one of "civilization's greatest accomplishments", that's one thing, but you appear to be specifically talking about the iPhone as if that product itself is anywhere
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Why do so many responses seem to be "well, that's just a bad example of it"? It reminds me of the similar "well, they're just not a true conservative/liberal".
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
If you "witnessed" it while browsing, you also downloaded it onto your computer.
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Is that actually the entirety of the patent? If so, that is a major-league joke. You mean a client communicates with a server with information, then returns some information? How delightfully ingenious!
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
"HN has a very anti-Apple slant." How so?
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Are we still doing the "M$" thing? Honestly.
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Hire the best programmers? Why didn't I think of that?
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
"Though I had no inkling of it back in 1992, what’s rapidly replacing the PC in our culture is the smart phone." The desktop as a form factor will never go away. I know for me personally the day I need to turn in my machine (including keyb
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Can someone explain this part to me: "And during that decade, almost every such developer I knew switched to the Mac if they weren't already there, partly because it was better for developing web apps." This is the first time I've ever hear
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Yes, I've heard that reasoning over and over again and it just doesn't hold water at all for me. "Time-saving" just doesn't work at that level of minutiae. Again, it's simply optimization where none is needed.
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
To me, this seems like a great example of unnecessary optimization. Yes, the number of "visual fixations" is slightly less but in the grand scheme of a person's day, we're talking about a difference of milliseconds, if that. Aren't there
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
FYI, some people use NoScript to pick and choose which JavaScript they allow to run.
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by ShirtlessRod 14y ago
Seems like a more extensible/future-proof approach would be to have some sort of built-in storage that was accessible via USB. I'm not sure precisely what part of the iPhone is required to make this work, but it seems far easier to not tie
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
In the same post you manage to call people who don't like Facebook "weird" and "behavioral outliers" while simultaneously saying it's all their fault because they endlessly go on about how they don't like Facebook. What about those who say
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
Certainly scale needs to factor in here. What can you get done in a normal hour? Now what can you get done in one second?
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
Is waiting 5-10 seconds honestly "cutting into their productivity"? Even so, there's nothing else that could be done with their time while they wait beyond impotently staring and swearing at their computer? If that's how they operate the
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
That's fair. I suppose I just wanted to point out that they are by no means required. There are plenty of people who go above and beyond and yet eschew the more "social" aspects of coding.
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
You seem to be implying that a publicly-viewable github repo or active stackoverflow account are necessary conditions for coding outside of class.
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
I think the implicit assumption is that he was referring to the more social aspects of the internet (forums, blogs, etc.).
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
If you don't like his comedy that's fine, but he's a nationally recognized performer with his own show. I think that elevates his status just slightly above "just some guy", don't you?
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
I didn't say the comment had to be describing the code in terms of what it was doing, but it absolutely should describe why something was done. If that "why" changes, then the comments should be updated. This isn't double documentation --
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
"And then, the code changes but the comment doesn't. Now its downright misleading." Sorry, that's just a failure of the programmer, same as any other coding mistake they may make. It is by no means a reason to not have comments.
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by ShirtlessRod 15y ago
I don't think this point can be emphasized enough. When you comment code, your primary focus should be on the "why". In all but very specific circumstances, the "what" should be fairly obvious by reading the code, with small clues being su

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