Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
Right, but you do have a choice what's displayed on the landing page, and even what default objects the user is given to play with. It pays to select them well because ugly stuff can drive potential users away. You need to show people
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Have you actually used it? On the Macbook, Force Touch is totally intuitive -- it's like using a normal trackpad. It's actually quite eery. So I don't think "touching too much" is going to be an issue, any more than
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Do you mean 10 bits per channel? (i.e. 30-bit RGB.) The 10" retina iPads have routinely scored very well as 24-bit displays (not the best there are, but certainly they seem acceptable to a lot of professional photographers).
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You can write native apps in Javascript on the Mac. You can use Javascript from the command line out of the box in OSX.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
tvOS seems to support seamless transitions of apps across iOS devices (they mentioned it in a game context) so it may prove to be much better than that -- e.g. watch a show on Hulu, walk into room and hand the app over to the TV and so fort
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by Tloewald 11y ago
OK: I expect GTAV will run just fine on the new hardware -- the A8 will crush the PS3 hardware. Obviously it won't run the remaster for the newer hardware, but really who cares? The old PS2 GTA titles had to be remastered for the iPh
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Just my opinion of course but this is very bad for the consoles. Apple comes in with a stupidly huge and competitive developer community and everyone in their target audience already has access to plenty of controllers (iOS devices). I imag
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Sure if you can get your app into the App Store. Why not?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You're confusing modes with discoverability. Force touch isn't a mode but it is invisible if you don't know it's there. Jobs wanted discoverable, modeless user interfaces where possible (and he was right). Both the watch
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Looks like their target is creatives to me. At least based on the video. But I'm itching to use one for both sketches and meeting notes.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The surface pro didn't do anything new at all. It was windows for tablets with decent industrial design (great design aside from the keyboards). It's not like Apple hadn't dicked around with keyboard covers et al since back i
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Well the US military (from whom the term comes) doesn't seem to understand the difference between tactics and strategy (it defines the difference in terms of the number of people involved). I understand tactics to be about execution, s
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Looks very interesting, but seems like they're <do we have a verb for HN traffic akin to slashdotting?>ed right now. Looks like a tech demo right now. They need someone with taste to design a few actually attractive/useful s
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Well, first of all Apple could do it and fail. They're done that before. They're confident/arrogant/audacious enough to try things that they can't pull off. Also, they could take a two-pronged approach -- cherry-pic
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Very insightful little post. In theory Apple could start evolving their ISA over time alongside everything else because LLVM gives them an abstraction layer. (Everyone else could do this too of course.)
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The response of most US citizens has been, "Snowden?" But then there are plenty of people on HN who should know better who are outraged, OUTRAGED to discover the US is spying on people, but seem to have no issues with their own an
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I learned two things I did not know about Ada Lovelace: she had three children and, even allowing for flattery the artist, was quite beautiful. And not lacking in self-confidence, either.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's not pointless but we can tell for certain that some things had a certain direct impact. It's very hard to claim that the psychological impact of nuclear weapons was X as a matter of fact, and it's nothing at all like the
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Yes but we're talking about the century in which the technology had an impact, not the century in which it was invented. The telephone is a 19th century invention which is only reaching the majority of the world's population in th
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's speculation, right? Either it had an overwhelming effect OR it had little if any effect. We'll never know -- thank goodness. We do know that penicillin, clean drinking water, vaccines, and the bicycle had enormous effects all
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think the answer is "appear to be the person they want to hire" with the extra degree of difficulty being you don't know the person they want to hire. On the other hand, who wants to be hired under false pretenses? Not I.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Oh for sure (on the nuclear bomb) -- it's really impossible to compare these things meaningfully. Nuclear bomb? Modern agriculture? Penicillin? Vaccines? It's really impossible to judge.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The number of writers who make more than a senior Google engineer would be very, very small.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Not everyone has a "horse" today. You're thinking of the developed world! (I remember a WIRED article back in 1999 where a panel discussed which technologies would have the biggest impact in the 21st century, and someone sugg
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by Tloewald 11y ago
One of the things I really liked about Colorado's legalization is that people could openly and honestly discuss their preferences without the whole legal/moral/peer group issues. E.g. one of my younger cousins said, quite fra
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by Tloewald 11y ago
For 2014 I see 230M tablets, 170M laptops, and recall that Apple is #4 in laptops as well. I think your figures are very shaky. In any event, Yegge's prediction is -- pretty shockingly -- in the ballpark. (Also bear in mind that most n
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Good point re android tablets (and add chromebooks). But you are way off in your figures. In 2014 tablets outsold laptops 1.5 to 1. Apple sold 12M iPads in q4 2014. And tablets replace laptops for many people. Most people just do Facebook,
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think that in general we need to see ourselves as part of an ecosystem rather absence of one -- eg rather than try to kill all the "bugs" in our homes, figure out which ones might be beneficial. It's taken a long time for u
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by Tloewald 11y ago
More importantly, I'd suggest that if you include the iPad in laptops then the prediction is pretty much correct without further discussion.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I tried two generations of Windows Mobile devices. Aside from anything else their battery life was abysmal, and when they ran out of juice they failed pretty catastrophically.

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