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by betterth 15y ago
Don't be so sure, the tablet market is still totally dominated by the iPad, and the education-angle for tablets is all but completely Apple. Now, with all the major textbook publishers behind them, they're moving FAST into education. How lo
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by betterth 15y ago
Kindle is better for TEXT only. iPad is incomparably better for anything that uses more than straight text. Even today's textbooks would be very poor on Kindle compared to iPad. But today's bestsellers are much better on Kindle than iPad, i
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by betterth 15y ago
People will do ANYTHING to hate on Apple. Including smearing the name of Woz. Anything is fair game in the battle to prove that Apple is nothing more than overpriced chinese shit. It's quite sad to see so much useful human effort wasted on
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by betterth 15y ago
I've had this debate a number of times, but in the end it's very evident that Google is an engineering company that hires designers (and not a design company that hires engineers). I don't think that they took design seriously at all until
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by betterth 15y ago
I connect to gchat using a third party program, and my contact list in this program is still full of unwanted contacts that I have to manually delete. I said do it before you join to save people in a similar situation.
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by betterth 15y ago
I'd rather pay a trivial amount of money for their service than be forced into a global information gathering scheme whose sole point (currently) is effective advertising. It's frustrating that they've gobbled up some of the best programmer
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by betterth 15y ago
Yes! Leave it to Google to screw up privacy, I don't use G+ much but this right here has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I would say it's intentionally convoluted to get people to have poorly set settings (more "sharing"), but let's face i
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by betterth 15y ago
Filling demand which doesn't exist? China has an impoverished farmer/rural class to the tune of 600,000,000 - 700,000,000 people, and it is incredibly difficult to transition from a rural pass to a city pass, from what I've read. Difficulty
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by betterth 15y ago
"It is not evil". Keep telling yourself that. Google is selling you to the world, and this is just one more way to get you on their site and making money for them.
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by betterth 15y ago
You can't let someone down if you don't build them up. Google fought for years on net neutrality. And they caved completely on it to make Android popular. Apple didn't help but they didn't say they would. You're welcome to criticize Apple's
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by betterth 15y ago
It's a fair point. Android isn't free. Sooner or later people will realize that they're the product. Google is building/has an amazing database of your life, your browsing habits, your app habits, your emails, your calendar, all of it hooke
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by betterth 15y ago
More people in India have mobile phones than have access to sanitary toilets. The average Indian user is worth about 0.03c to a network, with no contracts or lockins, and people frequently switch network to network depending on deals. In fa
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by betterth 15y ago
Don't get ahead of yourself buddy. GoDaddy is the largest and most wellknown registrar out there. From all accounts, they've lost less since this began than they gain -in a single day-. This isn't affecting their bottom line much at all, it
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by betterth 15y ago
Awesome information! While unrelated to the science, I am a previous user of Adderall XR and then Vyvanse and I want to share some advice on the subject for any hackers out there using these drugs or thinking about them: It's crazy, it make
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by betterth 15y ago
Your dictionary is 20 years old. It's officially "old" for a language that has evolved dramatically in the past few decades.
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by betterth 15y ago
Sorry I didn't see this, don't really have orangereds on Hacker News. Here's a source: http://www.booz.com/global/home/what_we_think/featured_conte... You're right, while continually be labelled by organizations as the most innovative, th
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by betterth 15y ago
Honestly, I agree. Most business views labor as a commodity and they intentionally divorce the human element away to make sure that they can make 'smart' decisions. If you want to keep developers who are on top of their game or who are aggr
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by betterth 15y ago
I'm not deliberately de-normalizing figures. What? What I did is a fair comparison and one of the main reasons Dwolla is already very popular for paying rent and for paying wages. How can you chastise me for improper comparison when I used
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by betterth 15y ago
And Dwolla would still cost HALF of what you pay.
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by betterth 15y ago
MODERN WARFARE 3 IS BASICALLY A DIRECT RIP OFF OF DOOM BUT NOTHING IS EVEN IN THE SAME GENRE AS ZELDA. Only a Nintendo fanboy could ever rationalize something so ridiculous. There's a ton of games out there with large worlds and in-game iso
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by betterth 15y ago
Because the point is far more than just a credit line. The name is "instant". How exactly is everyone missing the entire "instant" part of the feature. Instant costs $3/mo, and includes the credit line feature. But the fronting of cash isn'
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by betterth 15y ago
I would certainly hope so! But why should your landlord shave off 3% of his ENTIRE revenue stream? I mean, that percent is almost Wal-Marts entire profit margin. If he is processing 200 payments of $1000/mo, that's $6000/mo in fees that he
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by betterth 15y ago
Having spent a whole lot of time researching the effects of patents in the pharmaceutical world, I am really going to question you on that as well. Do you know who spends roughly the same percent of their revenue on R&D as the pharma co
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by betterth 15y ago
This part hit me as well: complain much? I love the Ribbon interface! If the point of design is to reduce the total number of clicks required to get to your goal, reduce the total amount of clutter and get as many useful elements in front o
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by betterth 15y ago
Why hate on Mango? Windows 7.5 has a fantastic UI -- I prefer it to every flavor of Android I've ever seen!
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by betterth 15y ago
Let me guess: Motorola abusing a patent for an underlying radio standard and preventing Apple from using standardized radio technology: Totally legit. Apple complaining about design and UI elements? APPLE IS THE MOST EVIL, LITIGIOUS COMPANY
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by betterth 15y ago
I block ads on all websites, except those that ask me to stop blocking ads. The first site I stopped blocking them on was Reddit. There are a few more now that detect that you block ads and politely ask you to disable it to conserve their b
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by betterth 15y ago
It's on all iPhones on all carriers running all versions. However, it is not the same version, and this version of CarrierIQ covers far, far less. It is not keystroke logging, not watching web activity, not watching texts. This version also
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by betterth 15y ago
Then again, using a misleading headline to direct traffic towards a journal article that is inherently misleading on purpose has a sort of meta-awesomeness to it. It's like inception, except with obfuscation.
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by betterth 15y ago
The headline definite drives controversy and thus views, but wouldn't a much better headline have brought up the very real fact that this has nothing to do with smoking for performance gains and everything to do with exposing 'reviews' as u

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