brianpan

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   by brianpan 16y ago

   Apple competes on price in ways that preserves their brand- offering more for the same price, clearance/refurb section, previous model at a discounted price. I agree with Kottke, Apple has a huge ability to compete on price if needed, and I
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   As an engineer, I had to think really hard to imagine this world you describe where people have meetings around the other side of the desk. Luckily, I've seen offices in movies. The back could be closed up assuming you're running everythin
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   Obviously you haven't been around my wife when she loses the last 5 minutes of a show. SLA or no, services will get cancelled.
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   Interesting video of a recent WSBK motorcycle staying upright in a crash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj9c5poj8Ww
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   See, the sarcasm doesn't work here because intelligent people designed stable bikes . You don't look at a bike and think, thank you evolution. Sorry, pet peeve.
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   My Motorola phone did OTA updates 10 years ago. As gruber pointed out, that is likely to be the first to go from iTunes. What he doesn't mention are the reasons Apple doesn't need to cut the cord- it helps their ecosystem. I need to insta
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   Should that irk me more? Or less? :)
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   I read it as an offhand comment to the effect of: remember when people at Microsoft thought that "Don't be evil" (and Google in general) was a joke?
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   by brianpan 16y ago

   That is a pretty strange analogy, but I suppose if the world economy depended on you trampling my imaginary vegetables, I suppose I would be pretty happy with 5-nines.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I'd say the flag help forum (and the help forums in general) are prime examples of "consistently awful, frustrating experience".
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I really must be "blind". I can see the difference side-by-side (especially the moving ball) but the difference is so slight. Even 15fps looked fine to me. If you showed them to me back-to-back, I don't think I could tell the difference.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    Skip the internet on April 1. It's not worth the brain power trying to sort news from pranks.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I have no reservations about making a 'reddit' comment in a thread named "The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers". It's humorous, people.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    ಠ_ಠ
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    A great point in the article, but IMO this is a function of the screen size, not iOS. The core problem is reducing the pain of switching apps. On a desktop, screen resolution and space allows you to position windows side-by-side or overlap
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I agree there are no huge surprises, but I think you are underestimating the difficulty of redesigning the form factor in under a year. Even just changing processors, radio chips, adding gyro, camera in the exact same mechanical form factor
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    Netflix, Uniwars, MLB app, Osmos, Angry Birds....oh, wait.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    What can I say- if you are hearing the echo, it's their phone or the network. Maybe they're using speakerphone more? Maybe the network changed somehow?
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    If you're hearing an echo, that means echo cancellation is not working, either in your network or the network of the person you are calling. I don't believe handsets do any echo cancellation.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    And we make fun of our parents for thinking that Google = internet. ;)
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I knew they were about twice as fast, but seeing it like that...holy cow!
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    The gas pedal getting "stuck" is a result of the scary, not the cause. About to hit something unexpectedly->slam foot down on wrong pedal->omg the car accelerated when it should have stopped!
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I don't see the point of getting a frowny face on a website for fun. But the point is, if you're not happy then putting a frown is exactly what you should do to let them know you weren't happy. Out of spite or whatever other reason, the
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    34%
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    Exactly the opposite. The content should be fetch as-needed. Background fetching would get all the content whether or not it's ever read. If all the apps I've grown tired of are still fetching data in the background, that IS more battery
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    500 days and 2 karma...here's one more. BTW, apparently 200 gets me- absolutely nothing.
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    I have the same feeling about HN. I've been regularly visiting HN for a year now, commenting when I have something insightful and voting articles and comments up if they're exceptional. Yet I still don't have enough karma to downvote. Th
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    Google doesn't just remove sites from their index. They will always be there. But if you think a different site should rank higher than these spammy ones, you should mention it and maybe someone can look at it. (I don't work for Google.)
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    He mentions "Perl 5 compatible regular expression literals" under "kitchen sink"
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    by brianpan 16y ago

    Really? Because yesterday I went to Meta StackOverflow and was utterly confused why I was getting new openid requests. (It was because MetaSO is different that SO.) Then I went to SO and was still confused because I thought I used yaho