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by ergo98 16y ago
>I count myself among the "Android crowd" and Advanced Task Killer has nearly tripled the battery life on my T-Mobile MyTouch slide post-installation. And eating cheerios for breakfast makes your hair grow faster. You are suffering from
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by ergo98 16y ago
Hacker News?
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by ergo98 16y ago
Meh. I'll bravely endure the downvotes and say that it isn't a noob illusion. It's reality. It is the arc that almost every site follows when the users start thinking "people here are interested in non-specific stuff as well!" Reddit starte
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by ergo98 16y ago
This, coupled with the FileAPI, could be used for upload compression. Am I incorrect in thinking that currently, outside of a Flash uploader, there is no way to compress uploads? That even if the server accepts gzip there is no compression
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by ergo98 16y ago
Right now at least 10% of the front page are Reddit/Digg-style stories. As interesting as Caucasian ninjas and 4-time lottery winners are, I don't think it helps the cause. HN hurtles towards becoming Reddit.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I think for young professionals HN has always only intended to fulfill one aspect of a Hacker's life. It never purported to offer cooking advice, car buying information, or lifestyle tips. It was about NoSQL versus SQL, language trends
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by ergo98 16y ago
Have only been a HN reader for a short time (though I've been linked from here quite a few times), so please pardon my pollution of this story to ask a question: Does this belong on Hacker News? Is Hacker News turning into Reddit (minus the
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Apple's products have almost always been lagging in terms of spec sheet This is incredibly untrue. The iPhone has dominated virtually every benchmark until very, very recently, owing to a more efficient CPU, and a vastly superior GPU (
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by ergo98 16y ago
Same thing happened to me, and it was my older her sister who pulled me out. I can vividly remember looking up and out of the water.
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Upside down: /ɯoɔ˙ɹǝʇɐɔoɹǝz//:dʇʇɥ
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>I believe I can 'buy' them myself for <$10,000 year The simple convenience of having a lot of good food options onsite is of significant value. If you have to spend your life going to the dry cleaners, driving to lunch, driving to
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by ergo98 16y ago
>On other phones you have to be a geek to figure out which software to install and how to set it up. What? No you don't. >They only introduced the SDK once the API was in a usable state and they got the necessary documentation and i
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by ergo98 16y ago
Oh, add that iOS 4 cribs Android multitasking almost directly. And when it borrows from Android's notification system, replacing the terrible system it has now (they're already hiring in this space), at release people like Gruber and Marco
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by ergo98 16y ago
Someone is channeling their inner-John Gruber, apparently. The original iPhone had a mediocre display, a forgettable design, zero apps (and, contrary to the revisionism that is now the rage, had zero plans on every having apps at inception.
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>Do you consider yourself, or the rest of us, “essentially the Apple faithful”? HN does have a strong Apple lean, although it has subsided quite dramatically over the past year (for reasons that PG has documented).
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This is exactly what my concern would be. Those who end up paying end up feeling a bit like suckers. Usually when things are comp'd they are done on the lowdown.
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I != the other person. It was a simple, obvious observation. In the same way that a writer for the right wing press isn't going to suddenly question conservative values.
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Apple defines beauty. Accept that as the baseline and you'll realize how exactly what was maligned before is now the new benchmark.
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A less serious accusation is that Gruber now knows that his core readership consists of, essentially, the Apple faithful. He knows to pander to that crowd and that is how he gets paid. It's iPhone fans who feel that every Gruber observati
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by ergo98 16y ago
Even though this is the Haus of Gruber (why, exactly, does everything he post get FPd here? Confirmation bias, perhaps?), I'll take my downvote suffering- >In fact, Apple seems very confident regarding everything it decided for the orig
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by ergo98 16y ago
Just to be clear, Flash on Android is fully capable of rendering Hulu's videos. Many people are doing exactly that by changing their user-agent. The "problem" is that apparently mobile devices have to be licensed differently, and presumably
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>It's all about IPS or Super AMOLED displays now. Pretty bizarre way to differentiate generations.
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Dominate or be dominated. Facebook is increasingly becoming "the internet" for a lot of people. They interact with businesses there, communicate with peers, keep up on what is new, enjoys games and entertainment, etc. Facebook, without doub
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by ergo98 16y ago
The description of "malicious" seems a little nebulous. I have never heard of an Android application that breaks out of the sandbox. When people talk about "malicious" applications, these are apps that don't actually do what they promise to
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There are hundreds of fart apps in the AppStore. Hundreds.
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>They haven't had to because they stop this stuff before it happens. How does Apple stop malicious software? No one has ever claimed that. Apple's review process doesn't validate that the software does what it claims it does, beyond the
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by ergo98 16y ago
To reply to the first paragraph of the article- >Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google’s response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users’ permission to
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by ergo98 16y ago
I'm sorry, but how many fart apps are there in the iStore? How many packaged (and obviously copyright) web image viewers of various models? Google's system has problems. Apple's system has problems. Apple's curation has almost entirely been
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It doesn't even cover Canada, which is a close geographic and legal neighbor of Google.
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That "absolute authority" being that they can demand your identification. Not too scary.

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