ergo98

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by ergo98 16y ago
I see little that is unique or insightful in this essay. "Google builds services like Google Maps, Gmail and Docs and gives them away for free"... ...because they entered a market where maps, email, and "docs" were free. Google didn't blaze
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by ergo98 16y ago
Is this a serious question? The correlation between wealth and class is almost 1.0. How can you seriously argue otherwise? This discussion has taken a turn to the bizarre.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Tipping low-wage customer service workers for unadvertised services and favours is now some sort of evil "class" issue that indicates greed and corruption? It is absolutely corruption. There is no question about it. Sure, the corruptio
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by ergo98 16y ago
Says some boring internet goblin that has almost certainly never touched an Android device, much less in any real world situation. You're another bore with your tired talking points pushing forward the iPhone religion. Get a grip.
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by ergo98 16y ago
This is fantastic to hear.
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by ergo98 16y ago
If you notice a lag is not minor any more: it is one of the most irritating aspect of any UI. The people who complain about minor, incidental interface lag are the people who don't use Android . To people who use it day to day it just d
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by ergo98 16y ago
They're engineering fixes, but the complaints are due to UX, and UX guys wouldn't have let those problems leave the lab. The lack of GPU usage is an engineering and time restriction : Android is available on many devices, not all of whic
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by ergo98 16y ago
"They need to stop hiring engineers and start hiring UX guys." The two complaints you just aired are engineering complaints -- GPU usage by the core UI, and as a related complaint that the zoom speed of the browser isn't great (which again
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by ergo98 16y ago
Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon MP3 are "built-in" apps in many Android images (e.g. Nexus One 2.2), at most allowing you to uninstall updates to them. It's a major irritation, really. Google needs to stop that nonsense.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Google sent out phones to both Gruber and Siegler. What were they thinking? Neither are fair actors, and neither have any credibility outside of the core Apple base. They are lost causes. There is no value in courting them: Let the product
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by ergo98 16y ago
Pretend to take the high road. Misrepresent what I've said in reply after reply (now you're onto the "don't get angry!" screed which is one of my favorites). Pull the "I'm done!" card just as you've declared me a troll. I see that you've ma
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by ergo98 16y ago
"I guarantee that some people are using the wrong URLs because they received bad advice, or copied from code they shouldn't have, or were simply told by somebody that they could link to the version on jquery.com, so did." Is that not precis
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by ergo98 16y ago
Malice? As quaint as that saying is, malice plays no part in this discussion. I'm attributing laziness , which is quite removed from malice. People using jquery should be evolved enough to know what CDNs are, and the dangers of hotlinking
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by ergo98 16y ago
They are already going way above and beyond by extending their deadline to the end of January. They have the capacity to be much ruder about it. Hotlinking like this has been a well known web evil for well over a decade. That people still d
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by ergo98 16y ago
Very unlikely. He targeted everyone but Gates. His attack is legitimate. However Allen can feel just, I guess, given that he has dedicated most his wealth to charity after he dies. So he's essentially playing Robin Hood.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I keep hearing this argument that Google simply has to assemble a crack team of UI experts and they'll inevitably match or surpass Apple's offerings. Android is already matching iOS in many areas, exceeding it in some (a superior, and
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by ergo98 16y ago
No. I'm suggesting that the media manipulation is a negative. That Apple customers actually haven't caught onto this is yet another negative. The modern world is amazingly capable of huge feats of fulfillment without demanding that the hord
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by ergo98 16y ago
Android already does flow based layout by default, taking its cue from the web itself. Web apps have been dealing with this problem space for many years, and in some ways have conquered it.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I actually said "My comment was specifically and only about essentially spurious, extraneous chrome", which you extrapolated, and got upvotes, for misrepresenting as "animations have nothing to do with usability or design". Kudos on your mi
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by ergo98 16y ago
Plus, linking to a Nexus S "line" that the photographer admits was posed? The long lines for the latest Apple release are an indictment of the Apple fanbase. They should never been seen as a benefit of the platform. I see the same thing
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Looking only at the functionality and completely ignoring the design is superficial. Who is completely ignoring the design? My comment was specifically and only about essentially spurious, extraneous chrome -- literally interface bedaz
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by ergo98 16y ago
>If Android were serious about their developers, they would bake in standard animations. Why do you presume that they haven't? Every View has intrinsic full animation support, and of course there's a full simile of CoreAnimation in andr
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by ergo98 16y ago
http://blog.yafla.com/The_Biggest_Lie_That_Ever_Was_Told/
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by ergo98 16y ago
Agreed. This patent is not the mother of all geofencing patents: They seemed to have made it specific enough that it is actually not the egregious sort of patent abuse that we so commonly see. A patent can have multiple independent claims,
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by ergo98 16y ago
Angry Birds only requests the following two permissions on Android- -Network Communications -System tools (prevent phone from sleeping) This doesn't include even coarse location, much less a fine GPS position. Unless they're cracking your s
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by ergo98 16y ago
XServ? Apple TV that has iterated through various terrible iterations? Ping? The article is yet another Apple love-in. The comparison is "viewing one company with a critical eye, and the other with rose coloured glasses."
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by ergo98 16y ago
Indeed. I said questionable. Go to any review of the release of Android 2.2 and you can see the performance improvements that are pretty much universal across devices. This simply conflates the two and implies something that isn't true. Wit
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by ergo98 16y ago
2.2 offers big theoretical performance improvements over <2.2. We all know that. The graphs on this, however, are ludicrous. It's putting the 2.2 device up against 2.1 devices, adding questionable statements like "Even Samsung's 1GHz Co
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by ergo98 16y ago
Analogies merely confuse (they always have that superficial "aha!" moment, yet never bear scrutiny). If it must be, however, in this case it's more synonymous with a restaurant that farmed out their kitchen and their wait staff, but they ca
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by ergo98 16y ago
Reading both this entry and the one that explained why they went with AWS, I'm left confused about why they ever went to AWS in the first place.

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