ergo98

25 ms·

181.
by ergo98 16y ago
Yet another reason Chrome's rolling release auto updates are glorious. I like Chrome's silent updates, but the only real difference between it and Firefox is that Firefox informs the user that the update is being applied. Other than that,
182.
by ergo98 16y ago
Are they? Like the OP of this thread, my immediate impression was that I was at the wrong site. It just feels like a domain squatting site, really (especially the "database.com" in the upper left. Here in the 20xxs it just isn't that impres
183.
by ergo98 16y ago
No. Honeycomb will likely be the first to use GPU UI rendering. The N1 w/2.2 is extremely fluid, with minor stuttering that is attributable to garbage collection (the thing is endlessly pausing to do GC). 2.3 includes a highly optimized con
184.
by ergo98 16y ago
We're talking about hardware.
185.
by ergo98 16y ago
Supposedly there is some sort of issue with the Quadrant test in particular on the Galaxy S. With the fix (the "lag fix") the Galaxy S tops the field. The Galaxy S is a fantastic device. It is essentially a higher clocked version of the iPh
186.
by ergo98 16y ago
I'm saying that from a scientific measurement perspective the iPhone display is very undersaturated. It is more than just a perception thing.
187.
by ergo98 16y ago
The Tab has an IPS display as well. Though of course IPS (S-IPS) by itself means nothing. The iPhone 4 has a bad color gamut. It's bright and very dense, but it is quite heavily undersaturated, and not in any way from an "accuracy" perspect
188.
by ergo98 16y ago
How is that informative? That it supports your gut feelings? There is nothing informative about that. It's notable that Canada is remarkably iOS centric (one of the most anywhere), so values here don't necessarily translate- http://gs.stat
189.
by ergo98 16y ago
Anyone with any common sense can see that she's attempting to exploit sexuality to her advantage. In no way does that diminish her potential competency, nor does it excuse sexism and pigs, but come on -- project "consider me sexually" (from
190.
by ergo98 16y ago
In canvas's defense, canvas and SVG/VML are different tools for different jobs. You make good points, however I don't think this entry was particularly negative towards canvas, or merit it needing a defense. However I have to comment on t
191.
by ergo98 16y ago
Well, yes, of course. Competently done. Competently done crypotgraphy is rare, and most common cryptography is not competently done. Which is exactly the point of my post.
192.
by ergo98 16y ago
Even better, they should encrypt with a method that is reasonably, large-scale crackable around the window of their planned release. That would bring a lot of attention to cryptography (and the vulnerability of the same) as every media orga
193.
by ergo98 16y ago
They get an easy pass. The idea of this ever going to Amazon in the first place just seems extraordinarily ill-conceived: There was no way it was going to stay up. Wikileaks is pursuing a remarkably old-school method of releasing these, wit
194.
by ergo98 16y ago
The news prints what people want to read about. It's a supply/demand industry. However what in the leaks demand that people call for the overthrow of the US government? Thus far it has been entirely predictable, tame, boring cables from ind
195.
by ergo98 16y ago
Nobody likes to be told, let alone admit, their government/banks/military is corrupt. No good will come from any of this because the average person really doesn't give a damn. Then....why is this wikileaks business a front-page headlining
196.
by ergo98 16y ago
The press is incredibly lazy. It isn't limited to just PR fiction that gets repeated as fact, it's just gross sloppiness that multiplies as each layer of the press cites the other as a source or an authority. Shilling, but related - http:/
197.
Lazy Surveys Enable A Lazy Press(blog.yafla.com)
2 points by ergo98 16y ago|0 comments
198.
by ergo98 16y ago
No, it's not. There are always counterexamples, but in your argument you completely ignore margins in the PC and laptop market. Just to digress for a minute, a related memes that I keep reading is "Apple is comfortable in their very profi
199.
by ergo98 16y ago
Using Android would put them in direct competition with (very) low-margin Chinese manufacturers. This is the "Android is the race for the bottom" argument. It is perplexing how it keeps getting a free pass on here. Nonetheless, for the sa
200.
by ergo98 16y ago
Just to be clear, they knowingly granted him full access to all of this data (ergo, all of these PSTs). This falls completely under the auspices of "user error", and PST is no more to blame than if they granted administrator access to every
201.
by ergo98 16y ago
Not sure what value the derogatory comments about Microsoft brings. Exporting data from a PST is trivial, whether using the supplied tools or using script access. They obviously use PSTs because somehow it works for them.
202.
by ergo98 16y ago
This was like five years ago, before mobile internet was available to most consumers. Also, writing mobile apps before the App Store was a real pain, and involved dealing directly with carriers, I believe. J2ME apps involved no carrier pa
203.
by ergo98 16y ago
Google's automation of customer facing services is exactly how they kill businesses. Google Checkout is horrendous and is going nowhere, and their customer-facing efforts with the Nexus One, while a model of efficiency, were a dismal failur
204.
by ergo98 16y ago
I suspect that some aspect of Groupon is a Ponzi scheme In what way? Groupon has a clever model but their valuation is precarious because it's easily copied. If anything I would say it is already past its peak. Not only are there the rest
205.
by ergo98 16y ago
There is little rigor behind most of the claims of the NYTime story: The targeted site already negates any pagerank benefit of their links (they do implement nofollow), and the definitive example seems to be nothing more than good SEO of th
206.
by ergo98 16y ago
For sure. Unlike the RIM story of yesterday, he isn't claiming it's dead. He just talks about the decline and fall. And I think there's a lot of truth to it. I don't quite buy the junk mail argument -- I publicly publish my email address ev
207.
by ergo98 16y ago
But if they're not putting their opinions and thoughts out there, it's doubtful they were getting responses in any form.
208.
by ergo98 16y ago
These posts will only ever get on sites like HN with an inflammatory title. "Email on decline. Less critical." just isn't as edgy. His core point, however, is obvious and hard to argue with. Just now I was thinking about a number of people
209.
by ergo98 16y ago
Why does the author think that RIM can't innovate like other companies have? Indeed. This industry is overrun by people making bold predictions of what has already happened. Despite being Canadian, I've never owned a Blackberry. I have mo
210.
by ergo98 16y ago
I wrote about trying to get my Nexus One engraved, and how I was going to go about avoiding the depreciation in the secondary market. See the section "On Engraving One's Phone" at http://blog.yafla.com/Android_22_Engravings_and_the_Google_

More ›