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by eswangren 14y ago
You're right in terms of the Air; it's a great deal for how well it's built. Almost every single other computer they offer is demonstrably overpriced based on specs.
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by eswangren 14y ago
For anyone who's interested I will be purchasing $1500 worth of hardware from newegg, assembling PC's, and selling them for only a 100% markup. And oh yeah, they'll be more powerful than this load of crap they want to sell you.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Yeah, I was just about to post the same thing. What a ridiculous rip-off. A 5770 card? Really, for that price I get a 5770? I just built a new PC for $1500 that blows it out of the water in every aspect but the CPU (I went with an i5 2500
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by eswangren 14y ago
And you could have been doing that all along simply by changing your theme.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Not to mention the fact that Scientology (the study of science?) is chock full of ridiculOus BS. Hell, at least some of the mainstream religions have a bit of history to back them up (i.e., Jesus did actually exist, whether or not you belie
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by eswangren 14y ago
Well, to be pedantic, there's no such thing as a "diablo 3" password, only a battle.net password. A WoW account is more lucrative.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Did we really need a study to tell us that women spend an inordinate amount of time sending text messages and stalking profiles on Facebook?
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by eswangren 14y ago
So let me get this straight. You have been playing Diablo III and will likely continue to play it through the end of the year. This is a game Blizzard should be "ashamed" of? A game that you will play for months on end? How many other games
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by eswangren 14y ago
Says the guy who probably has 60+ hours in the game and "will continue to play it". How much do you think your $60 is worth exactly?
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by eswangren 14y ago
Yes, if only we could pay the bills with naive idealism.
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by eswangren 14y ago
If you're designing the UI first, you're not "hacking" anything.
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by eswangren 14y ago
It's TechCrunch, what did you expect? They're not exactly the pinnacle of journalism...
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by eswangren 14y ago
Ok, fine, it's hypocritical. There are worse things in the world than hypocrisy. I smoke cigarettes, yet I would advise others not to. I may be a hypocrit, but I'm not wrong. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Well, like most people on HN, I'm an engineer, and I just don't care. I want functionality and stability. You could have the ugliest icon ever and I just don't give a damn because it is irrelevant.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Just my $.02, and I realize this is anecdotal, but I don't give two craps what your icon looks like. If your app is good, I'll use it.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Well, no, but I see how what I said may cOme off that way. I gathered that you were a UI guy from statements you made. It seemed to me that you were trivializing programming as a whole by saying things like "do you think anything we do is
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by eswangren 14y ago
I have no example of a skill that took "a lifetime to master" as I am only 28 years old and would not call myself a "master" of anything at this point. However, I can describe the last two projects I worked on. One was implenting an image q
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by eswangren 14y ago
You're right, but let's not trivialize the difficulty of programming in general. Want to build a UI in .NET, HTML + JavaScript, or <insert UI framework here>? Sure, that sort of programming is relatively easy and not usually techni
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by eswangren 14y ago
Ummm... No, no thanks. We're not all UI designers. We just hired a UX guys because I, as a systems engineer, am more valuable creating hardware interfaces than user interfaces. You still need guys like me making things work behind the scene
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by eswangren 14y ago
You can probably guess; Ubuntu. I wanted to check out Unity. I ended up going with Mont though. Windows 7 doesn't come bloated as far as I can tell, but I built the PC myself and installed an OEM version, so no third party bloat ware. I rea
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by eswangren 14y ago
Oh, that's weird; an OS that is built primarily for normal PC users doesn't run well on dated hardware? Who would have thought? Windows 7 is less bloated than the version of Linux I just installed (and removed) On my new desktop.