gbog

194 ms·

1651.
by gbog 15y ago
Is it me or the usage of "patterns" here is not very accurate. It could be called "mobile screens design". "Pattern" could be used for specific and abstract solutions to interaction problems. For instance, the Google map's corner in iOS, th
1652.
by gbog 15y ago
Now that I am on a keyboard I can try to explain my thoughts a bit further: Siri has two features that attract attention, but they could also lead to failure. First, the use of the sound channel to control the machine. At first, it seems a
1653.
by gbog 15y ago
You state it if it was obvious but I think it is not. There are probably more efficient ways to control machines than voiced human language.
1654.
by gbog 15y ago
The future will tell, but I would bet that all those human-like interfaces are gadgets deemed to stay gadgets. Would you voice drive a car? a plane? machines interface can use metaphors, like desktop and folders, but those are just metaphor
1655.
by gbog 15y ago
I am not unhappy with my carrier, China Unicom. I have a good 3G for 15$/month, no contracts. I go to the nearest cigarette seller and buy cards to pay them, and it stops when i stop paying, that's all. When I see my relative in France talk
1656.
by gbog 15y ago
If you commute by bike, the longer the best...
1657.
by gbog 15y ago
I also eat when I'm hungry, which happens to be at meal time, I eat as much as I want, and get no fat. It's not that I'm lucky, I got fat when I was eating shit in Algeria, but I leave in China now, eat white rice twice a day, no dessert, n
1658.
by gbog 15y ago
You are right, I should have split it in two probably.
1659.
by gbog 15y ago
I don't care about karma. You are free to not believe me, I don't care about that either. However, I care a lot about HN, and the possibility to have reasonable discussions here. I am not the only one to have sensed the impact of a the Appl
1660.
by gbog 15y ago
> Phone companies had all these build processes Well, yes, and that's why we had crappy phones for years before iPhone and Android arrived, as noted by Jeff Atwood. I think it shows again that, not unlike the first PCs and their open sl
1661.
by gbog 15y ago
This. When my kid will be big enough I'll buy him toys he can break, like Legos, later I'll buy him gadgets he can break, like PCs, open garden tablets. If it results in him having to fiddle the os in order to bypass the antiporn barrier I'
1662.
by gbog 15y ago
The guy who wrote Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance seem to think it is Not Fine.
1663.
by gbog 15y ago
Your last sentence is obscure to me, or revert what you say before.
1664.
by gbog 15y ago
Don't agree. I know of many non geeky pc user who learnt to sysadmin their machine and a lan in order to play CS.
1665.
by gbog 15y ago
French accent, my nexus never understand me when i ask for gas station, or the names of my Chinese or French contacts.
1666.
by gbog 15y ago
If the overall noise level is too high and you don't own a microphone, your freedom of speech can't be used effectively, you talk any nobody hears you. It is not a reason to drop freedom of speech, right? It's just the same with free softwa
1667.
by gbog 15y ago
Yep. This I don't care the reasons th ing feels a bit obscurantist to me.
1668.
by gbog 15y ago
Then you would drop freedom of speech just because it is useless unless you own CNN?
1669.
by gbog 15y ago
I checked Dalai's profile on G+, it is filled with "His Holiness" this, "His Holiness" that. I don't know, it seems a bit from past centuries to have to call oneself "His Holiness". Moreover, I have been to tibetan plateaus, I can tell you,
1670.
by gbog 15y ago
Please don't edit out your post, now GP tone looks overreacted.
1671.
by gbog 15y ago
I concur, kindle.app and variants, kindle fire, all have nothing to do with the real Kindle, which just a book, slightly more convenient. Like GP, I also buy, collect, give paper books, and have a wall of them in our living room, including
1672.
by gbog 15y ago
You can start with something more concrete, like color names, ie where stop the yellow and start the red on a rainbow. But in fact, this is just a matter of definition, and is not that interesting. I would find more interesting to diff dail
1673.
by gbog 15y ago
Work all right with my Chrome 14 on Ubuntu 10.10, but doesn't work if you drop a second time without going back to home.
1674.
by gbog 15y ago
Interesting answers here, but from their diversity it seems to me that we in fact still don't know much about cognitive representations and their physical anchoring in the brain. I once worked in a lab, studying how the brain sees through t
1675.
by gbog 15y ago
Well, I would not complain on a celebrity forum that the mourning of the next star fill up the home pages, this would be inappropriate. But in hacker news, I thought we would be more immune to these usually harmless and temporary but someti
1676.
by gbog 15y ago
As a side note, it is annoying to see you guys talk about a Phelbs that is not known outside US, and do not seem to be an interesting fellow. At least when you were talking about Jobs, the remains of the world knew who he was.
1677.
by gbog 15y ago
> All progress depends on unreasonable men. This is a very bold generalization grounded on nothing. Once we had rational discussions here.
1678.
by gbog 15y ago
What I would be looking for is a diversity enforcer.
1679.
by gbog 15y ago
I'm stupid, that's what you think, right? So after creating a massive unisson over a dead body, we start insulting those who don't sing as loud as the others. In other thread they are asked to leave. You show by the example that my concerns
1680.
by gbog 15y ago
I was replying to "no Steve = no web", which seem a good sample of irrational exaggeration I'd rather not see on hn, even on his death.

More ›