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by jarek 14y ago
This is apparently a thing in Scandinavia as well. I'm a little jealous. (I do my dishes by hand and use the dishwasher as a passive drying rack. Well, at least I'm using tools for one relatively simple purpose only.)
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by jarek 14y ago
For the good of your society or something non-materialistic like that?
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by jarek 14y ago
An amusing illustration of the last heading in the post.
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by jarek 14y ago
Personally, as a Canadian in the consumer-and-internet-software sector ("tech sector" to HN), the constant comparisons to the equivalent U.S. sector appear far more annoying than the state of our sector. Nobody else does it with as much fre
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by jarek 14y ago
More accurately, the 'problem' is that it seems there is no overarching wish to have a Canadian internet consumer software sector. People are just fine going to do that in California, and there haven't been waves coming back. Nothing wron
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by jarek 14y ago
Why is tile more likely to break a screen than concrete, out of curiosity? I'll admit I only ever dropped a watch onto tile and it did break the internals.
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by jarek 14y ago
Another alternative is buying robust phones! My Nexus One has met the pavement with some assistance from gravity and my clumsy hands a couple of times and the casing has a couple of scratches to show for it. Screen as new. Then there was th
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by jarek 14y ago
> When NFC stops sucking I'll stop saying it sucks. Have you used a mainstream credit card NFC payment system such as Paypass or Paywave? What did you think sucked about it? Have you used a mobile device NFC payment system such as Googl
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by jarek 14y ago
Your reactions are amusingly similar to reactions people had to touchscreen phones before the touchscreens became good. Yes, of course, take away my keyboard, I'll just type my BBMs on shitty glass! Those damn touchscreens, a solution in se
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by jarek 14y ago
> you have to ask everyone whether their payment system supports NFC. Have you ever used Paypass? The readers are pretty conspicuous, large pad above the chip card reader, no need to ask just like you don't need to ask if someone takes
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by jarek 14y ago
> For most people cash, credit, or debit work just fine. Phones worked just fine for most people in 2006. Phones' screens were just fine in 2009... Paypass and Paywave are a considerable improvement over chip and PIN or singing a slip
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by jarek 14y ago
Hustle!!!1
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by jarek 14y ago
> are these two things really issues? Of course. Real people don't say "Calendar app? Oh, right, the one with the calendar sheet," or "Address book? Oh, right, the one with the people's contact info in it!". This is why we need on-scree
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Apple Ads Only Samsung Could Love(mondaynote.com)
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by jarek 14y ago
Quoth Wikipedia: "The exposure time of the frames is likely to have varied, even if the developed negatives were later on similar glass plates. In a letter to Leo Tolstoy requesting a photo session, Prokudin-Gorsky described each photo as t
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by jarek 14y ago
> To presume someone is stupid if you see them laughing is certain a cultural thing. Here (US) we'd probably just assume they were happy. But on the flip side, a lot of people in the U.S. would assume someone is sad or angry if they are
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by jarek 14y ago
I don't know if grandparent post has been edited but it says "rest of the developed world" now.
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by jarek 14y ago
The speedtest result posted in the blog post is really bad. 91.58 Mbps down and 35.01 Mbps up add up to "127 Mbps" in terms of your comparison. Of course, Google Fiber is much faster than that. For the record, I'm currently paying $30/month
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by jarek 14y ago
I've definitely had speedtest.net results constrained by wifi and a slow laptop that couldn't run the flash control that well.
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by jarek 14y ago
1/2.3" and f/2.8-5.9 are on the Android camera in question. I haven't shot a film camera since disposables in the 90s but thanks for the thought.
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by jarek 14y ago
> I don't think anyone was saying that there's no need to increase pixel density in 2000 or 2005, at least not to me. Well, there's that Apple marketing page that in 2004 said 100 ppi was the "ideal resolution" ( http://web.archive.org/
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by jarek 14y ago
> Now, seriously, there is absolutely no need to increase pixel density Isn't that what they said in 2010, and 2005, and 2000? When we have a display that's "retina" when being held 1 mm in front of sharp eyes you might be able to say t
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by jarek 14y ago
You see them or you don't at a given distance. There might be value for some people in having that distance be shorter.
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by jarek 14y ago
I think the idea would be that relatively few of iPads sold, percentage wise, are cellular/LTE, while all iPhones will be. The absolute number of devices sold probably doesn't hurt the case.
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by jarek 14y ago
Predicting Apple gets pageviews, and getting pageviews is one of the author's jobs: http://www.marco.org/sponsorship
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by jarek 14y ago
I read that as snark about people upvoting the submission and as a consequence placing it on the front page, not the submitter.
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by jarek 14y ago
How does creating Instapaper make his views on a hypothetical device's internal hardware any more interesting than anyone else's? As far as I can see, the only thing that came from Instapaper were the "2,5" and "2,6" strings - the rest of t
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by jarek 14y ago
> I personally can't wait to read a book on the way to work. Yes, what wondrous technology it must be that enables this!
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by jarek 14y ago
Better than a 1/2.3" sensor in front of a f/2.8-5.9 lens? Right.
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by jarek 14y ago
Hold it like a point and shoot camera.

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