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by joshuapants 11y ago
Windows Phone has a talented team of designers, an innovative and easy to use UI, and backing from a major corporation with practically unlimited funds. It also has a tiny sliver of market share. Jolla has great designers, compatibility wit
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Let's be honest, even if they did have a talented team of designers nobody would use this.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
The barrier to entry may be lower if you consider a user who has never used either software and is trying to make a decision. But if you have a user who has used Excel for the past 2 decades and is comfortable with it, low barrier to entry
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Dan Ariely (behavioural economics) I enjoyed Predictably Irrational , so I would love to hear some recommended reading from him
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by joshuapants 11y ago
.NET Native [1] promises to speed up C# code so that it is comparable to C++. Universal applications stand to benefit as the page says, and I assume that traditional .NET desktop apps can take advantage of it as well. https://msd
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I don't have Flash installed so it can't be that. Hm, maybe a browser issue.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I think this is a pretty decent redesign. It does look like it sacrifices a bit of information-density, however. The assumption seems to be "Reddit-as-imageboard," even though a number of subreddits are much more text-oriented whe
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Makes sense. That said, will they not admit anyone who has a legitimate reason for prescription stimulants?
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Ask HN: Why is the Khanacademy website so power-hungry?
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Based on my limited experience I would say it's usually a pretty bad sign if there's not enough work for the developers... This is absolutely true. It either means resources are being inefficiently allocated or there's n
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I agree. Money is my motivation, but not in and of itself. I am motivated to acquire money because it is necessary for me to live, enjoy myself, and also create more achievements that are personally gratifying but also ideally feed back int
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> All we really have to do is fire judges (and those that appoint them) who do not uphold the constitution The biggest problem with doing something like this is coming to an agreement on exactly what the constitution allows and prohibits
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Are you suggesting humans will damage the planet that much? Yes. Now that the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, I would imagine that total human annihilation will happen sooner rather than later. The only way to guarantee survival of
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by joshuapants 11y ago
No ads on Netflix unless you count the header on the page giving you a notification that new content is available, the carousel that rotates through new/interesting content, or the suggestion of other things you might be interested in
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> In the cases that I can't escape ads by paying, I tend to move away from the content with ads. This is why I don't listen to the radio or watch "normal" TV anymore. I purchase music, subscribe to streaming services,
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> It's just that the ads are not wedged in between the middle of the book to interrupt the reading experience. Absolutely, the annoyance-factor of some types of advertisement are within acceptable bounds. It also helps that those ad
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Living on another planet doesn't make any sense for us At some point in the future Earth will be uninhabitable for humans. At that point, it will make plenty of sense. > sending a single tourist to the moon... All this focus on
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Well, we have lots of data on zero gravity from various astronauts in space who have been up for long periods of time. In zero g, muscles atrophy and bones get less dense. The longest moon mission was 12 days, not really enough to know wh
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> If technical books were in comic book form I would be happy--kinda like some military manuals? I just want the information. When I'm learning someting, I like a brief summary of what we're doing, or explaining. Then, I like s
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by joshuapants 11y ago
The deer analogy is very, very negative
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I did.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Why would I ever want to go through the purchase process if I'm on the fence and see this? You must not be the target market. They want to sell to people who like knives that don't suck.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Also: Tablet PCs vs. iPads.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Site owners has right to make living to Site owners have the right to make a living. They do not have a right to waste my bandwidth, damage my hearing, or compromise my security. > I think using ads-blocker is selfish act Perhaps, b
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Primarily I use ad-blocking and Greasemonkey. There are, of course, tons of others but I generally haven't found any that fit my usage. For me, ad-blocking is necessary from a privacy and security standpoint. It's also nice to s
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by joshuapants 11y ago
This pretty much mirrors my experience. I'm using Edge on an ancient Thinkpad, and there are many days where I can use it with no issues at all. And then sometimes I click on a link to a news website and my computers grinds to a halt l
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I've also been fairly impressed with Edge on a low-spec machine. Realistically, once there is extension support and I can get an ad-blocker (ideally uBlock, and since it's rumored to be easy to port Chrome extensions I'm hope
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> they're not pulling out of phones... just focusing on a fewer number of phones Fewer models, to be exact. In contrast to their old strategy of saturating the low end with multitudes of confusingly numbered Lumias they're cons
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by joshuapants 11y ago
So this post is about a year old. Looking at the .NET blog, I don't see any direct follow-ups. How did this pan out?
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Would anyone believe me if I said I don't have a Twitter or Facebook account? I'm in a similar situation. The only social media I have is a private Twitter account that I used for about 2 days and posted basically nothing to.

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