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by kartickv 10y ago
Why would there be more eyestrain working on a smaller device (assuming the same font size)? I don't feel more eyestrain when I use my iPad for half a day at a stretch than I do my Mac. Regarding your point about who wants to work on a
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by kartickv 10y ago
I'm personally in the big screen camp as well, having recently bought an iMac 27. When I used a laptop, it was a 15-inch. But others prefer smaller screens, even getting their work done on a tablet. I do think there's demand for t
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by kartickv 10y ago
Interesting. I do think there's demand for smaller devices. For example, some people get their work done on a tablet.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I haven't played Pokemon Go, but it's fine for apps to use their own custom theme. What's not fine is to use one OS's theme on another OS, like an Android app on WP. I see where you're coming from when you say that
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A Lighter and Smaller Laptop(kartick-log.blogspot.com)
42 points by kartickv 10y ago|72 comments
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by kartickv 10y ago
Besides, Astoria will lead to a second-rate UX for Windows Phone (WP) as Android apps on WP are coded as per Android UX guidelines, not WP UX guidelines. If Microsoft is building a framework, I'd expect it to provide a great UX for the
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by kartickv 10y ago
Is packet loss in the real world random or correlated? TCP's head-of-line blocking problem goes away if packet loss turns out to be correlated — lose a packet belonging to one stream within the connection, and you're going to lose
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by kartickv 10y ago
Since the article spends quite a bit of time talking about icons, let me focus on that, too. I think the old icons had too much detail in them to be visible at typical icon sizes. They ended up looking cluttered and over-designed. The new i
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by kartickv 10y ago
Great point, but I've had the opposite reaction — to me the old one says that someone's else junk is already in there (the scribbles) while the white blank page is a blank canvas, in the good sense of the term. It's inviting.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I didn't say 20 hours a week. I said a quarter or two off between full-time projects.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I agree with that, but you haven't given any information or insight to substantiate your claim that the Apple car will be the next iPhone. Merely saying "it will be awesome!" doesn't convince anyone :)
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by kartickv 10y ago
My petrol car has a long range. I don't think anyone will be impressed by a car with a long range.
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by kartickv 10y ago
Or entitle people to take a quarter or two off between projects, at loss of pay. Not, "the manager and HR may or may not approve", but as a matter of course. That gives you more or less what you want, that too in a form where you
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by kartickv 10y ago
I concur with rpgmaker that it's bullshit to say that the existing technology "blows". Tell me exactly how an Apple car will be better than my existing petrol-powered car. Not in an abstract sense, for me. With the iPhone, we
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by kartickv 10y ago
At least, in a memory-safe language, you'll get an IndexOutOfBoundsException rather than corrupting memory, which can be used as an attack.
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by kartickv 10y ago
Sure, the moderators may end up looking one-sided, but it sends a clear signal as to what kind of behaviour is not tolerated. The other members can adjust to the new normal, and some will leave. Either way, you've cleaned up the site t
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by kartickv 10y ago
Name-calling was an example of bad behaviour you want to ban. I'm sure we can think of other, worse, types of behaviour. Whatever it is, find the most egregious offenders, and ban them.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I have a theory — to clean up a site, find and expel the most egregious offenders, like the people who engage in repeated name-calling ("You are a fucking asshole!") as opposed to constructive discussion. You can't police eve
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by kartickv 10y ago
Does POWER have an advantage in price-performance ratio over Intel? When I say price, it's the TCO, including energy costs.
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by kartickv 10y ago
While I understand and agree with what you said, HTTP 2 still runs on top of TCP, which means that when you lose a packet, subsequent packets belonging to other responses can't be delivered to the application layer, even though there&#
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by kartickv 10y ago
That's an implementation detail, best left to the developer of the app. What I care about is UI, speed, search, privacy, etc.
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by kartickv 10y ago
The post I replied to talked of "the dispassionate justice of machines", and I was saying it's ultimately the humans deciding things, not machines. Incompatibility is a downside of changing the protocol, but that doesn't
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by kartickv 10y ago
The machines are controlled by humans, and will be, unless and until AI takes over the world. So how can you possibly have a system where humans can't decide things? I would still view it as less corrupt than traditional finance, where
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by kartickv 10y ago
Agreed. If I have to prepare for an interview, that means that the interview isn't testing what I use every day in my work, which makes it a bad interview process. I could do something more useful with that time, and I no longer feel l
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by kartickv 10y ago
Many apps do have diseconomies of scope — they have too many features, and are therefore hard to use. And the company spent more resources to build a more featureful app, like hiring more people, but this extra investment has had a negative
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by kartickv 10y ago
I forgot to mention — I would like to deploy it as a web site as well. So, it should be a web app, but deployable with a thin native shell in the Mac and Windows app stores as well. What frameworks fit the bill?
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Ask HN: Cross-platform framework to build a great Mac/Windows app?
1 points by kartickv 10y ago|5 comments
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by kartickv 10y ago
Maybe he shouldn't have used the term "economies of scale", instead using "economies of scope", which he does use. Do you agree with his point about diseconomies of scope?
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by kartickv 10y ago
Does it matter in practice whether the diseconomies are due to "software" or "design"? Are you offering a solution to the problem the author outlines?
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by kartickv 10y ago
Assuming your intent is not to troll: "The file xyz.txt is corrupt. Click here to restore from a Time Machine backup."

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