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by kevinh 15y ago
The website felt odd to me. It's clearly aimed at developers, given the subject material, but it felt like it was written as an ad for prospective buyers. It listed a bunch of features and user interface methods that apps should have , bu
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How many people on HN aren't capable of easily getting around regional restrictions for websites?
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On the other hand - publicity gained by going dark along with reddit would raise the amount of people who were aware of HN and could cause more people to come here. Either way, I don't think it's that big of a concern.
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I find it exceedingly hard to believe that Google would be brought down as a repercussion of Google. It's very unlikely that any widespread, powerful websites (like Google or Facebook) would be taken down, because removing them from the ec
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Setting the blackout of reddit for a day when he can't use it anyway? Brilliant.
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If someone can use a proxy to get to use the website, it harms the effectiveness of the measure.
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You put a touch device which doesn't scroll properly - halting, not properly moving with the finger - in someone's hands, and they'll say it just doesn't feel right. That's a serious UX problem.
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That's a naive quote. You are the product, yes, but you're also the customer. Google has to appease you to keep you. Without a balance between consumer and advertiser, Google won't make any money.
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The problem with the Android devices that I've used* is that they just feel cheap. When scrolling does not occur smoothly, that's a serious UX issue. *I haven't had the opportunity to use ICS yet.
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They write about what they know - they know about the mobile landscape of the United States. They likely don't know about the mobile landscape of the rest of the world and, if they were to comment on it, they would most likely get it wrong
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What we're (or at least I) am opposing is government regulation of free speech. Corporations are allowed to regulate speech on sites that they own.
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The line is where they, as a company, decide to put it. I would not go to a social networking site that had gore or porn polluting my feeds. Similarly, you might not go to a website that disallows any content. That's our prerogative. It
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He strikes me as being completely out of touch with the value of money. He's living as a single man on the median income of a family of four and he's acting like he can't have a single luxury? It's ridiculous.
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Yes, the two most common ways of ordering pizza now are via the phone or in person, but there's no reason to expect that this will stay constant. Communication between people has trended away from voice contact for a while now, and if a co
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Assuming you programmed your app correctly, you only need to override the function shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation to return true for the supported orientations. If you use portrait orien
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When I was still in college, nothing got me more motivated to clean my apartment than having that big project that I needed to work on.
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I'll agree that WikiLeaks died (for me) when they released the helicopter video, but not because of some sort of grand conspiracy. It was because they editorialized the story into the ground. They weren't releasing unadulterated pure data
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And Apple apps work great on the iPhone. It's to be expected (unless a platform is absolutely horrible).
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It's pretty odd that they don't tell what the + operator now means, or more likely, what it will mean in the future. If you're going to take away a feature that I use, I'd be a lot more accepting if you explained why .
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Interesting article. I was under the impression that the kilogram was defined as the mass of one liter of water, but that appears to just be an approximation now.
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Not necessarily. Generally, the purpose of a corporation is, in fact, to maximize shareholder wealth, but all a corporation is supposed to do is to represent the interests of the shareholders, which do not have to be financially motivated.
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If it's anything like universities are in the US, you don't get to the exciting CS topics until your second year when it stops being generic programming and specializes in algorithms, computer learning, and other more interesting topics. I
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I'd suggest moving forward with your degree. A degree looks good on any resume, and pushing forward with your degree will give you more flexibility in choosing jobs in the future. And, who knows? You may actually find you really like some
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by kevinh 15y ago
Is depriving people of social networking features truly evil? It's "Don't be evil," not "Don't do things that people don't like." Now, there may be other cases in which you may be able to correctly accuse Google of being "evil," but I don
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If you're in my house and say things that I don't like, it's not immoral for me to kick you out. You can go say what you like outside. It's similar to companies allowing you to post your opinion on their service. If they don't like what
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by kevinh 16y ago
I think most people who use LaTeX on their resume would do it because it makes it look better and is easier in some ways (that McGee mentioned), not because it is there to pad their resume. McGee explicitly mentions that the reason he does
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by kevinh 16y ago
I'd imagine that a good portion of the people who would buy the counterfeit copy after reading this article already have their iPod jailbroken and would just pirate the app.
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The in-game cheats Blizzard supplies have all the functionalities of the trainers (at least that I saw on a simple google search). The only perk of using a trainer is to be able to get achievements while cheating. You could make the argum
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Brand recognition.
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I thought the iPad was a joke, and by all accounts it seems to be a success, so I'm wary of judging a product's future success based on my own personal opinions.

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