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by kunai 13y ago
No, they're actually not. Terrible travel, and a completely flat key top is a non-starter – there's no bevel to guide your fingers, and no tactile travel to absorb the shock from your fingers, leaving your hands fatigued. Before y
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by kunai 13y ago
This is a huge opportunity for Dell on their portable machines. As far as I know, Dell is practically the only OEM that hasn't royally screwed up their professional-grade notebooks. The M4800 is a beauty – extremely powerful, and fanta
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by kunai 13y ago
No, I meant the respect part. Thom is known for his cryptic ambiguity and often surreal sentence formation, so it's doubtful his opinion would be held in higher regard than anyone else's.
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by kunai 13y ago
Thom's AMA would suggest otherwise. I love Radiohead, but... come on.
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by kunai 13y ago
Perfectly put. I'm having to take a VB.net course to advance to the next level of my high school's CS curriculum, if you could even call it that. It's painful as hell, and like you said, makes me feel like a corporate monkey
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by kunai 13y ago
Most of it is good, but the thing that kills it is the inline comments. When I want to get down and read an article, I want to get down and read the damn thing, not be faced with comments that most often reiterate whatever's in the a
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by kunai 13y ago
If you've never used a larger-screened phone, you may not see the benefits immediately. I went from a 4s to a Lumia 1020. Initially, I thought it was way too big, but the supple, thick, curved edges and ergonomic design of the 1020&#x2
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by kunai 13y ago
Oh shit. Ubuntu better change their menus... ...that they've been using from 2005. Oh, they also really have to change their dock!... ...that they've been using from 2011. The menu patent is a design patent, so you'd have to
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by kunai 13y ago
The comments on that article make me very sad.
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by kunai 13y ago
Fair point, but I doubt anyone visiting pbskids and Nick is upping their swag by checking out what verse Jay-Z just busted.
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by kunai 13y ago
RapGenius visitors are probably adults or young adults, but the fact that the average "visitor" visits NPR and pbskids is indicative that the visitor has children or siblings, which means that a child and an adult are on the sam
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by kunai 13y ago
All I can glean from that is that the typical visitor to RapGenius can't be bothered to set up a separate user account for his/her children. This brings up an important point: hardly anyone knows how to configure or troubleshoot t
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by kunai 13y ago
Only if you're willing to keep your computer well-maintained. Most users don't. The Registry is an outdated piece of junk, but thankfully Microsoft has made it less intrusive in Windows 7, and is making moves away from it with 8&#
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by kunai 13y ago
I'm curious as to whether you perceive you are faster on the iPhone or whether, empirically, you are. I've seen some studies that have shown physical keyboards to be marginally faster than touchscreen keyboards, but not enough f
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by kunai 13y ago
I'm puzzled as to why you think I'm trolling. I have over 3000 karma on HN, while you have... a tenth of that? I'm not interested in a flame war. http://i.imgur.com/H3py0lR.jpg Besides, it is true – until the
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by kunai 13y ago
Key words: "had been" Merriam-Webster: been |bin| past participle of be.
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by kunai 13y ago
It's posts like these that make me wonder why we put Gruber at such a high pedestal at HN and in the techno blogosphere in general. On Sean Hollister's lament at the death of the keyboard: I’d say it’s not strange at all, for
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by kunai 13y ago
He seems like a major dick. No offense to the talented engineers at RG.
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by kunai 13y ago
Unleaded fuel.
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by kunai 13y ago
The Nespresso story brings up an important point, especially for everybody in Silicon Valley. Analog. No, really, I'm serious. It really is about analog. For years and years, everyone who has had any experience with technology has been
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by kunai 13y ago
Is having control over your own device not enough? Seriously, that outweighs everything for me.
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by kunai 13y ago
"the Agency is indispensable" Stopped reading right there. Someone else can come along and tell everyone the rest of the story, but that's the only indication that this is a failed attempt to save face by a failed administrat
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by kunai 13y ago
Or Apple. (ducks)
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by kunai 13y ago
What I've found is that it's not the best-designed apps that sell the most on the App Store. It's the ones that look "beautiful" in Apple parlance – overly simplistic, bare, and stripped-down, with nice icons and go
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by kunai 13y ago
> I would buy from any vendor that's willing to drop legacy features such as upgradability in favor of improving the device for people Except that most of these removals don't improve the device for people. If you weren't
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by kunai 13y ago
Essentially, the rules go like this: white over white: you're too high; red over white, you're just right; red over red, you're dead. This is drilled into every pilot. Besides, on a visual approach with clear weather, there i
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by kunai 13y ago
Well, really, it doesn't. Sorry for not making my point as clear as it should have been. Essentially, this whole point that Windows laptops have no good ideas to be gleaned from and that Apple is God is making computers worse. I don&#x
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by kunai 13y ago
I see you haven't used a ThinkPad. This is the same bullshit logical fallacy that keeps me firmly opposed to modern Macs. You think, that somehow, a $300 PC will be WORSE than a $1299 MacBook, and that ALL PCs are somehow terrible in b
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by kunai 13y ago
> There have been plenty of Android phones with hard keyboards but they've not sold in sufficient quantities to make it attractive. They haven't sold because they've sucked. They had low-quality displays, crappy software,
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by kunai 13y ago
You practically proved his point. It doesn't matter whether fundamentalism is risky, it's not a practical threat and therefore is not anything to be afraid. Destabilizing influence? Give me examples. Historians have no phobia of f

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