rednukleus

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by rednukleus 14y ago
My god, some of you people live in the weirdest little bubble, where you have no idea what is going on in the world. > The consumer PC market has cratered since the iPad No it hasn't. Not even close. There are a lot more PCs sold per
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by rednukleus 14y ago
Sounds like you want to change the world. In what way, and why?
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by rednukleus 14y ago
The person you are replying to has 12 karma. They may very well be a rare browser of HN and tech-sites in general.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
This is a particularly weak false dichotomy, coupled with a particularly weak strawman.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
What is the purpose of this, other than just to see if it can be done? I can't think of any software that would be worthwhile emulating that doesn't already have a Linux or Windows version (which is covered by Wine), other than xcode.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
I find myself visiting slow loading sites less often than snappy ones. The slow load times are one of the two big reasons why I stopped visiting The Verge.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
I don't mean to sound snarky, I just thought it was a wonderful summary of the stereotypical HN reader - reading a paid Times subscription on an iPad and comparing the value to Starbucks coffee.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
"I pay $20/month to read the Times in bed on my iPad. I mean, it's five trips to Starbucks" If I have ever read a comment that summed up HN perfectly, that was it.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
My first thought was Steve Jobs, but I guess this could apply to a lot of tech CEOs both successful and unsuccessful. Or to put it another way - the article is complete nonsense.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
I'm trying to work out if this article is intended to be ironic or humorous. The list is basically a description of the Apple corporate culture (and to a lesser extent some of their rivals), and then it ends with "[Jackson was long AAPL at
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by rednukleus 14y ago
> I cannot understand the responses from people here on reddit You are lost again citric. This is hackernews, not reddit.
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by rednukleus 14y ago
There is nothing in any of these patent cases that even approaches the "shameless knock-off" territory. There are products coming out of China that are counterfits, or very close to existing products - and they should be banned. You would
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by rednukleus 14y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. That dell laptops have become thinner over the last 10 years? Or is it that they have been absolutely in no way influenced by the imac?
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by rednukleus 14y ago
> I'm not even talking about gestures. Let me see you getting used to fluid two finger scrolling I call two finger scrolling a gesture. Most mac users I know don't know any gestures at all, they just use it like a PC trackpad. For me,
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by rednukleus 14y ago
Tell me with a straight face that phones would not currently have multi-touch capacitive touchscreens if the iPhone never came out. Tell me with a straight face that mp3 players would never have taken off without the ipod. Apple have had a
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by rednukleus 14y ago
> all the whitebox parts makers started making "bondi blue" knockoffs after the iMac came out. Yeah, and how long did that "trend" last? USB was fairly mainstream before the iMac. I don't think I ever saw an iMac in the wild that didn't
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by rednukleus 14y ago
> there is no PC laptop in sight giving you that kind of resolution There will be plenty when Windows 8 comes out. > And this is something the author can't possibly understand. If you don't like gestures, you will be totally unimpre
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by rednukleus 14y ago
> iMac: 1998. Started a whole breed of computers with fancy physical designs. What? How many computers are there out there other than the iMac with "fancy physical designs"? The iMac had virtually no impact on the industry. Your other