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by revorad 14y ago
I would be surprised if Facebook is not working on their own mobile OS. All those amazing designers they acquihired can't be working on plain-looking webview apps.
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by revorad 14y ago
Yes, we're talking about mobile here. I thought that was obvious, but still made it clear when I said iOS, not OS X.
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by revorad 14y ago
If you don't have any real options other than IE, you cannot imagine a Firefox is possible. Microsoft : IE :: Apple : Safari
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by revorad 14y ago
Do you know why Chrome and Firefox are not on iOS? Because Apple only allows Safari Webkit. V8, Gecko or any other rendering or JS engines are not allowed. Opera Mini is based on Webkit and does any custom processing in the cloud, which is
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by revorad 14y ago
OT: daeken, great to see you're now working on B2G! I'm going to their hackathon in London this weekend - can't wait to see a B2G device.
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by revorad 14y ago
It hurts and annoys me to no end that web developers don't take a stronger stand against Apple for its ridiculous policies against allowing browsers. To me, the browser is the single most important piece of software on any computer. People
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by revorad 14y ago
For web analytics, I find Geckoboard to be the nicest looking. Or you could roll your own using d3.js.
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by revorad 14y ago
It does look like a problem with my Safari. I'll delete this post.
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by revorad 14y ago
You gain: 1. A better price on an equally specced machine because we buy in bulk. 2. Save time installing and much more importantly testing and making sure everything works out of the box. If you like playing with drivers, then maybe this i
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by revorad 14y ago
I'm trying to bring this to market, first in the form of Thinkpads, but possibly other models too (including our own in the future). If anyone's interested, please sign up here - http://giniji.com
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by revorad 14y ago
I don't know how big the opportunity is, but from the interest in my Linux laptop store so far [1], it appears a lot of people do want these machines. Dell's entry into the market is a surprising and welcome change too. It feels a bit weird
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by revorad 14y ago
This has been one of the top ideas in my list of startup ideas for a while. I feel a bit bummed for not doing it, but I'm glad someone else is doing it. I should really trust my instincts more and just build things I think should exist. Edi
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by revorad 15y ago
Is there a way to find out how much memory an app like this is using? How does it compare to Safari's memory usage?
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by revorad 15y ago
It's funny to see when people seem to get personally offended any time someone tries a crazy new idea. To anyone having even a fleeting interest in "entrepreneurship": you don't need any special reason to do it. You don't need to justify it
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by revorad 15y ago
This is the first personalised news app that seems to work quite well, at least for me. I don't like their web UI too much (the little widgets with scrollbars are too painfully similar to the new unusable Gmail design). But it's still minim
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by revorad 15y ago
I'm also not clear as to what Canonical's main target audience is, but I think it's great that finally someone has the balls to stand up and take lead. PG once said that design is the limiting edge of open source, which seems true empirical
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by revorad 15y ago
I had the same reaction as you when I first tried Unity a while ago. But now I've come around to like it. It's actually really forward thinking. Our perception of user interfaces is very much tied to habit - what we're used to. New interfac
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by revorad 15y ago
I love Disqus. They are one of the few startups building seemingly unsexy but solid fundamental tech. I just hope they have a solid business and don't get bought by BigCo for talent or fear of competition.
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by revorad 15y ago
Weebly is awesome. I recommend it to every non-techie friend who asks me for help setting up a website. So happy to see them doing well building a solid fundamental technology.
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by revorad 15y ago
Jessica Livingston interviewed him a while ago. You could pick up the thread from there. Edit: Here it is - http://vimeo.com/10123713
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by revorad 15y ago
This could be the device for coding on the go.
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Google to court: Galaxy Nexus code is closed just like that of the iPhone(fosspatents.com)
18 points by revorad 15y ago|4 comments
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by revorad 15y ago
I will be surprised if Apple does not eventually allow programmers to program directly on iOS. I think they restrict it for now because of the limitations of the device. If they don't go that way, then I'm willing to bet on Android or any o
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by revorad 15y ago
To some extent I feel the opposite is true - local dev might get solved more easily than a good mobile UI. Because of the relatively open nature of Android, we're already seeing things like Android AIDE (as aniruddh mentioned in another com
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by revorad 15y ago
Ok, here's a simple workaround for now. It doesn't let you put the launcher on the right, but it lets you keep the launcher only on one window (the laptop in your case). Go to System Settings > Displays. The "Launcher placement" is set
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by revorad 15y ago
Ok I skimmed through the demo bits. They seem to be building a platform to let non-programmers build apps using simple building blocks. That's interesting but I'm mostly interested in proper coding on mobile devices.
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by revorad 15y ago
Thanks Mike. I'll check out the video. I'm curious to know what your own thoughts are on this.
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by revorad 15y ago
Connecting phones and tablets to bigger displays is definitely going to become common. But I'm more interested in developing on the go. Thanks for pointing to Android AIDE. It looks great. Do you know of any good apps built on it? Is there
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by revorad 15y ago
Mike, thanks for continuing to be awesome. I'm working on a hardware startup. So, what would really help me right now is your thoughts on this question I posted earlier - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3899105
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by revorad 15y ago
Yeah I'm talking about fully native apps. Imagine if you could only write apps for your laptop on a mainframe. That's how writing mobile apps on laptops feels like to me.

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