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by ricw 13y ago
I'd disagree with the "end" keyword. You could add more whitespace, which our brains naturally deal with very well, or you add more "cruft" which we have to actively think about. In typography white space is what ma
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Driverless cars set to roam Milton Keynes from 2017(theguardian.com)
4 points by ricw 13y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 13y ago
Couldn't agree more with both points. Of course android ate Nokia's pie (cheap phones for everyone). Rather unsure about blackberry, i think thats more a thing that android and ios both now have excellent infrastructure integratio
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by ricw 13y ago
Being in the hardware business myself, I can only laud their attempt of simplifying and easing access. However their approach only solves a basic problem that already has been solved for quite a while (access, look at the likes of arduino,
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by ricw 13y ago
What is interesting is that over the last ten years microsoft has been unable to win markets with its time tested strategy: keeping at it until it conquers the market. It's because some very competent competitors have arisen that move
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by ricw 13y ago
Yes it can. Direct criticism leads to more honesty, leads to a more productive work environment. Just grow some balls and learn to deal with direct criticism..
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by ricw 13y ago
I would. But thats whats happens when you have old hardware and software is still progressing at an impressive pace. In fact, many of iOS7 features are only possible because of those advances (layered interfaces, the typography engine, for
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German government announces "very strong European reaction" to US spying(translate.google.com)
1 points by ricw 13y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 13y ago
While you're right in pointing out that the current blame can be primarily directed at Obama, it is also Bush's fault. Its a slippery slope of diminishing fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution, and whoever follows Obam
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by ricw 13y ago
This is marginal compared to the two major factors that matter for the majority of web services: acquisition cost and power consumption. On both fronts intels current business case cannot ever compete with arm, no matter how much more advan
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by ricw 13y ago
I wonder why huawei isn't allowed to sell american telcos their hardware.. And I also wonder whether its because the NSA wouldn't be able to scoop its own data or whether its because china would be able to do the same.. Oh the idi
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by ricw 13y ago
Of course they can move merchandise in quantity between locations. Faster, safer and cheaper than anything that currently exists. That's the whole point. But nonetheless, a major distribution network needs to be in place before this can hap
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by ricw 13y ago
Absolutely correct. And what clean code leads to is more maintainable and more easily update-able code. Beauty or ugliness is absolutely not a feature. Its a sideline to what clean code is. Maintainability is totally the high order bit here
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by ricw 13y ago
Just because Microsoft releases have been like this, doesn't mean they should! Having users up in arms is a bad sign. It means you have managed change badly. Others do this much better, incrementally and in bits that are manageable by users
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by ricw 13y ago
it certainly is on android. one of the reasons why i only install "social" apps on iOS..
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by ricw 13y ago
doesn't seem to work.. neither for myself or my former phd supervisor.
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by ricw 13y ago
That's what happens if you slack off in school. School (< age 18) is essentially the best place to learn how to learn, and many (including myself) defer this because they think its somehow too easy. School often seems so irrelevant, and
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by ricw 14y ago
Horrible weather? You should check out the uk.. It's beautiful, yet windy, in Boston in comparison.
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by ricw 14y ago
You propose a congestion charge to eleviate the problem of there not being enough housing?! Thats completely and utter nonsense. The only way around overpriced housing is to build more. If people move away and the prices drop, the flats bec
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by ricw 14y ago
And thank her for what the competition has brought us. One of the fastest and cheapest broadband Internet that I know of. Just some facts of pre-privatisation: it typically took 6-12 months for bit to install a landline when it was state ow
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by ricw 14y ago
That's a terrible idea. You probably can't remember how bad the telephone services were when they were nationalised. Having to wait 6-12 months for a line was the norm. Prices were high. People seems to forget just how badly state run servi
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by ricw 14y ago
Why not? You get a better service and its likely going to be cheaper. I wouldn't see any advantage of having companies like AT&T neglect such areas. Get the real competition going.
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by ricw 14y ago
Of course not. But those are the primary costs of launch. Coming to think of it, fuel costs are probably smaller than dev and personnel costs. Nonetheless, it'll be a magnitude smaller than current launch prices. A typical series A round s
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by ricw 14y ago
Exciting times. By mid-next-year spacex might make space travel an order of magnitude cheaper ($60mio vs $200k, aka launch vehicle cost vs fuel cost). It will lead to a paradigm shift as to what can feasibly be sent to space. Who knows it m
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by ricw 14y ago
Have they announced a timeline for actually implementing the grasshopper tech for real launch purposes?! When that happens, spacex will have won the race to space. No other company would be able to match their launch price, given how high t
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by ricw 14y ago
Apple never had a monopoly in either the tablet or phone market. And it doesn't look like it will.
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by ricw 14y ago
(in response to marknutter's comment below, for some reason the reply button was previously not available. HN bug?): You can (and we do): iOS: http://xamarin.com/monotouch android: http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid You should give it a
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by ricw 14y ago
Not at all. Dead serious. If HTML/CSS/javascript had been properly developed we wouldn't even have to deal with all the issues surrounding web dev. All these issues have been addressed by OS development decades ago (e.g. duplex connectivity
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by ricw 14y ago
And this doesn't even mention the pain of actually MAKING such a webpage. HTML5/javascript/css are, to put it blunt, rubbish and antiquated technologies. Why even force people to use this "boxed" and shit set? Firefox OS is just wrong from
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by ricw 14y ago
I'm unsure how exactly this is supposed to be news. Of course economies of scale are going to pay off. Of course better technology is going to pay off. But how in earth and when is it going to compete with fossil fuels? No answer. Rubbish a

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