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by rinich 17y ago
Oh, jrockway. Here's to our upcoming 2-year anniversary of you being a fucker and my calling you a fucker. You've been with me since the start! I think it's all right for me to call Apple my favorite company. If we want to be douchesnobs, t
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by rinich 17y ago
Jason — I think it'll appeal to more people than just that. I suspect it'll make headway into the e-reader territory — some people will pass up e-paper for flexibility. It'll also be considered by anybody enthusiastic about newspapers or ma
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by rinich 17y ago
Direct and in-your-face, perhaps, but this is also an article that says the iPad is magic, and we all know it's not literally magic. I refuse to believe we're that incapable of discerning not-so-subtleties.
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by rinich 17y ago
That's how I feel, too. The bezel I'm uncertain about, the aspect ratio is certainly different if nothing else. I'm curious how it'll feel when held. Perhaps the radical screen change will prove to feel surprisingly natural. I think the hug
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by rinich 17y ago
Well... yes and no. Certainly there are certain things that artists need that the iPad won't be instantly equipped to handle. However, in terms of sales newspaper people and novelists will thrive with this, and I suspect this product will i
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by rinich 17y ago
Certainly marketing can lie. The "funnest iPod ever" didn't make the iPod touch into a brilliant gaming console. (Casual gaming, maybe, come to think of it, but that's beyond my knowledge. Anybody else know about this?) However, it's good a
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by rinich 17y ago
Touche! So the digital photos won't disappear instantly. I'd bet, though, that they'll take something of a hit from this, and certainly as this thing lowers in prices they'll be hurt even further.
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by rinich 17y ago
I was referring to the digital frames. Maybe I'm missing something (entirely possible!) but I don't know what any other "display photos in a digital box" hardware has to offer that this doesn't. Upvoted, among other things, for making me im
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by rinich 17y ago
I'm glad you like it! It's corny, but when people let me know they've enjoyed something of mine it makes it all worth the gritted teeth and the hurling laptops out windows.
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by rinich 17y ago
I'll explain again. The point of hyperbole is to deliberately exaggerate something for effect, in this case humorous. I could have tried to estimate how much Apple will sell, but I don't care about estimation. My point is they will sell a l
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by rinich 17y ago
Isn't that what sucks about HN's rise and fall story display? I completely agree with you. But if people read this and like it, the only way they can spread it to other people is to vote it, potentially past other stories. But you missed my
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by rinich 17y ago
hyperbole /haɪp'ɜːʳbəli/ Synonyms: exaggeration, hyperbola, overstatement If someone uses hyperbole, they say or write things that make something sound much more impressive than it really is.
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by rinich 17y ago
Whoops! I completely forgot I'd put Didot in there for a day.
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by rinich 17y ago
Not a fan of Calluna? I'm partial to it. It'll make you happy to know I'm switching to a no-holds-barred Helvetica/Cufón combination shortly. Everybody wins! EDIT: Just for you guys, Georgia's the default font again.
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by rinich 17y ago
Awesome! Anything that excuses my writing is fine in my book. From the perspective of an art student Apple's essentially cornered every market now. Whether you're a multimedia programmer, a musician, a filmmaker, a newspaper editor, or a no
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by rinich 17y ago
Right now my entire blog's in a very stream-of-consciousness mode. I'm writing lots of long unedited things every day just to get it out in time for an upcoming major revision. I submitted this because I was a bit irked at how commentary he
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by rinich 17y ago
Hear that sound? It's me, playing on my Wii, not caring about the name of things after the first month.
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iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising(rinich.com)
118 points by rinich 17y ago|102 comments
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by rinich 17y ago
I know, right? TechCrunch has such an extensive history of creating brilliant, usable interfaces? But you're wrong. This doesn't have a niche. This is going to replace many, many niches. This is going to be what people buy instead of laptop
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by rinich 17y ago
Me neither! I was holding my iPad right now and totally using it, and my thoughts were, like, now that I've actually physically held this thing I can't imagine who would use it. I'm imagining you're not liking your physical copy either?
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by rinich 17y ago
More marketable? Hardly. My mother wants something that she can lie down on a couch with, read books, check email, be relaxed. You can't do that in the iPod comfortably. Note that Steve's doing all this in a comfy chair. That's what this is
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by rinich 17y ago
Your words make no sense. You don't like the OS except on a phone but not on a phone but this isn't the iPhone OS whatsoever. Also: Can we not say stupid things until Steve finishes telling us everything? As I type this they're just ann
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by rinich 17y ago
I really wish Drupal had a design team capable of making things as attractive as Wordpress.com. Why didn't they get one of the big Drupal graphic designers, like Acko, on this?
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Ask HN: Recommend me a CMS/blogging platform
5 points by rinich 17y ago|3 comments
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by rinich 17y ago
I know, I didn't mean you. I don't know if you have enough karma yet to downvote.
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by rinich 17y ago
I'm not going to argue with you, because I haven't been following this, because I could give a rat's ass about Mahalo. I think what I said about downvoting still stands. You don't have to upvote him, but when he's down at -4 a few minutes
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by rinich 17y ago
I never asked to be an expert... I just state my opinion and folks can respond to it. Sometimes i'm right, many times I'm wrong. I'm not your biggest fan, but can everybody piling on here read this and take it to heart? The best thing abo
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by rinich 17y ago
Congratulations! You've hit upon the tragic core of this industry: Namely, that it's full of semimature people who are only well-known because they're well-known. This is such a new field of study that even the biggest figures are usually o
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by rinich 17y ago
I just tested this by submitting that same Scribd rant. My account sees it as having been submitted, but if I'm not logged in the story doesn't appear at all. Can I add that Paul's method of making things disappear without telling users is
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by rinich 17y ago
It's Tumblr. That's how reblogging works.

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