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by seiji 11y ago
Try to structure your problems as: If a pre-existing library existed to solve my problem, what would it look like? Then, go and create that library. You'll get more reuse (and better test coverage, maintainability, open-source ability
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by seiji 11y ago
with the contract. It all depends on how your carrier structures their plans. Historically, US carriers don't change plan pricing based on having a contract. So, you can be month-to-month for $100 per month, or get a two year contra
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by seiji 11y ago
but my point is: why? So they get three years out of a fabrication process and supply chain instead of 8 months if they only allowed you to buy the newest models every year. It's not a big choice. You have "free on contract&quo
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, "break down" as in "The sacred rules of HN conflict with actual reality because pedantics." You get to see the cracks in our gilded nerd armor.
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by seiji 11y ago
Enforcing arbitrary rules breaking brand names is a bad thing. IPhones should never be typed like that. Now we also have watchOS and tvOS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAK7t3Lf8s&t=3m22s
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by seiji 11y ago
This is where HN breaks down. The branding is explicitly tvOS, not TvOS (HN used to have pedantic mods manually change all titles to make first-letter-caps even when not relevant, not sure if it's automatic now or not). There's
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by seiji 11y ago
Exactly. Your cardiac output is a function of age, routinely stated as "220 minus your age in years is your maximum heart rate." (Or: maxBPM(age) = 220 - age) When I'm going all out, my watch says I hit 180 bpm which is pre
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by seiji 11y ago
It's a software problem though. Every "Smart TV" has garbage software features. Some become completely unusable during the hour it takes them to download and install weekly updates. Apple creates new markets by switching the
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by seiji 11y ago
meh, GNC did it first: http://www.gnc.com/GNC-Total-Lean-Lean-Shake-25-Pumpkin-Spic... and it's even pumpkin spice. game, set, match, checkmate, yahtzee.
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by seiji 11y ago
I wonder how long they tried to negotiate the rights to calling it "harry potter photos" but just couldn't swing it.
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by seiji 11y ago
It's almost like people entering highly regulated industries should have domain experience and not just make it all up as they go along.
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by seiji 11y ago
Really? It's pretty clear he meant "when you see a device can only operate with a stylus, it's a bad product."
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by seiji 11y ago
Apple always prefers to release late and do it better rather than play race-to-the-bottom games in perfect competition markets.
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by seiji 11y ago
This is where tech vs. business breaks down. Tech thinks everything has to be new, unique, novel, and the-best-in-the-world. Business is all about differentiation and marketing and getting inside customer minds. Even if Soylent was Ensur
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by seiji 11y ago
You probably aren't cut out for marketing then.
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by seiji 11y ago
http://www.6smarketing.com/blog/weare6s/
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, I was terrified of super-thin phone in super-tight pants and went with this last year: http://www.urbanarmorgear.com/collections/apple-iphone-6-plu... It doesn't add unusable thickness to the phone and as a
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by seiji 11y ago
My WebTV in 1999 sucked. Nobody should ever try again. :(
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by seiji 11y ago
HN just really really loves AOL.
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by seiji 11y ago
But... do the other platforms have millions of developers ready to create experiences for them? Don't think "Apple TV," think "Apple bigass interactive application substrate."
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by seiji 11y ago
It's just amusing since they aren't even done announcing it yet and people already hate it. :) It's not like Apple has ever been late to a party (phones, anybody?) and redefined and entire already-saturated market.
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by seiji 11y ago
I'm very disappointed that it doesn't really bring anything new to the table. You have a promising career ahead as an Apple analyst.
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by seiji 11y ago
We have to consider context as well. The original stylus comment was for a 3.5" pocket phone. Previously, things like Palm Treo or Windows Mobile devices required a stylus to touch the resistive sensing screen. That is the baseline
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by seiji 11y ago
I happily pay more for well designed products that do less instead of crap products that do everything.
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by seiji 11y ago
You compare current features against previous features, not globally available features. Many software platforms still aren't as good as Hypercard or even a damn Amiga from the 80s, but we pretend to have continual "advancements
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Apple Induced Anxiety(matt.sh)
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, it's like saying people download stuff "from bittorrent." It's like saying you download music from TCP. How people talk: "Where did you get this music?" "Oh, I got it from bittorrent." People
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by seiji 11y ago
I'm simply extrapolating current trends. Extrapolating current trends doesn't work in the face of exponential mumbo jumbo. Who would have expected training a character-by-character network could produce reasonable output? http
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by seiji 11y ago
Yes, that is quite a strange recommendation and the recommendation of "until the swap space used exceeds twice the physical RAM" is really crazy. The best recommendation for production servers is to disable your swap/page fi
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by seiji 11y ago
Modern computer models which are typically viewed as the edge of computational intelligence are very susceptible to getting tricked into incomplete models by their input data. What?! A human person lives for years figuring out how the w

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