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by swernli 17y ago
I'm inclined to disagree with you. This may slow or impede the growth of the App Store, but Apple still has plenty of partners producing amazing apps (have you seen the Marvel and ABC apps? Stunning, functional, and downright great to use,
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by swernli 17y ago
Seems to me like their "Game Center" thing might address this. I personally avoid Facebook, but if I look at my iPhone and can see that 3 of my friends are playing a particular game, I would be influenced much the way I imagine folks who r
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by swernli 17y ago
My apologies; looking back at what I wrote, I realize I did respond harshly. Your comment (and you) deserved more courtesy than that... I guess my disagreement stems from the fact that I don't see what I type into those boxes as commands (
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by swernli 17y ago
I don't think there is anything wrong with saying, you just have to have the right device for the right task. If what you need is to check email and browse websites, get something that does that. It might do more, but if that's all you ne
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by swernli 17y ago
There is a button in iPhoto for that. You click it, it asks you what size you want the photo(s) to be, compresses them for you if needed, opens up Mail, opens a new mail window, and inserts the photos for you. What any other mail client d
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by swernli 17y ago
I disagree with you there. Yes, those are command line "interfaces" in terms of what the GUI (or lack thereof) is. But typing in a name into a search box and being presented with a graphical list of results as links or icons is not at all
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by swernli 17y ago
Very true. And yet we still have so many feature rich yet experience poor devices, programs, and services out there. It's almost as if most people don't get the idea of quality over quantity...
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by swernli 17y ago
Here is a long, only tangentially related story about the computer usage habits of "normals" where the action, a system restart, is much less an indicator of the problem than the reason... I was getting together with a bunch of high school
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by swernli 17y ago
I think you have a good point about the test not being perfect. But I think your explanation is a great example of what such basic tests are really trying to get at: people's usage habits reflect their level of knowledge. I agree that the
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by swernli 17y ago
Google isn't known for any quality of it's software. Google is known for their search engine. Yes, people on this site might tout the glories of Chrome, but to the average user, all they see is a search engine and email when they are on th
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by swernli 17y ago
I agree with points in general, but for one detail: > Europe does have excellent designers; however, it lacks a start-up worshipping culture... So? The iPod wasn't made by a start-up. The technology wasn't built from an acquisition of
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by swernli 17y ago
> Evolving a product is neither revolutionary nor particularly original. Interesting, because the example you point to, the iPod, didn't really capture it's outrageously huge market share until the iPod Mini, which was an evolution on t
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by swernli 17y ago
I'd call Xbox Live a successful, innovative product, especially given the way they've continued to evolve it in a way that delivers more value to the user and gradually gets them closer to the idea of having the Xbox as the center of the en
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by swernli 17y ago
I think the author makes a similar point (about third party hosting services needing safe harbor) when he points out that Amazon EC2 is like the landlord, who of course can't be held responsible for underage drinking at the club. I agree t
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by swernli 17y ago
There are a lot of things that you depend on that aren't "user-visible" and require what you call "programming for the sake of programming." In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's good that some of us love that stuff, otherwise there would
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by swernli 17y ago
An old article, but interesting for the same familiar reasons. I've done some work in genetic programming, most of which was done for a graduate project that I really enjoyed. The part of this article I resonated with the most was the end
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by swernli 17y ago
Very true, but most people don't realize it. Or worse, people will admit that money and time and effort on eduction produces rewards, but they don't equate those short term indications (grades) with the long term rewards (options in life,
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by swernli 17y ago
In our typing class, the teacher would give us each a floppy that stored our progress, averages, and what typing tests we were working on. I got tired of doing the tests (I was practicing typing at home on my own), and I wanted to streamli
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by swernli 17y ago
Interestingly enough, Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) has come up here before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=908868
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by swernli 17y ago
Maybe not for the Surface specifically, but how about just multiplatform but with built in support for Win7 multitouch? For that we'll have R.U.S.E.: http://ruse.us.ubi.com/index.php?page=news&newsid=10422
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D&D for the Surface(news.cnet.com)
29 points by swernli 17y ago|14 comments
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by swernli 17y ago
I think the first camp's worries are justified a bit by the second camp's perspective and mistake (at least the way you've phrased it). Yes, it may end up being the "computer for people who never use their computer," but by some estimates
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by swernli 17y ago
I agree with you: there is a lot to dislike about facebook if you prefer to, but there is also a technological achievement there that is frustratingly difficult to deny. But I don't think they will go the way of AOL (at least not for many
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Analysis: Apple's A4 chip will probably power 2010 iPhone(geek.com)
2 points by swernli 17y ago|1 comments
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by swernli 17y ago
I'm frequently suprised by how many people are only aware of one zoom method or the other. Even back when the iPhone was released, I remember a couple of reviews lamenting the lack of arbitrary zoom for the times when the double-tap auto-z
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by swernli 17y ago
Or the digital multi-tool, from the old show ReBoot: http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Glitch
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by swernli 17y ago
Ditto. I posted this mostly because I was suprised the comparison hasn't come up more in discussion, so I figured maybe not as many people were familiar with it as I assumed. Discussion of the various benefits and short-comings aside, I a
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In case you haven't seen it before: Star Trek's PADD(memory-alpha.org)
26 points by swernli 17y ago|16 comments
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by swernli 17y ago
For what it's worth, check out the wikipedia page on the RAZR, specifically the section on Cultural Impact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razr . Key quote: "The RAZR has been said to the 'iPod' of mobile phones. Being the slimmest phone d
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by swernli 17y ago
The inability to change their products is directly tied to the restrictions in the problem space that let them make the defaults great. You're right, you can't change them. Which means you can't screw it up. Most people are not tech-savy

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