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by tankbot 14y ago
Hah! That image is great. Oddly enough though, my initial reaction is to support Apple's claim for slide to unlock but scoff at them for "rounded corners." I'm not sure why, I guess because rounded corners seem so obvious while slide to u
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by tankbot 14y ago
Personally, I'm a big fan of their short-lived 1980-1981 logo. I realize it has no place among today's clean, "Metro" look, but I love Metal and this just speaks to me. :)
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by tankbot 14y ago
Interesting disparity between OS X users and Safari users.
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by tankbot 14y ago
I have been using Reflection with Screen Sharing often to demo iPad software remotely to my user base. It's pretty good software and relatively cheap. It's not perfect though, sometimes things get weird, especially when the iDevice you're
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by tankbot 14y ago
No apology needed. It was very well said and not at all inflammatory.
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by tankbot 14y ago
My guess would be the ever-declining value of FB stock.
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by tankbot 14y ago
> HN has become mainstream and it's subject to all the spam, pandering, submission strategies, power users and all the other bullshit that comes with that territory. I think this article falls exactly under the heading of a pandering su
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by tankbot 14y ago
> As humans, we seem to think we're the most important thing getting around. Even your comment suggests killing off humans is much worse than killing of bacteria on Mars. That's because (according to humans) we are the most important
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by tankbot 14y ago
Wow, where did you order yours? I have 2 of them, one each from the 2 places taking preorders on day 1 and I wasn't first in line or anything. I got both of mine about the middle of June and they didn't cost any more than expected.
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by tankbot 14y ago
The whole point is that you shouldn't have to go looking. If you want me to use your product, you damn well better tell me what it is first.
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by tankbot 14y ago
But I read this article instead of working so...
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by tankbot 14y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted, your response was on topic and adds to the discussion. Methinks some folks might need to brush up on their HN etiquette. Anyway, my argument on its own probably isn't sufficient to justify running
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by tankbot 14y ago
> If I forward you a link by email of something interesting but probably fake, do you get offended by me sending you something possibly fake? Yes. You're wasting my time and making me question your ability to think critically. I expect
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by tankbot 14y ago
They should be integrated. You need to be able to 'park' this thing on a charging pad and know that it will be there, fully charged when you need it. Otherwise you're creating more work for someone at your remote site (assuming there is s
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by tankbot 14y ago
> and it's better than screensharing and teleconferencing because the participants in SF do not have to use some program to accommodate me. This is huge. There's nothing worse than holding up an entire meeting while someone struggles t
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by tankbot 14y ago
We need to find some hive-mind aliens and dissect them in order to develop philotic protocols for instant transmission. 0 latency on funny cat videos from Uranus.
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by tankbot 14y ago
From the article: > When I say "apparently" I mean I have no idea if they really are American (actually, I doubt they are). Also, Emil Protalinski is a he.
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by tankbot 14y ago
> those are not arcades, they are bars and nightclubs that happen to have retro games spread throughout. No, these are definitely arcades that happen to serve adult beverages. I've only been to a few such places, so my experience is an
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by tankbot 14y ago
I worked in an arcade as a young man and must admit that this exact thing is a back-burner dream of mine. As mentioned in some other HN posts, certain scenes from the Tron movies only fuel the fire. Coincidentally, if you ever find yoursel
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by tankbot 14y ago
> Even Oracle’s expert Dr. Mitchell conceded that “a good high school programmer” could write rangeCheck with guidance. RT 1316:24-25 (Mitchell). Nonsense. In HS I wrote my first 3d graphics engine in Pascal on a 80286 with a Hercules
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by tankbot 14y ago
I mostly agree, especially your last sentence. With the exception of our Exchange/AD environment at work (which everyone uses Macs on top of) I only boot Windows when some piece of software I can't get around requires it. I've used a comb
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by tankbot 14y ago
ad·ver·tise·ment/ˈadvərˌtīzmənt/ Noun: A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy. An 'ad' doesn't have to be paid for. And connotations are not definitions.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Inkflow for iPad. Then if I like something I shoot it over to Inkpad, slap a new layer on top of the doodle and convert it to nice vector graphics. Edit: Changed second 'Inkflow' to 'Inkpad' as it should have been initially.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Could be. Could also be related to Mountain Lion having Twitter integration all over the place. Seems like that would render all the hours of dev time to create this program pointless unless they can release early and get some market share
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by tankbot 14y ago
This article "hits home" for me and it's nice to see it on Hacker News, though I'm sure many here aren't real interested. I found it to be a great read but also heart-wrenching. I am the IT manager at a non-profit Mental Health organizatio
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by tankbot 14y ago
a company placing an explicit bet on someone's death? This is what the entire life insurance business model is base on. What's amazing is the level of information gathering possible now, not the fact that they're (still) doing it.
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by tankbot 14y ago
This will elevate (lower?) him to Jack Thompson status quickly.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Did I miss something in this article? How is the app store being _slightly_ prettier "going to change everything?" There weren't any real game changers in the iOS announcement but if I had to pick one it would be passbook.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Premature optimization. First there's the matter of whether or not TechDirt is "journalism." I'm not saying that to be snarky, just pointing out there's still a lot of debate surrounding this issue.
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by tankbot 14y ago
Sounds like a hoopy frood to me!

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