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by varunsrin 15y ago
The diagrams drawn are highly misleading - my thumb goes well over the edge of a 3.7" device, and afaik I have pretty normal sized thumbs. The diagram there shows the thumb ending on a 3.5" device. I may even buy the 4.2" is too large argum
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Face it: Steve Ballmer is doing a great job(venturebeat.com)
10 points by varunsrin 15y ago|3 comments
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by varunsrin 15y ago
So after toying with it for a couple of hours, here's what I've seen: I think if the method is named ' Async' ( such as GetReplyAsync() *) , you can call it asynchronously with the new await in C#, and using Task<T> as the return ty
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Been using this in a new Win8 app I'm working on - I have to say, the await keyword and the Task<T> object make the code much cleaner
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by varunsrin 15y ago
> Let’s list the litany of technologies released and then abandoned by you in the past 15 years: ADO, Silverlight, DNA, BizApp, .NET, J#, XNA. .NET & XNA are abandoned? > With Windows 8, we’re now going to write everything i
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by varunsrin 15y ago
This argument thread is rapidly diverging from the original issue. You are now talking about product announcements, not releases. Windows 8 was 'released' today, not announced like the Courier was. Your current argument now is about a diffe
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Fair point, Thurrott calling this the iPad killer is pre-emptive, and Gruber is right in that respect. I was railing on Gruber's snide remark about "ship something real", where he is subtly making the point that shipping when a product is f
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Microsoft does not launch unfinished Xboxes (hardware + software product). Apple does not launch unfinished iPads (hardware + software product) Microsoft launches unfinished Windows builds (software). Apple launches unfinished Lion builds (
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by varunsrin 15y ago
The argument is not about which product is better, its about which release methodology results in a better product, which I claim is a pointless argument when you are shipping different products. Yes, customers will judge them equally when
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by varunsrin 15y ago
> "The question is: which approach is right?" The problem is asking that question. It is irrelevant when they products are fundamentally different. Its like comparing, well, apples & oranges. You cannot compare the methodology of a
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by varunsrin 15y ago
> "I simply wish to direct your attention at how utterly different the two companies are." >"Me? I’d be appalled if Apple were to unveil something in the half- (if that) finished state of Windows 8 for tablets. I enjoy writing about
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Yeah, its an interesting way of ensuring security (apps only share out information they want to share) and cross-app compatibility (any platform can now support sharing of simple data from any other platform, without needing to use custom a
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Hands-on with Windows 8: A PC operating system for the tablet age (arstechnica.com)
2 points by varunsrin 15y ago|0 comments
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by varunsrin 15y ago
These are developer devices - meant for compiling code. Therefore, they are high powered, chock full of every hardware feature that Win 8 will support, so that devs can play around with them, compile code and use them as their primary machi
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Am I one of the few who thinks that Arrington & TechCrunch are a problem in the startup world today? The reason TC gets the scoops is in part because they strong-arm startups by not writing about them if they don't provide an exclusive.
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Didn't Jobs cancel the existing charity/giving program at Apple when he rejoined the company as CEO? I'm trying to find my source for this, but its hidden under all the recent controversy with the Sorkin article Here's an interesting read f
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by varunsrin 15y ago
" [About Ballmer] He failed to close the deal to buy Yahoo. This year, Ballmer steered the company into an ill-advised $8.5 billion to buy Skype." So buying Yahoo was a good thing and buying Skype was ill-advised? This is a very tabloid-
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by varunsrin 15y ago
"There's really a myriad of reasons, but the unintuitive answer to the ' which one is more secure job' question is increasingly the startup." It's just plain wrong to be saying things like this - working at a startup is fun, exciting &#38
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by varunsrin 15y ago
"The iPad is the wrong tool for creating that stuff. But it is awesome for consumption." Exactly, OP's point is that most R&D by large co's these days is focused on building consumption devices similar to the iPad. About 10 years ago,
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Was the podcast created by a guy on a iPad? How about the webcomic, do you think it was done in the iPad / Android version photoshop? Was the HP fan fiction typed on a tablet keyboard? The point the OP is trying to make is not that tablets
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Again, cut/copy/paste are technical terms - the intent a user is likely to form is, I have this word file here, and i need to put it onto this USB drive here. The large copy to button in the ribbon accomplishes that task nicely. Remember, i
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by varunsrin 15y ago
It's cumbersome because you have to navigate through a bunch of menus - however, its easy because you have a finite, visible set of actions to look through those menus (tap, swipe, repeat) and a finite set of menus themselves. In a desktop
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Yeah, while I think that select all & select none are pretty important ribbon items (most people never learn CTRL+A or Shift+Clicking), select inversion feels like a power user option to me.
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by varunsrin 15y ago
This is a classic case of misinterpreting the data - 85% use it because the only way you can copy, without using a context menu or a keyboard shortcut is by holding down Alt and then clicking on the Edit menu.The point is, people use keyboa
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by varunsrin 15y ago
The first problem with the article here is that some of the buttons (Move To, Copy To) did not exist previously. They are also extensions of existing functions (Move, Copy) - so concluding that half the UI is covered by buttons that were n
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by varunsrin 15y ago
One of the main complaints on Amazon was the poor quality of the printing & publishing, not the actual code or writing style. Personally, I love the web version and was going to purchase it, but decided not to because of all the issues
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Google fires back at Microsoft in public Android patent spat(winrumors.com)
4 points by varunsrin 15y ago|0 comments
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Ah I missed pg's post above - well, a valid point, as long as the title reflects the original blog post title it seems fair. Editorializing / sensationalizing is always a problem (but one that affects blogs themselves, not just re-posting
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by varunsrin 15y ago
' “Open” isn’t just a buzz word. People like the word “open”. Marketers love it. ' A very valid point, everyone these days in jumping on the open bandwagon. This problem isn't limited to just Apple unfortunately - several companies have bee
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by varunsrin 15y ago
This poll is inaccurate for many reasons: - Poll audience is skewed (PCMag readership, people who showed up on the site that day) - Just because people want to move to G+, doesn't mean they will, unless the rest of their social group does

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