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by w0utert 15y ago
I think none of this is relevant, it's pretty clear Arment personally doesn't believe that anyone can make an 'Android Instapaper' with the same quality, features, and level of support, running on enough compatible devices and sold through
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by w0utert 15y ago
Drop the drop shadow and the wooden floor background. Don't use 298301pt fonts for the headings. Not to be disrespectful, just helpful, but I'd start with these three simple things. Right now the page looks tacky and doesn't invite you to r
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by w0utert 15y ago
So you're basically saying a brand-new phone with 3 times the specs feels much like an almost 3-year old iPhone? Amazing!
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by w0utert 15y ago
It appears to me that this article is trying a little bit too hard to paper over the poor UI performance of Android compared to iOS or WP7, and making up excuses for less than optimal drawing performance. It doesn't say _why_ GPU rendering
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by w0utert 15y ago
I must have a very special iPhone that comes with a very special version of the reminders application, because half of the 10 steps he lists are simply not necessary, and also, the application seems respond perfectly fine to my inputs. Let
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by w0utert 15y ago
Keep in mind that comparisons like this don't take into account that streaming services like Spotify attract a lot of users who would not have spent a dime on music distributed in any other way, so they are effectively useless to compare re
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by w0utert 15y ago
IMO You can't compare 'contribution to society' like that, as if you could make a 1-dimensional scale that rates people like the ones you mentioned. It's useless. In some ways Jobs contributions to society have definitely been bigger than T
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by w0utert 15y ago
> Finally, it really destroys your trust in Adobe. Will they discontinue their mobile AIR tools if they have a few more bad quarters? That's an interesting and relevant question, but it also nicely shows why the whole idea of requiring
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by w0utert 15y ago
> I wonder, what was the catalyst that caused Adobe to admit what everyone else already knew? I think it's pretty obvious. Adobe simply did the math and figured out that they are losing money on supporting the myriad of mobile devices t
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by w0utert 15y ago
To be fair, how many of these XP installs are still running a pre-SP1 version of the OS? Probably not much. Windows XP might be 10 years old, but it went through 3 major service packs that plugged many security holes, upgraded many framewor
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by w0utert 15y ago
I'd imagine he means wiping the Windows install and installing some other OS, e.g. Linux, BSD or OSx86 or something. Not really an upgrade or downgrade of the Windows installation the machine shipped with. I think crossgrade is a nice way t
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by w0utert 15y ago
I think you are missing the point here. I'm not saying Perl is hard or impossible to program, or that it is 'bad' or anything, just that Perl code very often comes out obfuscated and hard to interpret, even for someone who knows many other
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by w0utert 15y ago
> Literally the only hard part there are the magic variables [..] Sure, I'm not even saying that stuff like this makes Perl 'hard', just obscure and in many cases obfuscated. I have no idea whether you could write non-trivial Perl code
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by w0utert 15y ago
Well, that code starts out with the following procedure: ====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8====>8 BEGIN { # Turn on the debugger's sym
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by w0utert 15y ago
The linux compatibility argument is entirely moot, the MBA will run linux just as well as the Lenovo, there basically is no difference in how hard it would be to install or setup. Every part in the MBA has Linux drivers, which isn't surpris
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by w0utert 15y ago
While I respect your opinion (everyone is entitled to have one), I hope you realize that it's not hard to come up with other examples of technology that is not 'open' in any way, yet could be used for malicious or undesirable purposes, righ