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by wklauss 11y ago
> It has a lot more to do with protecting their buildings from angry invaders Well, time changes. We no longer face the threats of the barbarian hordes of northern Europe but we have modern day speculators that will torn down anything fo
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by wklauss 11y ago
I'm not sure where do you get the idea that people aging 18-30 care about those specific things. I assume Pew will have some statistics about interests and priorities for these ages but I wouldn't be surprised if those are not the
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by wklauss 11y ago
> Where is the actual evidence that strict historical preservation actually matters? In all the historic places you visit and that, in some parts of the world, add up to a significant amount GDP thanks to tourism or related activities. T
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by wklauss 11y ago
I could not get around the noise the fan made, though. It's not really a good gaming machine, IMHO. And yes, I know it doesn't intend to be one, it's just that even for casual gaming it becomes a really uncomfortable device.
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by wklauss 11y ago
They will probably say nothing. Not a significant business for the company and the iAd program continues, just changes the approach because they didn't have any traction.
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by wklauss 11y ago
This is actually a very good example to have around every time we go into the IoT discussions. We need new interaction models and new platforms that solve the issue with updating several things in the house. I have 6 or 7 devices that I now
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by wklauss 11y ago
That is what you get when you start working on an article looking for a headline instead of digging in the facts. Apple Pay (or Google Pay or Samsung Pay) are far from being a mainstream phenomenon but I see a lot of pretty happy users onc
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by wklauss 11y ago
Reading this interview is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
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by wklauss 11y ago
That's the problem, there are not many (some fridges designed to be operated from car plugs, camping gear, things like that) and often is just an appliance that has a converter inside, so it is as inefficient as you'd expect. Not
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by wklauss 11y ago
I have long wanted to fully switch to DC in my life and would love to see common appliances designed for a DC world. It's a shame that the opportunity to discuss this is lost in this post because of the pedantic tone of the author. Phr
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by wklauss 12y ago
True. Let's say first was "personal computers"
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by wklauss 12y ago
Simple hydrophobic coating. It wears out eventually, but by the time it does your device is already gathering dust in a drawer.
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by wklauss 12y ago
Define victory. Yeah, iPad sales are shrinking but more than 20 million devices in one quarter is still a pretty impressive number. Lenovo (largest PC manufacturer) sold only 16 million "general purpose computers" in the same peri
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by wklauss 12y ago
They have always lived and died by one product. First it was the Mac, then the iPod, now the iPhone. At the current scale, yes, the iPhone sustains 70% of the company. If the iPhone fails maybe the Mac will be the one product to sustain a s
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by wklauss 12y ago
You are mixing market share dominance with market dominance. Two very different concepts.
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by wklauss 12y ago
> They have been much slower adopting features than the competition. It's not a matter of speed. This seems to be using WebRTC for handling communications between the phone app and the browser. Safari has chosen not to implement Web
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by wklauss 12y ago
I think there are far better ways to do this on a small object of limited lifespan like a smartphone, not to mention that metal is not an ideal way to make a smartphone. You can use it some surfaces, but at some point you'll need plast
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by wklauss 12y ago
A lot of bad ideas happen in between humanity's greatest inventions. When you look at the past, you are only looking to the successful stories. Maybe a lot of people with unrealistic or bad ideas would have benefited from HN.
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by wklauss 12y ago
Seems like a really good new path to explore. Lots of really poor solutions to manage payroll for small companies out there.
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by wklauss 12y ago
> Because they are selling magic and brands, not concrete features. And because it's completely pointless to sell concrete features for certain components. If they boast the Ghz number it will be relatively easy for competitors to p
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by wklauss 12y ago
He is using compressed air to run them.
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by wklauss 12y ago
Ethics are a nicety, not an obligation.
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by wklauss 12y ago
> not all companies that break bad laws are good. This to me, is the key of the problem. Yes, the taxi medallion system was broken in many cities and Uber is forcing to at least acknowledge that regulation in it's current form it&#x
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by wklauss 12y ago
It's not the end of the world. I'm sure Android version will be developed faster than Instagram for Android was. My guess it this has to do with a lot of Camera API tuning since it uses the gyros on the phone to stabilize. Easier
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by wklauss 12y ago
I don't understand where you and I disagree. That "no" seems confusing.
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by wklauss 12y ago
Computers are fitting humans, thats why they are now a thin slate you can easily carry around. And there is a feedback when you touch a glass surface, it's just it doesn't give you a non-visual clue that you have pressed a letter
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by wklauss 12y ago
Neither. Truth is we are a generation that grew up using keyboards. The one coming after us will consider normal to use an onscreen keyboard or voice recognition. This is a problem that will solve itself.
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by wklauss 13y ago
You could say the same about any current mobile OS. I think that having this kind of apps is better than not having them at all. Nothing in this life is 100% secure.
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by wklauss 13y ago
Well, in defense of NYC, it has a lot of industries, not just media and finance. There's advertising, fashion, entertainment, art, food... This makes the city much more diverse than San Francisco, IMHO. It breaks my heart to say it. I
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by wklauss 13y ago
> On a semi-related note: incredibly glad that HN auto-kills Valleywag links. I think censorship is a terrible idea, even when the censored articles come from places you don't hold in very high esteem.

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