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I really want to love this. iPad hardware just doesn't deliver.

The problem isn't that nice drawing software like this doesn't exist, it's that styli on iPad still suck. The capacitive screen (even on "new" iPad) only has about a 6mm capacitive resolution, so you're stuck fudging the fck along with a sausage for a stylus. Ars had a good review[1] on the current state of styli, and they said much the same. I've personally owned about four iPad styli and none come close to what I am capable of with an old Graphire.

We need pressure sensitivity, finer resolution, and proper calibration for this to work well. Everyone wants to replace drawing stuff with iPad (including myself) but until iPad supports Wacom-esque pressure sensitivity, feel and resolution on iPad everything you do there will likely be too rough compared to what you could get with a Bamboo on Painter/Illustrator or what could be drawn directly on paper, scanned in and retraced with said Wacom. Even the Galaxy Note / Lenovo Tablet / etc. are better for this.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2012/03/does-the-stylus...
> they can loose their jobs

I think you meant "lose".
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Wow, this has the best paper-flipping ui I've ever seen, kudos!
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Most people on the thread have this correct: there is a difference between resentment and burnout. I understand this innately, as I've been there with both feelings, and they are quite different.

When I felt burned out, it was literally like a flame on a match stick. I was exhausted and didn't see a way out of the situation (amazing what a little perspective will get you.) I didn't want to do my job, because my head was full and it felt heavy to me.

Contrast that with resentment, and I was pissed off (and motivated.) I had energy to change the situation, which was entirely different from feeling burned out.

One situation gave me energy and focus; the other felt like an immovable burden. Big difference to me.
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Right. There's way more value in giving customers the knowledge that they are safe in the ecosystem for a few years.
We're just a bunch of college kids hacking away and trying to explore different projects, and hopefully turn it into a successful startup.
I believe the current best guess is around 2 degrees C by 2050, which it certainly noticeable, but perhaps not best summed up as "hot".

Yes, it's not hot. But that's not the point. +2 degrees C can make an end for the 5 million olive tree in my home town. See how much of an issue is this?
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I don't think it's just passing value judgement on these companies to point out that they don't create any value or content of note. I see more and more of these startups every day that are basically dedicated to emphemera. There's a billion different retro photo apps and no one is ever going to produce anything worth saving.

Yes, Instagram has some value, but it's in the users and the eye of that particular person that you enjoy. The photographs themselves are rarely anything of note.

I do think it's unfair to lump these companies. Hipstamatic is just selling an app. Even if the community turns into nothing, they sold quite a few apps at $2. Most of these companies though have nothing to sell and little value to provide. They are just hoping for some angel to bail them out until the inevitable Google buyout.

And stop reading TechCrunch already.
I agree with everything you said but the liberals part...
I think we should be careful to assume that all liberals are feminists. This can turn off the liberals that have noticed the misandry in feminism and are trying to learn more.
You'd be fine. Just let the inspectors in and be super-transparent. Plenty of people have research reactors, and if you aren't a belligerent theocracy, you shouldn't have much of a problem. Just play nice.
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> What do Path, Hipstamatic, Highlight, Hipster (yes, that’s an app), and Color have in common? They create absolutely nothing of value.

The post begins with and relies upon this faulty premise. This is not explained, and I would argue that Hipstamatic and Path do create value for the users. The latter allows me to socialize with people in a more private manner, while the former takes photos, values in of themselves.

Furthermore, why must the users of these apps necessarily be "hipsters"? Is this a requirement for the use of these apps? (Clearly not, as Hipstamatic was one of the biggest apps on the store last year, and not all of those users can be generalized as hipsters).
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Are you aware that Comcast's network was built as a joint venture with local governments with special easements to access underground public and private property, and is therefore a regulated monopoly, not a private enterprise?

I didn't give Comcast the right to dig under my house for nothing.
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I think it should auto update. My mom who has a iphone likes it because she plugs into her computer and she can get all the new stuff she sees on TV. Older people don't understand tech, but they still understand commercial that are marketed to them. People who are techies want to the features market to the lock face to unlock. It's crazy to market features to people and not give them the features for 8 months.
As Reddit is apt to say: Stop liking things I don't like.
This is a rather random and pointless article. I'm surprised it made it to the front page.
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Yeah, this would be great to have, especially for live previewing of different material combinations. Would require a major rev of the interface/rendering though, so didn't make the cut for launch.
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That's not fair. As a group, 1% of Internet users can DDOS anyone.
I didn't say the gov. didn't want to pay. They actually did massive, direct and no conditional pays in many times in the last year. The issue is with 9 person team that are complaining to work until 10 P.M. to get the list done. It's not about the will to pay or something, it's because "screw you", you know what "fuck you", who does even care?

Point is: Be careful making a business in 3rd world country.

Edit: Do you have his phone number or somehow to contact him? Maybe I could help him or something.
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Cool. Interesting discussion on the latest benchmark.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/brubeck-d...
I see a lot of very good reasons for Google not to lose time rewriting Chrome in Go, even without thinking about webkit, but do you have a reference to support this "200ms" assumption ? I never observed this in my programs (which doesn't have the kind of brutal allocations that a browser must have) so I'm curious.
People don't relize that when you marker things to people like face to unlock for android that when people buy the phone that's what they want the app market is proof they want more than just angry bird they want the apps their friends are using. It would make me angry if I wasn't a techy and a bought a new with a OS not know a app could play a game on my brand new phone because it wasn't updated.
You might want to tell your girlfriend that joking about domestic violence is very dangerous to you as a male.
Since Marissa left UX, G's frontend becomes worse every day. I especially hate these "fixed bars" that pollute my small netbook screen and that unfortunately are so hip nowadays, like flash intros were ten years ago, or the rainbow <hr> some 15 years ago. Hope they don't exist for long, its terrible UX.

As for a blog software where you need JS to read a simple text, well... facepalm.
Has anyone tried one of these? http://adonit.net/product/jot-pro/

It looks like a somewhat different design than all the other styluses, and so might work better, but I haven’t seen any direct reviews except their marketing material, which is hardly impartial.
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The actual problem is the rapid promotions and fast multiples of 10% hike which people undeservingly got in the 90's and early 2000's. That has led to a generation of people and managers who think., they deserve a promotion and a 100% hike every alternate year even if they didn't move a finger to deserve it. During those times Tech was considered a bad career option and being anything apart from a manager meant you are fit for nothing.

Coupled with the mad rush for real estate here has led to spoiling a whole generation of people in convincing, regardless of whatever, no matter how inefficient, under performing they are. Or even if they never work. Merely joining the Software Industry will make them millionaires in no time.

During discussions with people I find people constantly cribbing, whining and complaining. How badly their expectations(misplaced expectations) have gone down the drain, How they haven't gotten lucky, and no special shine of destiny has made them millionaires. And most of them(who come from other branches of engineering like mechanical, Civil) would have actually been better off in their original disciplines. The constant comparisons are between themselves and other people who got lucky by traveling abroad and saved money through foreign exchange factors.

The society has a unbelievable perspective. They think if you are not a manager in 5 years of joining software industry you are useless. Programming and tech jobs are considered low profile jobs meant for ordinary people who don't want to do much in life. And managerial jobs are considered for the 'masters of the universe'. The big IT bellwethers are full of useless layers and layers of management out which nearly 80% is useless.

In fact college kids when they first come in to the industry and find that 'Manager within 5 years' no longer a feasible option get pretty disgusted and loose hope. Most of them run away to do their MBA. In hope of becoming a manager quickly.

Its like the human evolution path baby, teenager, adult, programmer, manager. Managers are considered ultimate stage in your career evolution. So it follows that most people don't want to do tech jobs, because they want to be managers. Another disease here is rapid ultra fast job hopping candidates.

Thankfully things are now changing.
Is it limited to 9 colors or is it just me that can't figure out the right gesture? It also seems to lack a setting for brush size.
TLDR: "RH9 was the best because I was forced to use it and had to jump through hoops to do certain things."

It's a nice story but void of significant meaning. Good on you but not sure how this made the front page.
Correction: definitely turn it into a successful startup.
> Ubuntu seemed to follow in Apple's lead with Hardy Haron and so forth.

To a degree but very few people I know use these names. Most use the 9.10/10.04 which imho is one of the best naming patterns for an OS.

It is very convenient to look at the OS version and be able to tell instantly if it is a LTS or standard build and when it was released.

Maybe these are only benefits due to how often Ubuntu releases new versions but I've found them useful.

disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin.
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I'm part of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz, which is a video game research center.

You're right that this research isn't particularly pure CS. When I started it was very much focused on social games and whether the lessons from them could be applied to other software. It just so happens that motivation theory is a pretty wide body of literature, so you can spend a lot of thought cycles outside of CS.

You can spin it as a software engineering thing (architecting for retention), an HCI thing (how users respond to different interaction patterns) or even something outside CS altogether. Once you venture towards the user-end of the spectrum, you can put a lot of different hats on CS research. You just have to be careful that you don't end up either trying to end up spending lots of time learning another undergraduate major's worth, or worse, not knowing enough and being laughed at by a different academic group.
But basically the situation would have become more like android, instead of people getting their distributions from debian or redhat every PC manufacturer would have created their own distro.

Upvoted for a very intelligent reply and extremely insightful comment. The "Linux desktop -> Android" bit oddly resonates with the way things feel today.

Is this really worse though? Distros themselves technically work as the vendors in this case with "crap pre-installed" (Unity, anyone?) , depending on how cynical you want to be and your choice of distro. Install Fedora Core 9 and Ubuntu 11.10 side-by-side to see that difference in play.
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And it's self-contained in the sense that when you code you may simply launch it locally :

godoc -http=:6060

Of course this will be less needed now that the API are stable but that what really useful those last months, when my go weekly was almost never exactly like the one described at golang.org nor tip.golang.org. I'll still use it in planes and trains though.
its been said by others but this is an incredible visualization of a massive amount of data in a beautiful and intuitive medium. it'll be interesting to have this for other large datasets eg. real time web usage...
>Bad news: you're not the brave thinker that you seem to think you are (in fact your "forbidden thought" is probably more common than the alternative that we're presenting!).

The forbidden-ess has nothing to do with the general popularity of the thought. (In other places of the world for example --and I'm not talking about misogynistic backwoods--, nobody gives a flying duck for the "alternative you're presenting").

It's forbidden in the context of a certain US population group, in the context of HN, etc.

>People aren't disagreeing with you because they think it's morally wrong to think the way you do, they disagree because they think you're wrong.

Only when it's a moral issue, those two options are not different at all. You can't just be wrong on a moral issue --we're not talking about measuring things here--, only morally wrong.

Anyway, most people "disagree" with me because they have been conditioned to disagree. Those same people would upvote me to the sky if it was the seventies, and probably for the same wrong reasons they downvote now, i.e no independent thinking.
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I have one. Same deal. Nothing comes close to classic pen and paper. I've actually stopped using it now as well.
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I couldn't tell at first if this was an app or just a sarcastic advertisement for actual paper as an alternative to tablets. Maybe that doesn't say much for my powers of observation, but it's also a testament to the product. At first glance, a white iPad running this app is not unlike a pad of drawing paper. Good job.
Yes. I own one. It is by far the best of the capacitive styli, hands down. It isn't perfect but is the closest thing you will get to perfect without dropping $100+ for something like the XO[1], which is a bit buggy from what I've seen and you are stuck with their software/SDK. I just won't pay an extra $150 for a stylus. At that point I might as well go the Wacom-equipped Android route.

Even with the Adonit, though, iPad is still no match for a Wacom. It's not even close.

Go on YouTube and just search for Adonit Jot Pro reviews. There are lots of impartial people and accurate action.

[1] http://www.by-zero.com/
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They buy the people not the company. Google and facebook need developers. Not the college graduate developers that have only done school project in C/C++ and never manage anything that people want in their life. They need people like the ones who made path because they know the people who made path understand mobile, understand design, and understand how to gain hype. It wasn't luck these guys were on tech crunch they understood their market. That is what is worth 100 million. Some people are academics, but only real test for a great app developer is can you make something people want.
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I came here to say the same. I really hoped that would be an advanced version of Noteslate https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=note...

Sad that they don't even have what can be called a website anymore.
This is amazing, I can't believe they don't charge for this!
Doable but expensive. A wifi version would need at least:

wifi chip plus antenna - $30

microcontroller + associated bits - $8-15 or so

stepper motor drivers (you need two) - $8 or so

stepper motors - $6 min

printhead and ink - $12, replaceable

Battery and charging circuitry

And that's not counting manufacturing and profit. Would you pay $70+ for printed toilet paper? If a couple people would, I'm willing to design the device, sell a couple, and open source it.
I give it 3 weeks and someone has a similar version for Android.
Note for those unfamiliar with the field: there is a considerable difference between "X% of electricity use" and "X% of power use" (for the USA, about a 1:6 factor, if I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States correctly). That 20percentwind.org site, to me, has the former as a goal.
Well the website is definitely not built for this.

F* it, we'll do it live! We're going to live edit now...
I think the biggest reason Apple still supports old hardware is they're still selling it (see: iPhone 3GS and now iPad 2).

That being said, it is interesting how Apple's support of old hardware is the dual of Google's.

Google does a bad job of getting OS updates to older hardware, but they do an impressively good job of supporting their applications on older hardware and OSes. Outside of the deliberate exception of the Chrome Beta, I can't think of an official Google app for Android that doesn't support at least Froyo and many go back further. My G1 (running Donut) was still getting Google app updates for a good chunk of last year. I happen to know that because I picked it up for a memorial tweet on the G1's third anniversary and was surprised with all the update notifications I got.

Meanwhile, Apple is very good about getting OS updates to older devices. But when you look at their app support, it doesn't look nearly so good. Everyone talks about Siri, but did you also know that the original iPad doesn't support iPhoto or iMovie (see: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/9/2856499/iphoto-ios-app-ipad... )? iMovie is particularly damning because the first iOS version (for the iPhone 4) was released less than 3 months after the original iPad.
How do you define value? I'm asking this question because i really don't know a wholesome answer. Not a philosophical statement.
$2 per tool? This is not a free app, this is a bait-and-switch. Just charge $15 for the app, guys.
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It's the transition period from cellphones to computers. A cellphone doesn't need updates, it's a hard-coded brick that's released once and then it works until it gets broken. A computer is a platform, mostly made out of software and the freshness of the software platform is a key part of its nature: we've used to updating our linux and windows boxes for fifteen years.

Now, smartphones are still a bit in between. They're basically computers but still regarded as phones. It'll take some time for everyone to catch up to the same level, maybe some years. Apple does it already and others must follow as soon as they get the order back in their development chain.

Ideally, an Android phone would be like Ubuntu with per-device kernels. It would continuously stream new packages over the net and the kernel would handle all device specific things so that Android userspace doesn't have to. It basically works like this already, it's just the update process that hasn't been mechanized. And there are a small number of device specific tricks in the userspace too, these days, because OEMs think they can tailor Android for their product. It's as bad as an OEM that would want to sell laptops with an OEM customized Ubuntu distribution. It works one time but gets left back as soon as the real Ubuntu makes the next release.
Dang, I was finally hoping for a worthy replacement for the aborted Microsoft Courier.

If it's possible to have a tablet with high enough display resolution that you can't see individual pixels, why can't we also have a touchscreen with high enough touch resolution?
It looks amazing and hats-off to the developers, but ultimately an app like this is limited by the lack of pressure response.
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While looking for a precise stylus I came across this one as well: http://www.cregle.com/ It looks like it solves a lot of the gripes with normal capacitive styluses, but I haven't tried it.