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Hm. For what am I making excuses, if I may ask?

> Being like jewelry isn't jewelry. The reference is to the build quality.

Build quality of this level is inherently luxurious, IMO.

> No tech device is resistant to get beaten up. This is why there is a very healthy iPhone case market.

I think you missed my point? Which was that I prefer objects that wear well to objects you must protect with cases that sort of defeat the purpose of having something of such high aesthetic quality.

> These are phones. They are supposed to serve your purpose and not the other way around.

I agree. That's why I want a phone I'm not afraid to scratch or dent, or I have to protect with a case (see above).
heaps of time has passed on the outside

As I understand it, as relative speed goes to C, "heaps" goes asymptotically to infinity. Thus my point.
The last time I contacted them, yes, they did leave a lot to be desired and the response was very "cut & paste" as you've labelled it.

I have a theory that the larger the company, the higher the threshold of incompetence is.

However they are armed with a massive set of t&c's which you've agreed to. So whilst they did eventually do the right thing, they're under no obligation to do anything other than follow their rather long t&c's to the letter.

It would be super if Apple gave the experience of contacting their CSR's to their design team with the mission of 'making it just work'.
You should accuse Google for same offence. Google Chrome ads were plastered in every non-chrome browsers while you are on search page. They are more aggressive for Google+.
> But navigating the full screen while holding the iPhone [5] in one hand is worse ... Consider the windshield wipers on a car, and how, because they swing in a radial arc, they can’t reach the passenger-side top corner.

Gruber brought up a very good point about the somewhat less than perfect screen size which shows a UI weakness of iOS: the back button—one of the most used UI elements—is always at the top left. Try it yourself, go to versus io to see the iPhone 5 in its orignal size, calibrate your screen (click at the top-right corner on versus io) and place your hand next to the iPhone and see if your thumb would be able to reach the top-left corner: http://versusio.com/en/apple-iphone-5-64gb-vs-samsung-galaxy... In contrast, Android has hardware back keys always at the bottom, so even 4,8" phones could be used for a short while with one hand (just try the same experiment with the S3). Moreover, there's a huge target not bothering about bigger phones because they have space in their bag and don't put them into their pockets (women). So, I agree with Gruber to start offering two size: 3.5 and something about 4.5 or even larger (and changing the back button UI in the long run).
A bunch of the OpenGL stuff. Which has since been transferred at least in part to OIN:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/microsoft_sgi_patent...
I'd vote for slide to the middle. Bottome-aligned in portrait, centered in landscape sounds good to me. I know that sounds "ugly" but it's probably pretty practical.
The F-35's "secret sauce" is sensor fusion and human-machine interface. If their innovations actually work, they can easily be rolled into the next generation drones. In the meantime they can be used to fight dirty little wars.
I do, along with data from U.S. border services. When possible, I automatically correct it to be more accurate. For example, "no delay" actually means <= 15 minutes or so.
What's this. Gruber complaining that he can't reach the edges of an iPhone display? I never thought I'd see the day.

He even admits there were some people who couldn't even use 3.5" displays one handed. Is the Apple kool-aid wearing off?
yeah well except for the fact that you really dont make us any money. we make android apps because we are expected to, not because its a good business decision....
A definition of product I like is one where the product is more than the 'product'. By this I mean the product includes added value stuff, like sales experience, after sales and peripheral items (for example does the car come with mats).

Focusing on just the physical 'product' and not taking into account everything that fits into the above definition will leave customers with a poor overall experience.
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My guess would be that the problem isn't time, but rather the code dealing with the position of the plane in longitude as it crosses over. Perhaps it spat out an unexpected negative, or even something undefined.
Some time back, it was mainframers, and I'd refer to it as "mainframe disease". Knowing all you would ever have to know, and not pushing the boundaries. Note that I actually knew a few exceptional mainframe programmers who gave me some very valuable tips to pushing past the easy boundaries of the system, and I don't mean to imply all had this mindset. But many did.

Some years later a good friend reported finding a similar situation at a firm which had started as a Sun shop, but was increasingly relying on Linux. Many of the old Sun hands exhibited just the tendencies I'd noted some time earlier among mainframe programmers/operators.
So, you are saying that Samsung and Nokia aren't popular enough?

Samsung and Nokia are popular enough and have the resources to back NFC but as of now they haven't done anything besides launching phones with the technology.

NFC today is just a dummy selling point and they know it, because they haven't done anything to make it popular.
You are the type of customer I want to sell my stuff to.
Form is important. But not more important than function.
But do others share your view?

There's no reason you shouldn't have the full uncrippled power of UNIX in the palm of your hand.
If you're planning on riding that curve, pick your obsoleting technologies very, very carefully. There's plenty of old tech out there which is just plain dead.
The biggest advantage of drones is you get to reuse the pilot. The second biggest advantage is you get to use a team instead of one pilot.
If you care more about battery life, why not just add something like http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=112&c... ?
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First I want to say that it's infuriating that the healing experiences described in this thread are illegal. I don't want to speculate on why this is the case, but I find it fascinating that anti-depressants are legal but drugs like MDMA and Mushrooms are illegal even though they've been shown to be profoundly and positively influence the lives of the people who use them, helping them work through and get past the issues that are the root cause of their persistent negative emotions.

Psychedelics have become a small but important part of my spiritual practice, yet I do not belong to Santo Daime or the UDV so my practice is illegal. I find it strange and quite sad that a person following his or her own path is not granted the same legal rights as someone who chooses a path with the defined structure of a church. I guess we haven't gotten past persecuting our alchemists and witches yet.

Mushrooms, MDMA, DMT, are category 1 drugs in the US, which means that there is no known medical use for them according to the government. This is a very sad joke.
500's are really bad for entrepreneur's...
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Hey kids, why shouldn't every python tool have a Ruby counterpart? :) https://github.com/marksands/pjson-rb
> You say it chills litigation against big corporations? It tempers it. Where you cite examples of lawsuits against companies promoting the greater good, I see ambulance chasers trying to siphon extraordinary class-action settlements.

Read up on the economics of externalities. In the US, the legal system is pretty much the only thing we have to deal with companies trying to externalize costs. And the amount of these externalized costs is huge. $500 billion or so for the coal industry alone (http://wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/HarvardCoalReportS...).

The narrative popularized by corporate America is the ambulance chasers just looking for a quick settlement, and while that no doubt exist the truth is that lawyers are the only thing that stand between the big corporations and everyone else.
Unfortunately, at this point, the number of accountants/tax-lawyers dependent on tax-complexity for their livelihood does create a pressure against simplification. Their and their clients' lobbying creates plausible-sounding rationales to keep every advantageous wrinkle in the code.

One particularly vivid example is Intuit's lobbying against federal and state efforts to make individual tax-filing easier:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100723/09055310339.shtml
I believe it's possible to migrate your cell number to GV, like you would with any other provider. I prefer GV here so that I can answer calls from essentially anywhere -- whether it be from my home phone, or from my gmail browser. When people text me, it arrives as a normal text on my cell phone, but also arrives as an email that I can simply reply to via the standard gmail interface. Voicemail also appear as normal messages in my email inbox, so yeah, there are a fair number of advantages using GV over your normal cell number.
I would say the answer is "No.". You put in money. You get back one of the product if it succeeds in being produced. That is not a donation or a purchase. It's not exactly default-swap surgery; people can handle a hint of complexity in their trades.
Significant keep-alive performance flaw in iOS' NSURLConnection
I use this, however unfortunately under Chrome, it does not provide all the same functionality as using the command bar directly.

For example, type 'github my notifications' in Omnibox.

It takes one to the advanced search page, instead of the notifications page.
This is exactly what the world needs.
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i read your blog post and feel as though your product is worth while to continue spending time and effort on. i applaud efforts towards improvement
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I didn't say she was an idiot. Honestly, the way the ad business works sometimes, it makes more sense to idiots than to smart people. ;-)

A lot of people with her background come to the online ad business. While brilliant, they find they have a lot to learn and a lot of assumptions that they need to throw out the window. Fortunately, the brilliant ones have no problems learning so they come up to speed quickly, but this doesn't help them to understand things prior to digging in a bit.
I don't think that closed-source non multi platform games are too big of a problem. A lot of these games use sdl. One of the games in the new bundle uses unity which is closed source and was ported to linux recently(expect to see a lot more unity games in the humble bundle as unity is pretty popular especially for smaller/indie games). A number of others use XNA for which there is an unfortunately unfinished open source clone version called MonoGame.

A bigger problem is developer effort/binary testing on linux. One guy ported 9 of the humble bundle games to linux by himself(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon#Humble_Indie_Bun... including Aquaria).
I believe Ryan/icculus did most of the porting work as well as fixing any bugs filled on his bugzilla(https://bugzilla.icculus.org/query.cgi If you see any unreported, please report) by himself. While he is a good developer that is a lot to take on for one person.

Even more importantly many games are rushed and released/ready just before (or even a bit after humble bundle release). Even "just" recompiling for a new os with the same cross platform code requires binary testing to help find unexpected problems. A number of these bugs are eventually fixed but not all of them.
You're right, but I suspect there are software limitations with iOS that prevent this from happening, unfortunately.
I had a CS lecturer who said something along those lines.

What he meant is that lazy programmers will make the effort in the short term to make their work more accurate (as in meeting the requirements), more bug-free, more robust and more scalable in the long term. So over time they end up doing less work and far less drudge work. So he was talking about a rather creative form of laziness.

Some of the useful techniques I learnt were like writing scripts to automate tedious steps. Writing macros to render the code clearer. Writing small DSLs (mostly a *nix concept) to raise the levels of abstraction to better align with the domain.
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I'm sure they already know this, but here's something to think about: Advertisers will pay far less for ads that can only be seen by users who couldn't afford the $15 to hide them.

The users who saved their $15 can't afford (or won't pay for) as much stuff.
According to wikipedia LIMBO is the only port to bundle wine(CrossOver).
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Why do you assume wine works worse then a native port?

The windows version of Psychonauts works better under wine then the native linux port(at least for me).
Yeah? So? The article is being disingenuous by picking a bulky and very high-priced wifi product.
Working link:
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As a college student who likes to pick the brains of entrepreneurs, this post made me feel guilty. I can't really afford their advice, but I need it and value it. How can I provide value to the entrepreneurs that are so generous as to meet with me?
> Gruber is an amazing writer. Blows away the other reviews.

I think you miswrote "shill".
Update: Apple reached out to me about this incident. They've approved the app! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pay-pad-for-stripe-for-iphone...

I'll update the blog post in the morning with details.
If they were planning to stay with their current provider on their current plan, perhaps.

Off-contract:
Customer: "I'm thinking of switching to provider B as my bills are high."
Provider: "I'm sorry to hear that, can I knock $15 off your bill?"

On contract:
Customer: "I'm thinking of switching to provider B as my bills are high."
Provider: "Certainly, that'll be $200." (Or your remaining ETF amount.)

But hey... free phone!
No, not style, I meant medium. These filters are emulating, as do instagrams, different photographic mediums, like color film, b&w film, instant film, etc.

Photo filters do not strengthen a photograph, they detract at best. A good photograph of a party, or a good photograph of a war zone are still good photographs. People don't go to a war zone and pick a filter to emphasize the horror. Understanding what makes a photograph work is a complex interaction between the image and the person looking at it. My point is that you can take a boring photo and add novelty by adding a filter, but that's a cheap sham, it's not a better photograph. Making a photograph b&w for example doesn't bestow it with artistic merit.

As an example, go look up someone like Bruce Davidson, and see try these filters out on any of his photographs, after a few attempts you will start to see that the images worked before you added any fluff.

Style isn't about filters, or about HDR or any of that nonsense, it's about visual intellect, about making a photograph by assembling components in a visual dialog with the viewer.
I had a Jelly Bean phone and finally got rid of it because of this back button issue. Hate to say it, Apple might not have all the features under the sun, all the buttons, all the noises, all the icons, all the knobs, but whatever they have is done right and at the end of the day, that is what matters.
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Glad you liked it! Make sure to grab a friend and try it out :)
Rather than replacing manned planes, once software and AI catches up, it's more likely that a huge numbers of semi-automonous drones would get pared up with F-22s and F-35s as wingmen. It would solve the bandwidth and pilot shortage problems, and reduce the risk that a few anti-SAT missiles take out the entire drone fleet.
Oh, and that helmet and the sensor fusion software is probably going to be a key stepping stone to making that happen.
I have actually been working on something very similar to this, but as a website. I am fairly sure that that apple does not allow these kinds of apps on the app store.
It may seem Onionesqsue, but The Gruber-worshipping part of the Apple-sphere really suffers problems this deep.
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1. The sun is in equilibrium. Increased power would cause it to expand, and the power density is an exponential function of density.

2. You capture the neutrons with a lithium container, which produces tritium.

3. The Z-machine is an inertial confinement machine: a powerful electric arc produces a radiation pulse that compresses the fision target.

4. I suspect if you can achieve ignition with tritium, you can use the fusion flash to ignite deuterium in a two stage process.
I think the OG Motorola Droid is THE phone to have: Wonderful keypad with the buttons in the right places, has a nice heft to it that gives confidence, Froyo is a fine operating system that doesn't have any frills and cruft. It can run hot from time to time depending on what the phone is doing, but it's manageable. I just love the original vision that Google had for Android with that phone. It feels like the smart people involved in that original design have long since departed and a lot of other people spoiled the pot overthinking the next revs afterwards.

I always think of Louis CK when I'm picking up my OG Droid - how amazing this "outdated" technology is in our amazing world. Nothing has convinced me yet that I need more. I've felt 4G and OLED but it doesn't really matter that much. I can't wait 3 more seconds here and there.

Here's my mini review of the Droid 4 and why I didn't upgrade: http://mikebaas.org/writings/Technology/CellPhones/droid_4_r...
don't you get tired of this blah?

HN is about founders and the IT industry. mobile technology is the biggest growth area right now. Apple and Google are dominating, with different concepts software and hardware wise. Samsung is in there as a hybrid with many different approaches, incl. WP8 which is Nokia's and Microsoft's stake. RIM is practically dead in the water.

Instead of going full nerd retard, shouldn't you be keen on understanding what is going on? Why Apple is breaking records? Why, as Gruber notes in his review, there is a target group very attracted to Samsung (or just bigger form factors)?

Imagine you're in the automotive industry, producing accessories for various brands. wouldn't you approach customers driving a BMW differently than the ones driving a Lexus? There might be hostility and sneering between those groups, but what does it matter to you?

It feels like the horrible mindset of sports fans, just within nerd circles. My team is better than yours, even though I just sit on the sidelines and have no impact on the actual play. Cause there is nothing else in my life to get excited about.
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I think there is some strange website redirect happening. I clicked on daringfireball.net and ended up at boringfanboy.net
How do updates work for hundle bundles? I purchased Bastion in a previous bundle, which was version 1.3. I recently got a rMBP and it flickers a lot during some screens. I noticed patch 1.4 fixes these issues, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get a patch. Anyone know how generally we can get patches?
Nothing on this earth has been 4G yet, including LTE. (Former Qualcomm engineer here,who left to go somewhere more interesting for much better pay.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#Technical_definition
I don't think there's any requirement that says "because HN caters to starts ups, one shouldn't go off about gear".
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> The more of these components that become readily available, the more impressive the starting point for any future indie game.

I'm not sure to what extent these things can be recycled(other then for ideas).

Actual advantages I see:

Fixing bugs/maintaining long term/packaging. This allows people to spot bugs easier, contribute back code, and generally maintain the game better(fix anything that break thanks to old platform assumptions).

Porting to other platforms(especially arm, maybe android these days), many who open source games allow you to use a copy of the data for one platform on any platform.
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I'm from Germany, and 100k$ sounds enormous to me. This are saleries only top tier manegement is getting paid. But I'm curious about your additional costs like health insurance, unemployment insurance and so on. Also I'm curious about how much taxes you have to pay and whats a common net-salery (right word? opposite to gross^^)
Anecdotally, I had the first iPhone from day 1, inherited a 3GS and been sporting the 4 since it came out. I've never used a case and the worst damage that's happened was a stuck lock-screen button on the 3GS after years of use.

I do see lots of people with cases, though I suspect they're for bling and to for the sense of peace-of-mind that they're protecting their shiny object.
> The development of the jet's Block II software is 90 to 120 days behind schedule, according to the two-star general. Because of this delay and the increased complexity of the jet's third and final software block, Lockheed Martin and the Defense Department have added additional resources...

1. If you think you're 90 to 120 days behind schedule, you really have no idea how far you're behind schedule.

2. Somebody forgot Brook's law.
How do you fit four fingers at once on a phone screen? My four fingers right next to each other are wider than my phone by a bit more than half a finger on each side.
False negative. Has since been fixed.
> I'm not sure what your end point here is, as it's all over the map, but you seems to simultaneously be arguing against the author's point and for it as well.

Sometimes the truth doesn't entirely support or undermine someone's argument. It's one of the sure signs that it is the truth. ;-)

I wasn't trying to make a specific point, but rather to inform everyone, since the article didn't.

I don't mean to be coy, so I'll share my opinion:

The article presents this as a bug, which implies it is clearly wrong. It isn't. Misclicks are always going to create undesired outcomes. If you didn't have an ad there, the misclick would trigger some other action. Showing an ad landing page is probably one of the least harmful things you could reasonably do with a click in that location, so I question the notion that this leads to a "terrible experience". It might not be a great experience, but unless Yahoo Mail is expected to fix mice and operating systems, it's probably one of the better experiences they could provide in response to a misclick.

Ms. Mason seems to believe that the false clicks are driving Yahoo to think that they are getting superior ad performance. That isn't the case, as the data itself does indeed provide some clues as to the relative likelihood that an ad received a misclick.

The notion that this is evidence of "the data only takes us so far, and creativity and clear thinking are always required to find the best solutions" isn't well supported by this problem. In reality, clear thinking about the data itself has indeed lead to about as good a solution as Yahoo Mail could provide.
While i agree that (planned) obsolescence is a bad thing, Apple/iOS is still in a way better shape than Android where some devices never ran a current-gen version of the OS and never saw an update to a new major version.

http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...