highwind81

They added a setting to change the icons to text: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/03/customize-gmails-bu...

I agree. This game is not that good. Its failure might have something to do with Google Play store users being stingy but I think mostly it's because the game is not that good.

It's a "transformational device" in the sense that it allows people who didn't need/want to learn how to use a computer to use a computer.

I believe iPad didn't turn a computer user into an iPad user but it turned every non-computer person into an computer person.

It enabled none-tech oriented people to actually enjoy using a computer. I think this is the true revolution of an iPad.

This list is more about default library a language should come with rather than language design.

I think the about page is the homepage. Not that that's a good design.

I think that's not the point of the article. I think he was trying say that if you run into criminals it'll be more cost effective to deal with them locally than overseas.

Frauds and scams exists everywhere, but I guess it's easier to fend them off locally than overseas. So there seems to be bit of a merit to the article's stance.

> All operating systems manufacturers need to understand that the vast majority of users have used Windows and are used to Windows' UI conventions.

That sounds like the worst way to innovate. I'm not saying that Apple's way is innovative but I say we are all better off if OS manufacturers try difference things to come up with better way of presenting UI.

For example, if apple followed the Window's way of displaying every single window in its Dock, then application based taskbar in Windows 7 would have never come about.

Trying different things should never be criticized for just being different. If that different way of doing things is bad, criticize it but don't point finger just because it's different.

Here's the link to the app in the appstore: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail/id422689480?mt=8

The documentary site: http://koreanhighschool.com/

    Circle my_circle = new Circle();

I have to type the word circle 3 times to define a circle. It gets boring. This gets worse if you are trying to do any kind of user input.

    BufferedReader my_reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

Had to type reader 4 times. :(

Source please?

Yeah... no linux is a killer for me. Can I get a notification or something when there is a support for linux?

Yeah, my solution is to have a separate config file too but have a config file solely for password and never check that file into the repository.

Of course whenever someone does a fresh pull of the project, that is one file that they'd have to create for themselves. (So this is documented very clearly.)

It's minor inconvenience but it solves the problems like this.

More like unicode symbols but OK.

http://panmental.de/symbols/info.htm this is more complete symbol list that you can copy from.

Yeah. That was the biggest problem. None of the people that I needed to communicate with was using it.

Wikis, emails and sharing documents over Google Doc was working just fine for everyone.

Tools that was supposed to be replaced by wave was working fine. There was not enough incentive to move away from existing tools to wave.

Two questions pop to my mind when I was interviewed by Google:

1. Given n number of computers with x number of numbers stored. Find the median of all the numbers distributed among those computers. Catch is that no single machine can store all the numbers. (Hope this is clear.)

2. Given a text file of logs, write a threaded program that scans the logs and produce some statistics. (My answer was to create n threads that reads every nth line.)

None of those brain teasers were asked of me.