jrubyer
Re:Indians cry out for Apple's attention
on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:08AM (#2354133)
> How long have you been on Hacker News? Your account is only 20 days old; can you pass adequate judgment on the matter?
So, if a person's userid is 20 days old, then does it directly mean that the person has been using the site for only 20 days? what kind of logic is this?
Re:Indians cry out for Apple's attention
on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:05AM (#2354125)
sigh
Nope, I thought HN was for news related to startups and things that are interesting to hackers. If more and more of news submissions here become related to Apple, then doesn't this make it Apple News?
Re:Indians cry out for Apple's attention
on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @08:42AM (#2354040)
Why is Hacker News becoming more and more Apple News?
//I don't care about the downvotes, this needs to be said.
Is the browser render speed actually true? http://saveie6.com/compare.php
O_o
Re:New Chrome Logo
on Thursday March 17, 2011 @06:09AM (#2335620)
Yes, it certainly seems that way. Recently Google has also changed the logos of gmail, gcal, greader etc and this looks like Chrome's turn.
Re:New Chrome Logo
on Thursday March 17, 2011 @05:53AM (#2335592)
Is there any design related reason that explains this change? Or is this just random?
Re:Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away
on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @08:59AM (#2327214)
I recommend deviantart (unless you're going to upload personal photos)
Re:Xcode 4 - review
on Thursday March 10, 2011 @06:00AM (#2308818)
Why $5? Seems to be a bit random.
Re:Convince me to quit my day job
on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @09:12AM (#2304856)
explain?
Re:WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO
on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @09:07AM (#2304844)
Interesting times we live in..
Re:Nokia X1-00 for developing countries: built-in flashlight, 61-day b...
on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @03:30AM (#2304309)
>>Flashlight, Loud speaker, Battery life
This is gonna sell truckloads.
Re:Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy detected
on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:06AM (#2299903)
>>Nintendo has proven that you don't need bleeding edge graphics to sell consoles
That's true, but you do need a deep and enjoyable gaming experience to be successful - something which I don't think the appstore model of pricing around 99cents is going to bring out soon. So, the DS and PSP are here to stay.
tl:dr deep and fun games > graphics power
Re:Ubuntu 11.10 named Oneiric Ocelot
on Monday March 07, 2011 @08:54AM (#2297070)
I was wondering the same too. Anyone have any info on this?
>>Realistically, if you have maybe 1500 of the most popular apps, you have enough to pretty well serve the market.
Yes, that's the point. It's just that iPad now has so many good quality apps compared to Android. It _may_ change in future, but for the time being iPad wins. (The total number of apps never matters, most of them are crap anyway)
>> I don't really see the relevance of the number of applications to the the UI experience.
This is silly, without apps what value does it offer?
Re:Microsoft tablet OS not coming until fall 2012?
on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:58AM (#2287275)
If you actually think about this for more than 5 seconds, you'd realise that they're releasing an OS that's both a successor to windows 7 and a tablet OS. It's like Apple merging iOS and OSX[1] and releasing it as OSX 10.8!
[1] yes, both have same core, but they have different set of functionalities. And they are gonna merge it somewhere down the road.
InType - minimalistic text editor for windows
Re:Ask HN: How does Google make money off of Android?
on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:59AM (#2284487)
Funny, that's around the same amount MS charges for WP7! And they say WP7 can't compete with Android b'coz it's non-free.
Re:Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
on Thursday March 03, 2011 @01:13AM (#2283062)
>>My parents aren't Apple fans. They're not nerds. They spend a lot of time frustrated with technology. They're nuts about their iPad because it works really well. That's it. Adding a USB port isn't going to make them like it better. It's going to make it more complex, which is going to degrade their experience in using it.
This is interesting. I'm curious, how do they manage the music/photos/videos in their ipad? Doesn't syncing by cord with the computer a messy thing? Or do you do it for them? How do they use it?
Re:Ask HN: Why do OSX applications look more polished than Windows/Linux?
on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @05:04AM (#2279043)
>>Making an app pretty is more deeply ingrained into the development culture on the Mac side.
This is actually my question, why is it like this? Any reasons behind it?
Re:Ask HN: Why do OSX applications look more polished than Windows/Linux?
on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @02:16AM (#2278746)
I actually meant third party applications. Sorry for causing misunderstanding, question updated.
Ask HN: Why do OSX applications look more polished than Windows/Linux?
Not to start a flame war, but can anyone shed some light on why most applications in OSX looks way more polished/beautiful than in other OSes? Is it because of the target demographics? Few examples from the top of my head:http://www.git-tower.com/ http://versionsapp.com/ http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ http://www.panic.com/coda//Obviously this excludes cross-platform apps like Eclipse, Chrome etc