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by css771 13y ago
I've never seen Google put out that vibe. If anything they're proud of it. I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
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by css771 13y ago
Exactly this. This situation has nothing to do with hackers or programming or even work of any kind. It's just about certain people who think differently when in certain situations and that leads people to label them "introverts&q
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by css771 13y ago
What exactly do you feel it's lacking?
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by css771 13y ago
It's not good to attribute all that credit to iTunes. Amazon and Google may have been able to negotiate other terms. Because unlike Apple, neither Amazon or Google had a separate MP3 player and thus no incentive to enforce DRM. Seems t
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by css771 13y ago
Nokia is actually discouraging devs from using Windows Phone design patterns and encouraging Android design guidelines on the Nokia X. http://developer.nokia.com/resources/library/nokia-x-ui/ux-c...
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by css771 13y ago
Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.
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by css771 13y ago
dammit, when did trolls like this make their way to HN?
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by css771 13y ago
> ...and untold millions of lines of changes to the Linux kernel are kept secret and are not at all available to other Linux users or even to Linux contributors Kept secret by whom?
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by css771 13y ago
AOSP is open source, period. Just because Google apps aren't doesn't make the entire thing closed. The binary blobs and baseband firmware might as well be on any "open" phone. The issue here is not whether Android phone
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by css771 13y ago
But if Walmart decides not to stock your item, there's still Target or somewhere else for a customer to go to to get it. But if Apple bans your app, the entire iOS userbase will never see it.
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by css771 13y ago
This is exactly it. Many people don't realize this when they say Android is not open. But you could install F-Droid, which is a repository of open source Android apps and you could pretty much live without Google at all on Android. You
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by css771 13y ago
I don't think the openness of the desktop world was because of Microsoft. If any other company had taken over, we would've seen pretty much the same thing imo. In today's mobile world, Apple and others could learn from the dr
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by css771 13y ago
I just had an OS course with this textbook this last semester. Really good book. I'm surprised to see this on HN.
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by css771 13y ago
Are you kidding me? They tell me exactly what data they collect and for what purpose. To say that is malware is either extreme sarcasm or extreme stupidity.
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by css771 13y ago
I don't see why such a big deal is being made of this. If users want it, they can install the app from the CM website. The Windows app is also being installed from their website. Google doesn't want people to hold it liable for po
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by css771 13y ago
Well for me personally, it's been a long series of small stuff that convinced me that they were an engineering organization first and a for-profit company next. I remember when Android 2.3 was released and at one of the Google dev conf
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by css771 13y ago
I think the problem comes from the fact of treating Google+ like any other social network like Facebook. Google+ is supposed to be an identity layer for all of Google. The fact that they have status update posting, etc is secondary. Google
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by css771 13y ago
I highly doubt that malware could brick a phone.
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by css771 13y ago
Users in China don't have access to the Play Store and aren't even counted among the activations that Google reports. The reason that there is more piracy in China is because of no access to the Play Store.
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by css771 13y ago
Apple still haven't even released a console and Apple apologists are already quick to jump on the "Apple invented everything under the sun" train. Why am I not surprised? If anything, it's Apple that's copying other
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by css771 13y ago
Well no I don't agree with it, at least not in the way that you suggest.
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by css771 13y ago
And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing - they do their own thing. And with the next Touchwiz, they will revolutionize Touchwiz UX. That's a fact &#
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by css771 13y ago
Which specific Android UI are you talking about? Touchwiz? Sense? LG's UI? Sony's UI? Stock Android? Personally I can't talk about the other stuff but think stock Android looks and feels great while being extremely functional
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by css771 13y ago
Sorry to go OT but those lines are not Oppenheimer's originally. They are from the Bhagavad Gita.
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by css771 13y ago
So good to see you here. I agree that your app is the best HN app. But please make it remember list scroll position. This one major flaw downgrades an otherwise superb experience.
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by css771 14y ago
How did they just hack that billboard with just their phones?
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by css771 14y ago
Thanks, I've been looking for something like this.
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by css771 14y ago
That's insanely brilliant if you ask me. And on a site called Hacker News, mos people should agree!
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by css771 14y ago
Oh I think it's very contestable. I use my Galaxy Nexus one handed all the time in many situations, including on public transport. Can iPhone users please stop saying that their device has the best ergonomics of all time as if the ratio cam
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by css771 14y ago
> Configurability is a huge plus for me. Could you imagine recompiling your phone's kernel? Configuring your phone with dotfiles? Serving webpages and email? Not everyone's cup of tea, and I hope there are more user-friendly options ava

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