interlagos

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by interlagos 15y ago
I've been hellbanned here on HN on at least three different IP addresses and accounts...that I am aware of. Probably more. In each case nothing I'd ever said would be considered trolling by any rational observer. Here on HN, however, as wit
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by interlagos 15y ago
Empirically what has been shown is that if you do an IAMA on Reddit leading up to the release of your "experiment", a lot of people will play along. It does not carry over to any other release, and says absolutely nothing about DRM or aty
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by interlagos 15y ago
The Android crash report functionality does send logs to Google, however Google does not forward these to third-party developers. Third-party apps can request READ_LOG manifest permissions and directly monitor the log, but that is an incred
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by interlagos 15y ago
That barely novel gimmick got it front and center of every social news site. Indeed, why are we even talking about this experiment if it were "barely novel"? This submission and every comment in it is a counterpoint to your claim.
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by interlagos 15y ago
The comparison is the hype, delivery, and conclusions. After the initial release of the Plant there was much fanfare about its demonstrated validation of a sales model, yet it was a completely atypical example that earned tremendous publici
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by interlagos 15y ago
It is also an instructive example of novelty. His initial experiment was reported very widely, and tens or hundreds of thousands lined up to "prove it could work", putting their dollars to demonstrate it. Once the novelty wore off, the viab
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by interlagos 15y ago
Remember The Plant ? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/11/30/1238204/stephen-king...
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by interlagos 15y ago
I'm thankful someone wrote this. I've been seeing a lot of people talking about how depressed and/or suicidal and inadequate they feel quite frequently around here lately. Suicide is a topic that people sometimes "take on" in a hamfisted
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by interlagos 15y ago
Worse, it is an estimate of sales to date of the two markets. The Android market was seriously immature until around a year ago, and it has been exploding since (from a personal perspective, the number of apps worth buying has increased e
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by interlagos 15y ago
You should be downvoted for it, and it's sad that you haven't thus far. Worthless market share? Zero profit? Such emotionally-driven hubris has no place on HN.
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by interlagos 15y ago
Even my 1st generation HTC Magic+ had an experience absolutely nothing like what you've described. I don't know what sort of broken device you're in possession of, but it has nothing to do with Android. What is being described generally are
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by interlagos 15y ago
There was a dark period in Android's existence where a very immature OS came together with underpowered hardware (the GPU in an iPhone 3G demolished the GPU in the Hero) and created a pretty bad experience. That wasn't what I was talking ab
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by interlagos 15y ago
I don't disagree with what you've written, and the relative thing is a problem -- if people feel a bit shameful that their new device isn't as slick as the last generation iPhone, it does hurt love of one's device a bit. That's why Android
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by interlagos 15y ago
That wasn't at all the focus of the comment that I replied to. I get that you're on this "keyboard/trackball" thing (sidenote -- did you know that Android devices still come out with keyboards and trackballs?), however the difference betwee
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by interlagos 15y ago
>Yet single clicking the home button still instantly gives you the response you expect. The task manager/switcher is a child of the home screen. This overloaded functionality makes sense that you go to the home screen immediately and if
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by interlagos 15y ago
A big part of the delay on the GS II is the Vlingo voice functionality. Did you know (I ask because many people don't know) that if you tap the home button twice it brings up voice mode? The ability to recognize double clicks imposes a cert
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by interlagos 15y ago
How was the iOS decision more "correct"? Android is clearly succeeding despite the lack of UI refinement, so it's hard to hold one as victorious. There is definitely a different philosophy, though. The Android approach was that it was bette
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by interlagos 15y ago
This isn't a "follow-up", per se. Nonetheless, while Android continually works to smooth out the rough edges -- helped along by the march of technology -- this is something that is a bit overblown: Minor jutters of the interface is somethin
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by interlagos 15y ago
On an aside, relating to the performance of these two Firefox technologies, it is interesting that in the battle of the JavaScript engines it is artificial metrics that are driving the game: No one is measuring the number of clocks taken to
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by interlagos 15y ago
Does the world really need Chrome fanboys selling the religion? This story has nothing to do with Chrome. Yet like with every single story about Firefox , here's some guy slurring Firefox while praising Chrome.
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by interlagos 15y ago
I'm sure people consented through some random paragraph in a two hundred page long EULA, usually under the guise of quality monitoring. The meta is pertinent. I expect the sort of knee-jerk reaction among non-software developers. I don't am
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by interlagos 15y ago
??? Really, how so. How are they going to get all of the passwords you typed in? Can you point out where anyone has noted any log on the device of this data? This whole story is that they have system event hooks. That's it. Maybe a real s
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by interlagos 15y ago
>All user data (since it is a keylogger?) being logged and sent to a third party without user knowledge or consent Where does anyone say that it is being sent to a third party? This rather noob-ish developer noted that they have a keybo
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by interlagos 15y ago
The location data concern was that if anyone got possession of your phone or a copy of your backup, they could discern your entire location history. With this finding, if someone got possession of your phone, they could apparently discern..
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by interlagos 15y ago
Yes, no kidding. Gruber is a polarizing figure on HN (largely because he is an unabashed hyper-cheerleader for Apple the corporation -- seriously, his infatuation with AAPL profit levels, margins, and P/E ratios is hilarious), and you just
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by interlagos 15y ago
Herein lies the problem with Hacker News -- raganwald may be a regular, but such a completely irrelevant, bizarre reference to John Gruber has zero place in this story. I intentionally left a counterpoint that got the expected downvotes, bu
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by interlagos 15y ago
I would love to see the confirmation for a command like "Harper has ballet at 4:30 on Thursdays and a Dentist appoint on December 7th at 1pm."
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by interlagos 15y ago
This is identical to how the voice functionality works on my GS II. -> "text blah blah" -< "Send text message to {blah blah}. Speak your message." -> "Content of message" -< "Message "contents of message". Say send or cancel
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by interlagos 15y ago
I suppose it is reasonable to judge such an innocuous observation as "critical" on the Gruber scale of Apple commentary.
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by interlagos 15y ago
>We could (unproductively) relitigate whether Apple should police submissions to the app store at all Transparent false dichotomy. This has nothing to do with curating versus anarchy. It is the standard of a subset of carriers in one co

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