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by revaaron 13y ago
What a lot of people forget is that doubling sensor size gets you only one stop in high ISO performance. For raw quality in decent light, 1" seems to be a sweet spot.
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by revaaron 13y ago
First, my statement had to do with the 1/1.2" sensor that Nokia is using. Close in size to the RX100 and Nikon 1, but we can't assume that means the same level of image quality- there's a pretty big gap between the RX100
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by revaaron 13y ago
I won't argue that camera phone lenses are high quality, but you can really only push a 1/3" or 1/4" sensor so far.
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by revaaron 13y ago
If I could get this on an Android phone, I'd probably go for it. I'd really like a camera on my phone which wasn't next to useless.
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by revaaron 13y ago
It's also worth noting that this and the 38 MP Nokia 808 phone have a 1/1.2" sensor, larger than all but one fixed lens compact camera, including cellphones. The only compact with a larger sensor is the Sony RX100/RX100
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by revaaron 13y ago
It's been a while since I've read the paper, but technical aspects like runtime size of binaries led to a bytecode compiled language like Smalltalk, leading to NewtonScript.
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by revaaron 13y ago
They're used extensively in a lot of industry- just because it isn't used for logging onto Gmail doesn't mean it isn't used elsewhere. I work in utilities and client certificates are used for all or nearly all web client
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by revaaron 14y ago
I'm on Windows and Linux, but my reasoning is similar. I also occasionally use the mouse for text selection. On Windows I especially like using GVIM over VIM because of the extremely limited font selection for the Windows terminal.
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by revaaron 14y ago
I think if you're happy with what you're using, stick with it. I switched from pico/emacs/TextMate/Notepad++ to VIM about three years ago. I always hated vi. I love it now, and really wish I would have switched earlier. But the advantages d
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by revaaron 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. Having used MVC for many years, and in the environment where it was invented (Smalltalk-80), I couldn't help but wonder why he was reinventing MVC while thinking he was criticizing it.
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by revaaron 16y ago
I don't see why what the first part (before the hyphen) has to do with the rest. I'd agree with the first bit, but not because anyone who dinks around a bit online at work is "lazy and unproductive."
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by revaaron 16y ago
Am I the only one who didn't see this? I never go straight to http://google.com , but use the search box or vimperator's ":open google search terms." To think, I had to lose productivity in traditional ways...
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by revaaron 16y ago
All the really matters is that you use what you like. If you like gedit or notepad++ that's just fine. FYI, emacs also comes with an extensive tutorial. Personally, I used emacs and clones (mg and JASSPA MicroEmacs) for a long time- though
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by revaaron 16y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees with your fundamental point- they object at your assumption that ryanelkins acted irresponsibly and left behind unmaintable code, or that a developer has written unmaintainble code if users, managers, and/or d
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by revaaron 16y ago
I'd argue that phones are becoming a lot less like computers and more like cars. At least the iPhone as an example, phones are becoming more and more an information appliance, taken for granted to "just work." They might be able to do a lot
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by revaaron 16y ago
Please elaborate. Even if I concede that my problems with multitasking are imaginary, I'd love to find out how I can enable built-in support for Exchange calendaring, copy from emails, and make the N1's screen readable in bright sunlight...
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by revaaron 16y ago
heh, thanks for the heads up! A habit from other threaded boards, even though the syntax is twitter. Some folks still manage to get confused about who is speaking to whom- but point taken, this isn't slashdot. :)
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by revaaron 16y ago
The reason I have is killing tasks like Camera, which appear to chew away at the battery even as they sit in the background... It wasn't until I started using a task manager that I started getting decent battery life out of my N1. The first
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by revaaron 16y ago
I'm a proud father of a two year old the long lag of the N1's camera makes it near worthless. Doesn't matter if it's 5 or 10MP as long as it takes over a second to snap a photo. I was impressed by the iPhone's camera, but that's only becaus
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by revaaron 16y ago
I'd have to agree with slyn- both. I think it's most likely I'd be selling apps for Android in the long term, if only because I don't have to live by 3.3.1... I wouldn't be surprised if a divide not unlike Mac vs PC software developed- trad
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by revaaron 16y ago
And lack of global copy/paste, Exchange Calendar support, etc. But especially the viewing in sunlight. :P
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by revaaron 16y ago
I'd only used an iPhone for 6 months, but the experience was positive enough that I'm still in the headache phase with the N1. Largely over hardware problems that will likely never be solved until a later revision: battery life, AMOLED scre
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by revaaron 16y ago
The list of things is pretty long... Notes for an eventual review here: Read my outline here: http://meef.us/~rev/n1/n1-notes.txt @ergo98: Please elaborate. Even if I concede that my problems with multitasking are imaginary, I'd love to f
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by revaaron 16y ago
@ergo98: The 3GS is indeed crippled, but an objective user would be hard pressed to call it inferior. In the end, to each their own- some folks (including myself) are willing to put up with the limitations of the N1, and some folks are will
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by revaaron 16y ago
Indeed. Fragmentation is probably the biggest reason we'll never see Android Market-sales on a per-device basis top what each iPhone user spends in the App Store- there's a wife range of CPU power, RAM, graphics capability, peripherals, mul
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by revaaron 16y ago
My experience over the last few weeks spent using a new Nexus One as a former iPhone certainly supports this. Frankly, I'm stunned at the difference in quality and breadth of applications available in the App Store vs Android Market- compar
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by revaaron 16y ago
@symesc: I just switched from an iPhone to a N1 for the same reason. An inferior phone for a dozen reasons- but a switch I plan to stick with, for now.
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by revaaron 16y ago
Nope, me too. I've had it for a few weeks. Don't like it much, wastes space, but it's not the end of the world. Oddly enough, the old look is showing up for me now- I'd been using the new look in this browser for weeks.
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by revaaron 16y ago
...I don't get the use of "even" either. Google has been acting against ACTA for months.
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by revaaron 16y ago
It has been possible for a long time- for folks with a jailbroken iPhone. I used PDANet. Completely forgot that in my list of reasons to jailbreak!

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