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by rinich 17y ago
You forgot step 0: 0. Invent an enormous blogging platform and be an all-around cool guy Garry links frequently get my auto-upvote.
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by rinich 17y ago
I actually tried to write an explanation upthread a bit; hopefully that'll calm things down. There's a lot of hyperbolic criticism about the iPad that I don't think is justified. This is a hyperbolic response. In some threads here and elsew
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by rinich 17y ago
I love tinkering and don't think it's at all useless. What I hate is that the same things that make computers so tinkerable are what make them so frustrating for all the people that don't want to tinker. The iPad removes all those frustrati
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by rinich 17y ago
I responded to that in the other thread about this article. It's a damn shame. Can you make one that downloads to the iPhone/iPad and run natively? There's nothing in an RTE that needs to access Internet files, right? So theoretically you c
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by rinich 17y ago
Look, friend, I was in the same umbrella as you. I used to like wearing black t-shirts telling people how conformist they were and how much better me and my friends were. Then I got older than sixteen and realized what I was missing in the
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by rinich 17y ago
But it wasn't. As I wrote elsewhere on this thread: I didn't want this posted to Hacker News. I was writing for a different audience of people, one that enjoys a little melodrama and overdescription. I didn't expect anybody in that "program
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by rinich 17y ago
Bullshit. If somebody broke UI rules in as brilliant a way as Cummings did it, Apple would accept the app. Meanwhile, publishing companies reject poets with shitty punctuation every day. The fact that Cummings was published has a lot to do
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by rinich 17y ago
I originally wrote this in response to Alex Payne; I emailed him an off-the-cuff response, then decided it might be worth revising a little and publishing. He wrote: Perhaps the iPad signals an end to the “hacker era” of digital history.
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by rinich 17y ago
The work I do for you people amazes me: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/whereilive/coast/images/southw...
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by rinich 17y ago
If I want to play the violin, there are violins designed specifically for letting me play them with little restraint. There are books designed specifically to guide me through learning how to play. Most people would hire an instructor to te
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by rinich 17y ago
Can I jump in here and issue a minor clarification? I am not a troll. I am a creative writer. I care much, much more about whether I'm writing in interesting and fun and amusing ways than I do about any pretense of formality, particularly i
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by rinich 17y ago
The argument I put forward (and I completely respect people that disagree with it) is that yes, it's okay to let somebody else control the clock font, because the clock font doesn't matter. I'd rather not have the choice to change it, becau
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by rinich 17y ago
I know; I was informed of that after I wrote it. Shame. Web-accessible runtimes are still a possibility, but certainly that's not as cut-and-dry as having one in the App Store would be.
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by rinich 17y ago
That's a very apt analogy. I've got nothing against kitchens, but I think it would be nice if there were cheap gourmet lessons out there also. (My analogy is much worse than yours.)
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by rinich 17y ago
I know. When will Apple stop releasing products for which there is no possible market? I mean I know I'm an Apple fanboy and all but I think they could have learned from their failures
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by rinich 17y ago
Flagged. This is not a post for HN.
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by rinich 17y ago
In every field of art, you see the biggest innovations when the technical barriers to doing things are taken away. Make film equipment cheaper and a lot of brilliant people without much money hit the scene. Make synthesizers cheaper and you
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by rinich 17y ago
No, it can't, but it really doesn't matter that it can't. Most applications save your place in them, so the only cost of switching is that you have to wait a second for it to relaunch. If you've got a powerful enough processor, then relaunc
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by rinich 17y ago
As far as I know, many songs are non-DRM'd, but not all of them. Hm. I thought that their big announcement last year was that they'd converted the entire store to DRM-free, but I could be mistaken. It's videos/software/books that I am wo
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by rinich 17y ago
Yeah, I get what you mean. At first this was a real let-down event for me. I was hoping, stupid and irrational as it would be, for Apple to unveil a completely new OS, completely new functionality and technology, and instead all they did wa
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by rinich 17y ago
I've never seen a way to do so from a Kindle. I'd imagine it would be risky for them to offer that service: What's there to stop you from printing your own book?
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by rinich 17y ago
Yep! We've gotten into a lot of these discussions before. (I hope you took my comment lightheartedly, and not as a personal insult — it's more my way of saying we'll agree to disagree here.) Usually I'm not a fan of the slew of Apple articl
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by rinich 17y ago
(That actually gets me thinking — do we know anything about the iPad's printer compatibility? Did I miss some announcement about that?)
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by rinich 17y ago
That's my favorite part about Apple: When they introduce a product that makes other products of theirs look obsolete. I used to love my laptop's multitouch until I tried a Magic Mouse; now my scrolling all feel stodgy. I agree that the iPod
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by rinich 17y ago
The problem is that I never really got picture frames. I think it's weird having photos of people just randomly hanging around. Especially if it's a small screen giving me a crappy cycling photo. I'd rather have a device upon which all my f
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by rinich 17y ago
That's why I'm really interested in seeing what this keyboard dock is like. Certainly it works well stationary, but for people on the move and wanting a keyboard is it a solution? I'm guessing it's not; it looks fairly bulky. Perhaps blueto
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by rinich 17y ago
And you can't make a resume in iWork? I think that part of Apple's announcement was more significant to a certain crowd than we're giving it credit for.
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by rinich 17y ago
Indeed! But all sorts of things can happen to stop it from becoming truly radically huge. Certainly it'll sell well at first — so did the Kindle. I wouldn't call the Kindle radical, though, even if it is pretty big (and a damn good product
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by rinich 17y ago
Most people don't buy movies on their computer. It's more logical to buy a DVD set, which plays on both TV and computers, than it is to buy a digital movie that can't be moved back easily. Computers don't offer much of a movie-watching adva
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by rinich 17y ago
I think it's going to come down to how consumers perceive the iPad. If they see it as a simplified computer, then you're absolutely right. If, however, they start treating it like a household appliance, one that simply cuts many more specia

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