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freakwiton After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong

TIMN/Verge also has this note[0]:

Note: Our initial performance observations were focused on touch response and not system-wide performance, and were based on a Galaxy Nexus being used by one of Google’s staff. The demo units during the show were definitely smoother in operation. All of them featured an early build of Ice Cream Sandwich, however, so we’ll make our final calls on the phone once we have a review unit in hand.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/galaxy-nexus-android-ice-...

freakwiton 80% of People Quietly Despise Their Lives

The other 20% loudly despise their lives?

freakwiton Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

List of comments I have upvoted - Similar to saved stories.

I may upvote comments which are valuable, but not the story itself, making it hard to come back to those valuable comments later.

freakwiton Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures

Yes, but nobody knows about it.

freakwiton The lost world of physicality

And here the physical world comes to the rescue - get yourself a new computer when your old one is infested with malware!

freakwiton Linear algebra for game developers

note that this is just part 1 of 4. (I am assuming you didn't read all four parts, because that material would have to be covered impressively quickly to fit in 20 minutes)

freakwiton Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal

portal: the flash version seems to work well enough. The directions are constant, but the momentum gives you time to shift your heading as you enter/exit portals

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

freakwiton How Google can still become the greatest company ever?

So, what is the current "greatest company ever"? What defines it?

freakwiton Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

On my SGS (not II) I can use volume-down as a ctrl key in terminal emulator.

freakwiton How I explained MapReduce to my Wife?

Like all good lessons, this one starts with a little lie and tells you the truth later on...

"Supriya : But how I will create different types of Chutneys?

Shekhar : Now you will see the missing phase of MapReduce — Shuffle phase. MapReduce will group all the outputs written by every Map based on the key. This will be automatically done for you. You can assume key as just a name of ingredient like Onion. So all the onion keys will be grouped together and will be transferred to a grinder which will just process onions. So, you will get onion Chutney. Similarly all the tomatoes will be transferred to the grinder marked for tomato and will produce tomato Chutney."

freakwiton Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

Yeah, I did the search, saw google.com.au first and wasn't surprised at all.

For those interested, but not interested enough to visit the AU site the results are: 1. www.google.com.au 2. www.bing.com 3. jobsearch.gov.au 4. www.dogpile.com 5. www.seek.com.au 6. www.search.com 7. www.webwombat.com.au 8. au.altavista.com 9. www.peoplesearch.com.au 10. www.search.org.au

Basically a bunch of search engines, a couple of job sites and a couple of sites with search in their name.

freakwiton Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook

some more context from http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/steve-jobs-calls-blu-ray-...

"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."

I wouldn't take that as apple never supporting blu-ray. Although given the quote is three years old, I wouldn't say it's likely either.

freakwiton Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14

"it’s worth noting that Firefox 8 is as fast or faster than the latest Dev Channel build of Chrome 14. Chrome’s WebGL implementation is still faster, but with Azure, Firefox’s 2D performance is actually better than Chrome. JavaScript performance is also virtually identical."

Fx8 vs Chrome 15 might be very very similar...

freakwiton Ruby 2.0: What We Want to Accomplish in the Near Future

Matz starts talking about 2.0 at about 14m30

freakwiton Why Your Form Checkboxes Need to Have Label Tags

I think in this case "the text" refers to the label's text, not the text in the input that the label is @for.

freakwiton Top Missing PostgreSQL Features

previous discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445164

freakwiton ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.

"First and foremost, our takedowns have nothing to do with any sort of open source licensing violation. Both Yong and I handle developer relations behind the scenes. We give cuts to original authors at times, and I have posted sources to my source repository. Though there is a lot of rhetoric surrounding this, it is not an issue."

freakwiton Angry Birds' Cross-compiled Java Versus Native JavaScript

Illumination Software Creator: http://radicalbreeze.com/

Target Flex, Android, iOS, maemo... in a visual "block" environment.

I haven't tried it myself, but could be useful for you. It's available in the ubuntu software centre as well.

freakwiton Firefox 5 Beta is available for download

The list of bugfixes is hardly nothing: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/bu...

freakwiton The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers

http://www.translationparty.com/#9269521

freakwiton SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

On the contrary, it's new every time you generate a paper!

freakwiton (Ubuntu) 11.04, a leap forward

On the contrary, Unity broke all my keyboard shortcuts. I gave it a fair shake (used it during the beta, tried not to mark it down for bugginess) and am back to classic.

For my settings, multitasking with the keyboard is very easy - just press super and the relevant workspace number - just press super and the relevant character to launch a particular application

freakwiton Anime Site Treats Piracy as Market Failure

I feel obliged to say that I've not had spammy emails from crunchyroll, either. Their "notifications" are quite spammy, however.

freakwiton The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins

You're being disingenuous here. Anybody looking for information about jQuery's selectors will google "jquery selectors" and find that five-word phrase front and center. Or take a look at the jQuery front page and hover over "CSS3 Compliant" to see "Supports CSS 1-3 selectors and more!".

If you want to pick on something that claims compatibility, try Sizzle itself - http://sizzlejs.com/. In that case, you'll find a summary of alterations right at the top of its documentation https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/wiki .

freakwiton The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins

http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/ "Borrowing from CSS 1–3, and then adding its own, jQuery offers a powerful set of tools for matching a set of elements in a document."

freakwiton [dead]

Even if we, the community, agree to stop April Fool's submissions. This submission is largely useless as April Fool's has already started (and ended in some places).

Next year, everybody will forget, people will be new and this submission won't change a thing.

freakwiton New Chat Thing Convore Is Google Wave Minus the Suck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_%28software%29

1983 with talk. Anybody got anything earlier?

freakwiton Google 2000 vs. Google 2011

From my results with that search, only 2 of the top 6 are How To articles, and they are the last two of the six.

freakwiton Facebook's real-name-only approach is non-negotiable

Aren't these accounts precisely what generate Facebook's revenue?

That's precisely the point. If the "real name only" stance is non-negotiable, they would ban these accounts, forgoing significant revenue in the process.