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tdoggetteon A year on: Flash still not on the iPad, and that's still a good decision

No, I'm pretty sure that he doesn't.

tdoggetteon Ask HN: Review my startup, Beansight.com

Typo: "Prouve your expertise" should be "Prove".

tdoggetteon I see it, but I don’t believe it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVfs4zKrgk&feature=relat...

The first minute establishes the conditions.

tdoggetteon Ask HN: Getting started in learning software UX design?

This is what I wanted from this post. Thanks.

tdoggetteon Time Warner Cable trying to make municipal fiber illegal in North Carolina

Depending on how determined you are, 900mhz is unlicensed and can punch a wireless signal through trees. Equipment can be expensive, but there's surplus stuff out there, esp. among hams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33-centimeter_band

tdoggetteon Things that Irritate me About Android OS - 4 weeks in

I don't want an iPhone. I like my Android phone a lot, it's just a big pain in the ass sometimes, mostly due to a lack of attention to detail in the design.

You've sidestepped #1 entirely, so I'll leave that be.

#2, I have over 100 apps, most of which came with the phone and/or are components of other things. It's like your grandma's Windows desktop in there. It's not much of a pain to get things more usable on the home panes, it's just a UX headache that doesn't need to exist.

And as for inconsistency, the original article was talking about inconsistency among different apps, not phones/UIs.

tdoggetteon Things that Irritate me About Android OS - 4 weeks in

Okay, this is just nonsense. I'm a power user, more or less, and I have an HTC Incredible that I've been using for a few months. Here's my take:

1: When I plug in my phone to my computer, I have to mount two separate drives and then hunt for the file I'm looking for.

Where's my music? Is it in "My Documents" or "MP3" on the phone storage? How about "data" or "documents" or "My Music" on the card?

The whole thing is a huge mess. Every app has its own little scheme for storing data.

2: Okay, so I hit "install" and now it's installing. I do something else for a minute, and now I want to put it on a page and launch it. Where is it? The app list. Where in the app list? I dunno. What's its name? Is it the same as the one in the market? Not always. Google Reader is "Google Reader" in the market and just "Reader" in the list.

3: No, he doesn't like having to hunt for something, then manually place it before being able to use it easily. Why isn't the option to place an app on a pane given at install?

4: Do you use Android at all? There's no adherence to an interface standard.

5: You're right on this one. Multitasking works great without me having to bother it at all.

tdoggetteon How my childhood friend became an Internet laughingstock.

Link goes to #p2: hit Page Up when you get there.

tdoggetteon How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics

Did you ever implement anything that we could play with?

tdoggetteon A/B test anything with Var.to, a link shortener with variable destinations

Looks like a good product, but I found the fonts on the front page very hard to read. I'm on XP/Chrome.

http://imgur.com/vaUq7

tdoggetteon Push Pop Press

> the reading experience on an actual Kindle is unmatched

The reading experience for books made of text, yeah. This isn't that.

tdoggetteon Push Pop Press

It's not primarily about speed or even the mentality of the purchaser: It's about giving the designer of the software (and the books) the power to create a better user experience. If the books are really as good as Gruber claims, then that will lead to sales.

tdoggetteon Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible

He's not complaining that he can't get enough rep, he's complaining that he can't contribute without it.

tdoggetteon Ask HN: What startup has the best name?

You've gotta really enunciate whenever you say it, or people will go to studentcircle.net

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That could really use an "allegedly" in there somewhere.

tdoggetteon Techies don't understand what business Apple is in

I want a nice, high-quality laptop or smartphone with hardware designed by the very best, and good production values from start to finish.

I can't really get that from anyone but Apple. I've got a Thinkpad, but even that very nice machine is in a lower class of industrial design compared to Apple products. Likewise, my HTC Incredible is a great phone, but bits of it are clearly of lower quality than my friends' iPhone 4s.

That's why some of Apple's practices annoy me-- because they're so damn good at everything else, they tempt me anyway.

tdoggetteon Awesome UI screenshots from applications running on Symbolics Lisp Machines

The thing is, if these screenshots are interesting, they'll spread from HN to blogs to the programming subreddit, and your iMac will just keep failing.

Even just an archive of these uploaded somewhere with a server would make them accessible.

tdoggetteon Ask PG/HN: Plings in titles ...

For anyone else wondering, a pling is a bang, or an exclamation mark.

tdoggetteon A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world

Yeah, but not in a way that approaches the usefulness of a desktop browser.

tdoggetteon Ask HN: Why is new Facebook profile hated so much?

People do this every time Facebook changes anything. People make groups (on Facebook, of course) protesting it, nerds point out the new ways it can expose personal data, and Facebook ignores it all.

tdoggetteon Smell your games. Good idea, or good reason it's failed so many times?

"What's that smell?" isn't a great start to a conversation about a neat new gadget that you just bought.

tdoggetteon Google Translate adds easter egg that recognizes the beatboxing hack

The conditions are German language and no consonants.

tdoggetteon Ask HN: What's the geekiest joke you know?

Please delete this. It's stretching the page.

tdoggetteon 50 Cent Tweets, Tiny Stock Soars

They work in that apparently advertisers pay to have them inserted. I dunno if they work in that people watch them.

tdoggetteon Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle sells $1.8M worth of indie games

It's an interesting idea and a good deal with a charity angle; it got coverage on blogs and forums, and spread around like links do.

tdoggetteon Why Businesses Can’t Stand Free Markets

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

tdoggetteon Why Google's Chrome notebook will succeed

It's a linux box underneath; I'm sure we're at most weeks away from a "terminal" app that you can have open in a tab that works like you'd expect.

tdoggetteon How an Engineer Does Pizza

If you say "pie", you mean a pie. If you say "I'd like a 10-inch pie" in a pizza place, you mean a pizza pie. It's context.

tdoggetteon Kinect sex game will not become reality, Microsoft says

Like hell it won't. Microsoft's approval isn't the only way to get code running on a 360, and the Kinect is wide open. I give it a couple of months before everyone can happily thrust their hips at their televisions and rack up orgasm points.

tdoggetteon Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire

Now is the time to post that on github if it works at all.