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SEO is killing the internet. Seriously, guys, even though you can fuck with search engines, you should not.
Google is shutting you guys down already, and will be doing more soon to eliminate this spam.
SEO spam has no actual users bro.
Mondo 2000 is restarting their magazine for the iPad and the first issue will also cover this.
Are there really adults reading hacker news with skins thin enough to be offended by his post? Perhaps e have a lot of web-monkeys who have a business plan to deep-link?
Sheesh.
I'm not a troll, I'm perfectly serious. I am pointing out that Google claims that Dalvik "IS NOT JAVA!!!" which is funny because everybody knows Android runs Java™.
Additionally, the specs are irrelevant when comparing the iPad, which runs C applications, to something that must ram everything through a Java VM. And I mean, irrelevant to geeks, as the platforms are so different that it is impossible to compare them based on specifications. To normal people, the specs are completely, 100%, totally irrelevant, aside from battery life.
The new iteration of Android has some UI tweaks, but it's still awfully busy. It's clearly made for the power user who cares about specs. I mean, yeah, you can see two things at once. Ordinary people will just say "I typed in the wrong window." It seems like an important spec to be able to have an arbitrary number of things going on at once on the device, and their Expose knockoff is, well, an Expose knockoff, but I just wonder if they thought this through all the way, or if they are thinking in a Microsoft sort of way, that one more bullet point on a spec sheet will make that sale.
What do you mean? The name is still awful.
Hell I am writing this on my iPad, and I still think it is an awful name.
On edit: you missed my main point, which is that Xoom has no clear pronunciation. Is it "zoom?" I am supposing that is what they want me to call it, but "exhume" is what it looks like.
Nobody cares dude.
It needs to have higher specs, as it is running a knocked off Java. And as good as honeycomb cereal is, Android is pretty sluggish and ugly compared to iOS. iOS is <I><b>gorgeous.</b></I>
Nobody bought the iPad because of specs, aside from the battery life. If you think they did, you still do not understand the market, and are probably baffled that people are not buying Intel based tablets.
What an awful name. Of course the iPad gas a lame name, but at least it has an obvious pronunciation. I see "Xoom" and say "exhume" which means to dig a body up.
I think I smell the reek of death. Now if the exhume was only say, $300 for the wifi only unit, they'd have something. Even $400 would be too much for what consumers will call a "generic iPad" as even the hard-up could find another $99 if they already had $400 to drop on a toy like a tablet.
Exhume indeed. This may illustrate to clever marketers that for a lot of people, the obvious and seemingly correct pronunciation for a clever brand might bite them. My grandpa called Qwest "queue west" as they made him wait for a customer service agent too long for his liking. He was onto something.
You aren't a designer if you actually produce code. If you "can" code but do not, and use dreamweaver or a similar drawing to code tool, then yeah, you are a designer.
The lil blogger says "The Library of Congress declared that it is completely legal to jailbreak your devices."
Firstly, the Library of Congress hardle makes legal decisions, and additionally, if they did, that does not imply that a company can not lock them down.
Actually the average consumer does not know what Zune is. Maybe your average geek does.
Designers use a GUI tool like Dreamweaver, or do not code at all.
Developers can make a program or web site using a text editor.
Hasn't this already been done by several different hackers? I am quite sure it has been.
Sure you can. You just can't shrink the size of a pool.
You might be right, in a sense. But on the other hand things like meals out and skydiving lessons hold little appeal to me. Half off veggies or vehicle repair could be more up my alley.
Get a bunch of egotistical, powerful, and moderately financially successful aspies together and have them solve a problem. This is a recipe for disaster and anybody who reads the kernel mailing list knows it. Sadly about half the coders I know in real life are even worse than Linus.
<i>Advertising has become quite spammy and irrelevant. We've gotten away from the core issue, which is not inherently spammy at all - merchants interacting with people to retain their existing customers and win new customers. There is noting evil about that, and the direction that advertising has taken for decades has been largely disrespectful, manipulative, misleading, and lacking in creativity. As a result, it has become quite boring.</i>
Advertising has always been misleading and disrespectful, at least going back to the Romans. I had never heard about Groupon until today, and find it mildly interesting, but the problem with it is that I have to pony up cash in advance for something sigh unseen (usually a service or a meal!) and I guess I am too cheap for that.
Rddle me this: how is Groupon different from one of those coupon books the local school kids sell?
Bring the spice back into tech interviews?
I guess I never knew it was there in the past, and had gone away. However, not to be too rude, but I will take my spice from spicier sources and stick to TED for my nerd fixes.
I guess I am saying that it's time to retool, ladies. I AM the closest thing to your demographic, and I don't really get it. Your comment about not caring about the comments rings a bit hollow if you are simultaneously slinking over here to purr about your show.
Anyway, best of luck, but I would advise getting really serious about your tech interviews and leave the casual stuff for after dark.
Ugh. E-Branding.
On topic, music without lyrics is the way to go.
Of course, eating out twice a day, whole foods, the finest wines every night, and of course the Porsche 911 for him, and the Cayenne for her so she can get the kids to soccer practice.
Seriously, how much do people spend on the kids? Also, we have this thing called the Internet now, you don't have to live in SV to start a tech company.
A combination of IBM and Sun / SNOracle.
I think a smart "founder" saves his Porsche buying until after the company is actually profitable.
A $50k salary for a founder is about the limit until the company is actually raking in some dough, unless the goal is to feel important and drive that sucker into the ground.
"that would be a remarkably stupid way for Google to empower the worst citizens of the web to hold the rest hostage"
It is easy to forget that Google is not the Internet. A time goes on, SEO will cause Google to become nearly useless, and people will move onto greener pastures.
Mystery meat is never gorgeous.
True, but you can't really 'optimize' the search engines and make a nickel off ad revenue if you just link to an interview directly.
Just like me you fell for the submitter's SEO trick. Now Google sees another link to that blog here and will bump his blog up a notch on the results page.
Actually there are millions of people who have gone out of their way to disable Flash in the browser.
Flash blockers are extremely popular these days.
It is FUD. Why hasn't Apple attacked Google for using Webkit in Chrome? This isn't too terribly dissimilar than what you are suggesting.
One could make up doomsday scenarios all day, but the fact is that Apple has nothing to lose by wider adoption of Objective-C and similar libraries.
Obviously Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa Touch libraries are a moving target and GNUstep is tracking those as best it can.
There are already people releasing software for both:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep#Ported_from_NeXTSTEP.2C...
Regardless of whether or not they are exactly compatible (some tweaking is necessary) I wonder where you get the idea that Apple would attack the GNUstep folks. Sounds like standard-grade FUD to me.
Reports of Smalltalk's demise are greatly exaggerated. Check out RoarVM - Squeak Smalltalk and it's derivatives now run on Tilera.
IBM and others are actively working on bringing Smalltalk into the future.