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There is barely an answer to the title question:

> So my idea is to follow the principles of universal design, that is that optimizations done on extreme cases translates over the whole spectrum. Also I’m getting valuable qualitative data on current implementations. Let me tell you this, for someone developing / administrating with the lingua Franca of computes i.e. UNIX/shell computing power is not the issue. Here I’m dealing with a 512 mb tablet.

I'm not sure I understand what that means, but that's all the answer we get. (The writing quality is as poor as the reasoning.)

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From the quote I think he means that optimizations done on shitty hardware will translate to optimizations on good hardware, and that the computing power of the tablet is plenty for the dev/admin tasks he uses it for(?)

That's what I got, but it seems to clash with his assertion that computing power is not the problem. Whatever — I've already devoted too much time to this post.

In what way?

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How can you tell that the reasoning is bad if you can't parse the sentence?

Also had this not been written with two thumbs, maybe the result would've been better. Embarasing as it may seem, it just goes to show the unsuitability of tablets for productive use!

Normally I have spellchecker for times like these but unfortunately she's sick :( Didn't expect to hit HN frontpage before she had time to look at it.

Because, frankly, your article rambled and lacked a coherent point.

That doesn't really answer how you can fail to parse a formulation and still draw a conclusion regarding it's logical validity.

This is definitely what you should be arguing about in defense of your article.

Apparently the article was not written in a way that can be understood by all. I can give you that.

It's good to have feedback and in the future I'll take into account that some people have problems comprehending text.

But to say that you can not parse a sentence and that it's illogical doesn't make sense. That is like saying that you read a book in Greek, didn't understand it and still claim that the content is invalid. Do you follow?

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