Hacker News Reader

Hagelinon A Prototype Original iPod

Tony Fadell on Twitter: ”This is a P68/Dulcimer iPod prototype we (very quickly) made before the true form factor design was ready. Didn’t want it look like an iPod for confidentiality - the buttons placement, the size - it was mostly air inside - and the wheel worked (poorly)”

https://twitter.com/tfadell/status/1451969239359926276

Hagelinon London’s Big Dig Reveals Layers of History

CGP Grey's "The (Secret) City of London" are great videos on the topic of the City of London (vs. London)

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c

Hagelinon Brewster Kahle Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress

I think the original headline of the article was "Brewster Kahle, the Creator of the Internet Archive, Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress" and that I submitted it shortened to it's current headline "The Creator of the Internet Archive Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress."

Hagelinon Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns (2013)

s/anywhere/everywhere/ ?

Hagelinon Problems with Skitch 2.0

Sounds more like the classic we-need-a-client-for-our-service-so-we'll-buy-this-general-purpose-utility-with-a-large-fan-base-and-remove-any-functionality-that-doesn't-drive-them-to-use-our-service mistake. Don't have a Joel link for it.

Hagelinon Gridless - HTML5 & CSS3 Framework With Beautiful Typography

and previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646571

Hagelinon "Ballmer must go", lead investor tells conference

Paul Thurrott has a relevant blog post: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/commentary/microsoft-fix...

Hagelinon Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)

Of course we couldn’t have Apple news without Gruber bashing.

"The big question, of course, is why Apple is storing this information. I don’t have a definitive answer, but the best at least somewhat-informed theory I’ve heard is that consolidated.db acts as a cache for location data, and that historical data should be getting culled but isn’t, either due to a bug or, more likely, an oversight. I.e. someone wrote the code to cache location data but never wrote code to cull non-recent entries from the cache, so that a database that’s meant to serve as a cache of your recent location data is instead a persistent log of your location history. I’d wager this gets fixed in the next iOS update.”

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/andy-ihnatko-loc...

"The key question for Apple: Given that this file was widely known among iOS forensics experts back in September, why does it still contain historical (as opposed to just recent) location history today?”

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/watts-martin

"Android phones store the same type of location information, but, unlike iOS, Android’s cache only contains recent entries — which is to say Android is doing it right.”

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/android-location...

"Really good questions” [About Senator Al Frankens letter to Steve Jobs on iPhone location tracking]

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/franken

Hagelinon New MacBook Pro series

"horizontal towers" = pizza boxes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_box_form_factor

Hagelinon IOS App Accessibility

Also read: http://mattgemmell.com/2010/12/19/accessibility-for-iphone-a...

Hagelinon Full Instapaper API now available

From the Terms of Use:

Apps may not use users’ Instapaper data or other personal data in any way that a reasonable person would likely deem “creepy” or otherwise unacceptable. Instapaper reserves the right to decide whether an app’s usage of users’ data is creepy.

Hagelinon Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days

I can recommend watching Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man in which he ran 43 marathons in 51 days for the charity Sport Relief.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m3z1f

Hagelinon Convert NIB Files to Objective-C Code

NSLocalizedString ?

Hagelinon Android overtakes Nokia’s Symbian

And anyone coming from Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aft.com+%22Android+over...

Hagelinon Who killed the Intel microprocessor?

I read it as the inevitable superiority of customized components over off-the-shelf components.

Hagelinon Steve Wozniak Shares How the Name "Apple" Came About

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/24/early_apple_sound_de.ht...

Hagelinon Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

"To set expectations, the first drop will be effectively a "SoyLatte"-level implementation, but is packaged as a Universal Mac OS X .jdk bundle that can be dropped directly into /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be adding pieces and parts of our Java SE 6 implementation to the public project, and will cut over from using an X11-based AWT to a Cocoa NSEvent-based one with a new OpenGL-backed graphics layer.

There are several parts of our Java SE 6 implementation (like the AWT widgets) that are not contributable, in much the same way that several parts of Oracle's implementation are not. However, the vast majority of our Swing Aqua Look and Feel implementation is, as well as the eAWT/eIO API. We intend to host the legacy AWT widget set using lightweight peers, but that work is still in progress."

Mike Swingler (Apple Java Engineer) on the java-dev list

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2010/Nov/msg00104.h...

Hagelinon Impact of Removing Registration: 250,000 posts

Why not link to the actual blog post?

Topix.net forums on fire: the Ni-chan paradox (2006) http://blog.topix.com/archives/000106.html

Hagelinon Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the EU

I imagine it should read *"to make public [that] policy is influenced by pressure groups...”

Hagelinon 2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo

Sure, I don’t disagree, I just wanted to provide some nuance to the word ”independent”.

Hagelinon 2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo

Yes, an independent committee whose "five members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and roughly represent the political makeup of that body”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee

Hagelinon How HTML5 Will Save Podcasting and Make it a Billion-Dollar Market

Skimming through the list of podcasts I’ve subscribed to, a common thread seems to be people having real conversations, whether it’s news discussion, in-depth analysis of a topic or funny people saying funny things. Given the choice, I’d much rather listen to or watch the conversation than read a transcript or summary of it.

Hagelinon Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the mouse? (RSI)

Nope, thankfully I don’t have a need for it.

Hagelinon Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the mouse? (RSI)

"MouseClick is an ergonomic software that will click the mouse for you. The software assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).”

http://ufridman.org/mouseclick.html

Hagelinon America's misguided culture of overwork

Yes, I’m sure your parents have great reasons to be grateful to the US, as do I, I’m just saying that German labour laws aren’t one of them.

Hagelinon America's misguided culture of overwork

FYI: muslin isn't a race.

Oh, I know, it’s a fabric.

I'm glad we agree that it's not the paradise that so leftists claim it to be.

So you really didn’t have a point, did you? Just wanted to blurt out a few insults?

Hagelinon America's misguided culture of overwork

I also find it really funny because Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are not only very homogeneous, but very racist. It's very difficult to go against what is considered "normal" (IE: groupthink).

Oh, lovely, we’re very racist, are we? Compared to what, USA? I hear the same anti-muslim, anti-mosque rants from Americans that I hear from fellow Swedes. You complain about illegal immigrants, we complain Eastern-Europeans, ”They’re here to take our jobs”. We complain about paying for refugees and asylum-seekers, you complain about... I don’t know, do you have that issue?

Hagelinon America's misguided culture of overwork

Sure, but labour laws in Germany are closely related to those of other Northern European countries, such as the Scandinavian ones. Like them or not, the labour movement in the form of the unions and the Social Democratic parties fought long and hard for them. To claim that we have the Americans to thank for them is really rather absurd.

Hagelinon America's misguided culture of overwork

"How did Germany become such a great place to work in the first place? The Allies did it.”

What? I’m pretty sure the European labour movement and the Social Democrats wouldn’t agree with that answer. On a list of possible explanations, I think ”You can thank the Americans for it” would rank rather low.

Hagelinon Buzz Kill

Isn’t Facebook pretty much the same thing, though? I’d say it’s taken off with quite a few people?