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In a nutshell Zoomendar is a fully touch-enabled calendar. Basically you navigate your calendar by swiping, tapping and pinching. As always I'd love feedback of any kind.

Video to see how it works - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbrBKmPruLA

Here's my latest work worth showing. Started it back in late October, and while it definitely didn't take me THAT long (life got in the way plenty) this is definitely more than just a "weekend project" for me.

In a nutshell Zoomendar is a fully touch-enabled calendar. Basically you navigate your calendar by swiping, tapping and pinching. I think it's the natural evolution of the touchscreen calendar. As always I'd love feedback of any kind.

Direct links:

Video of Zoomendar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...

App Store - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

>It was thus difficult for Semmelweis to make a "scientific" case for why the lime worked

Aren't you supposed to regard empiricism above all else in science? While holding to that rule would force Semmelweis to alter his theory as well, the observation of the highly reduced mortality rates should have forced the medical powers that be to reconsider things also - the burden is on them to make a scientific case for why lime had nothing to do with the decreased mortality rates.

I agree there were probably other reasons they fired him, but I think that only helps Aaron's points.

I feel like ranking more popular apps higher in search results hurts app discovery, which I can't imagine is their goal.

What does suck about this from the consumer standpoint though is now when ordering if you want to upgrade a component from the base model you pay Apple prices to do so. For example Apple has historically overcharged for RAM and hard drive upgrades, so many users would order the base and then install upgrades on their own to save a bunch of money. Now you pay what Apple says you pay.

My thoughts exactly. We have an "ask" section, so why not a "show"?

Apple spends money developing Xcode yet when they started charging $5 for it there was a huge outcry. I feel like HN often upvotes the most contrarian comment by default (assuming it's well argued).

Google Objectivism and/or Ayn Rand

The last bit the author mentions is something I've thought about recently, which is - where do I live? Inside my head or outside of it? I find myself primarily living inside my head, which is a very different world than the one around me.

While the inside vs outside distinction likely correlates to intro/extraversion, I think it's quite likely a scale of its own. I think this is a much more interesting topic than the introvert extravert war this thread became and is worth everyone taking a second (or a day) to think about - where do you live?

The inspiration was just various things I liked from different puzzle games I've played. Figured they'd go well together. Works on iOS 4.2+ since it includes Gamecenter. Thanks for checking it out :)

Thanks for the feedback! I was so happy with my design but am kind of glad it got critiqued. I have a small stack of design books I plan on reading. Motivation++

Don't underestimate Intel.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review/19

To add to this I remember when OS X came out there was a lot of groaning about how slow window resizing was. Years of improvement later it still lags a hair. Noticeably slower than windows.

Yeah, my roommate has a 4g phone and has to charge it everyday after work... And he turned 4g OFF to save battery

As a fellow iOS developer I feel your pain - I've been dreading the forced move to Lion since Lion's release. I haven't researched this yet but a possible solution would be to install Lion and Xcode on a VM? Then you could update the OS as frequently as you liked and not have to worry about it breaking the rest of your workflow/implementing "features" like Automatic Termination (my main reason for avoiding Lion).

I could classify many a drunk person as exhibiting temporary insanity, and clearly drunk people are dangerous. Should I assume you support prohibition of alcohol as well?

If you don't have any windows open in the app, doesn't Lion quit it for you?

I can't remember where I heard this, so don't quote me, but I've heard it partially has to do with graphics kexts in some or all of those machines being 32-bit and a reluctance from Apple and the manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) to update them. That said, I'm not sure how that would rule out the Mac Pro, then, because the chips I heard cited were the old Intel chips (950, x3100) and AMD chips (X1600).

Again, don't quote me!

edit: this assumes Apple is moving to 100% 64-bit.

To add to this, I think it's important that OP knows this is a good thing. I built my computer just over 3 years ago when DDR2 prices bottomed out, so I have 8GB, and this thing is still more computer than I need. I boot up, load all my applications into RAM, and everything is super snappy - because RAM is fast. Prior to this rig I found myself compelled to upgrade at least every 3 years because things would get slow. Times change.

Here's the message I've been given, maybe it's changed without my noticing but I think it's remained consistent -

balance means giving each variable in an equation similar weight. Eating only one or two food groups is not optimal for health.

Moderation - not eating more calories than you burn throughout the day.

edit - I agree with you about the ever rotating axis of nutritional evil. It's BS. I think part of the reason we go through it though is people ignoring the basic advice I mentioned earlier that's held for so long. Why eat broccoli when I can eat McDonalds? Exercise is hard. ETC

I don't think there's been much change in this area, it's been "eat in moderation, eat a balanced diet and exercise" for as long as I can remember.

What it should really teach you is the efficacy of A/B testing.

I went to UC Davis when this (Davis wiki) was launched. It was invaluable at the time. But I wonder how well it will fare elsewhere these days. You need a decent-sized community to get good content, but most decent-sized communities are already well covered by heavily used services like craigslist and yelp.

It's likely that few HNers have a strong enough grasp of the various laws to state how they would pursue Facebook based on law, but all of us have a sense of justice. Whether or not the two coincide is a different discussion.

My happy medium, based on my own sense of justice: give Facebook a year to implement systems that actually protect users' privacy (what that would entail is yet another discussion). If they don't comply, hit them with a hefty fine. We get our privacy, Facebook gets to keep its money - some of which was earned by neglecting our privacy.

Here's what I wonder, though - how often do people watch movies at home on a 7" screen? Don't they have a better (larger) option? The reason I ask is with no 3G and only 8GB of storage, the Fire doesn't strike me as being all that great for watching movies on the go.

If those are the examples, can't we go further back and blame other cell phone manufacturers? Or get mad that Nintendo didn't make it easy for us to put our own OS on the NES?

To further your video game example - psych studies have shown that if you pay someone to do something they like, they start liking it less. Great post, edo.

Did this quote make anyone else think of the iPhone a bit?

"In the fall of 1983, the professor in one of my college CS classes got up and announced, like a prophet, that there would soon be a computer with half a MIPS of processing power that would fit under an airline seat and cost so little that we could save enough to buy one from a summer job. The whole room gasped. And when the Mac appeared, it was even better than we'd hoped. It was small and powerful and cheap, as promised. But it was also something we'd never considered a computer could be: fabulously well designed."

I think it depends on what hardware you're running. On my laptop Chrome is so noticeably better I only keep Firefox around for testing. On my maxed out desktop I can't tell the difference.

Any investment ideas stem from this? Where's a safe place for one's money? It seems as though the price of gold has more or less adjusted for this already. Right now I've got a bunch stashed in Inflation Protected T-Bills...