345 karma · joined July 9, 2009
Git still doesn't work well on windows and it's damn slow and only 2 years old, also running it with cygwin was a pain because you had to install it manually and stuff. High 5 y'all!
/me disappointed by HN, expected better than reddit like users.
Edit: about performance, while Git was slower on windows than on linux, it was still faster than both SVN and Mercurial.
How come? Given that every UI element on the iPhone is standard. Apps having similar functionalities are bound to look alike.
Note that Symbian and Android both use Webkit, granted with different versions but eventually what works on Android or the iPhone works on Symbian too.
However IE was all the contrary of that: no respect for standards, proprietary extensions, long standing bugs (didn't they just fix a 10 year old one?), security issues, you name it. So let's not compare apples and oranges.
Except that when I work on a feature branch on git, I constantly rebase on top of master to stay up to date and so I don't have to face a huge merge "later" but a few easy merges once in a while.
> I was about to write up an angry rebuttal to this, but seriously, it's not even worth responding to.
I think he's talking about adobe air which comes with webkit and makes use of html5 storage and more (well, everything that webkit allows).
Why so? Google depends entirely on the web, it makes sense. Also depending on a third party/competitor for accessing your very business is a very bad thing, especially when this competitor is Apple. It's better to depend on as few parties as possible.
Wrong, with HTML5 offline storage you can keep all your data offline on your own machine too.
> - It uses an advanced HTML5 compliant browser called Safari.
I think most people on hacker news know that safari and chrome share the same webkit engine, thanks for the news though :p
> It will even save your web app frontend with its own icon on the main screen, giving it the same user attention privileges as any normal app.
But this kind of device is not for me (see the link), it's for people who don't know much about computers or don't want to deal with one.
The problem with the iPad is that you still need to own a computer and know how to use iTunes to sync/update your device. So my friends will still need me to help them with itunes (I know my mom would). With the chrome os tablet, I can just get one for my mom because it syncs and updates itself automatically so she'll never need to call me to ask "how that thing plugs into the computer again" and why itunes is asking her to "sync or delete my whole photos collection" or "why itunes doesn't work anymore? it says I need to download 200MB of update, is that a virus or can I go ahead?" etc.