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If your last name is Asian then would omitting your ethnicity gain you anything? I would doubt it.

Its too bad they didn't actually put in much real functionality. Its really just a glorified slideshow.

But a compelling slideshow at that.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

Steve Jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

Agreed. For serious, long-term discussions, forums work a lot better than sites like reddit. As soon as a submission on reddit gets more than a few hundred comments, it really is hard to get everything.

I'm a big fan of serious hobby forums. Places like HardForum or the late TheGreenButton have lots of in-depth, long-standing, technical discussions. Discussions that just wouldn't be feasible on another software platform.

The previous class on iTunes was extremely useful to me. I'm a college student and the fact that it was in a lecture format made it easy for me to digest.

Reading a book is one thing, but watching someone give a lecture in little chunks made it really easy.

I wonder how ARC changes the way they teach memory management.

The trackpad on MacBooks are the greatest thing. I got my first Mac about a year ago and I'll never go back to a PC notebook simply because the trackpads are always terrible.

Now whenever I use a PC trackpad, I'm astonished at just how bad they are, even on premium PCs.

Why can't PC manufacturers get it right?

I'm impressed with Bootstrap.

It's really comprehensive and covers a lot more than other frameworks. I feel like with Bootstrap you could really crank out a web app, without having to do much presentationally.

The navigational aids also seem really helpful and the default typography and whatnot does look quite nice.

Haha, I noticed the location was Troy, NY.

RPI, huh?

Apple's skeuomorphic design for iCal is bad. iCal has been made to look like a real calendar, but in reality it isn't used like a real one at all.

If iCal worked like a real calendar, skeuomorphism would have value, but in its current form, it's just an ugly skin. It doesn't actually show users how to use it.

Read about it here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...

Apparently in the future, we use lots of Gotham.

Everybody who I know (including myself) uses WhatsApp to text people who are travelling, studying abroad, or otherwise living overseas but don't want to pay an arm and leg for international SMS.

It's just a text message replacement. It's essentially iMessage but cross-platform.

I think we've all seen that the average of many faces creates a beautiful face. http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average

This is an interesting experiment, but it makes a pretty ugly font. It's a muddy in-between that doesn't have the benefits of being a serif nor a sans-serif font.

I'd like to see the averages of similar fonts.

Sounds like a good countermeasure.

Though its a problem if they take your phone without asking for your password.

Stuff like Blackboard uses Java in the front-end. It's terrible software.

I think it's about time British-style or "logical punctuation" of quotes becomes standard.

Especially coming from a programming background, it just makes more sense. Periods should go outside the quote if they aren't actually part of the quote.

That's easy: Cheap, fashionable clothes that have good fit and are of relatively high quality. The quality of Uniqlo blows Gap or similar stores out of the water.

I wish they had stores outside of NY. But Uniqlo is great.

Awesome, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.

Commoditize the hardware? Uh, this is Apple we're talking about.

This article was worth a good laugh.

I understand that this is meant to be comedy, but the most important part in MVP is the "viable".

A feather is not a viable pillow.

This looks like a bad Apple-fication of HN. The font choices and stylistic motifs are all taken from Apple and applied to HN in a hackneyed way. There's no soul in the page. HN is very unique and the redesign just strikes me as bland.

There's more whitespace but it isn't easier to read. The current HN style lets you scan down the left side of the page and you can see all the relevant information (title, poster, points, time, and # of comments).

On that redesign, half of the useful information is put on the other side of the page. Now your eye has to move much more just get the same amount of information.

The color palette is washed out, and there's even less text contrast than the current HN page.

Sorry for the harsh criticism.

TNG is a great show. They really don't make television like that anymore.

Young kids probably wouldn't watch it if it wasn't in HD. Its like people of my age watching black and white movies. The dated special effects would be too boring and sadly might hinder people from appreciating the show.

A faithful HD remaster would greatly extend TNG's watchable lifespan.

Ridiculous. If we had our priorities straight, there would be low unemployment.

Our infrastructure is crumbling beneath us, yet we won't spend any money to fix it. Instead we're fighting a handful of wars abroad that doesn't help us at all.

We need better roads, public transportation, and faster internet.

At least Carl's Jr is good.

Blue/Orange contrast is used because red/green has too much of a Christmas vibe. Complementary colors look good. Its not like its a conspiracy.

I'd like to see this.

Palm had good software and terrible hardware. Samsung has good hardware and terrible software.

webOS has too much promise to be killed off by HP.

I've been there, haha.

I'm tired of telco monopolies.

It should either be a proper utility run by the government or a free market company that doesn't get government granted monopoly to certain areas.

A government run telco would pretty much serve the same purpose as the postal service. The big brother aspect isn't appealing, but it I think internet and phone is similar to power, roads, and water. Critical infrastructure shouldn't be controlled by a handful of monopolies.

You make a good point. Execution is just as crucial to Apple's success as the good taste.

Palm and HP never had much success because they couldn't execute on the hardware front. They were continually behind the curve on hardware and continued to push an unpopular form factor. As a former Pre user, webOS was a pleasure to use but the phone itself was poorly made and had dated hardware.

HP/Palm was always too little, too late and they just couldn't execute.

Apple's excellent supply chaining and fabrication processes are a huge edge against the competition. They can execute where other's can't.

I remember first starting to read reddit probably about a year or so before digg v4. Originally I thought the site style was boring, but I kept coming back because there was always fresh content.

I noticed that after digg v4 things started to downhill. in the last few months it has gotten dramatically worse.

unfunny memes get beaten to death. Rage comics, etc. Two years ago there wasn't that crap. I feel like memes are taking over, and regular comments and submissions are forced into banality when they would be better without the old, beaten-to-death meme.

there's still a lot of good stuff but there's now a sea of horrible content to sift through.

It's like somebody in Moscow, Idaho getting upset that people don't refer to it as Moscow, Russia.

Face it, Portland, Oregon is the real Portland.