Hacker News: IE5point5

New comment by IE5point5 in "Dungeon Keeper stacks deck in EA's favor when it comes to Android feedback"

IE5point5 — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:42:01 +0000

Absolute evil genius, expect this to become the norm.

> I just wish for a Dungeon Keeper version of $5 and with no In App-Purchases

That's the problem, they wouldn't make enough money if you bought it for $5, they'd need to sell it for $15-$25 to make a decent profit. It's quite amusing how mobile game fans act like they're being really generous offering the branch of $5 (Less than a cup of coffee) to developers for hours of entertainment.

New comment by IE5point5 in "Apple approves Dogecoin iOS app"

IE5point5 — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:40:17 +0000

Icons/UI details could use a lot of work in this. Actually the website is much better designed than the actual app.

New comment by IE5point5 in "Tory Boss of Government Coding Education Initiative Can't Code"

IE5point5 — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:46:00 +0000

> Expecting anything less from the tories

New comment by IE5point5 in "Cactus for Mac"

IE5point5 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:16:14 +0000

- and the titlebar font is wrong

- and the titlebar text doesn't fade correctly when in the background

- and a 100 other inconsistencies with the rest of my OS

please developers stop rolling your own windows for no reason

New comment by IE5point5 in "Cactus for Mac"

IE5point5 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:56:18 +0000

Why does it look like an iOS app

New comment by IE5point5 in "Put.io"

IE5point5 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:04:03 +0000

Just set a number of connections in your client that the router can handle. Problem solved.

New comment by IE5point5 in "Paper – stories from Facebook on the App Store"

IE5point5 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:56:43 +0000

> In our push for polish we had a goal of never dropping a frame on high-end devices, and we mostly achieved that goal. The engineering complexity here is finding a way to fully utilize the multicore architecture of newer iPhones

Sorry… but all the app shows are a bunch of photos and a bit of text. Never dropping a frame on the most high end of devices isn't anything to boast about, To be honest for what it's doing it shouldn't be dropping a frame on any device in the past 3 years

New comment by IE5point5 in "How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry"

IE5point5 — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:22:32 +0000

More like destroyed the iOS/Android market. The game industry is doing just fine.

Only the lowest common denominator has suffered