Hacker News: smashing

New comment by smashing in "The front of the iPhone 5 is not flush with the frame"

smashing — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:00:09 +0000

He never claimed to be a world class designer. In fact if you just clicked on the About Me link at the top you would find his background.

> I am currently a Product Manager at Bigdoor. ... I am responsible for the consumer experience on over 20 Million Monthly Active Users among several clients with the primary objective of improving loyalty and engagement.

New comment by smashing in "Apple scrambled to hire iOS 6 maps engineers days before launch"

smashing — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:29:08 +0000

The initial iPhone OS, before it was called iOS, shipped without copy and paste or 3G at a time when all mobile operating systems had both copy and paste as well as shipped with 3G on their premium models. The first iPhone certainly qualified as a Premium Device.

New comment by smashing in "My Brush With a Patent Troll"

smashing — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:53:56 +0000

Video and streaming media is not at all alone. Think of it as just being a more geek friendly topic as opposed to the patent litigation that passes for innovation for everything from aviation and to exercise equipment.

New comment by smashing in "Is Facebook dying?"

smashing — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:31:25 +0000

I get that the overwhelming majority of Hacker News supports Barack Obama and feels the need to be very vocal in their support of him online. I understand that every two to four years their is a lot of online discussion about how evil Republicans are and how they hold us back in every way. I understand that acknowledging this as politics and not as the absolute truth to the way things have to be is very unpopular online, even on this site which is supposed to be relatively free of politics. But why do I always feel left out? I don't want to participate in the months of hate-Hate-HATE to whatever Republican candidate happens to be in the running for office. I personally don't think Romney is all that bad, and I don't think that Obama is all that good. I like technical things, not political things.

New comment by smashing in "Updated iOS 6 devices don't connect to WIFI"

smashing — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:02:57 +0000

Original Issue Forum Post - Time: 05:56 PM

First Negative Forum Post - Response Time: 06:00 PM (same day) : "I think this is the worst iOS release to date. And Steve would've never allowed this."

Due of the Internet archive, these forum posts may well be our greatest legacy.

New comment by smashing in "How To Die With No Regrets"

smashing — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:38:59 +0000

My advice is to not regret having regrets. It's natural to have regrets so jumping to acceptance is the best method to avoid the self-help dependency cycle that leads to a lot of wasted time and money. At least it works for me.

New comment by smashing in "Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5"

smashing — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:36:38 +0000

As an app developer I thank the Screen Resolution Overlords for making all my competitors look obsolete.

New comment by smashing in "How To See The Future"

smashing — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:50:27 +0000

I have an easy method to see the future. In fact it is so effective it works 100% of the time without fail. I will teach you my method if you read a little further.

Here it is:

Wait.

New comment by smashing in "[dead]"

smashing — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:28:15 +0000

He means that instead of becoming open-source and dying, it became a Mozilla/Firefox situation.

New comment by smashing in "Ask HN: Apple closed our entire app store"

smashing — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:52:50 +0000

What is a "multimedia app"?

Will you provide links to your website as well?

New comment by smashing in "How TeX made it to the iOS App Store - running on DOS, inside an emulator"

smashing — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:14:11 +0000

> You can't run GPLed software on iOS.

This is 100% not true. GPL v1 and v2 are fine and v3 has some questions that most people avoid by sticking to v2 of the license. There are, however, GPL v3 licensed apps in the Apple App Store which you can find if you only looked.

New comment by smashing in "Being Featured on the App Store"

smashing — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:23:59 +0000

Members of the U.S. Congress[1] have looked into the privacy implications of apps which have "call home" features. Obviously, nothing was done and this is still an issue. Go figure.

Some apps like the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn apps would upload the users' address books, scrape calendar information, access email/SMS, etc.[2] I think that has changed from "industry standard" to "frowned upon".

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/03/22/congr...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/14/2798008/ios-apps-and-the-a...

New comment by smashing in "Disney and its propaganda against open source in a teen comedy"

smashing — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:59:05 +0000

And to think it ruined an otherwise brilliant teen comedy. Next week it'll probably tackle VI vs. Emacs, explaining that Microsoft Word is a superior text editor to both. Maybe the season finale will cover how Bing is a better Internet Decision Engine than Google. Oh, think of the cliffhangers when patent litigation is covered!

New comment by smashing in "US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low"

smashing — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:17:05 +0000

The word "irony" is frequently misused and doesn't mean "unintended consequences" or "rain on your wedding day". Irony would mean that those who supported drilling were actively trying to increase CO2 emissions and failed. That was not the intention of the Oil Lobby.

New comment by smashing in "A Proposal To Improve Hacker News"

smashing — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:37:42 +0000

The Usenet readers had kill file's. That is the only solution which will have an overall improvement with no downside.

New comment by smashing in "Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.."

smashing — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:49:58 +0000

If you are not applying for the Y-combinator or are an alumni, you will tend to have a degraded experience to those that are in the "IN" group. Sorry to see that this affects you, but I am in the same boat. I've learned to just use this site as a kind of tech bookmaking site curated by popular trends. Sometimes there are interesting or insightful comments, but the overwhelming number of comments revolve around social politics or corporate espionage like discouraging competitors in the emerging markets.

New comment by smashing in "Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy"

smashing — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:34:04 +0000

To be fair the author is condescending to the people who read the article, which the author labels as "the internet".

From the bottom of the article:

> Comments are not currently enabled because the internet has not yet learned how to deal with the ability to post comments. Its like an infant child in that regard. - Josh

New comment by smashing in "Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload"

smashing — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:55:40 +0000

If the porn is copyrighted then the DMCA will allow the content owners to send a DMCA notice for each copyright infringement. That's the law and now you know it.

New comment by smashing in "Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload"

smashing — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:49:21 +0000

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party that wants to stop the Republicans[2] from shutting down the Internet as we know it. Most people on HN probably think they do, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

[2] This presupposes that the Republican Party want to shut down freedom on the Internet.

New comment by smashing in "Flash Player exits Android"

smashing — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:45:42 +0000

It was like the OS/2 supporting Windows binaries debacle all over again.