I'm sorry, I think I'm going to need a citation for that "incredibly popular" claim. Or is it that I run in the more moderate circles, so I am unaware? Is he popular among everyone, or popular among tea-party nutter butters?
Ted Cruz is an extreme outlier. Everyone else in the Republican party hates him. Please don't take his dumb remarks as representative of anyone else.
Here is a quote [1] referring to how Mitch McConnell (Republican Senate Minority Leader, soon to be Majority Leader) handles nut-jobs like Ted Cruz:
"Mitch has very carefully, very methodically, very much under the radar, isolated Ted Cruz. He's kind of sealed him off like the body puts a sack around some foreign matter"
I believe that's how most Republicans feel about him. Cruz echoes the idiotic thoughts of a very very small minority. But, since they sound like such bizarre nut-jobs, they get media coverage.
Sorry. To me, it looked like the issue had already been politicized, and I was just throwing in a quick sarcastic remark. Didn't think it would be taken too seriously. I get your point.
Extreme liberals do not want "equal opportunity". What they actually want is "equal outcome in all circumstances", which is obviously never going to happen, not even under socialism/communism.
Rockwell Collins (big avionics maker) has a good touch screen product line that has been gaining traction in the commercial aviation market. Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion:
http://www.rockwellcollins.com/prolinefusion/
Netflix is unusable on my Apple TV. I can't even get through a 20-minute TV episode without it dropping to sub-480p quality and/or stopping completely. I've never been able to figure it out. I have the latest generation Apple TV updated with the latest software. I have tried rebooting it, etc.
It's only a problem on my Apple TV. Netflix works flawlessly on my Playstation 3, iPad, iPhone, and PC. My ISP is a regional provider called Mediacom.
He didn't say anything about the quality of Windows RT / Windows Phone products. Sounds like he was just implying that they have a relatively small installed base compared to iOS / Android products. That's pretty hard to argue with.
But... this is not very important anyway. There's no reason to have a "brand loyalty" flame war. Arguing and flaming about this on the internet is not productive. Let's just have a practical discussion about how to target multiple mobile platforms.
If I was serious about writing a cross-platform mobile game, I would use some middle-ware like Unity, Unreal Engine, Cocos (yes there is a version for Windows Phone), etc. This takes care of the underlying differences between OpenGL ES and Direct 3D, so the developer can focus on the game itself and not worry too much about the rendering engine or graphics API.
If I was writing some other app that used OpenGL ES, I could still make a port for Windows Phone / Windows RT by using a wrapper for the graphics-specific code. Such wrappers already exist, and it is not too terribly difficult to roll your own if you prefer.
A lot of times, when you see a big game that is available on iOS, Android, AND Windows Phone / RT, usually they have done this:
- Use middle-ware as discussed above already
AND / OR:
- Write the majority of the logic in C++ (all of these platforms have ways of utilizing C++ code), and use a graphics wrapper that isolates the rendering code, so you can work with OpenGL ES or Direct 3D interchangeably.
I agree with your main point that long-term health is very important, but I'm hoping you're not saying that healthy food and tasty food are mutually exclusive.
In my mind, I think of Soylent as "food for people who don't like food". In the same way I think of Nickelback or American Idol as "music for people who don't like music". There are millions of these people worldwide. But yes, obviously this doesn't apply to 100% of all people.
Because on the internet, and especially in internet comments, the world only exists in black and white. Something is either 100% true for everyone everywhere at all times without exception, or it is 100% false. There is no middle ground, and no shades of gray. Ever.
Haven't similar products existed for a while now? I wonder how Soylent compares to a product like Ensure, or other meal-replacement powders / shakes that have been on the market for years already. Is Soylent significantly cheaper, and/or is it better nutritionally?
I think for Soylent to really explode in sales, they should find a way to market it as a cheap weight loss solution or something similar. The mass market loves weight loss products.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I simply looked on the front page of HN, and didn't see any Microsoft / Nokia-related articles. So I went out and found some on another site. I can't control what is on the front page of HN. All I can do is search for alternatives. There are a lot of things that I am interested in that I rarely see on HN myself. Instead of feeling like the HN community has personally attacked me, I just browse a variety of sites.
But why am I arguing with you? You've made it perfectly clear that you don't feel that I'm welcome here. You'd rather live in an Apple bubble, pretending that everything they do is better than everything the competition is doing. The world would be better if Apple was the only corporation on the planet, right?
Please point me to the part of my comment where I said any of these things. I haven't voted or commented on ANY other Apple-related articles on this site. Seriously, check my history. I made no comment about Apple at all. My only comments have been me laughing at how angry / emotional you sound.
LOL, what is it about Apple that brings out so much ANGER on the internet? Seriously, I'm just having a field day, reading all the comments on HN, Ars, The Verge, Reddit, etc. with so many people RAGING. Talking about how much they HATE Apple's products, and it's BULLSHIT that Apple gets so much press coverage.
You don't care about Apple products, yet here you are getting pissed about them and commenting on an Apple-related article.
If all you care about is the new Nokia / Microsoft stuff from today, there is plenty of coverage about that also. Here are a couple links to get you started:
Also, go to news.google.com and click on the "Technology" section. There are plenty of links about non-Apple stuff, including more about Microsoft and Nokia.
"if I was teaching someone Django/Python development from scratch today, I would definitely include pip, virtualenv, and git/mercurial as part of the baseline."
They DO show you how to use pip, git, and virtualenv.
> It's my unqualified opinion that you're reacting emotionally...
Oh, I see, so if ANYONE disagrees with you about ANYTHING EVER, it must only be because they are reacting emotionally and have no logical basis for their disagreement? Huh, REALLY? (See, I just used black-and-white thinking again... See how we could go around and around like this until the end of time? Aren't internet arguments fun? Hit me back, it's fun coming up with these.)
Actually, I'm not sure. Is it really not technically straw man? I think it is, but am tired of typing and I feel like I have wasted a lot of time in this thread. Everyone have a good week! See ya later.