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You forgot step 0: 0. Invent an enormous blogging platform and be an all-around cool guy Garry links frequently get my auto-upvote.

I actually tried to write an explanation upthread a bit; hopefully that'll calm things down. There's a lot of hyperbolic criticism about the iPad that I don't think is justified. T…

I love tinkering and don't think it's at all useless. What I hate is that the same things that make computers so tinkerable are what make them so frustrating for all the people tha…

I responded to that in the other thread about this article. It's a damn shame. Can you make one that downloads to the iPhone/iPad and run natively? There's nothing in an RTE that n…

Look, friend, I was in the same umbrella as you. I used to like wearing black t-shirts telling people how conformist they were and how much better me and my friends were. Then I go…

But it wasn't. As I wrote elsewhere on this thread: I didn't want this posted to Hacker News. I was writing for a different audience of people, one that enjoys a little melodrama a…

Bullshit. If somebody broke UI rules in as brilliant a way as Cummings did it, Apple would accept the app. Meanwhile, publishing companies reject poets with shitty punctuation ever…

I originally wrote this in response to Alex Payne; I emailed him an off-the-cuff response, then decided it might be worth revising a little and publishing. He wrote: Perhaps the iP…

The work I do for you people amazes me: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/whereilive/coast/images/southw...

If I want to play the violin, there are violins designed specifically for letting me play them with little restraint. There are books designed specifically to guide me through lear…

Can I jump in here and issue a minor clarification? I am not a troll. I am a creative writer. I care much, much more about whether I'm writing in interesting and fun and amusing wa…

The argument I put forward (and I completely respect people that disagree with it) is that yes, it's okay to let somebody else control the clock font, because the clock font doesn'…

I know; I was informed of that after I wrote it. Shame. Web-accessible runtimes are still a possibility, but certainly that's not as cut-and-dry as having one in the App Store woul…

That's a very apt analogy. I've got nothing against kitchens, but I think it would be nice if there were cheap gourmet lessons out there also. (My analogy is much worse than yours.…

I know. When will Apple stop releasing products for which there is no possible market? I mean I know I'm an Apple fanboy and all but I think they could have learned from their fail…

Flagged. This is not a post for HN.

In every field of art, you see the biggest innovations when the technical barriers to doing things are taken away. Make film equipment cheaper and a lot of brilliant people without…

No, it can't, but it really doesn't matter that it can't. Most applications save your place in them, so the only cost of switching is that you have to wait a second for it to relau…

As far as I know, many songs are non-DRM'd, but not all of them. Hm. I thought that their big announcement last year was that they'd converted the entire store to DRM-free, but I c…

Yeah, I get what you mean. At first this was a real let-down event for me. I was hoping, stupid and irrational as it would be, for Apple to unveil a completely new OS, completely n…

I've never seen a way to do so from a Kindle. I'd imagine it would be risky for them to offer that service: What's there to stop you from printing your own book?

Yep! We've gotten into a lot of these discussions before. (I hope you took my comment lightheartedly, and not as a personal insult — it's more my way of saying we'll agree to disag…

(That actually gets me thinking — do we know anything about the iPad's printer compatibility? Did I miss some announcement about that?)

That's my favorite part about Apple: When they introduce a product that makes other products of theirs look obsolete. I used to love my laptop's multitouch until I tried a Magic Mo…