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Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by dang »

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #48
oskarth wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate the honesty and the predicament for someone who likes Microsoft, but surely you can see how this type of pettiness and retaliation is bad for the community? Be better than the Apple fanboys ;)

The comments that I downvoted turned a little grey and weren't even moved downwards much, so it's probably not that bad for the community. Thanks for your advice, but I find that shoving people's bad behavior right in their face by doing things back to them is a much more effective tool against assholes than just letting them be.

> shoving people's bad behavior right in their face

That is not a legitimate way to use Hacker News. Neither is downvoting a good comment because of someone else's bad comments. And I'm dismayed to see that several of your recent comments here have been uncivil.

Please don't do these things. If people behave badly because other people do, what hope is there of improving this community?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by oskarth »

dang wrote: post #70
oskarth wrote: post #20

Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really surprising to me that this comment was downvoted. Before I upvoted it, it was grey, and after I upvoted, it was still grey. Who are these people who downvote a perfectly good comment like this? It puzzles my mind. At the time of writing this comment, at least 1…

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10174991 and marked it off topic.

Woaha, I didn't know you could do that. In the future, when there are suspicious downvotes, where do you want the community to report it? In-thread like this or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com or by some other means?

Thanks for your hard work and for a perfect response, as usual!

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by hokkos »

I use an iPad for :

- read HN or Reddit, an app with reddit and safari with HN, it is nice to be on the couch and do the same thing I would on my chair

- play games: hearthstone a card game like magic, a tablet is the perfect medium for it.

- read technical papers or CS books in pdf, the best way to read rich text book with being distracted.

- a DJ app with spotify integration, nice UI, tactile feeling, and quite fun for parties

I had an Nexus 7 and I hated it, I really like the ipad last gen.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by ant6n »

SyneRyder wrote: post #65
ant6n wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In journal drawings, are vectors: you can zoom in a lot, you can copy paste/resize them, you can erase individual strokes completely by tapping one part of them (if you set the eraser to vector). In journal you can specify your own background; I like little squares to draw and take notes rather than college-book style lines. In S-Note they pre-defined a few paper templates, and the only thing that comes close ('idea…

Sounds like the new S-Note has addressed some of your concerns. Strokes are vectors, and you can resize/ move individual strokes. You can zoom in & out of the page too. You can change the notes background, including to backgrounds saved in your own image library. So you could create your own forms to fill in, but there's no guidance on how to design those background images. They're now a mix of Paper (background colo…

Thanks for the useful hints, I'll try to check it out. Maybe I'll just upgrade the device itself; the form factor seems more useful (although software upgrades will always be an issue...)

Actually I couldn't find the new galaxy tab in 8" with the pen, only the 10" is available with pen on Amazon.

Is the text searching possible among multiple notes (e.g. a folder, or multiple folders?)

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by dang »

oskarth wrote: post #72
dang wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10174991 and marked it off topic.

Woaha, I didn't know you could do that. In the future, when there are suspicious downvotes, where do you want the community to report it? In-thread like this or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com or by some other means? Thanks for your hard work and for a perfect response, as usual!

Thanks—that's nice of you to say.

You should definitely email that kind of thing to hn@ycombinator.com, because then (a) we're guaranteed to see it, and (b) it won't dilute the threads.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by lewisl9029 »

wishinghand wrote: post #16

I use an iPad primarily for 3 things 1. Music production/performance. The iPad does few things objectively better than Android and touch responsiveness when it comes to playing music apps is one of them. There's a 100-400ms delay with Android for some reason. I had heard they'd gotten better recently but my girlfriend just got a Galaxy S5 and even though it's a last generation phone it's unplayable for being on time.…

Duet Display looks pretty nice. Does it live up to the performance claims in practice? How's the touch input support?

I've been looking for similar software for Android tablets for ages but everything I've tried so far were laggy and unstable.

I'll probably end up getting an iPad just for Duet Display if it works as advertised.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by ant6n »

ant6n wrote: post #74
SyneRyder wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like the new S-Note has addressed some of your concerns. Strokes are vectors, and you can resize/ move individual strokes. You can zoom in & out of the page too. You can change the notes background, including to backgrounds saved in your own image library. So you could create your own forms to fill in, but there's no guidance on how to design those background images. They're now a mix of Paper (background colo…

Thanks for the useful hints, I'll try to check it out. Maybe I'll just upgrade the device itself; the form factor seems more useful (although software upgrades will always be an issue...) Actually I couldn't find the new galaxy tab in 8" with the pen, only the 10" is available with pen on Amazon. Is the text searching possible among multiple notes (e.g. a folder, or multiple folders?)

Actually it was possible to install the new S-Note via the Galaxy App store (Samsung's eco-system layer on top of Android.. ugh).

The new S-Note is indeed better, I appreciate the copy/paste/resize features. Gotta make a graph paper template (cumbersome). So thanks for the hint!

It's still not as good as the more than ten-year-old journal. One can zoom to only 200%. And the drawing is pretty laggy (if you draw slowly at max zoom, it updates like 2 times per second). Laggy drawing makes good penmanship very hard, and drawing accurately painful and slow.

It's also odd that the app overrides the screen brightness to full, and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it from doing so.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by gaze »

analog31 wrote: post #51
gaze wrote: post #11

I have a surface pro 3 that I use exclusively for note taking. I'm a physicist and hand written notes are absolutely crucial. The fat iPad style stylii have way too thick a tip for anything useful. Surface Pros, Lenovo tablets with digitizers, and Samsung Galaxy notes are very popular among people who do calculations

Any thought of using iPython Notebook as a lab notebook? I ask, because I'm a physicist too (albeit in industry, not doing real physics research), and am experimenting with doing so myself.

I use ipython notebook daily for data processing and interacting with simulations. Works great. The problem is that I need SOMETHING that lets me draw diagrams and write equations by hand,

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by EugeneOZ »

SandersAK wrote: post #39

I use my iPad exclusively at home. I now never take my work laptop home and it had dramatically made my life better. iPad forces me to be much more switched off but I can still email if need be. It's honestly one of the best things for my work-life balance that's ever happened to me.

But you can use phone for emails..

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by anonyfox »

geophile wrote: post #13
anonyfox wrote: post #8

My iPad (air 2) works for me as the perfect "consumption" device wherever I are. Reading blogs, kindle app for books (prefer it to the old kindle device by far), twitter, facebook, mails, and so on. Also a few games like fallout shelter for the 5 minutes in between, or even stuff like deus ex, quite immersive gaming experience for a tablet. For when I want to "produce" things, I grab my 13" mbp pro. Actually I have a…

My wife started working for Apple retail a year ago. During training, they asked what an iPad would be used for, and my wife gave pretty much exactly your response -- it's for consumption. WRONG! There was an ad campaign at the time, showing iPads as an important tool in writing music, climbing mountains, etc. They were trying very hard to convince people that iPads were for people doing things, not couch potatoes. I…

Of course you can be productive on an iPad, no question. I have a keyboard-case for it, so writing a few letters or stuff like that is fairly straightforward and without much hassle.

It comes down on what "producing" means for you. I am a developer. Yes, I can code even on my iPhone (code editor, ssh client, git client is installed), but i'm much more productive on an actual mac.

If you're kinda office worker that uses mainly office software (word, excel, ...) and messaging (mail, slack, ...), an iPad with optional keyboard is perfectly capable as a primary working device, plus it's extremely portable and may even have mobile data plans attached.

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