Google: Let it snow • Hacker News Board

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by GuiA » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:23 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #3

I was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.

I blew in my microphone half-hoping mist would form on top of the window.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by ck2 » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:27 PM UTC

Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by babarock » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:47 PM UTC

Do they announce these things somewhere, or did someone actually input "let it snow" and thought to post it here?

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by gaving » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

Anyone wanna tear out the source and package it up?

Re: Google: Let it snow

#15

Post by aw3c2 » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:54 PM UTC

Eats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by wavephorm » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:54 PM UTC

davidpardo wrote: post #7

Doesn't work on the iPad. :(

Google is becoming notorious for not supporting the iPad. I found Google+ to be totally unusable.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by angstrom » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:55 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #15

Eats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.

Have to simulate the wind somehow...

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

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Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by est » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:59 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #15

Eats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.

Funny, half year back the same bunch of people said the same thing to Flash.

Now imagine a world where every banner or sidebar is full of HTML5 canvas animation ads.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by mkr-hn » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:00 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #9

pablosanta wrote: post #6

Just plain old awesomeness from Google...

Hacking away at the Labs is awesome. This? It's just tinkering with the UI. There are a gajillion different key word searches they could do; tilt tilts the screen, scary ghost scream waits ten seconds and then flashes a scary ghost on the screen with a scream; etc etc. And, while they're doing that, and Google just works for most people there are a small group of users who'd really appreciate better documentation for…

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