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Re: Introducing Paper

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I'm impressed by how much CPU this website is able to use. It pegged all 8 cores at 100% while I had the website open on firefox/win7

On Firefox/Ubuntu it pegged all cores on my Sandybridge i5 and the video never makes it past the envelope while the audio keeps going. Its hovering at about 40% CPU usage before the video even starts.

Re: Introducing Paper

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post #125

What a bunch of grumpy old men. I bet everybody sitting here taking shots at this app 1) have never created anything nearly as cool 2) would not have understood Apple in its hayday 3) spend too much time reading and taking shots at other people's work. I'm all for being cynical and questioning what's out there but you have to let the good stuff through. The design here is first class. The Facebook guys have outdone t…

Yeah, it's getting kind of old scrolling past 1200 pixels of cynical foot stomping and grumbling before getting to anything relevant to the post. Yes, we needed all of that insightful talk about how bad hipsters suck and how marketing grumble grumble grumble.

I'm not convinced that I like Facebook or any of my friends content enough to want ANOTHER channel of absorbing it. However, the app seems to be beautifully executed and the marketing page is pretty flawless. Some of the memory concerns aside, I love when companies create those kinds of landing pages. Like this one: http://www.knocktounlock.com/

Re: Introducing Paper

#154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's native. Zuckerberg has self-proclaimed Facebook to be "a mobile company."

My girlfriend found it frustrating that she can attach a picture to a facebook post in the browser (even on mobile) but can't in the app.

I can do that in the app (iOS) just fine... and not just on posts, comments too.

Re: Introducing Paper

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post #146
post #125

What a bunch of grumpy old men. I bet everybody sitting here taking shots at this app 1) have never created anything nearly as cool 2) would not have understood Apple in its hayday 3) spend too much time reading and taking shots at other people's work. I'm all for being cynical and questioning what's out there but you have to let the good stuff through. The design here is first class. The Facebook guys have outdone t…

To me it does look cool, it's just that FB is nothing but social spam nowadays and this is probably just a new way of wrapping it up in.

I agree, I hardly use Facebook anymore. But I'm still open minded enough not to disparage everything the company does on some kind of misguided principle.

Re: Introducing Paper

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it shame its from facebook? FB has been at the forefront of awesome UI design concepts for al long time, specifically in mobile.

Because I don't trust them with my data.

Also because no one on my feed posts anything I'm actually interested in. If I could get that UI on hacker news, I would be pleased.

Re: Introducing Paper

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post #7
post #3

The video was choppy and froze part way through. Seems to happen to me a lot with these types of websites. On different computers, even.

Happened to me as well. Can't understand why huge companies with a wide variety of visitors use techniques that deliver sub-par experiences so often. I'm running the latest version of Firefox with a $2k Macbook Pro.

Played smoothly on a couple year old dell laptop for me.
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