why is this random post about letting me use whatever setup i want from a guy i've never heard of on top of HN front page?
although it was written in entertaining fashion, i am still somewhat puzzled.
Whatever works for you
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#42why is this random post about letting me use whatever setup i want from a guy i've never heard of on top of HN front page? although it was written in entertaining fashion, i am still somewhat puzzled.
Marco Arment is from my understanding a leading iOS developer, and a paragon of what it means to be an iOS developer (His app, Instapaper, has tasteful design, is easy to use despite offering many features over multiple platforms, it just works, etc). He also releases a lot of information about instapaper which yields insights into the iOS market in general (versions of iOS used, sales by device).
He's become an important tech blogger, too, with several recent front page HN posts (recently, his review of the Kindle Fire). Given his general support for Apple products, this post represents an important shift in his perspective. Maybe its not front-page HN worthy, but you should probably know him.
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#43Strange. This post was submitted, reached the top and then deleted a couple of hours ago - I'm not sure if it was deleted by the submitter or not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286531
Quite possibly--as per your link the submitter didn't think the article represented HN-quality-material, and was 'testing' HN
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#44If you're arguing with people over a computer operating system... ...just stop it.
It depends if you are arguing with someone like your parents who want to use Facebook, send email and manage their photos or with someone else who spends all day using an operating system.
It just seems like, of all possible things to concern yourself with, what OS someone is using is like way down the list.
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#45If all you care about is using Microsoft's contact system (Outlook), then perhaps you should get a Windows phone. Surely those would sync.
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#46My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wife's friend knows how to drive, but her boyfriend's car has a manual transmission. On a recent visit, the friend is complaining that her boyfriend won't teach her how to drive his car. Being proud of the fact that I (barely) know how to dri…
Wait, why was her left foot on the brake? Is she a leg amputee? Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?
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#47tldr; it took Marco 30 years to realize some people don't want to only use Apple.
I believe you and I read different articles.
I also believe the best summary for the post is its title: "Whatever works for you", and a slightly longer version might be "Use whatever works for you, my advice is meaningless because we're different people". This was more about people than it is about a specific brand.
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#48If all you care about is using Microsoft's contact system (Outlook), then perhaps you should get a Windows phone. Surely those would sync.
I wouldnt count on it. My experience with outlook is that it doesn't really integrate properly with anything. I'm sure if you're running an exchange server it will sync, but vanilla outlook maybe not.
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#49My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wife's friend knows how to drive, but her boyfriend's car has a manual transmission. On a recent visit, the friend is complaining that her boyfriend won't teach her how to drive his car. Being proud of the fact that I (barely) know how to dri…
Wait, why was her left foot on the brake? Is she a leg amputee? Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?
Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?
Australia is pretty large...
78 countries (28% of the worlds traffic) drive on the left [1]. These include countries like India, Pakistan and Indonesia with fairly significant populations.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Ju...
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#50Maybe I'm not reading it correctly, but it seems like a pretty simple issue to resolve by syncing outlook to gmail / google calendar along with an android phone... The current email host should be set to forward to gmail and outlook repointed to gmail as well. If the user wants access to email offline, they can just enable POP.
Syncing the calendar is even easier...
It seems like he's more interested in working with his preferred tool set than the best tool set for the job.