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Superpelican | 10 years ago | on: Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?

You would expect a well-built, modern (and hackable?) iPod Classic successor (with support for streaming services, but traditional UI) to be a nice Kickstarter idea?

Superpelican | 10 years ago | on: Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?

Yes, in the Netherlands they were very popular too with pupils in the last grades of primary school and the first grade of secondary school. They are a relatively cheap entry into the iOS ecosystem (with for example popular games) and Apple devices until recently provided status...

Superpelican | 10 years ago | on: Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?

My BlackBerry Classic (like most BlackBerrys) has a dedicated play/pause button between the volume buttons. It's one of the things I love about it :) I can pause my music without turning on the screen.

Superpelican | 10 years ago | on: Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?

The people over at head-fi.org seem to love FiiO. I recently read a review of the X1 and it seems to have exceptional build quality too!

Superpelican | 10 years ago | on: Porting the Unity Editor to Linux: Stuff I Wish We’d Done Then

Having switched to OS X about a year ago after years of Linux usage, I can say that personally I really like the case insensitivity OS X has by default. It doesn't whine every time I accidentally (don't) press caps lock. Case sensitive file systems must be the dumbest invention ever. Who is seriously going to distinguish his/her files by capital and non-capital letters? "Test.txt" and "test.txt" should be the same!

Superpelican | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does imperative programming have a (mainstream) future?

Would you mind elaborating your answer? It currently isn't clear to which question you are answering yes. ;)

Superpelican | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does imperative programming have a (mainstream) future?

>When could your problem be dominated by sequencing? It often is in embedded systems, where you're sequencing external hardware to get it to do real-world things. I mean, yes, you could write all that in a monad, but if that's the dominant thing you need to control, what does it gain you?

That was exactly what I was referring to with the Arduino board example ;)