rhygar's comments

It's a cool in a geeky sense that destinations drop off the map when I click back and forth. How does this solve my problem as a customer though? I know I need to get from A to B. How does the map help me choose which flight from which carrier on what day?

It looks like it was built quickly.

Why is there a giant search bar at the top of the screen? I came here to look for flights, not to search the web.

Why is there a giant map at the top of the screen? I already know where I want to go. I don't need to look at a map to decide which destination I want. This part seems like more of a tech demo than anything.

The whole UI looks like it was designed by an engineer. For example when I want to book the flight, I get a tiny left/right arrow box-thing to increase the passenger count. Very poor choice of UI.

That's some kind of logical fallacy... sort of like saying... "if you think that aircraft carrier is overpriced, you should build one and sell it yourself."

One can determine objectively whether something is overpriced based on comparisons with competing products.

This raises the question: Are the merchants giving poorer customer service to Groupon customers, because Grouponers are cheapskates, or are Groupon customers just jerks?

The truth that Apple produces most of the innovation in design that other companies then want to copy.

A. "Not a Samsung product": in a technical sense yes but in a practical sense no. It was made by the CEO's cousin and had Samsung's stamp of approval. Samsung only yanked approval after it was pointed out how blatant of a copy it was.

B. The Samsung clone and the Apple original both have "Smart" in the name, both have ridged covers, and both come in pastel colors. The advertising is even the same - each color case is fanned out in the picture. The evidence is blatantly clear here that Samsung is trying to copy Apple's design.

Hmm, seems like the Apple haters don't like to hear the truth.

Samsung is really good at producing knockoffs:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392106,00.asp

After all, they manufacture tons of components that go into these devices. It's not hard to take a part that someone else designed and stamp your own brand on it.

The article opens: "Is there anything Samsung doesn’t do?"

I say: "Is there anything Samsung doesn't clone?"

This is shameless: http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/18/family-ties-earn-this-smart-co...

The Duke Nukem Forever of social networks?

Co-dependency syndrome in a nutshell.

The problem is not that men are discriminated against in certain ways. I never denied that fact.

The problem is de facto oppression of women based on some idea that their biology makes them want to be stupid.

Therefore since it's their biology we should expect and indeed encourage the "normal" path of limiting life accomplishments to child-rearing?

I find it amusing that you took a parody of the group-think displayed here as a serious argument.

The amount of ignorance and misogyny in here is staggering. Have any of you ever actually talked to a woman? I'll boil down the argument into one that favors women:

Men are biologically programmed to be violent. We should find it as no surprise that the vast majority of violent criminals are men. After all, it's their biology. And thus all men should be regarded as likely violent in the right circumstances. Also we should not trust men to care for small children, because they have no idea what they are doing since they lack the biological drive for child-rearing.

Android is "open" - so just about anything goes. It uses Java, that starter language for just about anyone who learns how to program these days. So you end up with an environment that is very conducive to spamware/adware type apps and people trying to get rich quick. It only takes a few bad apps before it becomes like Windows, where users are afraid to install anything new or off-brand.

By attracting developers like this guy, Google is going to have a very hard time competing with Apple. The Android Market is filled with apps like this. More so than the iOS App Store by far.

There's a button Safari toolbar that allows you to save a bookmark as an app icon on the home screen. Your argument that Apple hates the web makes no sense.

That is a pre-tablet mindset. It wasn't long ago that GUIs were chided for being "just a fad".

"GUIs are just a fad,when their novelty wears off, users will soon return to true command-line interfaces like DOS", Jon Gladden 1986.

http://www.gladdengraphics.com/academics/GradCourses/Compute...

PERL is something you use for scripting inside of a SHELL.

The name comes from the fact that pearls are formed within a creature that has a shell.

Ruby is another precious stone like a pearl.

Varicose Veins are on the rise.

Thank god for Git.