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811.
by 10ren 17y ago
= about 8,000,000,000 to 1 But capitalization and spacing was correct too.
812.
by 10ren 17y ago
Yes, interface is important. The Macintosh also had a great GUI... which was copied... why couldn't the iPhone UI be copied? notwithstanding working around patents etc.
813.
by 10ren 17y ago
1. no netbooks 2. no iPhones
814.
by 10ren 17y ago
(1) If Apple pursues massive mainstream success, it will alienate its traditional supporters, because not everyone in the mainstream values design so highly - some value cheap, performance, convenience or utility etc at the cost of design
815.
by 10ren 17y ago
Why is refresh rate critical? It's not like an xterm has a lot of animation. Maybe scrolling in vim would be awkward. The only problem with refresh I see is that when you type, there would be a delay before the characters appear. BTW: Someo
816.
by 10ren 17y ago
The computer in question was pretty much the first personal computer. The correct assumption about the amount of experience of the user with a personal computer was zero.
817.
by 10ren 17y ago
I would love an e-ink netbook , with 2 week battery life. No colour graphics, just an xterm. Not high speed, but what PC's were like 10 years ago. Of course, that won't find a mass market, so it won't happen. :-(
818.
by 10ren 17y ago
True in a way, although much of those things follow naturally from creating wealth (i.e. creating value in the world), so much so that if we focus on that, the rest of it works out pretty well. It's like how you can work on building a bette
819.
by 10ren 17y ago
Yes, sorry; I thought it was a standard abbreviation. Or maybe I've looked at too many rental ads. Perhaps there's a better one? I guess "per month", "/month" and "monthly" all work well, though I'd like a shorter one. Maybe "pm" or "/m". O
820.
by 10ren 17y ago
I think his advice is: find facts. You can't make decisions without facts - at least, not well-informed ones. Facts about the world and facts about you. Facts that aren't written anywhere. Things you can only learn by experiencing them. Kno
821.
by 10ren 17y ago
ah, like the prodigal son. (I used to wonder if "prodigal" was a biblical term; but it's just related to the word "prodigious". However, I don't know which came first.)
822.
by 10ren 17y ago
The change in action figure suggests to me that our innate drive towards physical violence is not getting a natural outlet elsewhere. Traditional outlets include contact sport (ritualized warfare), litigation (ritualized warfare) and chess
823.
by 10ren 17y ago
This is so much what I want to do, but I don't yet have the... gumption... to actually do it. I also code alone, and probably my income from investments from my lifestyle software product business (about $US 460 pcm) is enough to support it
824.
by 10ren 17y ago
How do you liberate all your gmail emails? The only way I've seen is to have a POP/IMAP email account, and sync all the messages. A quick google search suggests that's still the case ("there's no easy way to backup a gmail account"). EDIT
825.
by 10ren 17y ago
So, was Yahoo - or any other search engine - any better? You didn't say how good Yahoo was for your two examples. It's possible that Google doesn't give you perfect results, merely the best of a bad lot. If so, it suggests the problem is th
826.
by 10ren 17y ago
> [Over-engineering is] more like telling a lie that you then have to remember so you don't contradict it. Meaning that you have to keep justifying that extra bit of complexity, by thinking in terms of it - and therefore making it "tr
827.
by 10ren 17y ago
pg's definition of a startup is a small business that intends to get big. He says that this is the ordinary Valley definition. This is the kind of business that needs the funding and connections that are available in the valley. So the ques
828.
by 10ren 17y ago
I don't have a mobile phone (that's what we call them in Australia). I've had three when they were newish, including a contract coding for one. I'd rather be more producer than consumer.
829.
by 10ren 17y ago
It reminds me of Sinatra. The HTTP paramater/object binding is similar, for example: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0/5things A difference is that the routes, model, controller and template/renderer are in separate director
830.
by 10ren 17y ago
I was thinking that coders need designers; but you're saying that, in fact, clients are neither. hmm.. I bet that some coders do need designers (e.g. if the coder was hired first), but it's probably a tiny tiny fraction of all clients.
831.
by 10ren 17y ago
Not just exposure, but exposure to the right two communities: many designers follow them, and many coders. These groups tend not to hang out (like biz and coder guys don't...). If there aren't any other intersections, it's a unique compe
832.
by 10ren 17y ago
USB 2.0 is 480 Mbit/s (max). I can't find any definite figures for video bandwidth, but I think it would be OK for youtube size, and probably for SD video. Note that since 3D acceleration is done inside the card, it isn't affected by the tr
833.
by 10ren 17y ago
I think he meant "used by academics in academic research", not "used by students". Both are true.
834.
by 10ren 17y ago
The article links to this example of support for XML literals: https://rapt.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/api/index.html?net/java... It's in the spirit of machine code in REM statements. A ghastly, reanimated spirit. /** <commands&#62
835.
by 10ren 17y ago
No mention of libraries (yes, they both can use Java's libraries, but some native ones would be useful). And therefore, no mention of the document of said libraries (which I'm now convinced is crucial).
836.
by 10ren 17y ago
Parallel lines of longitude converge orthogonally at poles.
837.
by 10ren 17y ago
"...which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright because the copies lack originality." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_... .
838.
by 10ren 17y ago
Upgrade to Ternary Computing! I'm waiting for the 3rd gen, 27 core processor. Actually, there's precedent: the Cell processor (PS3) has 9 cores (though one is redundant to increase yield).
839.
by 10ren 17y ago
That's a startlingly awesome search engine, especially in its suggestions ("did you mean: "). http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=[a]+->+maybe+a But it seems to suggest many non-exact matches, like google does. Useful in a search en
840.
by 10ren 17y ago
That seems right, though I was thinking more of alternate ("union"?) types, like `A -> A | null`. That's the expressive part. (nb: I'm not a Haskell user, so my syntax aims to be more suggestive than correct. I only know about it from s

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