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by 51Cards 16y ago
Google makes most of its revenue on advertising. Google's ability to target ads is a huge plus to its advertisers. Google still offers a way for users to opt out of this if they choose. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is 'Don't be Evil' in my
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Was about to post the same thing. You'll never get 30% on a retail product. In effect it would make everything you "buy with Facebook" 30% more expensive since there isn't that margin there, and that would kill the concept quick. I also q
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Sounds good! Now look at my language templates suggestion I sent via the feedback ;)
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Well if you look at the interview, the next question is about large purchases and that those require review. I.E. These two items were very small when they were bought, Youtube (the example given) wasn't and requires evaluation to make sur
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Just a quick comment after playing with this. I like it. The team doesn't seem to have any delusions about this being a primary code editor but it's good for those quick fixes and ideas. As such I went through the process of grabbing a s
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Context is everything.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
How does this make it to the front page? Gruber cuts and pastes a third party quote from Schmidt and this make HN top stories? Perhaps linking to a more complete article would be more beneficial. Say the interview where the quote was tak
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A small peek inside the Google Android team(money.cnn.com)
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Your latter question has always fascinated me as well. How do I know my 'red' is your 'red'. My father was colour blind and I used to enjoy trying to explain the missing colours to him and for him to explain what things looked like. I qu
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Wadda ya mean thousands of years ago? I thought as recently as the 1930's everything was black and white and colour was discovered sometime during WWII. Interesting article, I had never thought about early societies having limited colour d
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Pegasus did age well (if albeit very slowly). Most features you wanted to see in a modern mail client arrived eventually. There was a period of time where development had stopped IIRC because the developer didn't see the purpose in it any
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Jobs' health issues aside, I think if he is able to he will definitely be back to Apple. Simple reason, he enjoys it too much. Perhaps it is true he has accomplished what he wanted to, but there is nothing in Jobs that makes me think he w
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I'll be impressed if you can find a status bar in Beta 8 since it was removed in Beta 7 ;) There is now an Add-ons bar under tool bars that is used to contain plug-ins that used to sit on the status bar. But the new bar doesn't have the a
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Yeah, they over-lay it on the URL bar now, doesn't work well IMO. There is however no way to monitor individual requests while a page is loading. I.e. you can't see that your favourite website isn't loading because their Ad provider is do
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by 51Cards 16y ago
This may be an old school rant but I'm old school so... There has been a bothersome trend in software in general lately to strip things down. It used to mean that a new version of software contained new features on top of those you already
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I love the repeated use of "...will benefit from coverage under the AVC License." I haven't seen careful dancing like that since the last time Riverdance was in town.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
FF3.6 here... not centered, won't close. Cool in Safari as mentioned but far too exclusive to consider using anytime soon. Things we get to look forward to though.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
True, but I would offer the difference between "Too many models" and "too many models at a manufacturer (or in this case, per OS)". GM fragmented their product line too much to offset the manufacturing and R&D costs to support all of th
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Nahhhhh... this is like saying "We have too many car manufacturers... we all need to narrow down and settle on a couple key models" While we as tech-heads tend to follow all of the market, the author is right, most users don't. But to me
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I can't see how he expected this would be accepted. I do sympathize with his situation but until someone invents a memory erasing machine to remove his accrued knowledge, a 'time refund' for all people who invested in his being there, and
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Interesting, if you watch the bottom through the first 4-5 months the camera zooms in slowly. The result from start to end is a fairly large field of view difference. I wonder what caused this... a software issue or maybe motor drift in t
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Is learning to ride a unicycle hard? It is if you don't have inherently good balance. Is linguistics hard? It is if you don't have a good associative memory. Is math hard? Is carving a wooden bowl on a lathe hard? Is pro-Hockey hard?
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Good God I love this guy... I have been thinking the same thing for a few years now. I am holding tightly onto a couple T60p Thinkpads with 4:3 UXGA screens just because there is NOTHING on the market right now I would want to develop on.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Yes, definitely. I have pondered this fairly extensively but off the top of my head I'll try to remember some of my conclusions. - ergonomics - holding arms up to a touchscreen for long periods is tiring - tactile feedback... touchscreen k
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I think you missed the section of his letter stating that part of his decision was based on his internal desire to hurt others. He truly felt if unchecked his darkness would lead him to take life other than his own. His decision for him w
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I should have commented here instead... repasting... Very simply you are correct, it’s not available yet until it’s complete. Google I’m sure gives hardware manufacturers early access to the code base so they can test prototypes but only t
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by 51Cards 16y ago
In pictures 01 & 02 you can see a copy of the book 2001 - A Space Odyssey on his desk. Also this impressed me: "The computer room was in the basement of a building for security and other reasons. There was no natural light and I had a s
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by 51Cards 16y ago
5. Better Software This is a highly dubious claim. First off the commercial software industry would just migrate to Linux, just like it does any high volume platform it can make money off of. Secondly, and this opinion might not be popular
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by 51Cards 16y ago
This is not really on topic but I find it initially cute that this article is on msn.com
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by 51Cards 16y ago
This is brilliant, thank you for the link. I think you just saved my N1 from an early retirement. I may wait until 2.3 comes down the pipe (soon? please Google?) then do it then. I would hate to see it mess up the OS upgrade. Thank you

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