Elepsis

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by Elepsis 11y ago
I'm not sure why Zune keeps coming up as an example in these threads. It got rebranded to Xbox Music, but all the servers are still up and anyone who subscribed still has all their music. An earlier Microsoft DRM that was used by a bun
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Apple rewrites app store economics, plans to lower its 30% revenue cut(ft.com)
1 points by Elepsis 11y ago|0 comments
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by Elepsis 11y ago
IAC has basically stopped treating its name as an acronym and now just calls itself IAC, but it originally stood for InterActiveCorp.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
Sorry, I was unclear. You're right that they do claim that the impact of drinking is negative, but I don't think they made any actual argument in favor of that viewpoint.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
It's worth noting that even if there's no health benefit to regular moderate drinking, there's no argument made here that there's necessarily harm from regular moderate drinking. So maybe the takeaway is simply that if y
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by Elepsis 11y ago
OrderAhead is a YC company (Winter 2011): http://blog.ycombinator.com/orderahead-yc-w11-nabs-23m-seed-... And yes, I can only imagine they're going to get sued very, very hard.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
Did you by chance have the opportunity to read his post about doing business in Japan late last year? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/ It's not specific to the questions
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by Elepsis 11y ago
Yep, totally missed that. Thanks for the catch.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
They're giving a whole two days of notice to their customers before shutting down--customers who might be on precisely the kind of trip right now where they're relying on their service. I think that might be an impressive new lo
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by Elepsis 12y ago
Just curious--I thought all three platforms were committed to essentially matching each other's prices. Has that not been true in your experience? Or is it something specific that's driving up your perceived price of Azure versus
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by Elepsis 12y ago
None of the links you just shared have any mention of Twitter moving away from Scala, which is presumably the question.
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by Elepsis 12y ago
As a loyal user of Opera 5-12 (and a grudging user of the new Opera, which I find marginally faster/less full of surprises than Chrome), I love that the article reads like a list of old Opera 12 features that I miss. At the same time,
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by Elepsis 12y ago
The problem is that it's not uncommon for a dev/designer/etc. to not understand some of the reasoning for why a PM is requesting changes be made. We all snicker at the incompetent PM who just wants to "make their mark&qu
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Google+ officially splits into Photos and Streams(theverge.com)
5 points by Elepsis 12y ago|0 comments
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by Elepsis 12y ago
Your 93% market number is perhaps accurate in the entirely hypothetical world where most Android devices actually get swift upgrades to new versions, but not in reality.
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by Elepsis 12y ago
OneNote is free, cross platform, syncs pretty well and keeps a local cache of all your notes in any of the desktop versions, which means you can independently back them up. And because of its history as a desktop app first, a backed up note
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by Elepsis 12y ago
Pretty much every ad aired this year for the Surface Pro 3 compares it directly to a MacBook Air, not to an iPad. (Literally--the MacBook is on camera alongside the Surface Pro in many of these ads.) To the extent that you perceive the Surf
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by Elepsis 12y ago
And that is a choice they get to make because it's their project. They also don't accept mitten donations as far as I know. Are you going to collect mittens from people on their behalf and email every committer to receive their mi
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by Elepsis 12y ago
TweetDeck falls into the "bought and released a totally redone but worse app under the same name" bucket.
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by Elepsis 12y ago
This is actually part of a broader and encouraging trend of non-shitty terms of use and privacy policies. Microsoft and Google actually also write in relatively readable, plain English. Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/p
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by Elepsis 12y ago
Honestly, it's even simpler than that: it's the default domain in the email address dropdown when you go to sign up for Outlook.com/Hotmail now. The fraudsters aren't bothering to change the value in the dropdown, and th
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by Elepsis 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that it doesn't leave people with a free migration path, but it is absolutely easy. Windows 7 and 8 both support "anytime upgrade" functionality, where you can pretty trivially upgrade from Home
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by Elepsis 12y ago
I wish the article went more in depth on potential causes. I suspect the dominant factor is the expectations of the largest industries in the city, but that's only mentioned for military towns. To give an example: as a Seattleite, I wa
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by Elepsis 13y ago
The original article points out that Jayden was especially popular among minorities in New York, so I doubt that this particular trend is particularly closely tied to race.
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by Elepsis 13y ago
Worth pointing out to American readers that paracetamol is known in the U.S. as acetaminophen, the active ingredient in (most notably) Tylenol.
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by Elepsis 13y ago
Most sites that implement infinite scrolling effectively "unload" content that's far enough off the screen, much like they delay-load content that's below your scroll area. The net memory usage shouldn't be dramatic
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by Elepsis 13y ago
I really love my experience with Schwab as well, and have been with them for a long time. Last I checked, the major restriction on their checking account is that you also need to open an investment account, but neither one has a minimum dep
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by Elepsis 13y ago
Zune Pass transparently got rebranded to Xbox Music and still works just fine.
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by Elepsis 13y ago
The common Hacker News definition of "innovative" is "company I like."
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by Elepsis 13y ago
Wow, the end of an era. Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial a

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