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by ForrestN 14y ago
It's obvious that Google withheld or made it prohibitively expensive for Apple to pay for the liscence to google maps. It does retroactively make the case for handling these things in-house, especially when the partner is a competitor. Afte
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by ForrestN 14y ago
From an efficiency/sustainability point of view, I have a basic discomfort with the idea of throwing away all the wifi/controller stuff each time you need a new bulb. I know LEDs don't run out very fast, but they do run out. This has cost i
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think a big part of the pitch of this thing is that it's ultra-easy to install, even in places where you can't change the electrical stuff. If the wifi stuff was in the switch, you'd have to turn off the electricity, unscrew the faceplate
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by ForrestN 14y ago
For the dozenth time: this is not some radical choice Apple made. Apple is, as a public company, responsible to act in its own interest within the current economic system. The system is screwed up, but that doesn't mean that any single comp
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This is nothing but an obvious troll. If you think Jobs would be disappointed by the new iPhone 5, you might do well to realize that he likely approved it a while before his death. Meanwhile, he thinks Jobs would be mad at Ive for not devia
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think you misunderstood. She doesn't mean "real sex" as in normal-looking people. She means real sex in terms of behavior. The article says the site is a reaction to young men who have sex in the manner of porn (which I assume means a cer
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by ForrestN 14y ago
If everyone who made a big pronouncement about HN's sad demise instead submitted a great article, went through and up-voted every story and comment they thought was interesting, and left some thoughtful comments, we would probably be in muc
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think it stands to reason that if the release were no big deal, if it was just something like low-paying taxes, he wouldn't be so resistent. He's taken a lot of egg to the face to keep these things secret, so there has to be a reason why.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
From the guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." There's only one item in the top 10 at the moment that isn't relevant to the criteria as you've laid them out
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Apple Is Talking to TV Companies About a Deal That Could Change TV Forever(finance.yahoo.com)
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by ForrestN 14y ago
You can use "model" to mean an example to follow. For example, "37 signals was the model for my software business" or "she was a model employee."
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This might be overly simple, but it seems like the root of the problem on both sides is just the scheduling of a day-long interview at a place that's so obviously a bad fit for the candidate. It would be better for all involved to have a mo
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I don't think border crossings are really a daily occurrence for most in Europe. More common than in the US? Sure. But still not anything like a majority of users do this often, and I'm sure almost none of them are happy with having to do s
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Most phone users never see their sim card. It's installed for them, and they never have occasion to take it out. Having something removable that's put in by the provider, as phone sims usually are, could be fine, but it's not so different f
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Can you say more about how this will happen? Do you really think the aftermath of this lawsuit will destroy Apple and Google? Who will take over their massive markets?
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by ForrestN 14y ago
There is no way the average consumer would prefer this. The experience of using technology is rightfully becoming less and less technical . Making everyone have to insert physical memory to install an operating system when they buy a phone
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This is absurd and frustrating. Apple is not responsible for the broken patent system. Apple is a public company. If Apple decided to hold itself to a set of standards more stringent than its competitors, it would be hampering itself and ac
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by ForrestN 14y ago
OK— last post on this. If you think it's a CIA conspiracy trying to undermine Wikileaks, this rape charge is part of that story. Obviously that's in question, which is why it's not possible to think of this as obviously inappropriate.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This is not his personal affairs; this is a public speech he's giving about Wikileaks, and an alleged international conspiracy to destroy the organization. Maybe it's trumped up, I'm agnostic on that point. But it's highly contentious wheth
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by ForrestN 14y ago
The video is part of an ongoing story: the wide-ranging political and diplomatic implications of decentralized leaks that can't be kept from the public once they're out. This story is certainly evidence of an entirely new, technology-centri
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Julian Assange, love him or hate him, is certainly a hacker, and Wikileaks is potentially, depending on what turns out to be true, one of the most important technology stories this decade. It is a story about the Internet being told on the
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think this is missing one major thing: private car ownership will drastically decrease. It will be a luxury to own a car, almost everyone will be driven in available commodity cars. I personally hope this becomes public transit: availabl
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Err, I don't think people are up in arms over the damage done to this one company. The story has legs because it implies that this is happening on a larger scale, and that Facebook is making a significant portion of its revenue from valuele
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This looks fascinating; any chance someone can easily explain the significance of the terms and the image? Seems daunting to look everything up and try to understand as a layman. Edit: Awesome, thanks everyone! <3 HN
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by ForrestN 14y ago
After watching the video, from a consumer's perspective I have literally no idea what the service is going to do. Is it sharing things with my friends? Is it a clone of twitter that is more developer friendly but that costs money to use? Is
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Are there any experts who can comment (without bias) about the validity of these claims? It's quite hard to tell just from this whether or not this is a joke, or whether it's an exciting, plausible initiative.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think that it will be quite difficult to make this possible exclusively from individuals. Unless there were a threat that the projects will stop, or an offer of doing more that's pretty clear, most don't have a strong incentive to give. S
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I would love to hear the back story on this. Did they do it for humor? I'm not sure I can think of another explanation.
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CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans(theverge.com)
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Err, I think what he means is that you implied that 37Signals was lying, that they pretended not to have a buyer, and to be considering shuttering the site, when in fact they knew that they had a buyer. I can only speak for myself, but if t

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