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by GHFigs 16y ago
I am wondering if there is some point where a Mac Pro cluster with top-end CPU and GPU winds up with better compute density, at least for problems that OpenCL can address. i.e., in 5U you get 40 Nehalem cores with 5 Xserves but only 24 West
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by GHFigs 16y ago
In actuality, all of his subjects resisted to some degree at some point. The crucial point is that most kept going after only a few verbal suggestions. The transcript here is misleading. You might come away with the impression that it w
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by GHFigs 16y ago
hardware manufacturers will not get a free pass to compete with Apple on price as PC manufacturers did during the exile Good point. It reminds me of one of the things Jobs said about 7" tablets not being able to to meet the larger iPad on
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by GHFigs 16y ago
For the better part of 20 years, Mac lovers fumed in frustration as Apple languished in sub-5% PC market share territory. That's the very first sentence. Take a wild guess at where he's going from there.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Saying that Apple doesn't care about having the biggest market share is not the same thing as saying they are a niche or luxury maker. Markets don't always divide so neatly. There is a vast expanse between where competitors are sufficiently
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by GHFigs 16y ago
So you mean Apple has no way to find out the number of iPhones activated per day since they make no distinction? No, that's not what I mean at all. What I am saying is that Apple thinks of the iPhone, iPod, and iPad as three different con
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I believe that the author was implying that Steve Jobs carefully chose data to support an argument when other data would have better suited the comparison that he as making. Which is likewise wrong. Jobs cites total iOS activations becaus
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Amazon does so much A/B testing that I've grown accustomed to it never looking the same between visits.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
So, essentially, "Look at that skirt! She was asking for it!" That isn't even remotely the argument that was made in the comment you're replying to.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Not here, please.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
A crucial difference is that browser vendors can actually do something about JavaScript performance.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Trying to classify this problem under the same umbrella as the Android fragmentation problem only obscures the causes and possible solutions to both.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Snark indeed.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Go back in your hard drive and look at photos you took with your cellphone 5 years ago. Ha ha, oh wow. No single sentence underscores the author's misapprehension of why people take most photos better than this. What's astonishing is that
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by GHFigs 16y ago
He makes it clear that his beef is with wiping out detail that is already in hand. ...like ripping a CD to a lossy encoding, or taking a digital photo in JPEG. There really is no way make the complaint about data-degradation without count
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by GHFigs 16y ago
What fragmentation? 23% of shoppers can't buy your apps. That's assuming they can access the Market at all, which is not a given on any of the brand new devices that still ship with 1.6.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
What's funny is that article was just a redirect to "Tablet PC" until about a month after the iPad was announced. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tablet_computer&#3...
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Comments which few people will notice are also discouraged. I think this is a feature, generally, but I get what you're saying. With any criteria you present for deciding what is worth posting you run the risk of it being the only criteri
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The thing where you can suggest something and find that pg, slaving over a hot REPL, has implemented it by the time you reload the front page is definitely a feature of HN.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Replace the total karma score by the username in the upper right of the page with the average that's already visible on the profile page. An average is a better indicator to the user of how well they are engaging with the site. It only goes
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Remember how Steve Jobs said that they would never build a netbook--and now there is the 11" Air. What he actually said was: "We don't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk."[1] Notice also how the Air is not i
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by GHFigs 16y ago
One intends harm, the other doesn't. ...but then... Why he did it isn't relevant. I am at least as uncertain as to what your position is as you are. Also... He owes these people nothing. Nothing, of course, except the common courtesy
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Suppose you wake up tomorrow and discover that someone has left a note in an unfamiliar hand on the bed beside you. The note reads "You should put bars on the windows. Something bad might happen." It is not signed. You cursory search of you
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by GHFigs 16y ago
There is no distinction between you and an "actual" attacker. You seem to have labored within a nimbus of self-righteous nerd egotism that someone more criminally minded might not have but you are not in any way more entitled to violate a p
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I included no clues as to my identity, less because of fear of retribution, and more because invasion of privacy is all the more frightening when it is committed by an absolute stranger with no chance of discovering their identity. Disgus
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Convenience is another factor. Unless you live adjacent to a grocery store, you are almost always nearer to a source of junk food in the form of a convenience store or fast food restaurant. Neither are likely to be cheaper than what one can
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Captive screws/fasteners are lovely. I've personally encountered them on the engine housing of a Cessna (where a lost or loose screw may be much more than an inconvenience) and an iMac G5 (where just three drive the latch that holds the com
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Looking forward to the Mac App Store(omnigroup.com)
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by GHFigs 16y ago
it has Flash which works flawlessly According to the Q&A in the article, Nook Color does not support Flash.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The article sort of pits this study and theory of ego depletion as mutually incompatible, but I think that's probably an exaggeration, either by the author of the article or the authors of the paper. That beliefs can influence ego depletion

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