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MapQuest launches Open Street Map powered site(open.mapquest.com)
2 points by IdeaHamster 16y ago|2 comments
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
This seems like a promising implementation of Vi in Javascript: http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Sony makes the Playstation, Vaio Computers, Walkmen (well, not anymore), BluRay, Cybershot cameras, Bravia TVs…going to Amazon and just searching for Sony under electronics indicates that there are over 50,000 items for sale. Certainly some
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
…but it still can't compile Ruby 1.9 :-P
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Gruber has good sources ;)
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Let me tell you a little story from the inside… So, when you build something as big and complex as an operating system, your single biggest enemy is: change . The more things change, the more you need to test and retest to be absolutely
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
JS Arc interpreter? Hey, if they can do it for Haskell… http://github.com/johang88/haskellinjavascript ;)
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Ha! I'm a day younger than you…so…there! or something… Happy Birthday!
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Madison Avenue loves these "inefficient" ads because they get to play the part of "cop" in the classic prisoner's dilemma. Let's say you release "Brand New Purple Foobars!" and hire my ad firm to advertise them. Sales are up, so what's your
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
The problem is that DE Shaw Research made a loosing bet recently when they decided to design custom silicon to solve the protein folding problem while everyone else kept using commodity hardware and worked on improving the software.
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Really? What cool companies are you referring to? I only know about AOL acquisitions which have been reasonably successful.
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
I'd put more money on enough people finally paying enough attention to DragonFlyBSD for it to really gain traction. Check out the blurb on their main page ( http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ ): The DragonFly project's ultimate goal is to provid
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Maybe it's time to rerun this poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=688053
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
You know those stories you hear of the (by now) mythical "Homebrew Computer Club" of yore? ...yeah, like that.
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
I would give anything for someone to explain to me why the right move for Adobe wasn't to simply accept HTML5, pivot from Flash to making killer HTML5 authoring tools, and maybe even provide a way for people to take their existing Flash pro
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Read to the second page, especially this: Global companies like Caterpillar, General Electric, General Motors and Siemens — as well as scores of others — are making a more aggressive push into China, in some cases moving research and devel
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P ≠ NP (part 1)(funcall.blogspot.com)
4 points by IdeaHamster 16y ago|0 comments
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Hold on a moment there... Java is still #1 on the TIOBE index and hasn't been lower than #2 since the index began in 2001. Oracle could declare by fiat that it was going to sue every single Java shop in existence, and it would still probabl
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
It's a very hackerly culture (in some ways still living off the inheritance of Woz), but you won't ever hear about that for two reasons: 1. Secrecy is part of the culture. 2. Engineers work hard at Apple, and many teams are surprisingly
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
What if you adjust that for inflation? And what percentage is that of revenue over the same period?
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
> Ars tries to partially attribute Apple's continued use of the Core 2 to a lack of engineering resources due to a focus on the iOS devices, but that sounds absurd given Apple's recent financial numbers. Then you haven't been paying att
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
I'm sorry, I have zero sympathy for anyone distraught over this issue. If you're contemplating whether to live or die based on how much tax will be collected from your estate, then I have an easy answer for you: your life obviously isn't wo
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Charitable giving is exempt, though...
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
So, from the article, a short piece of a clip was removed when it was posted on Comedy Central's website. In the removed piece, one of the character's mentions the "eyePhone". However, as spoken "eyePhone" isn't really any different than "i
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
I'm fairly sure the parent's reference to Bell is with respect to details that have recently come to light that Bell may have "stolen" all or most of the technology behind the first phone. That is, Bell's importance has less to do with his
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
I'm curious: Was this facetious? or were you serious?
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
The problem is that these critiques are often much more than just critique. They often take the form of an outright call to arms against a great injustice. And, you know, even that wouldn't bother me so much, except for the boy-crying-wolf
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Complaining and offering criticism is a different thing than claiming violation of personal freedom. I sometimes wonder if most Americans have forgotten how to criticize without, at the same time, vilifying.
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to rant. I agree that it's perfectly fine to complain about a product that you otherwise like well enough to have purchased. I guess what angers me is all these hackers and programmers and creative business types complain
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by IdeaHamster 16y ago
Last I checked, the agreement that iPhone developers enter into says nothing about their rights regarding freedom of development language...in fact I think this whole fuss is about it doing the exact opposite. Nobody promised these devs any

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