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by JunkDNA 15y ago
The problem for Microsoft is that they continue to serve two masters: consumer users and corporate users. Corporate IT shops, especially within certain industries, can be exceptionally wary of anything that moves data outside their walls. C
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective on this. As someone who is a hybrid hacker/biologist, I welcome something like TermKit. I have invested a good chunk of time learning unix commands and the shell because lots of scientific
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
While it may be true that Google isn't trying to lock developers in like MS has tried to do, that needs to be considered with respect to their business model. MS and Google are both huge software companies, but that's about the end of the s
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I had hoped that the all digital display one would be less dorky looking. As it is, I can't help but think that it looks like a modernized Radio Shack calculator watch. Digital watches always seem to suffer from poor aesthetics.
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I don't think that's true at all. The original post was a cogent, if brief, explanation that about currency and the challenges for bitcoin. The last quote is most certainly meant to be sarcastic. He most certainly is trying to tweak people
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
Yeah, I actually found it so good it was distracting. After every sentence I kept going back and saying, "Wow, I can't believe it got that right too".
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
It all comes down to what kind of software you intend to make (and frankly, who you intend to make it for). If you want to write a 3D video game, Python and Ruby aren't exactly your best bet for example. Likewise, if you're inside some comp
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by JunkDNA 15y ago
I will add to that that Catholics in particular are highly unlikely to be at church in the morning on Good Friday since the Mass is not celebrated that day and none of the sacraments are celebrated. The only religious service churches have
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
We basically need a developer who can own QA, but we expect this person would also have opportunities to do from scratch development on some of our projects too. It's a hybrid role that requires just the right person, which is why we are re
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Just to add to this: Our group has a lot of elements that resemble a startup. So for those of you who might be "lurkers" who are a bit afraid of a startup, our group can provide you with some of the benefits you might be craving: small team
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Perhaps a quick chat with patio11 would help here? I can't imagine a more appropriate HNer for the kinds of questions you have. He has been thinking about the education market for quite a while. He has long advocated finding freelancers who
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
The issue with sterilizing bottles isn't to protect the kid from germs as much as it is to make sure that if mom has to pump into a bottle and store the milk for extended periods of time (often frozen eventually) it doesn't spoil. It's not
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Came here to say just that. I watched them handcuff a guy who tried to get out of line at the Amtrak station in Philly. They had a K9 unit there sniffing bags and the dog decided his McDonald's bag was especially interesting. He left the li
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
The thing that irks me about this sort of presentation is that it presumes the government is entitled to money that is currently in the hands of private citizens. The reality of taxes is that the government decides how much money to confisc
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Peter, I distinctly remember the first time I installed trumpet and I realized that I could use more than one application over the same connection at once. Until then, I had been using BBSes or dialup connections that used Lynx for web acce
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Being neck deep in clinical data ETL right now, I would love to hear some details on how one does real-time ETL and reporting while leaving data in place. Most of the clinical systems I've worked with have some pretty ugly data structures u
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I know of one that will be a major pain: the Apani VPN client. It's the only way to VPN into a Nortel VPN from OS X and has never been ported to Intel. It is the only reason I had to put Rosetta on Snow Leopard. I get the feeling it will li
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Just to add to that, coming to a full-blown TCP/IP connection from dialup was mind-altering. When I was a young teenager, I started using BBSes in the early 1990's. With those, there was not really a notion of doing several things at once.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Well, for laptops and mobile devices, it's a nice alternative to a docking station. Connect one wire into your monitor from your laptop. Then all your stationary stuff: external disks, Ethernet, audio, and legacy USB devices all connect thr
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is great. I have a fax/printer/scanner at home for this purpose, but I am lucky if I send 5 faxes a year. Plus, if I ever drop the landline, it won't work. I really like the idea of paying per fax. None of the subscription services mak
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Behind Watson and the DeepQA Project [video](youtube.com)
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Except that it's not just reflexes. Watson has to compute the answer before the humans. That's no small task. This video is a great technical explanation of how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2H3DZ8rNc&feature=youtu...
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Can you explain why it is you think that the knowledge part is confounded? If Watson is fast but incorrect, it's a failure.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Zaatar, I appreciate your visiting and giving us some info on things. Can you elaborate as to why the VMs are only for MS Virtual PC. A lot of us use VMWare and it is so painful and silly that we can't use it directly to test browsers. I kn
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I would definitely be interested in learning more about this stuff from a blog post.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
That is Ars' interpretation of Apple's position. The actual quote from Apple was ( emphasis is mine): "We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also av
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Or possibility number 4: Amazon removes any mention of purchasing books from the app. The way I read the statement from Apple, they are not saying that if developers offer purchasing outside the app, then they must offer in-app purchasing
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
As mentioned above, there was Majestic, which came out about 10 years ago. It was sort of an X-Files conspiracy type thing. I played for a while because I was interested in the tech. You would get calls on any phone you registered, faxes of
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Wow, great reading that as a little historical piece. I was about 7 when that article was written, so I'm pretty sure I missed it when it was first published. The thing that strikes me is that I have always thought of Jobs as a guy who exud
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is great news. It mystifies me that Apple has such a beautiful UI, but Terminal.app doesn't support 256 colors. It makes vim on a remote machine look like garbage and is inexcusable. I'm anxious to try this out.

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