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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Probably because they are talking about phone manufacturers and not platforms. Any single Android manufacturer (with the possible exception of Motorola) likely doesn't have market share anywhere near these numbers. Then there is the complic
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
These little details are what sets a lot of their stuff apart. While I don't use it all that much, one of my favorite examples is the clock dashboard widget on OS X. The second hand wobbles at the very tip as it "clicks" into place. Most co
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
To those of you hand-wringing about whether or not Oracle will support Mac, if history is any guide, they may well do it. Oracle has always provided decent driver support for the Oracle database on a multitude of operating systems. When App
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Not quite expedience. This is a tradition that dates back to the very earliest years of the Church (c.a. 160 AD), starting with Justin Martyr and his writings to the Emperor of Rome (known as "apologies"). Justin was a philosopher convert t
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Any HN'ers out there using this stuff? Bioinformatics has always had a pretty heavy bias toward *nix, so I'd be curious to know if the MS stuff is any good.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Normally I won't take the bait on comments like this. But today my filter isn't working so well... There are tons of researchers (the people this software is targeted towards) inside for-profit pharmaceutical companies who spend their entir
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
It makes no sense to me. If Apple thought Facebook's terms for Ping integration were unreasonable, the terms of a deal would likely be even more disagreeable. But even that aside, look at where Apple lacks control currently. They would like
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. Blatantly incorrect statements like this make me question the attention to detail of these researchers. There are numerous viruses, most notably human papillomavirus which
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This reinforces my belief that Ballmer is a key reason for MS's image problem. The appear reactive and rudderless. It's embarrassing to have to defend yourself like that. MS is like a big whale shark: formidable because of it's size, but la
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time staring at big hairball biological networks, I've always been frustrated by them. I've been looking for a better solution for some time now. I'm not sure this is it though. My main beef is that I fee
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is a great set of shots. Having watched a ton of "Making of Star Wars" specials on PBS as a kid, I really thought I wasn't going to see anything new here. There were a couple of surprises: I'm a little embarrassed to admit that until
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I think google is trying to make itself into an organization similar to Bell Labs in its heyday. Bell labs had a lot of research going that was only peripherally important to phones.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Yeah, funny thing is that my bank won't let me pay my mortgage or credit card bills with "relevance".
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Thist story is incredible and much better than all the sunny day stuff that often gets promoted around here. We all know it's not all rainbows and ponies, but this is a good reality check. As the father of a 4 month old, I have no idea how
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Anyone have a home-schooling related startup? I have always thought this was a decent-sized market that probably has some seriously under-served customers.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Thanks for that... I had not seen shadyurl.com. I might start using it to see how many people notice.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is great. During my recent trip to the Outer Banks, I was constantly annoyed that I had to open my laptop to get all the features of Stormpulse.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
That would be wonderful. I would love to see a list of the simple things to do that are more or less trivial from a developer's perspective, but have a vast improvement on a disabled person's ability to use a website (alt tags on images is
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I don't believe so. Looks like they are dropping the Swing Applications Framework which is an add-on to make Swing apps easier to develop.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I need to check again, but the last time I tried FreeTDS I got scared because of some serious encoding issues that were causing silent data loss. I have been following the bug report and it looks like this issue may have been finally patche
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
If Microsoft could deploy a decent unix on top the NT kernel, that might not be a bad strategy. But the fact remains that there are a wealth of unix tools that you can compile and run on an number of unix variants, but are practically impos
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Some points: - It's annoying in this day and age to be forced into using the entire MS Stack when I need to work with one specific technology. For example: if I want to test a web app on various versions of IE, I have to run Windows. OK fin
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Same here. I have despised trackpads on all windows pc's I've owned over the years. I always carried around a little wireless laptop mouse for use away from my desk. When I switched to Mac at work, I realized I never had the urge to use a m
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I've wanted something like this for a while. It takes a lot of effort to find info about candidates that are less well known. A couple of comments: - I find the use of checkmarks and "X" to be a little too simple, since you're calculating t
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I was afraid the minute I saw ImageMagick. I have had numerous problems building and getting that working in the past, especially on OS X. To be fair, it has been about two years since I had to deal with it, so maybe things have improved. I
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Can someone elaborate on why broadcasters have been OK with wireless mics but not with other devices in this spectrum? Wouldn't wireless mics risk stomping on TV channels if poorly designed too? The section on "Internet connected refrigerat
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is really cool, but I couldn't help but think of the line from Terminator: "The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy."
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Same reaction here. The grid method makes so much more intuitive sense to me than the way I was taught. I do it without even thinking about it sometimes.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I seem to read really mixed reports about the Android fragmentation problem. For every report like Joe's, I see others that say developing for Android is fine. I can't get a good read on where the actual truth is. I work in a group that doe
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This was one of the first ideas I had for an iPhone app. I could never find a suitable answer to your point which made me rapidly lose interest in pursuing the idea.

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