Maktab

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by Maktab 17y ago
Not to mention releasing Darwin, libdispatch (Grand Central), OpenCL, blocks, Bonjour, Calendar and Contacts Server, Darwin Streaming Server, launchd and XQuartz.
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by Maktab 17y ago
Restrictions only matter when they limit you from doing things you want to do. For the vast majority of consumers, the closed nature of the iPad isn't a restriction, it's a convenience. We need to understand that the average HN reader is no
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by Maktab 17y ago
Your interpretation is incorrect. Google have quite clearly stated that they are no longer willing to accept any censorship of their search results on Google.cn and that they are prepared to shut down their operations in China if it's not p
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by Maktab 17y ago
How so? His political decisions and policy were based on his conviction that the federal government should have as little role as possible and that social, financial, corporate and labour regulations should be implemented at the state level
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by Maktab 17y ago
In all fairness, the team at Adept Airmotive completed the majority of the design and development of their new engine platform with only private equity funding. They received an injection of cash from a state innovation fund a couple years
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by Maktab 17y ago
I don't think the 'Draft' functionality works as yet. But from my experience using Wave, that'll definitely be something I will keep enabled for all business-related waves.
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by Maktab 17y ago
It could be that many people have a yearning to work with and produce something tangible after all those years of working with abstract columns of numbers. I think we've discussed a similar psychological tendency amongst hackers before as w
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by Maktab 17y ago
The Examiner was not the source for the documents and emails, it merely picked up on the story after it had appeared on some climate change skeptic sites first. It had no role in this other than reporting on a story that already had legs. T
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by Maktab 17y ago
Most of which sucked, despite the theoretically vast capability the J2ME libraries have. Having to cater for the lowest common denominator in a market of highly-fragmented hardware configurations is not much fun. I tried developing for Symb
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by Maktab 17y ago
If I misread your comment, please accept my apology. I must admit that I responded in the way I did partially because of this statement that you made a couple of hours ago, and I assumed that the comment I replied to was making a similar ca
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by Maktab 17y ago
Your response is a fantastic example of why this debate has become so horribly polarised. Has there ever been reliable evidence that Steve McIntyre or Anthony Watts are being paid by energy companies for the work they do? Both have made val
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by Maktab 17y ago
Of course they are, this day is not a celebration of victory, it's a sombre reflection on the costs of war and an opportunity to honour and thank veterans of past wars for their service on behalf of our respective countries. It is for examp
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by Maktab 17y ago
According to one Heritage Foundation study[1], US military enlistees tend to come disproportionately from middle class backgrounds. They found that only 11% of enlisted recruits came from the poorest quintile of neighbourhoods in the US. Wh
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by Maktab 17y ago
Rather, the translation is: 'It is sweet and right to die for one's country'. Alternatively, it could be rendered as 'It is noble and honourable to die for one's fatherland' or similar.
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by Maktab 17y ago
Who eventually did lose to an extent. By the '70s the war had moved into a more conventional phase with the NVA doing the majority of the fighting. When Saigon fell it was not to VC guerillas but NVA tanks.
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by Maktab 17y ago
And what makes you think this is driven only by the US?
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by Maktab 17y ago
The potential ability to install and maintain your own Wave server would presumably nullify a lot of the objections that would exist if it were only available in a Google-hosted form.
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by Maktab 17y ago
That's not really accurate. While it's true that the Bush admin focused on one term more than the other as a PR effort, they were not responsible for either creating or widely publicising the term. 'Climate change' has long been the more wi
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by Maktab 17y ago
Not to defend the US's policy towards travellers, but this makes no sense. Brazil needs visitors and investors far more than the US does, so by engaging in a little tit-for-tat it does nothing but hurt itself unnecessarily.
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by Maktab 17y ago
Obama chose to accept the award when he had ample opportunity to decline it (and earn plenty of PR points for being magnanimous in the process). He accepted it, so he should get an equal share of the criticism.
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by Maktab 17y ago
After helping to end World War I and having done his utmost to secure a fair and lasting peace in Europe, including being instrumental in founding the League of Nations. I like Obama, but what has he done so far to compare to that?
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by Maktab 17y ago
Any particular reason why?
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by Maktab 17y ago
Exactly. In the real world you're always going to have disgruntled people, no matter how reasonable and fair you may be towards them. It's probably true that you could prevent some terrorism by changing your actions to stop doing whatever's
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by Maktab 17y ago
Not really. The worst sort of situation for a country to be in in terms of nuclear deterrence is to have only one nuclear weapon, because even though the threat of using it has significant power it would leave them utterly defenceless if th
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by Maktab 17y ago
From what I can tell the behaviour in Leopard and Snow Leopard appears to be identical, it's just that Leopard had a falsely-reassuring label for the option which has now been changed to a more accurate one. Either OS would have deleted you
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by Maktab 17y ago
District 9 is an expansion of ideas that Blomkamp first explored in Alive in Joburg, which was released in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_in_Joburg And as the previous comment notes, this movie is not quite just an apartheid all
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by Maktab 17y ago
Israel is regarded in International Relations thinking as a rational defensive nuclear power, which is extremely unlikely to ever use its nukes in a first strike. Everything we know about their nuclear policy, declared or otherwise, is that
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by Maktab 17y ago
Indeed, I never did understand the complaints about the iPhone's price. Sure, it was a lot more expensive than your average run-of-the-mill consumer phone, but it was in the same price range as comparable smartphones from Nokia, HTC, SonyEr
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by Maktab 17y ago
How did this get posted twice? Does the duplicate check not work for articles that have been flagged to death? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700251 Edit: Cached link to that HN page before it got deleted: http://209.85.229.132/se
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by Maktab 17y ago
The age of PC gaming being a driving force behind sales is coming to an end though. It's just too expensive and too much of a hassle, both for developers and end-users, which is why console games are bringing in over twice as much revenue t

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