MetaCosm

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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   Yep. At the scale they are starting at, they can micromanage the control a bit, and team up with a company like ASUS to build the hardware. Without having to embed a display on the device, I really don't find the price point of $100 outrag
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   Beyond that, Apple's minimalist design isn't manufactured by Apple -- so they tool up companies all over the world to make these Intel based 24" / 27" all in one computers. Obviously when Visio goes to a company that already built them for
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   What is hilarious about stealing the best ideas from your competitors. It was Steve Jobs who pointed out that the best steal. http://youtu.be/CW0DUg63lqU "We have always been SHAMELESS about stealing great ideas" ... someone does it bac
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   https://www.google.com/search?q=define+innovate which pulled it from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/innovate I think they do actually innovate, and I didn't even mention the ways they innovate in supply chain (super boring, but
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   I am going to argue Apple is an innovator. Invention isn't the only form of innovation. in·no·vate/ˈinəˌvāt/ Verb: Make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, or products. Apple has for the last few years
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   SMP Erlang DOES use threads, it then uses green-processes and a custom scheduler to schedule processes fairly and preemptively across those threads. It doesn't use like 1 thread per process, but threads are a key component of how it works.
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   "Why do we have two separate words for them?" ... did you just ask Hacker News why synonyms exist? Why does this one bother you more than ire versus anger or common versus ordinary?
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   It is different, "Microsoft Surface" is a damn Samsung product you can see on Samsung's site. http://www.samsunglfd.com/product/feature.do?modelCd=SUR40 ... and how many models do you think will ever ship, over its entire lifetime? Appl
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   by MetaCosm 14y ago

   I love watching Linux talk, he looks like he is always suppressing rage (... the hulk?). Also, this talk has one of my all time favorite quotes "People who get offended should be offended." ... zen
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    I define companies by WHAT MAKES THEM MONEY. I can't tell if people are pedantic or dense. Apple makes money by selling hardware. Microsoft makes money by selling software. Google makes money by selling ads. Amazon makes money by sellin
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    It can't even really be accomplished well on OS-X yet. But I am delighted Apple is going for it, because the application will catch up. Right now it works really well with Apple's font render engine, and not much else. But application dev
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    Depends how you define it. But, X-Box (the original) was a PIII + Nvidia + Other PC Hardware... none of it made by Microsoft. The 360 I give them more credit with, because they worked closer with partners and got off the WinTel brand... op
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    Microsoft isn't a hardware company. Apple's supply chain dominance is what brought this to market. Microsoft sells some rebranded hardware products (manufactured and designed by Samsung, Acer, IBM, ATI, Nvidia and Asus)... but it makes PRO
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    As someone who has used a retina display in daylight, it is unusable (bring up a black terminal, it is a goddamn mirror). It only compares favorably with the notoriously horrible apple glossy displays... well know for having some of the wo
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    Penny Arcade and The Oatmeal should combine into some sort of charity generating evil fighting super-force.
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    Erlang is quietly doing heavy lifting all over the place. Amazon's SDB, Facebook's Chat, Various High Speed Trading Implementations, Ejabberd, CouchDB, RabbitMQ... and far more places quietly and privately. The good news is, it finally see
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    I liked this article, but I fear it is more out of hope than truth. I am not convinced that G+ will ever win. If it does, it will be because of two things. #1. Sideways adoptions (Google Docs, Android Phones, Etc) #2. Walled gardens tend t
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    I played around with this project a couple years ago, so I can give some feedback on my experience. It isn't a con or joke and it isn't full of lies... that said, I still couldn't use it. First of all, it is mostly one guy, and he seems ex
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    My current rig is a last gen Mac Pro 12 core with 128GB of memory from OWC and 4x2TB in raid. I was hoping to upgrade to a box that could support more memory (the 128GB is already over the official spec, but well tested) ... but just meh.
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    Has it come to the point that the only way to build a serious Mac rig is a high end hackintosh? I had high hopes as I need a very serious rig for work related stuff, I put off doing soe RMA and other nonsense waiting for this thing... and
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    by MetaCosm 14y ago

    This week has finally got me off my ass, and I generated a truly random password for all 260 sites I have built-up in Lastpass over the past few years... as well strong Lastpass password (most likely going to be hardened with a two-factor v
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    by MetaCosm 15y ago

    But, but, so pretty and elegant! quick_sort([]) -> []; quick_sort([H | T]) -> quick_sort([X || X <- T, X < H]) ++ [H] ++ quick_sort([X || X <- T, X >= H]).
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    by MetaCosm 15y ago

    You failed. I blame title and tone.
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    by MetaCosm 15y ago

    Jiffy is awesome!