Pahalial

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by Pahalial 16y ago
That's bypassing the point. Discussed once, absolutely; discussed in hundreds of posts, maybe not so much. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+i...
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by Pahalial 16y ago
So let's summarize: 50 of the 91 coders who work for a given company have mild to severe insomnia. That really doesn't warrant the ridiculously vague and sensationalistic title we ended up with.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
This article is plain pageview fodder. It begins by repeating known facts about the talent war between Facebook and Google, and then dives off about a "lack of social" at high levels without even attempting any connecting statements. Yes, F
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I've seen multi-$100k investments go unused for so long as to become worthless, most notably in the form of enterprise-scale battery backups which needed to be used within X months and were still on the original shipping pallets 2 years lat
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by Pahalial 16y ago
As you say yourself, RTS games are a natural progression of simpler strategy games. Yes, they're more complicated, but isn't that exactly the kind of progression you'd expect? Or, to rephrase, exactly how do you see games progressing within
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Well, bluntly, yes. Copycat crime ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crimes ) is a known fact, brought into the public psyche by media at large (see: school shootings, media asking themselves "how much covering should we really give t
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Eminently true. Even with the acquisition of Sun's portfolio, Oracle is still dwarfed by Big Blue several times over. Suffice it to say, IBM has had the most patents granted of any American company for the past 17 consecutive years as of ea
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Actually, the "most assuredly not" in your post is debatable. One could put forward the argument that they've had the buy-in they've had -despite brouhahas like the gmail context-sensitive ads- largely because the tech/expert community at l
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by Pahalial 16y ago
It is on his wikipedia page, sourced from this 2004 Wired article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker_pr.html Lamo makes a point of refuting the accusation: http://pax.vox.com/library/post/citability-is-important.html I fou
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Foreign threats against national security exaggerated? Say it isn't so! Of course, I'm glad Schneier is providing a sane counter-voice to all this nonsense, but I am constantly amazed that it's even necessary. Everyone who cares and/or matt
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I would agree that this seems to have been more about ego and status than an example of journalistic integrity and responsible security research. That said, does the irresponsible disclosure of names attached to e-mail addresses justify wha
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by Pahalial 16y ago
hugh3 was referring to the fact that "Ask HN:" titles are typically used for local discussion, by simple convention. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+Ask+HN...
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by Pahalial 16y ago
"proud to be Mac" because their fully cross-platform offerings include Mac OS and iOS? Really? And of course they're looking forward to a major update to one of those platforms which will let them do more with it. The article even makes i
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by Pahalial 16y ago
They're just gauging interest and making sure to get emails they can push adoption to later, it's a classic sales technique. Don't hate. Regardless, the links they send are open: VoltDB product overview: http://www.voltdb.com/_pdf/VoltDBOv
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Since this seems so ideal for my parents and I'm sure others out there who aren't terribly fond of twitter, let me recommend something like the following: "Oops! SproutRobot doesn't seem to know where that is just yet. It's learning countri
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by Pahalial 16y ago
While that quote should understandably give anyone pause, I don't think it's nearly as damning as you seem to think, nor single-handedly enough to advocate against hiring him. As you say, he's probably quite intelligent, and his solve-probl
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by Pahalial 16y ago
While this article does a fantastic job expounding on reasons the Newton failed, it seems to implicitly assert that people are "prepared" for the iPad, and that there is a space in their minds for such a device now. I would challenge this a
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by Pahalial 17y ago
While this is indeed really cool, I don't think there's any way Google can even semi-officially back this. Thanks for mentioning the donation link though, this guy's earned it.
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by Pahalial 17y ago
This article lost me at the price comparison, honestly. How many people have a $3000 computer that do not actually need it, or at least something in the same ballpark? If you compared the $700-1500 range to the iPad, maybe. $1500+? You're a
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by Pahalial 17y ago
The main conclusion seems to be that "anything with the iAd logo is safe." I find that ludicrous on its face; any malware ads or scams will simply mimic the iAd logo, much like a few less-reputable AdSense look-alikes already exist. The app
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by Pahalial 17y ago
Not to knock your suggestion, but I've had similarly great experiences with http://monoprice.com . It seems similar to RiteAV, but much bigger and their prices seem on par (maybe 6-10 cents more expensive): http://www.resellerratings.com
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by Pahalial 17y ago
First reactions: tab field-switching and/or JS execution order. Time is on top, so I'll input that first, then want to set the TZ. Tab goes time1->time2->tz1->tz2, which is unintuitive to me at least. In addition, filling in the
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by Pahalial 17y ago
Honestly, Google is still allowing me to opt out at any time. They (as far as we know) use "eventual deletion," but it's still deletion. Facebook on the other hand has so far retained everything that has ever been on it, according to the
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by Pahalial 17y ago
If you use the mobile UI and have someone comment on your post, it will send the thread to your inbox. Trying to reply to that thread will then force-update your gmail to include Buzz (or at least, it worked for me.)
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by Pahalial 17y ago
A very specific suggestion: Push the Zune. With WiFi, HD decoding & output and significantly increased storage size, they could turn it from a pure iPod competitor to a significantly better SlingBox/iPod combo. If I walk into a friend's
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by Pahalial 17y ago
Sure. And they did say those things. And the sites that genuinely cared about user needs, both past and present? They did the 'inefficient' thing. They optimized for whatever was best-of-breed at the time (IE, FBConnect) for ease of use, th
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by Pahalial 17y ago
I'm surprised at the lackluster 3G options. If I can't tether my iphone to this - and the existence of a 3g model, combined with notable omission of any talk of tethering certainly points to a resounding no - why would I have an iphone rath
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by Pahalial 17y ago
Well this is just plain wrong. She has two positions available to her; her choosing the $60k one does not wink the $120k position out of existence, and there will certainly be someone else trying for that. Perhaps one of the many people who
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by Pahalial 17y ago
Did you look at the company mentioned in the article, Rapleaf? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapleaf http://www.rapleaf.com/offers/free_screening While they don't come out and specifically say they offer credit screening services, it's c
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by Pahalial 17y ago
This is an interesting idea and I wouldn't mind seeing it, but it's also a year and a half old. There have been rebuttals published far and wide, including in the WaPo itself three days later: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a

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