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by RachelF 10y ago
We'll see. Full Windows x86 emulation will likely be slow. It will be a harder sell the second time around, too as Windows RT burned a lot of people, and fewer trust Microsoft than before.
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by RachelF 10y ago
Personally, I don't think we are out of ideas - perhaps we are just trapped in a local minimum for a while. Much Internet innovation is stifled by two factors: 1. The current economy of the Internet is paid for by advertising, which go
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by RachelF 10y ago
In Australia the state government of NSW is firing local IT workers, and replacing them with more subservient temporary visa holders: http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/12/nsw-government-repla...
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by RachelF 10y ago
Good spot. How did you find the original?
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Florida Cops Have a New Device for Tracking Your Cell Phone(warisboring.com)
7 points by RachelF 10y ago|4 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
>You'd think someone in the chain of command would say, "what would this look like as a legal market? If you are working for law enforcement, making this a legal market would mean less crime and could cost you your job. If you
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When Tech Companies Copy One Anothers’ Best Ideas, Consumers Suffer(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by RachelF 10y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
Very true - building a great product is only half the story. You also have to market it, something us geeks are normally not that good at. Part of the reason for Linux's failure on the desktop is that is lacks salesmen to push it.
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by RachelF 10y ago
Dell makes the XPS 13 or 15 and you can get Linux-specific versions. They are very nice machines, up there with the Macs in terms quality (and price).
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by RachelF 10y ago
Odd that it is based on the standard Mac keyboard. If you're going to build a premium keyboard, then why not add mechanical keys, full size arrow keys and PgUp PgDn?
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by RachelF 10y ago
Who did they rank instead of ProtonMail?
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by RachelF 10y ago
The Register is an excellent site for what's going on in tech. http://www.theregister.co.uk
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Who killed Cyanogen?(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by RachelF 10y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
I looked at CloudRail, but the Dropbox and Google Drive API's are pretty easy to use. Adding this layer of middleware is just another layer of complexity for us.
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by RachelF 10y ago
More comments on this story here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680671
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by RachelF 10y ago
Cheap power = profitable mining. Parts of China have very cheap power in comparison to the West.
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London police charge man with terrorism over use of encryption(zdnet.com)
114 points by RachelF 10y ago|27 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
Good video, thank you!
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Why companies make their products worse(1843magazine.com)
123 points by RachelF 10y ago|83 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
Most of us take drugs like caffeine and alcohol pretty often. The person who made this site has been willing to test, meticulously document and analyse his results. He's pretty informed as to the side-effects, so no, I don't think
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by RachelF 10y ago
I wish one could force vendors to open source operating systems they no longer support.
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What It Feels Like to Die(theatlantic.com)
8 points by RachelF 10y ago|1 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
I think that "The Wasp Factory" is by far his best book. Sometimes unsettling but a great short read.
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by RachelF 10y ago
“The Relativity of Wrong”[1] by Isaac Asimov is a great read. In it, he states that it’s possible to be mostly right, and partly wrong. Or mostly wrong, and partly right. Someone's argument or design can have components which are absol
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Decoding Rediscovered Rope Memory from the Apollo Guidance Computer(hackaday.com)
2 points by RachelF 10y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
Thanks for the tip - TreeStyleTab is great!
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by RachelF 10y ago
I think society is geared to rewarding the extroverts: You have to sell yourself, and BS you way to the top of the corporation or whatever group you're in. Marketing is more important than technology. Few groups actually reward introve
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Was Microsoft Built on Stolen Goods?(eetimes.com)
11 points by RachelF 10y ago|16 comments
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by RachelF 10y ago
Also younger workers are lot cheaper and don't have families, so you can work them longer hours. Older techies have wised up.
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by RachelF 10y ago
One criticism I have of Sapiens is that he regards the hunter-gather lifestyle as ideal, a sort of Garden of Eden from which we descended when we invented agriculture. The few Amazon, New Guinea and Kalahari hunter-gather tribes anthropolog

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