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Study on Personalities of Mac vs. PC Users [Video](thestreet.com)
4 points by TheTarquin 19y ago|0 comments
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Amen. My hope is that computers will become more and more "unitary", for lack of a better term. That is to say they'll become simpler in use, even while they're becoming more flexible and powerful in effect. Basically I'm hoping that comp
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
As someone who buys a LOT of music, Amazon's DRM-free .mp3s are what finally got me to switch to digital music for most of my purchases. It's awesome to be able to buy a single I like, or an album from an artist I'm not familiar with yet w
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Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015(computerworld.com)
12 points by TheTarquin 19y ago|9 comments
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
"How would you make this site have a gentler slope? Let the user post a comment and then say "Thanks for the comment, now you just need an account to publish this. Enter your username/password."?" An interesting idea, but it would probably
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Anyone have a guess as to whether or not this will pass the "bar fight test"? I go to the bar and start shit with Big McLargeHuge and he busts up my face. My nose is broken, one or both eyes are swollen, my jaw line is resting differently
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
The only thing this article told me was that advertisers don't understand the best way to advertise on YouTube. Buying adspace on the page may or may not work. Well-done viral videos WILL work. A friend of mine got his start out of colleg
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
I would say that it depends entirely on the position. When I applied to my current job, I had to compete with other candidates because we were all on equal footing (applying in our last year of undergrad to a position targeted at graduatin
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Good advice. It also has the tangential benefit of making legacy work easier. If you have to come back to a system months or (heaven forefend) years later, it helps immensely if you were careful to understand EXACTLY what you were doing t
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Okay, this article was worth it just because I didn't even KNOW Firefox has full-screen mode. A bit of a newb moment, but great discovery.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Mmm, indeed. I have a bit of a fetish for good design, and some times what is really called for is the right "if/then/else" construct. It's really unfortunate sometimes that "general cases > special cases" fundamentalism is so rampant
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Actually one of the guys I went to school with ( https://publications.dev.java.net/seanfitzgerald/ ) mentioned something like that to me when details of the PS3 first started getting announced. He was doing Beowulf clustering stuff and men
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Exactly! And we have to test network scalability issues, too, so I should get some PS3s for my friends and have a LAN party, er, . . . intensive network stress-testing day at the office. :-D
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
I suppose I can understand that, but I wonder if a better response might be of the "welcome, new users: here's how this site is different then you're used to" variety. I understand that News.YC is pretty awesome. It's a fairly small, high-
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
As a sometimes .NET developer that works in handheld devices, I think that this means that my bosses should get me an iPhone. True, we work for the manufacturing and utility industries and they'll never use the iPhone as a platform, but yo
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Computability and runtime efficiency. (I've productively applied this to problems in every domain of my life.) The importance of limits. (From testing limit cases heavily, to time being the limit of being, to value sources being the limit
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
My friend Mike once told me: "When you can't tell the difference between public opinion and a DDoS, you're either doing something right, or doing something horribly wrong."
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Agreed: money quote for the whole article. It put me in mind of a fur-upholstered mousetrap for some reason. You know, the kind of thing David Bowie would put in his basement . . .
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Possible, but that would pretty much involve funding the hell out of everyone in a several mile radius, with long-term funding for people fortunate enough to be down-wind . . .
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Venture musket: The aim isn't perfect, but it launches a significant projectile in roughly the right direction, at a substantial velocity.
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Ah, so it is. Thanks! (I'm fairly option-blind. If what I'm looking for isn't pretty obvious on a webpage, I usually never find it.) And adding the Guidelines link to the comments page in some way might well be a helpful addition. At le
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
The FMG-9's been all over the gunnie blogs lately. As LawDog put it: "Now, that's just flat neater than kitten toes." ( http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2008/03/want.html ) Admittedly, it's just a concept gun and, even if it weren't, en
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
MySpace. I can't count the number of people have asked me some version of "Dude, you're good at computers? Can you help me make a bitchin' MySpace page?" Admittedly, as the saying goes, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but it seems
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
The TC front-paging: A clever Arc stress-test organized by Paul Graham? Investigative report at 11...
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Perhaps I haven't had sufficient experience with Digg, Techcrunch, etc., but it seems a touch elitist to me to denigrate someone based solely on the sites which they choose to frequent. Example: I browse youtube. A lot. I sometimes comme
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
Fantastic and concise. Out of curiosity, is there a link to that anywhere on the News.YC website? Perhaps I'm blind, but I don't see one anywhere. I looked for a page like that when I joined and, after not finding one, just jumped into t
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
At the risk of sounding glib, I've found that asking people with the right skillset who happen to be of the female persuasion works pretty well. I got the 33% of our team (1/3) to join by saying "So, Meagan, interested in helping Mike and
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
RIP, Mr. Gygax, thou original roller of natural 20s. My group and I will have a 21d6 salute in your honor . . .
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
We had a (passingly) similar situation at my office recently: a line of boxes that had been humming along happily for as long as I've been at the company. Someone (certainly not me , oh heavens no) needed a network connection and asked ar
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by TheTarquin 19y ago
"As it is, he's a market manipulator who tweaks price signals so people produce more of what they don't want. This is shameful." What, exactly, is he manipulating the price of? Poverty isn't an industry and philanthropy is not the subsidiz

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