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by Toshio 13y ago
Apple developers, Apple developers, Apple developers, Apple developers! Steve Ballmer must be jumping for joy right now /s
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by Toshio 13y ago
I wish number two was available on Amazon without the preinstalled crapware called windows eight. Having that POS on also means that the motherboard is infected with microsoft's encryption key, making it hard to put a real OS on it - Linux.
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by Toshio 13y ago
> "No way the admins will release that. It would be a goldmine for spammers." Or microsoft sycophants - a growing problem on HN (just ask @cooldeal, @recoiledsnake and @fekberg).
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by Toshio 13y ago
"Has the Senate authorized the creation of a clone army?" - Obi Wan Kenobi broadcasting from planet Kamino /s
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by Toshio 13y ago
Love the initiative, don't have a FB account though. Is it reasonable to ask to be able to log in with my GitHub account? Since I don't have access to the game, could someone explain the part of the game design that goes beyond the concepts
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by Toshio 13y ago
The defendant microsoft still has enough market clout left to scorch the metaphorical earth and poison the well for the rest of the industry. I'm talking about SecureBoot of course. So the answer to your question is a resounding no.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I tried looking for "22" by Taylor Swift, song not found.
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by Toshio 14y ago
The title should be: "Rick-rolling, reimagined for the HN crowd."
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "I don't even really feel like discussing things with you. You've obviously made up your mind." This is ad-hominem of the covert kind, in my opinion. Would you mind making an effort to stick to discussing the topic at hand?
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by Toshio 14y ago
So yeah, 79 million PCs were indeed sold, but I have a strong feeling that many of those were sold to businesses who take a hard line against SecureBoot. But if I, Joe Average Consumer, express a preference against SecureBoot, retailers and
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by Toshio 14y ago
On behalf of everyone who is old enough to have lived through this hell, congratulations on the accuracy of depiction.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Well, I for one don't think windows eight was designed to succeed in the marketplace, it was really designed - via UEFI SecureBoot - to throw a monkey wrench into the widespread adoption of GNU/Linux by the average consumer. That's why you
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by Toshio 14y ago
Look, windowsphone isn't losing in the marketplace because it's bad technology. In fact I'm sure it's an OK OS, nothing to write home about, but decent enough. The real reason windowsphone fails in the marketplace is the fact that microsoft
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by Toshio 14y ago
Tomi Ahonen in his analyses.
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Microsoft’s Mobile Comeback Isn’t Happening(splatf.com)
4 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
The third place will be claimed soon enough by either Firefox OS, Tizen or Jolla Sailfish. I wouldn't bet too much on windowsphone becoming significant.
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RT price cuts don’t stop the death spiral(semiaccurate.com)
2 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
A Short Translation from BS to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ: http://prng.net/blink-faq.html
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by Toshio 14y ago
It's about microsoft insisting that the only pre-loaded encryption key is theirs, to the exclusion of all other encryption keys. It's this exclusionary practice that's the problem, not the implementation per se.
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by Toshio 14y ago
This isn't about you or me or any other tech-savvy person. It's about the non-technical person, and about evangelizing the use of free-as-in-freedom operating systems to them. It used to be easy to dual-boot, but now that it's a seven-step
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by Toshio 14y ago
Yes. Easy to use dual-boot is key to slowly transitioning your friends and family to Linux.
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "Just turn it off in the UEFI settings" Yes, because when you're trying to get your non-technical friends and family to get used to Linux, they will be REALLY keen on going into UEFI to disable-reenable-disable-again etc. to switch be
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by Toshio 14y ago
The best thing that company can do about OSS is (drumroll) ... ... STOP the SecureBoot madness!
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by Toshio 14y ago
EwanToo, that is very interesting. Also, since the entire discussion started by me questioning the reliability of sql server, can you say how many days your database server stays up between reboots?
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by Toshio 14y ago
Care to say how big your database is, and what your workload looks like (reads vs. writes)?
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by Toshio 14y ago
I've seen several sql server shops with severe performance problems where the in-house DBAs had no clue what had hit them. Different DB engines deal with multi-version read consistency in different ways, Postgres does a defensive copy-on-up
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by Toshio 14y ago
Somehow - sql server and - reliable don't really belong in the same sentence.
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Ask HN: Are you building a Google Reader workalike?
4 points by Toshio 14y ago|3 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
Strawman argument.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Is this another one of ballmer's PR stunts? Hey microsoft, you can't keep finding flaws with other tech companies unless you've been a good corporate citizen for your entire existence. It's called "the clean hands doctrine" [1]. [1] http:/

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