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by Volpe 15y ago
... That's complete crap, not all cultures believe that. Even the concept of 'individual rights' is a western concept. Ever considered the possibility that we (humans) don't have rights. Again, ethnocentric, just because you think the wor
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Everyone is different, and meant to excel at one thing they do well to make a difference And that one thing is genetically wired? As in their DNA was just 'Ballet Dancing' inclined? The only reason people excel at something, is becaus
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by Volpe 15y ago
> The goal of a country is to allow her citizens to have "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". I think you mean just one country there... Generalising to all countries is a little ethnocentric, no?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Just to note: This is a licensing change (I think). Because flex developers have had access to ALL the flex code for years now. (And all the embarrassing comments as well ;) )
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by Volpe 15y ago
That's right, Hacker News is about compromising security and cracking software.... How did I miss that all this time? My initial post (which has been down voted out of existence) is a valid point. I don't actually care whether Apple get hac
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by Volpe 15y ago
I see so, "cracking" is admired here. "hacking" condemned. Got it! :)
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by Volpe 15y ago
"As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri!" Are they just lying then? There demo said they got siri to work with no iphone invol
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by Volpe 15y ago
Did I say a 'written spec'?
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by Volpe 15y ago
No one is at all concerned that this is a hack? I know it's interesting stuff, but I'm curious what "rights" Applidium have in publishing this information. With this information, (if I'm not wrong) it wouldn't take long to simply DDoS Siri.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Curious what you mean with "avoid specs", how do you know what to build?
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm not sure highlighting Amazon's Kindle Fire's reliance on 'streaming' over 'local storage' is a clear "positive vs negative". You can't stream without a (reasonable) internet connection... Seems more of a trade-off than an improvement.
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by Volpe 15y ago
No. More like if you wrote a toolkit for displaying ui items in canvas (I think Mozilla did this with Ace/Bespin/Skywriter/whatever-its-called), then it would be equivalent to flex.
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by Volpe 15y ago
What exactly can't you do in html5 that you can do in flash?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Which peaceful protest are you referring to? Tiananmen square protests (what the "Tanks" were implying) were not peaceful. They started that way, but they were not that way, when the military stepped in. There have been numerous reports t
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by Volpe 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots Came pretty close to tanks...
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by Volpe 15y ago
What are the down votes for? Some one care to enlighten me how the censorship of wikileaks is any different to the great fire wall? (Slightly different scale, but they both illustrate censorship). Or the suppression the of the Occupy Movem
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm pretty sure Julian Assange is facing this exact problem. When you challenge authority... the results are predictable (regardless of the ideology behind the authority). Also note: Most chinese (i'd say) don't worry about this. So the po
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by Volpe 15y ago
Well (hopefully), now he'll be remembered as "the guy that ruined education discounts so he could buy an audi and have a free education"... Talk about over-privileged...
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm not convinced it is "grappling to maintain order". It really doesn't operate that different from the U.S: - censorship (like wikileaks) - Suppression of dissent (like the 'Occupy movement' is being suppressed). Governments (regardless
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by Volpe 15y ago
There is too much bias from reporters these days to work out actual trend from manufactured trends with regards to china. Silly to say "half of china's millionaires want to leave" without saying how that percentage is different from "all ch
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by Volpe 15y ago
Political stability is not a strong point in china?
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by Volpe 15y ago
I don't think that's true. Canvas tag was in safari (both desktop and mobile) and Firefox. Flash (at it's core) is just a canvas you can draw on. 2 Years ago, Flash (or Flex) was immature (for RIA), had poor tools, and poor runtime support
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by Volpe 15y ago
Not quite, It was pointed out it was a cited article, you called the author into question, and was shown the author is credible. The only fallacies are coming from your posts, not from the article in question... :\
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by Volpe 15y ago
As I said in my other response, there is a lot in that video that is visionary. Alan Kay's drawing had a keyboard in it... That's not visionary... he's just copying the typewriter - what a stupid vision!? Augmented reality, Proximity netwo
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by Volpe 15y ago
I know who he is and where he's worked. But authority != always right The vision held a lot more than just swiping on glass, there were spacially aware devices, proximity networking, augmented reality... But that's not vision worthy... be
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think there is a lot of culture behind the appropriateness of swearing. I find Australian's are much more relaxed about it, than Americans. (purely anecdotal), but I don't think it can simply be categorised as being about 'status' or some
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think I disagree with the rant. It's a little inconsistant as well. On the one hand, he argues that Pictures behind glass isn't where we should be heading, and instead we should come up with better visions, as an example he uses the some
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by Volpe 15y ago
Weird to recommend not starting on the most relevant language (C#) but instead with C and Scheme... Sounds more like "old-hats" regurgitating their learning process. Why the line is always drawn with C as well, is interesting. Not assembly
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by Volpe 15y ago
It's really great to see China pursuing their space program so vigorously. Hopefully it will continue like this and pull more technical innovation into China like it did for both Russia and the U.S.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Care to provide relevant citations for space technology that china stole? Or is this just belligerent racism?

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