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by abrahamsen 13y ago
People seem to forget about the network effect when discussing DropBox. The main reason I continue to use DropBox over cheaper alternatives, is that most of my collaborators in other companies have DropBox, and we use shared folders to exch
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
They have an internal Linux client. Which makes me unsure we will ever see one released externally, it must be the support cost that holds them back. Internally, they only have to support one distribution (their own) and some very smart use
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
At least they kept their old plans for existing customers. Of course, upgrading means no more cheap storage.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
They already raised the price for storage. But at least they kept the old plans for existing customers. I pay $5 per year for 20 GiB.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
>I care that much, though, since there's no Drive client for linux (how hard can it be to port the thing?). Not hard, it has been available forever internally in Google. I guess the hard part is supporting it externally.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Neonicotinoids were banned in Germany in 2008, so we already have a (rather large) control group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid#Environmental_imp...
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Kind of weird that no consensus have emerged for multiplication (·, ×, *, or horizontal juxtaposition) or division (÷, /, or vertical juxtaposition with horizontal line between) yet.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
As you noted, we still have factor 1000 steps. -ard is 1000 -ion.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
> Not to mention that a Danish "billion" is not the same as a US "billion". Google correctly translates the Danish original "milliard" to the US "billion". A 5 (Danish) billion kroner fine would be higher than our total GDP. > this
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
I thought at first it was a positive introduction: "the company who created Audio CDs".
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
> With all respect, I have hard time seeing Apple laptops outside the US. More than half of our students (agriculture/environment at University of Copenhagen) have Macs, the fraction being higher in the earlier classes.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Phoronix have basically reported on Valve's work on "Steam for Linux" since 2008, usually backed up with some kind of evidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix It is possible Windows 8/RT was the deciding factor in making Steam for
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
It looks pretty much in line with last years anti-gmail campaign: http://www.theverge.com/microsoft/2012/2/2/2766215/gmail-man...
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Not sure about the world, but the smartest people in Denmark are likely working within the Novo Nordisk domicile, trying to work on better ways to manage diabetes with second-by-second efficiency. They don't post a lot here, because honestl
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
A Chromebook is currently the best selling laptop on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-Lap...
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Knowing the reddit community, do you really think that is a good idea?
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup was never a huge OOP evangelist. He spend all of 1½ page in the first edition of "The C++ Programming Language" explaining why this technique would be useful in specific situations, back when it was not widely known. Alexa
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
With "non-taxing" I meant "services whose load will not justify a hardware update for the next 6+ years".
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
The number of i386 installations have been relatively constant since 2007. All the growth has been in amd64. I guess Debian is the kind of distribution you put on a computer that is going to to sit in a room and run the same non-taxing serv
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
> could provide access to thousands of gaming titles Does this mean 1) the box will be based on Windows, 2) or there have been way more progress in getting publishers to port their games to Linux than what we have heard of yet, 3) or t
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Unless they lock down the hardware, they will not be able to subsidize it. People will install Windows or Ubuntu on it, and use it as a standard PC, if it is cheaper than equivalent PC hardware.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Electrical cars with "smart" chargers. The chargers will have two settings. Express (high price, uninterrupted charging), and Economy (low price, maybe even free (fixed cost), charging controlled by the power grid, "full by the next morning
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
I'd expect Smalltalk programmers to find Obj-C syntax much more natural than Java, C#, or C++.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
> phone kernel panicked or "PagerService has stopped" Do Googlers typically use experimental Android builds? Googling for "android kernel panic" gives me pages about overclocked custom roms (and a MacOS X inspired game), and "PagerServi
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
A metric user would measure the same distance to "approximately 9 meters" by taking 9 large steps. This is a very common informal method of measuring distances. It seems more practical (and certainly faster) than to measure the distance to
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
One meter is approximately one large step for a grown man.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Microsoft is not the dominating player on the tablet or laptop hardware market, so I don't see any ground for an anti-trust investigation.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
I'm from Denmark, which like UK has a hereditary head of state as well as an official state church. Neither are really consistent with our democratic ideals, and not something we try to encourage when engaging in state building.
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
What would the clang error message be?

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