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by abruzzi 14y ago
Reading that, it seems like there is no one inventor of email, but a bunch of different solutions, perhaps leading to the 1981 RFC for SMTP by Jonathan B. Postel, which I would guess is the beginning of the actual current email implementati
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by abruzzi 14y ago
> It would be nice if there were an RFC for calendaring protocols, even if that RFC was just codifying Exchange. Like CalDAV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
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by abruzzi 14y ago
My employer uses exchange, and I use Apple Mail and iCal to connect. It works perfectly. (Exchange provides an proprietary connection between the server and the client. It also supports IMAP, but many admins don't enable that. It's serve
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I'm curious to see the usability. If I look at the way I usually hold my phone, about 5-7mm of the front are obscured. I'm not saying this is bad, but I'd have to see it in action.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Interestingly, I frequently heard the idea of not needing parking because your car would drop you off at work, drive home, then pick you up at the end of the day. But since almost all cars on the road right now are gas or gas hybrid, you a
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by abruzzi 14y ago
10 years seems optimistic to me. If autonomous vehicles take off, I doubt they'll hit majority in less than 30 years, 50 more likely. These probably won't even be purchasable for 10 years.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Vehicle integrity is the responsibility of the driver for human driven cars, I assume it would be the same for autonomous vehicles. The problem comes when you are driving a 15 year old car because you can afford new. For non autonomous ve
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Google is doing all of this, but not publicly. Through Google accounts, Google+ and even just search cookies, Google has most of the same or similar information, but their goal isn't to provide it to you in a data analysis, but to use it f
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Price will favor self driving cars? What about all the lower income people that are limping along with $2000 fifteen year old cars? So if we give the industry 20 years to get to the point where you can but an old used first gen self drivi
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by abruzzi 14y ago
So would you be willing to go back to 9 pin dot matrix for print? That's kind of Grubers point. Printer scaled from 144 dpi to 1200 dpi quickly, while displays stagnated at 72-100 for a ver long time. We're finally seeing movement on tha
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Never tried heroin, but I had to come off oxycodone cold turkey (from about 40mg a day). My pain doctor was trying to slowly bring my down from a peak in the hospital of 150mg of Demerol every 4 hours. It was going too slowly for my patie
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by abruzzi 14y ago
For all the trashing e-mail gets on HN, it is a successful, and ubiquitous, decentralized peer to peer communications medium. It seems like that kind of thing stands little chance of taking off today where single-entity walled gardens are
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I read the two sample emails, and the first seems honest, if a bit short on details. The second seems to be BS trying to put a positive face on "we're limiting work-at-home privileges because too many people are using it as an excuse to go
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Probably, but since tethering is probably a feature 10% of their data subscribers are interested in, they would also raise the data price on the 90% that don't need it (who are also be more likely to walk away if prices go up.)
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I have no love for RSS, and even if I did, there are many third party apps that fill the niche, but I will say (as a regular Final Cut Pro user) welcome to the club. When Apple does their famous "cutting out the cruft" there are always use
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by abruzzi 14y ago
This is old. Bilski v. Kappos was decided in 2010. This is an amicus curiae (friend of the court) filed in the case. FYI, An AC is simply a legal argument filed by an interested party to help persuade the court. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by abruzzi 14y ago
That approach could have some random unintended consequences. I shuffle my playlist and listen to a few tracks. One comes on that I don't like or doesn't match my mood, so I peek at the playlist to find on that does match my mood and doub
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by abruzzi 14y ago
My biggest pet peeve with 10.7 (besides the loss of arrows on my scroll bars) is the dumbing down of the Network control panel. In 10.7 you couldn't configure your WiFi to connect to 802.1x networks (i.e. WPA Enterprise.) You had to downl
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by abruzzi 14y ago
That works if all the upgrade entails is the addittion of new features, but frequently news version are different than just features. They are frequently a rework of the UI or other core code (Apple's Logic 7->8 upgrade jumps to mind,
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Most silent films from the era were supposed to run at 18fps (that's why we have a preconception of everything moving fast in silent films--years later they were threaded into sound projectors which sped them up to 24 fps.) BUT many camera
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by abruzzi 14y ago
One worry is since iOS is so dependent/tied to the app store for updates or reinstalls, if the developer pulls the app from the store, you can never redownload it, and you are then stuck trying to maintain a copy that you backed up and hopi
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by abruzzi 14y ago
The title is leading. It's Not the game, and not entirely the marathon that caused this. The article it short on information and long on speculation.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
The candle/light bulb analogy is the wrong analogy. The correct one is the light socket/wall outlet analogy. When electricity was first run into homes, it was all about light. So houses would have screw in bulb sockets installed. As mor
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I'll be fine with that as long as lane splitting is legal on my non-autonomous motorcycle. Since lane splitting is legal in CA, I wonder how well google's vehicles deal with other drivers that split lanes?
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I really don't like the use of big photos like here, the new airbnb, and Bing. They are busy, space wasting and bandwidth hogs. And to my eyes they don't add anything.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
It's a slight inversion of expectations. V -> I is more common in classical, but IV -> I is a close second. In this set of songs, IV -> I is more common, but V -> I is a close second.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I honestly don't see what makes this worth $300 over an Apple or Roku for $100. Aside from the amp and a couple very small features, it seems to do the same thing. They call it the first "social" media player, but what exactly makes it th
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Searching support is pretty broken. It seems to return lots of links that are gone. For example, I searched "favorites" and the top two results (a page on favorites and a page on wish lists) don't work. And they were the ones that had th
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Except that "wish list" lost all the favorites I had saved for a trip in October...
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I love the UI on Craigslist. With the exception of housing, none of it would be improved by adding AJAX cruft. I also love that I've been able to sell and buy hundreds of items, and have never created an account and never given them much

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