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by aeberbach 12y ago
It's telling that Google still pretends to be a company where technology and geek cred matters. Despite being in reality a fast follower whose revenues come almost entirely from selling the details of those who fall for what they offer
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by aeberbach 13y ago
I was a backer on that one, it's a great documentary.
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by aeberbach 13y ago
If you like this kind of thing, try to find copies of books by Dave Ahl - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games I like this kind of thing and I have both books. A family friend CP/M system was by f
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by aeberbach 13y ago
"Agent 13, is that you?"
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Sure - what I mean is had Japan been the only place not to have GSM they may well have been forced to adopt it. GSM was around in the USA at that time (Moto Timeport "Worldphone" etc.) but was nothing like a standard, everywhere I
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by aeberbach 13y ago
If you look just at the handsets available in 2000 or so it would have been very easy for Japanese telcos to look at what the world had to offer and conclude it was not much. Compare turn of the century Japanese devices* next to four-color
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by aeberbach 13y ago
I'd say there are certain programmers, who after reaching a certain financial security threshold, would do exactly that. Just as there are people who would happily sail a yacht around the world indefinitely, though it would bore me sil
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by aeberbach 13y ago
I expect Carmack is the sort of guy to say "fuck your golden handcuffs, I'd rather work on interesting problems". If it turns bad he'd go.
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Have you no IMAGINATION!? Can't you picture a Farmville where you can actually see the teats on the cow right in front of you? See the corn waving in a virtual breeze? Best of all, see a beautifully rendered image of your money go up i
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Congratulations on the most ridiculous comment on HN today. How many apps on the app store was that now, 1,000,000+ according to the admittedly non-authoritative Wikipedia. And all of them created with hex editors, you would have us believe
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Oh, did your banana have "CAT III Max 600V" stencilled on it? The $15 multimeter does. I suspect the cheap meter has about the same right to wear that label as the banana.
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by aeberbach 13y ago
In Gibson's books the zaibatsu are huge corporations where the top employees are not free to leave. Switching jobs involves your new employer hiring a team of mercenary specialists to extract the new hire. Often the principal does not
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by aeberbach 13y ago
William Gibson's zaibatsu come to mind. When they stop people getting off the bus rather than on it will be complete.
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by aeberbach 13y ago
I feel like a sucker for responding to such obvious self-serving link bait, but full of gratitude to the very human staff at the hospital where I had a minor procedure last week I will anyway. Here's the simplistic refutation that is a
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by aeberbach 13y ago
What? This is an insane idea to begin with. It's right up there with Compaq buying Digital and HP buying Compaq. Companies with too much money and no clue do things like this. Apple has too much money but absolutely no lack of critical
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by aeberbach 13y ago
I'm sorry to see any store there go. I used to spend at least a full day walking around Akihabara every time I went to Tokyo for work and always came home with plenty of stuff I didn't even know I wanted. I still have various &quo
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Dr. Raymond M. Soneira badly needs an Editor. His use of Winnie-The-Pooh Punctuation makes his Article far too hard to Read.
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by aeberbach 13y ago
The Apple statement is dated. Why must the "warrant canary" be removed if there should be a warrant in the future, when the statement is correct at the time of publication?
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by aeberbach 13y ago
"I should learn how to do it myself." That's an excellent idea. You'll still hire a developer next time of course, but you'll know exactly why you are doing it and you'll appreciate the result a little bit more
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Chances are it includes a large proportion of 30-day trial users - who have to go through the same painful process of registering for the "creative cloud" and installing all the same "added features" as the paying custom
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by aeberbach 13y ago
Misleading title. Nobody did the impossible on iOS, just did clever things within the available frameworks. Well done author, it works. But did you ask yourself "should I really do this?" What I hope is going to prove truly imposs