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by alayne 14y ago
Dumping your source code into a repository after release may technically be open source, but it isn't in the spirit of community developed open source.
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by alayne 14y ago
Apple already made a statement about maps. This is a press release about sales. There is no reason for them to bring up maps again in this press release since they are not discussing any other software features (other than the availability
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by alayne 14y ago
Here's one of your recent comments: "I really hope something awful happens to Apple over the next few years. They deserve it" It's hard for me to think you are interested in any sort of adult conversation here.
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by alayne 14y ago
I don't disagree. There is nothing particularly innovative in iOS 6 or the iPhone 5. I just think that if they had NFC, Google maps, less strict app store policies, and so on they would be indistinguishable from Android. Honestly, if you wa
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by alayne 14y ago
It's a race to the bottom if everyone in the mobile space just tries to maximize feature checklists. I think it's great that Apple tries to be an arbiter of good taste and user experience, even if they fall down sometimes.
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by alayne 14y ago
Apple hired Benjamin Vigier a few years ago. Their mobile payment solution is Passbook which is currently not NFC based.
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by alayne 14y ago
You said "Guess what: Your digital security and privacy is your responsibility." and then later you referred to "the small minority of people, like many here, who are hyper vigilante about digital privacy." Those are just your opinions and
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by alayne 14y ago
Obviously some people feel that the government should help with privacy and security issues. It's a government "of the people", not "of gavinlynch".
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by alayne 14y ago
If that's true statement, then there should be evidence, right? I don't have a citation, but I do know that there have been several studies of jury effectiveness. A cursory look at a few of them seems to indicate that they are effective.
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by alayne 14y ago
The pinch to zoom patent is for single vs multitouch gestures on a touch screen. What Krueger is demonstrating is not a touch screen.
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by alayne 14y ago
Which companies would you give as examples of "eat your way up the value chain"?
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by alayne 14y ago
You say you want to look at it objectively and then right away you claim he is "actively trying to escape the charges." The Assange side has only ever claimed they were concerned with due process. I think most people would agree that withou
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by alayne 14y ago
Fuller was a crackpot and he definitely sounds off his rocker in the video. Maybe he inspired some things, but I don't understand why he gets so much positive attention. Geodesic domes are horribly impractical (prone to leaks, difficult to
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by alayne 14y ago
Maybe you are the one non-annoying cell phone user at restaurants.
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by alayne 14y ago
It was on this page at least http://www.fidei.org/2011/06/boycott-nbc-removed-under-god-f... Amusingly, Gary's email address is all over the Internet now. Couldn't twitter have just removed the offending message and saved themselves the n
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by alayne 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227045 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905618 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660096
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by alayne 14y ago
When this stuff was posted three years ago on HN, there was a link to an interesting site that has many examples of future predictions http://www.paleofuture.com/ . http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729904
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by alayne 14y ago
Society would fall apart if things weren't regulated. Imagine having no building codes.
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by alayne 14y ago
Making up Dylan quotes seems a lot more benign than discouraging people from suing tobacco companies and saying Ritalin is safe.
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by alayne 14y ago
It's obviously not a fundamental human right to have access to Olympic programming. However the way in which they delay programming and restrict access seems manipulative which I file under unethical.
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by alayne 14y ago
Who even uses SELinux besides government/defense contractors? Do you remember the Clipper chip? The list of horrible things the NSA has been involved with is long.
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by alayne 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261954
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by alayne 14y ago
That seems like a leap. Ogg codecs were always questionable to me because they are owned by xiph.org, rather than some other more widely accepted standards body.
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by alayne 14y ago
"Still, we give our grammar test to everybody, including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers."
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by alayne 14y ago
I disagreed with nearly everything I ever heard Marissa say related to design, especially her over reliance on A/B testing to inform design. I think she is one of the main reasons Google products tend to feel like they are designed by engin
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Paul Graham Interview for the Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks documentary (2005)(youtube.com)
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by alayne 14y ago
Functional programming has had over 50 years to catch on. It failed to become the dominant paradigm (for good reason in my opinion -- it is writable, but not readable).
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by alayne 14y ago
At some point, I think if you work for a corrupt company or government, you are complicit. Otherwise do you invoke the Nuremberg defense?
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by alayne 14y ago
My first post was serious, but it was hard to resist creating an online armchair scientist support group.
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by alayne 14y ago
That's a great idea. Pick one instance where you got out of the armchair and applied your idea. Inspire instead of creating a guilt trip.

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