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by altano 16y ago
Windows Live Photo Gallery is way more of an improvement than I was expecting. I'm pleasantly surprised. I really wish Windows Live Mesh did incremental syncing but now that I'm syncing my OneNote notebooks to Office Live I'm less concerne
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by altano 16y ago
Eek, I see several people don't believe me. Here are a bunch of sources: http://www.google.com/m/search?oe=UTF-8&client=safari&#3...
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by altano 16y ago
Parking and also other infrastructure, mainly highways and larger roads that cut up the city. The largest benefactors of the Big Dig in Boston ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig ) were not those driving on the newly improved road or t
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by altano 16y ago
Actually OSX's market share peaked with the debut of Win7 and has been declining since. Your point stands, though.
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by altano 16y ago
I don't get this commonly made argument. I'm either paying rent or a mortgage. It seems to rely on an assumed rich renter, who has enough money to rent an apartment AND invest money on top of it.
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by altano 16y ago
Why is the domain of this submission listed as google.com?
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by altano 16y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is really amazing and takes me back.
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by altano 16y ago
What an interesting lens you see the world through. Was it desperate and tacky when Apple gave all their employees free iPhones, or was that a magical maneuver by Steve Jobs? Maybe the world is somewhere in between. Maybe it's a good thin
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by altano 16y ago
I don't know anyone on my 115 person team who isn't at least excited to give it a shot and see if it's better, including the more ardent iPhone fans among us, of which I count myself as one.
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by altano 16y ago
10^4 dollars? 10^4 thousand dollars?
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by altano 16y ago
Yeah really. Has he contacted the EFF or other similar organizations? What's with all this defense of anti-semetism? Someone needs to proofread this. What's the call to action? If the domain name's not going to change, fine, but get rid
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by altano 16y ago
That's my favorite aspect of Windows Home Server's backup. It does it once a day whenever you're asleep. It'll even wake up your machine, back it up, and them put it back to sleep. And it's smart enough to only do this if you're laptop i
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by altano 16y ago
Does anyone know where to get good pizza in Boston or Cambridge? An absolute prerequisite before answering this question is that you must agree almost all pizza in NYC is delicious and almost all pizza in Boston is the most inedible, greas
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by altano 16y ago
Are you straight? If so, has said relationship been successful for a while? I think Gene Roddenbury is the only non-fictional male I've heard of who has been in a successful polyamorous relationship with women. When you're gay, things are
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by altano 16y ago
Yes, non-monogamy is similar in this regard to most other interesting and desirable things: it's neither easy nor simple.
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by altano 16y ago
My WHS has 4 HDs and its transfer speed is still network bound (100 Mbps). Much faster than the Drobo it replaced. My biggest gripes with the drobo were loudness (no really, it sounds like a jet engine), inability to recover data directly
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by altano 16y ago
This is great. I love the simplicity.
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by altano 16y ago
When you first run Visual Studio you specify what default environment you'd prefer... c++, .net, etc. Perhaps you chose c++?
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by altano 16y ago
Boston is in Suffolk County
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by altano 16y ago
Mac Minis make terrible HTPCs. I replaced a Mac Mini + Drobo with a Windows Home Server + External DVD drive and I've never looked back.
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by altano 16y ago
They aren't IPS, but i saw one at Best Buy and it is really good. It's up there with the MacBook Air on color and viewing angles. Definitely the two best displays I've seen on a laptop in a really long time.
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by altano 16y ago
> In the last decade Microsoft has grown profit margins without creating new product lines. No. To name a few: Xbox, BPOS (Exchange/SharePoint Online), SharePoint, Office Communications Server, Dynamics CRM. See http://news.ycombinato
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by altano 16y ago
Obsessive frugality strikes me as antithetical to spartan living, a goal that may not be the authors but does seem to be what most here are interested in, judging by past submissions of the same genre.
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by altano 16y ago
Watching an hour long video in a browser sucks. If you accidentally navigate away from the page, you lose your place and buffer. Downloading it is sane. Also, downloading a movie shouldn't require a security prompt. So yeah, was what he d
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by altano 16y ago
Take a look at LastPass. This is built-in (syncs to the internet).
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by altano 16y ago
That is my point. How many times have you seen people offer their expert analysis of IBM on HN? Never? Once?
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by altano 16y ago
I actually don't think there's a particularly strong anti-MS bias on HN. There's just a lot of uninformed commentary by people who haven't even heard of more than half of MS's businesses. I don't think that's the case with any other comp
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by altano 16y ago
It's never ceases to shock me how bad the Microsoft commentary is on HN, not because I don't agree with the conclusions, but rather because it mostly operates on so little information. For example: > Microsoft has a wonderfully lucrativ
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by altano 16y ago
I thought this too but there are some things of interest since this list isn't the same as a list of just population density ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by... ). We can infer the percent of the general popula
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by altano 16y ago
This is insanity. You could use a debugger solely to add trace output to a program without recompiling if that really were a better way of reasoning about. No one that has learned a debugger well would ever say this...

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