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by alxp 14y ago
He's telling the students that they, being Ivy League graduates, will have many opportunities to exploit their positions, and is telling them to be aware of this and exercise some humility by remembering that luck has largely brought them w
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by alxp 14y ago
WebOS's biggest problem was UI performance. Sick, sad irony strikes again.
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by alxp 14y ago
It seems Lion's implementation of restarting apps depends on SSD type speeds. Also a fairly fat application like a browser has an entirely different amount of work to do before it stops loading compared with the very thin media players that
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by alxp 14y ago
Don't forget all the music and movies that you've payed for in one market or another that you might not be able to transfer easily to your new device. Building a complete consumption ecosystem was very smart of Apple and it's why Amazon has
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by alxp 15y ago
This post we're discussing _is_ the popular pressure. And yes, I also wish them good luck because the pendulum is currently far too in the direction against fairness to end-users.
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by alxp 15y ago
> I also think that most people bought this only because they wanted to prove to the world that it would work (DRM-less and cheap media). I think the number of people concerned with making a gesture to push some political agenda about D
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by alxp 15y ago
They just try to pass laws to make interoperability (format shifting) a criminal offence.
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by alxp 15y ago
Looks like the Nokia partnership may be their last best hope. Android can have the crapware-laden low-end of the Smartphone market and Microsoft and Apple can be seen as the quality brands, and if Nokia sells enough phones it will at least
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by alxp 15y ago
Just change the documentation at the same time as you change a feature. That's all the author expected. Not doing that makes you a bad developer.
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by alxp 15y ago
> pedestrians have more of an ability to take evasive action Except when they don't, due to mobility problems or having pets with them or other reasons. Expecting anyone to jump out of your way when you come barreling down the sidewalk
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by alxp 15y ago
If you pass off "integration" as some kind of unimportant side issue you just don't get why Apple has been successful and why your white box PC is not the future.
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by alxp 15y ago
This is correct, but US immigration are quite picky about the kinds of job titles that they will allow you to gat a TN visa for. The general rule is the job title needs to say "computer analyst" and "management consultant", and avoid the wo
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How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper(ruk.ca)
249 points by alxp 15y ago|94 comments
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The False Choice of Schema.org(manu.sporny.org)
8 points by alxp 15y ago|0 comments
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by alxp 15y ago
Don't buy anything second-hand unless they can show the proof-of-purchase so you know you're not buying a hot item. This isn't new advice.
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by alxp 15y ago
One day after a visit to the Computer History Museum, my SO and I got to see the live demo of the analytical engine they have there. We watched the gears turning and stopping to add up numbers, saw the complex mechanisms to handle carrying
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by alxp 15y ago
That wouldn't give you a control group, either, that would give you a new set of students, and would let you answer the question "how successful are students hwo graduate without being crippled by student debt compered with dropouts and a c
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by alxp 16y ago
Happy to see a mention of New Brunswick, Canada in there. UNB has a very underrated Computer Science faculty that graduates a lot of great programmers, but they don't have a recognizable name outside of Canada. Companies that get well-kno
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by alxp 16y ago
That's why NetFlix was greeted with open arms by the TV networks at first - because they could make money from their shows that are sitting in their library that they weren't selling on DVD and syndicators weren't interested in. Now that Ne
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by alxp 16y ago
I had this kind of relationship with a designer / photographer I worked on a side project with a couple of years back. He'd have no idea how to implement something if it required more than just hacking on already-existing code, but he had a
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by alxp 16y ago
The economists' models of the world are notoriously flawed and dangerous precisely because they leave out non-easily-measurable results and consequences.
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by alxp 16y ago
Which is a sensible clause for Apple, so that Amazon can't go and say "all books bought on the Kindle device are 50% off what you pay when you buy the book on the Kindle for iPad app" to drive device sales.
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by alxp 16y ago
Oh nevermind, it's just an artifact of the smaller viewport. I still want you kids off my lawn, though.
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by alxp 16y ago
What the what I'm walking backwards?? What crazy magic is this? Super Mario Bros. should be frozen in time exactly as I remember them, damnit.
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by alxp 16y ago
They can keep it up until they are ruled to be a monopoly - I'm not sure that will happen to them but when it does then they can't act the way they do now without consequences.
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by alxp 16y ago
Hah now Wolfram Alpha, I wonder if they're going to bother coming back in to work tomorrow. Watson makes it look pretty primitive.
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by alxp 16y ago
I don't think that's relevant. No one expected Deep Blue to have a mechanical arm that reaches out and moves pieces around a physical chess board.
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by alxp 16y ago
Arguing against fanboy conventional wisdom with mere facts? Sadly I don't think that's enough.
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by alxp 16y ago
I like it. Automatically having a group chat when you make a call with multiple people, and saving group chats in your history are the two things that have kept me using the Skype 5 and not downgrading. And now that the focus problem when a
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by alxp 16y ago
Yep, also if you just have 1 reputation getting downvoted doesn't cost you anything, you stay at 1. So it doesn't hurt in the least even if this did occur, which I haven't seen myself, either. I often see that SO users will be helpful to ne

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