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1081.
by aptwebapps 15y ago
Or maybe flog is using the IT convention of using lower case for numbers based on powers of ten and upper case for powers of two? If so, it's out of place.
1082.
by aptwebapps 15y ago
If some company rolled out production right now for 50 cents a watt, unless their volume was ridiculously high or their tech looked easy to copy it wouldn't have that much affect on the market price. Why? Because they don't have to sell it
1083.
by aptwebapps 15y ago
Well, the article is going to help that. Despite its title most of it is a very shallow overview of the currency in general while mentioning how the rate has fallen and some examples of how it is not universally accepted. Finally, in the se
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Hey, they have to sit in those bleachers ...
1085.
by aptwebapps 15y ago
Not to steal HN's thunder but that was a direct quote from the article.
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Not arguing that was the case, and it may remain the case for things like employment, but when the new health care legislation comes into effect (and if it sticks) won't that cease to be a problem?
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Taking it to that extreme is not a valid argument. There's a lot of room between not doing it first and only doing on a live site with millions of rows and lots of users.
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
It is faded, but it needs to fade more.
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Well, if you're so inclined you could use part of the 500k to bootstrap another projcet and continue your happy startup existence only with less Ramen. (Unless you just really like Ramen, of course).
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
You're right that Hoover ran a deficit. There's a common misconception that he was all for austerity when he in fact increased spending with a variety of stimulus programs. However, his stimulus programs were tiny compared to the size of th
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
There's nothing magical about the fuel supply. In the past, people didn't try to bring rockets back down and land them on their tails because of the technical challenges, not because of fuel concerns. It takes a lot less fuel to land than t
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Their ATM machines are far from impregnable. They're harder to hack than the voting machines because the banks require it, but they aren't foolproof. Diebold's clients when selling voting machines are often county clerks or county commissio
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Mid 2008 I was thinking this was really something I should do. I'd just done some PITA work on bunch of legacy php forms for a client and I knew there had to be a better way and I worked out what I thought that was ... ... but, you know, I
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
So it's a win-win?
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
I believe this is the actual video mentioned in the article. It's the American version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29kF1vZ62o
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
That was the idea, in fact.
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
It'd be neat if it could grab an existing page. Give it a url and start messing around.
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
Can I choose which files to download before it puts empties on the file system?
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
I used to want a chording, one-handed keyboard with a strap. I thought that that combined with a PDA (this was a few years ago) would be great for walking and working. But I probably would have walked in front of a bus so it is just as well
1100.
by aptwebapps 15y ago
This isn't the first time this happened. I remember this story: http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1918246/EVE-Online-Rocked... which was funny because the guy basically just ran a 'bank' where you just gave him the ISK in game. It was a
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm with Jason Kincaid on this one. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/07/the-bombshell-that-wasnt-fo... There wasn't anything new in those documents. We already knew that Google only put out final releases and we already knew a
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
The idea that this causes 'hoarding' is highly questionable. It can cause hoarding. It's not a given. But it can get into a downward spiral. Does this cause people to hold onto their money instead of buying computers, tvs, and iphones?
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
He hasn't committed a crime and even if they don't like what he's done, I doubt that they have it in for him. Even if they do, what are they going to do? Sabotage his career by giving him bad references?
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by aptwebapps 15y ago
But a distributed layout might have higher minimums than a single orientation. For an actual tree, at least, that might be important. The sun doesn't just move during the day, it changes its course over the year, so it might be very benefic