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931.
by aristus 17y ago
It's not elitist at all. I meant a split between people who cary non-pocketable devices and those who cary pocket devices as their primary computers. A netbook falls in the first category. We already have a class of professionals who use Bl
932.
by aristus 17y ago
I wonder if we're heading for a split in computing devices: the hackers and "content producers" will get stuck lugging laptops around while everyone else uses pocket computerphones. That's kind of depressing.
933.
by aristus 17y ago
Jason, any comment?
934.
by aristus 17y ago
They also had badass arrows. But on a world where the flying things are all glowing and lizardy, where did they get the feathers for the arrows?
935.
by aristus 17y ago
That would be tantamount to a blockade of shipping lines, ie an act of war. They are certainly able to do it, but I don't think that right now they will.
936.
by aristus 17y ago
In very high latency situations new connections are too expensive. Say you have 300msecs packet latency, which is common in mobile. That means in worst case, that XHR will take at least one second just to the DNS lookup and establish the TC
937.
by aristus 17y ago
If comments are a problem you can use a display:none textarea or a dozen other things. The important bit is that steve has found another way to decouple the HTTP loading from the Javascript engine parsing/loading. That's a fairly significan
938.
VMWare buys Zimbra from Yahoo(marketwire.com)
3 points by aristus 17y ago|1 comments
939.
by aristus 17y ago
I'm not arguing anything about the validity or wisdom of patents. I'm saying the poster (a VC) left out a lot of pertinent information and using the term "patent troll" incorrectly. It's an interesting item but wrapped in self-serving omiss
940.
by aristus 17y ago
I'm a little cautious about this post. He is exaggerating by stretching the definition of "patent troll", if I am reading correctly. A true patent troll is a company that produces nothing except lawsuits. With a company that produces someth
941.
by aristus 17y ago
People didn't build IC fabs in their garages either. But we knew the ins and outs of the hardware. Some things are beyond human ability, but there seems to be much less interest in homebrewing our primary computing devices than I think that
942.
by aristus 17y ago
True, but it is a known quantity. I mean failwhale "unscheduled maintenance"
943.
by aristus 17y ago
One thing that disturbs me is how incurious people seem to be about their hardware. I was talking with two people who make their entire living from iPhone apps, and they didn't know it is an ARM device. Part of it is surface-mount component
944.
by aristus 17y ago
Yes, very tedious, and always lags behind the latest version -- maybe that should be your next business. :D
945.
by aristus 17y ago
I think the author is misled by survivor bias. How many Basecamp clones have been released and failed? How many more have been planned, half-implemented, and shelved? Also, how many "enterprise" development teams can commit to creating and
946.
by aristus 17y ago
use different colors for .com, .net, etc columns. if it is free, use the black text "free". if it is taken, grey out that cell, with no text. that will make it much easier to scan with the eye
947.
by aristus 17y ago
I have to disagree, at least anecdotally. I know several people, whom I'm pretty sure don't have to work if they don't want to. Yet they moved to the US specifically in order to start companies. And even they, rich, educated folk from "good
948.
by aristus 17y ago
At first glance it is non-sequitur. On second glance it is specious. It's also redundant: Amichail's other comment about theoreticians and conjecture proofs added whatever it added to the conversation already.
949.
by aristus 17y ago
Hmm. A country that: 1) doesn't hold US debt and does not do substantial trade with the US (sorry Canada, Japan, Mexico, et al) 2) Has large reserves of gold, petroleum or industrial minerals. 3) wants skilled English-speaking immigrants ..
950.
by aristus 17y ago
You are right they are not new. Yahoo was one of the first to do rigorous testing to derive these rules and publish them. Along with YSlow, these rules are what kicked off the discussion on those hundreds of other sites. They are also under
951.
by aristus 17y ago
psst: justin.tv Justin used to run around with a helmet camera and a laptop+ 4 bonded wireless modems in his backpack.
952.
by aristus 17y ago
I'm very surprised that they rely on a single vendor. But I guess DNS is one of those things you don't think about until it fails.
953.
by aristus 17y ago
Unless things have changed in the US in the last few years, the process is very simple here too. I simply asked UUNet for a /24, filled out a form, and that was it.
954.
The Soul of a Portable Machine(carlos.bueno.org)
15 points by aristus 17y ago|0 comments
955.
by aristus 17y ago
I think telling and living are held in tension. Say you are male, riding on a crowded bus with a small child in your care. A woman boards and you give her your seat. That's living a value. The child then does a "why chain" on you. Why did y
956.
by aristus 17y ago
What are the challenges? High import taxes and high colocation costs? I don't know anything about your deployment but if you place servers in Sao Paulo, Montevideo, and Santiago (and Ciudád Mexico, for some values of "South America") you've
957.
by aristus 17y ago
If I remember correctly, nothing goes into HTML5 unless it has already been implemented by at least two major vendors.
958.
by aristus 17y ago
A clever way to get a free haircut, sh1m. :D
959.
by aristus 17y ago
The implicit claim is that the people running Google are not sociopaths, yet he presents no evidence to support this claim. He attributes these upheavals to the "march of technology" and expects the reader to swallow this without objection.
960.
by aristus 17y ago
This is a special case of the "they don't make things like they used to" fallacy. You only see the old stuff that was so exceptionally well-made that it survived.

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