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After 40 years, Heinz revamps ketchup packets(msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by awa 17y ago|0 comments
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by awa 17y ago
Well AAPL and MSFT are two different ball games. AAPL hit the jackpot with iPhone, post iPhone Apple has been a second coming of Apple, its no longer the same company for investors. For investors, due to consistent profitability and revenue
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by awa 17y ago
MSFT has been able to maintain the stock price near $30 levels for sometime while paying dividends consistently
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by awa 17y ago
To quote what Adobe exactly said: "Flash is enabling over 75% of video on the Web today, the coming HTML video implementations cannot agree on a common format across browsers, so users and content creators would be thrown back to the dark a
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by awa 17y ago
Microsoft has to deal with governments and corporations. And the opensource page at http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ is an answer to the question: "What is MS's policy towards opensource" and similar questions. For developer's there'
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by awa 17y ago
I am not trying to bash flash here... the site seemed simple enough to me to be implemented without requiring flash, and I was curious as I had to click an extra time because of flashblock.
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by awa 17y ago
I agree its a good move for the current situation, but just turning comments on and off won't solve the problem in the long run. When the next gizmo is launched they will face the same problem. I think they should take this time to implemen
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by awa 17y ago
I think creating a link to a community site like HN or reddit at the end of the post so people can submit/comment on the community site rather than on the blog might help.
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by awa 17y ago
Welcome to HN! Please take some time to go through the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . And hit upvote when you agree with somebody's comment.
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by awa 17y ago
This is the comment which uses a popular fighting video game reference to break the chain of the thread.
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by awa 17y ago
Was wondering: Why do you need to use flash for this?
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by awa 17y ago
The same top people who thought it was ok to delete Orwell's work from their customer's kindles.
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by awa 17y ago
Since you bring it up, Dhirubhai Ambani, who was a major Indian businessmen did something like this in his early career. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirubhai_Ambani#Life_in_Aden
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by awa 17y ago
Popularity of a product is not a true sign of "not sucking" :P
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by awa 17y ago
Sigh.. and I thought somebody was wrong on the internetz... But reading the wikipedia article it seems they were trying to debase it in the 70s and went the wrong path and minted AL based coins which were rejected before making the actual c
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by awa 17y ago
Awesome, I wish I would anticipate such a move and start hoarding pennies!
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by awa 17y ago
Well, the history thinks differently, the penny has been "changed" 5 times in the last centure that's 20 years on average. And the last change happened in 1982 (28 years from now) well above the average time period and is the third longest
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by awa 17y ago
As "hga" mentioned penny is made with zinc with a copper. 97.5% zinc core, 2.5% copper plating From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_%28United_States_coin%29#...
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by awa 17y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83784/rails-books
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Microsoft Outpaces Apple in Customer Satisfaction: Chart of Day (bloomberg.com)
2 points by awa 17y ago|0 comments
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by awa 17y ago
Saw this discussion over at reddit, and wanted to know thoughts of readers here.
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Which common mistakes do less experienced programmers make time after time?(reddit.com)
3 points by awa 17y ago|1 comments
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by awa 17y ago
I wish someone (or I) had posted something like this when I was looking for an internship couple of years back... Regarding the HN job postings, Can't we have a quarterly "Who's hiring" thread as a permanent fixture. A quarter seems like a
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by awa 17y ago
According to the graph in the article they actually made profit in 2004 and 2005 and only a small loss in 06.. I'll admit some of the web products suck (hotmail?) but not bing, they haven't been able to profit from it. I guess currently the
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Reddit Programming subreddit FAQs(reddit.com)
2 points by awa 17y ago|0 comments
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by awa 17y ago
So, Apple will make sure any user accessing email from the iPhone/iPad won't go after the money he just inherited in Nigeria.
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by awa 17y ago
I guess there's nothing much stopping Microsoft from developing a MS office for iPhone OS. Not approving it will cause a lot of mayhem and maybe even antitrust issues for Apple so they will need to allow it. Also don't forget google docs an
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by awa 17y ago
Another news with the story I've heard before.. independent developer develops a cool app.. Big company sees it thinks "This is cool".. Rips it off!
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Think iBooks Looks Familiar? You’re Not The Only One.(techcrunch.com)
5 points by awa 17y ago|1 comments
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by awa 17y ago
I don't think it would be long before somebody is able to root the device and install a version of linux or android on the device. The nook was rooted within days and the iPad would be definitely more tempting to hackers to tinker with.

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