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by batista 14y ago
> Whether or not you agree with copyleft licenses, how can you sit there and say that someone is a zealot for wanting to enforce the terms under which they licensed their work? 1) Because for a pragmatic (not zealot) guy, the license i
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> why should he just sit there quietly while other people violate his license and profit off his work? Gee, I don't know. Maybe for the good of the hundreds of thousands of users of iOS/VLC? Maybe because the other contributors had agr
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I don't happen to believe that what is legal is also moral.
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> The notion of a "perfect" screen size makes exactly as much sense as a perfect ring, glove, shirt or shoe size - none. Really? Because any device but has to be sold to hundrends of millions people, western, asian, african, men, women
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> And what if porn was censured? There would be a lot more crazy people on the streets. Historically porn wasn't that available, and no, you didn't have lots more "crazy people on the streets". In fact, judging from crime rates, depres
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> I understand and agree with your point, as it is scientifically based. I remember seeing a great TED talk on the effect this is having. Going off a tangent here, but I would agree with that even if it was not "scientifically based".
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> This isn't an article only for US citizens. If you can't care less that a major government is recruiting hackers for national defense (or offense) & paying for their school/training, then maybe you should think outside your border
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Make it: "the thinnest smartphone that matters".
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True. And another thorny issue in reading something like this on HN: the internet is international. Lots of us are not even from the US, and couldn't care less about defending THAT particular country. Not to mention that the defending part
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1) The head of that "micro" cable is huge. 2) Does it have the same power characteristics, is it suitable for other needs (video, audio, etc)? Is the chipset needed to drive it small and capable enough or does it tax the main CPU? I'm prett
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Except if, you know, microUSB specs don't cover everything they need the adapter to do.
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>* But the iPhone is the best trick in their bag. And in the last few years, some people have gotten sick of seeing it.* Some people or some journalists/nerds? Because the numbers surely don't point to people liking it any less, actuall
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Actually it's very good news. It means that no single zealot or bad apple can stop the code from being used in ways the users want. E.g like this Rémi Denis-Courmont guy, a VLC contributor working for Nokia, killed the iOS VLC port for viol
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I have that happen with current iOS (Google) all the time. Don't type: "21st and 6th", type "21st and 6th, CITY".
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How is that a better question? Do you need one NOW, or in 10 months? In 10 months we'll be waiting for the iPhone 6 anyway...
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> pg is a lisp guy but I don't see the Clojure connection. Pg -> promoting Lisps. Clojure -> a Lisp. Pg -> influential. Clojure -> got traction on HN and startup crowd.
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As if anyone except history books and nerds care who DID invent them. What matters is who made them popular and got them in our collective hands en masse. That's when the revolution starts, when people start buying them so you have improvem
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> I wanted something that would be qualitatively better than current Android phones. It didn't deliver. At all. IMHO, it's better than any Android phone out there, bar none. From the construction, to the display, to the weight and size
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Yes, god forbid someone does that...
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> Every previous iPhone had a new feature that was a pretty BFD. This is the first without. Larger screen. It's a BFD for some people, for they have been tearing their hearts out at forums for ages how Android has that and the iPhone d
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> - they take the Hippocratic oath very seriously. It's a big part of the culture and indoctrination of medical students. The same doctors in bed with big-Pharma, that shove prescriptions around for money and paid-all-expenses trips? T
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> I am old enough to remember the 1960s, and accounts from people who traveled to Afghanistan in the 1960s, and I would like to see more evidence for this extraordinary claim. Go read some books then. That they had religion and that th
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> Hospitals and surgeons will not operate on you unless you are not expected to recover, or regain consciousness. Except when they can cut corners, because "ok, the guy is badly injured, there's some other patient that needs that organ
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> How is "new connector" a good thing? It's still not USB. Well, it's smaller enabling the phone to be thinner, more durable design, can go in either side up, and it's faster. > Looks like iPhone is playing catchup. How times chang
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by batista 14y ago
"infinite hype"? Where? They announced an event, the day came, they announced the product. A slogan like that on the product announcement/product page, does not amount to "infinite hype". If you want to see "infinite hype", check the Micros
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Were you even along for the ride man? Jobs/Apple was never about bundling tons of irrelevant features together (wireless charging? Please...), and winning by ticking feature checkboxes. Jobs used to introduce a new iPod model every year or
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People keep saying that, but no, Apple are not "marketing experts". They just make cool stuff people want to buy. Most of the "marketing" is grassroots. What exactly is the "brilliant marketing" they do? Make some good tv ads and being secr
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Plus, "simply a taller screen and newer processor", really? New screen, new processor, new innards, new machining and construction, new connector, new iOS, new camera, improved battery life AND lighter. NFC and wireless charging? Who promis
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I find trolling used as a "term of perspective" an extremely vague blanket accusation that hinders discussion. If it's an obvious trolling, e.g something that can not be considered anything else than an attempt at troll, it's ok. But charac
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Exactly, that _would_ be silly. I don't get this kind of arguments "if you are serious about X you should go all the way, else forget about it altogether". You can both be serious about something AND reach some reasonable compromise. In thi

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