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by billiam 11y ago
I am just going to cut and paste my previous comment on Musk. The Musk M.O: 1. Identify industry with big inefficiencies that depends on huge government subsidies. That's cars, commercial space vehicles, mass transit and now: colonizin
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by billiam 12y ago
The district rushed to single source the deal so it could get curriculum and hardware for a single price, all to be paid for by your grandkids (school construction bonds), who won't be voting for a long time. The curriculum sucked. How
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by billiam 12y ago
Nice try, Pincus :)
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by billiam 12y ago
Former network engineer here who built these big networks in the 1990s. At MCI and UUNET we used to talk about all the services we would build to compete with GeoCities and AOL. If only we didn't have to face our peers every Wednesday
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by billiam 12y ago
That is a shocking thing to say. If they had followed the wait and see approach there's a good chance she might be blind right now. This high-handedness is why I have such a hard time with the medical profession.
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by billiam 12y ago
It's WebkitCSSMatrix dependent. Did you even try to make it work with one of the polyfills for CSSMatrix so it would work on Firefox?
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by billiam 12y ago
I hate to say it, but I am well and truly tired of this flim flam man. This latest gambit is surely the most cynical plot of them all. He really is the latest Steve Jobs, whose marketing genius was imagining a never-ending string of product
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by billiam 12y ago
It's nice to hear from you, Dr. Strangelove. How is life in the bunker? There are so many unanticipated consequences of the extinction event we are currently slipping into that I think it is pointless to speculate in a sentence or two.
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by billiam 12y ago
Following your logic, I want to congratulate Microsoft for the mandatory Windows XP Service Pack 2--the most popular software download ever!
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by billiam 12y ago
"we basically watched a plausible version of how Apple could have gotten started if there was only a Wozniak but no Jobs." Nailed it. For my kids sake, I hope they take a little while before they turn Minecraft into a FPS on Xboxl
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by billiam 12y ago
I'm sorry, I just don't follow this slippery slope argument. We have lots of examples of the government abusing their use of online information. For the haves, we have the still-minor indignities of the no-fly list and targeting
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by billiam 12y ago
Uh...yeah. What he said. I think that's what you really wanted to make. What you show, on the other hand, is a product that would be best used by people who never want to leave their hotel, but just plot out their sightseeing route on
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by billiam 12y ago
I guess I would point out that if it wasn't clear before it is clear now that iOS spps in a mature market behave much more like content than applications when it comes to getting news users, retaining them, and all the other pirate met
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by billiam 12y ago
I hope one of Tom Wheeler's minions prints out this thread for him on the dot matrix printer they use over at the FCC.
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by billiam 12y ago
The wins on confining the content to the browser sandbox as well as integrating .pdf viewing into the browser experience greatly outweigh the current limitations for large file sizes. I hope ongoing work will fix the latter. Pdf.js is an aw
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by billiam 12y ago
Um, just wondering how people feel about actually using FF 29, rather than talking about what it isn't? A really great browser is being obscured by a bikeshed. tl;dr It's awesome.
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by billiam 12y ago
As someone doing scientific computing back then, you nailed it. We distinguished Internet from the other networks already in use.
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by billiam 13y ago
"The sad truth about culture is that a sustainable culture will feel much more like your parents home than your college dorm; and that will never change... because it's a good thing." That is the single best line I've re
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by billiam 13y ago
I think it is pretty clear that keeping Google running has not helped Google to understand most enterprise customers. I think part of the problem is that Google IS a company that could decide to (and spend all the money and time) to migrate
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by billiam 13y ago
She's on the Board...but doesn't own any shares to speak of. Line tracking issue.
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by billiam 13y ago
There are so many inaccuracies in this article that I just stopped reading after a while. Worthy subject, but a sad reflection of the state of journalism.
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by billiam 13y ago
For my money the more interesting 1986 PAW interview is linked on the sidebar, the one with Jaron Lanier, who I remember interviewing around then. Not a lot about the real work of programming, which Gates talks about like the automaton we k
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by billiam 13y ago
tl;dr Silos suck. Inevitably the farmers that control them them make people angry. Money talks. Capricious decisions are made. Today's winners become tomorrow's losers.
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by billiam 13y ago
Exactly. I think that the woeful state of US broadband and wireless infrastructure today is the strongest proof of the failure of a poorly regulated private sector that effectively has captured telecom governance. That sunny world of virtua
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by billiam 13y ago
Civil discourse on HN! A sincere "sorry" that is not a no-apology apology! Maybe this place has a chance....
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by billiam 13y ago
What makes me downright angry is the vehemence with which Google's Chief Legal officer David Drummond denounces siphoning Google's own data. Secretly take our users' personal data, that's okay, but secretly take our dat
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by billiam 13y ago
It's not do.com, it's doh.com.
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by billiam 13y ago
right on. Please spend as much time reading the bug referenced above as you have this thread, and think about the obvious problems/hard solutions proposed, then make a better one! Just keeping a few million WinXP machines from a recycl
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by billiam 13y ago
Stick to the comments about node and ember, guys. Your views about humanity, civilization, and anthropology make me embarrassed for you.
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by billiam 14y ago
The most important implication of this discovery is that while the price of lithium could plunge, decreasing the costs of lithium vehicle batteries, unless we put a system in place that uses regulatory and market forces to guarantee that th

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