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by bluekeybox 15y ago
> It's a result of Apple producing a good tablet. Yes, and not just anybody producing a good tablet, but Apple producing a good tablet. > it sometimes feels as if some design decisions were made to deliberately be different from A
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Nothing really is a natural right. Nature is not a lawmaker. All rights, rules, and laws are simply what we define them to be. The laws of physics are about the only absolute laws out there. Watch out for people using the word "natural". W
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Because he hasn't come out of it yet; just look how impetuously he's attacking property owners.
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Hey I'm not putting down FOSS -- the only way I myself learned that there is a better world out there is through FOSS. My comment was more general (i.e. if you are a programmer, it will do good to you to be around other programmers at least
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> programming for biology and medical research ... is just like any other mediocre programming job, but your office is a folding table under a decommissioned fume hood. That is sooo spot on (left my bioinformatics job a month ago for th
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Well it may seem a bit arbitrary to those who grew up in the U.S. but were born elsewhere (or even to those who were born in the U.S. but grew up culturally isolated).
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I suppose at the point where one feels closer to the "generic" American values/culture than to that of your forebears. I think it's the truest definition, however it is often hard to prove/demonstrate, so the arbitrary definition "have be b
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My laptop is my primary coding machine. I also walk to/from work (well, not all the way, but quite a distance) which makes laptops with 15" and larger screens a bit unsuitable for me. Because of my recent back problem (no more heavy messeng
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> An ORM is an insanely convenient way for newbies to use various data stores while avoid learning umpteen different query languages Let's count these umpteen different query languages: (1) SQL, (2) ... ? > If you seek efficiency a
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> Why are extraverts so threatened by anyone who won't interact with them on their terms? I act as an extravert in certain situations and as an introvert in others, so I feel qualified to answer your question. Extraverts don't always in
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I have had many desktop keyboards (Dell, IBM, standard issue Apple), and my MacBook keyboard is by far the best keyboard I have used (warning: subjective judgement here). I actually prefer the narrow arrow keys. This is because, when typing
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> It's a bit of a mystery, but surely if nearly a third of Russian web surfers have made it their default it just might be time for the rest of the world to take it for a test drive I can shed some light on this "mystery". Shortly after
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> The fundamental point underlying science and basic research is that it's generally not possible to know the value of knowledge before you, well, know it Oh no, I wasn't arguing against science -- to the opposite, I wish that scientifi
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The more I have been studying, the more it has been coming to me that knowledge must not be an end to itself. This is because there is an infinite amount of knowledge out there (care to catalogue the shapes of grains of sand on Earth?), but
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I bet that 100 years from now, in the post-Singularity wasteland with pockets of humans surviving here and there, and with unimaginably advanced hardware available that responds to your thoughts at will, Microsoft if it survives is going to
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As someone from that area, who had met people both from the inside and from the outside of the former border, I would like to tell you that the conclusions of this study are 100% correct.
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iRemote here we come.
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> He says college rewards conformity and competition, not collaboration, theory Wow I never considered the collaboration vs competition argument, but it makes perfect sense. I have seen one too many students with perfect grades who don'
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Ha, I'm in my usual cycle: code, code, code, refresh HN, read some article with an interesting headline as quickly as I possibly can (being at work and all), completely disregard who is who, post my opinion, code, code, code, refresh HN.
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> Clones were a bad idea because they diluted Apple's brand and cut way into their margins (Apple is a hardware company and makes money from that). Well Apple's embracing amateur content may turn out to be a bad idea for all I know -- i
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> If Apple's going to succeed at the web, they have to unlearn a lot of what makes them Apple. No more pixel perfect web apps that feel like desktop apps, no more sites that look like glossy brochures, and embracing chaos and amateurism
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When you poll opinions of a number of people, the opinions often turn out to be logically incompatible with each other. For example, when you define "popular" opinions as ones that are shared by at least 10% of the population, you can have
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Intelligence information is speculative and absolutely cannot be compared to an official warning.
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You didn't take even a minute to think through before writing. > And usually, there's considerable advance warning before attacks so you could prepare. The key word is "usually". How usually is usually? When Nazis attacked the USSR, was
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> I think the reason countries use missile silos and stationary bases is actually for ability to protect key installations and arms during domestic unrest and rioting, which is a statistically much more likely problem for a world power
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Funny, I have the exact same book (find it to be one of the better intros on this topic), and happened to pick the exact same app to do my first project. BTW, there are a few memory leaks in the Weather app code as given in the book (though
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If there is one lesson that people in this industry should have learned by now, it is, "never say forever". Or 640Kb of RAM still would have been enough for anybody.
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> It looks like the Intel 8086 architecture and its descendents will be with us for ever ... Why not take advantage of every idiosyncrasy of that instruction set? Because ARM.
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Surprise, surprise... The largest of traditional newspapers has a problem with one of the biggest drivers behind online media: that you can finally choose what you read.
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Another quick question: which of the two hypotheses is first to be eliminated by Occam's razor? U.S. is very unlikely to be willing to go to war with its biggest economic partners.

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