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by bmalicoat 16y ago
kjksf summed it up nicely. Google obviously provided a ton of capital but it was Rubin, using what he learned when building the hiptop, that gave the spark to the whole project.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Doesn't seem like it was that long ago. Interesting that over time people started to believe Google itself created Android, when it's actually closer to being a hiptop successor.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
The question is from Giz, the author provides the answer.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Bumping can leave distinctive grooves inside the barrel and on the pins that a normal key wouldn't. They may consider these traces to be destructive even though the lock remains operational.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I have this set [1]. Though mine has a plastic handle so it was about half the price listed there. It's a nice set, quite small and very pocketable. There's something deeply satisfying about picking locks, hearing each pin tick and feeling
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
There is no Apple Store in Redmond. The nearest one is Bellevue which gets a lot of traffic from Seattle proper as well as from Redmond.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Spoilers Don't read if you haven't seen it yet! Saito dies at some level (if I remember right at the top dream level) and he enters limbo. Cobb goes there from the snow compound dream level but Saito has already been there 20-40 years (mayb
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Can someone explain why the zero g scenes didn't cascade down through each dream level? They were feeling forces in the first dream in the van and those would go to the hotel but those sleeping there would not feel the same forces (eg lack
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I learned about these in a linguistics course in college. My favorite from back then was, "The building blocks the sun faded toppled." Depending on how you are led down it, you might have two abrupt and unanticipated words at the end.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Can't wait to see my first 4K cat video.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I agree with some of what you say but I don't think you can say Apple changed on including apps. They didn't include apps from the first gen due to the huge engineering effort required to successfully support 3rd parties and have the mechan
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
That's pretty cool, but everyone knows the second hand on the iPhone moves discretely with a little bounce rather than continuously! Kidding aside, it'd be awesome to have a tool that converts images to their css equivalent if there would b
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
What I mean is you could have full voice signal with no data signal and not know it if you are connected to wifi too. Most areas have at least GPRS, but you can still find some towers that are voice only. Because of this you really don't ha
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
The functionality is no doubt coming to iChat, maybe they have special build they are using to do it now.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Didn't they launch it before Facebook and haven't they since all but abandoned it? www.orkut.com Also, it didn't start out as a Brazilian social network, not sure where the article got that.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
When you're on wifi you have no indication of the signal strength of any other data source (3G, Edge or GPRS). It's possible the Wifi would go out and then the bars would drop, I suppose. Any signal issues I've seen have been non-wifi thoug
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
> Say you want to watch a movie. To choose, you'll want to know what movies others liked and, based on what you thought of other movies you've seen, if this is a movie you'd like. You'll be able to browse that information. Then you sele
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I thought the article would be all about how Google gives developers free phones at all their conferences.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
It doesn't have to be 326ppi to be huge news. You probably hold the iPad another 12 inches further away from your eyes than the iPhone, so a smaller, more manageable bump in ppi could mean the same 'retina' result.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Worse yet, adding those bumpers, and most cases, makes the whole 'square edge to allow the phone to sit up and act as a camera on a table' feature, er thing, not work.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Well, it is certainly easier for devs that they pixel doubled, but I don't think the resolution is hyperbole, see: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/r...
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I think the main reasons this is getting more press is because the resolution is over the ~300 ppi barrier that makes most eyes unable to resolve pixels. The square design of the iPhone 4 is functional (try balancing a 3GS on its side to do
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I believe he started http://www.hitechnic.com
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
He has his moments but I don't think he is quite the antithesis of Thurrott, yet.
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Here an excerpt that gets pretty awkward (and sweaty): http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-video-under-mark-zucker...
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I wonder if this is the beginning of teens and 20-somethings realizing their Facebook (Twitter, etc.) postings can carry weight and bring real-world consequences. Creating a Facebook group out of frustration seems harmless enough but depend
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
By your logic almost all of any company's revenue is ill-gotten gains. There is almost always an update or refresh to a product line in the pipeline. Consumers could always wait to get something better and cheaper. Apple are not preying on
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I feel similarly. I started paying for extra gmail storage after reading a story of how one guy's gmail just ceased to be one day. I hope that somehow by paying, gmail has a small motivation to keep mine in existence. Probably wrong, but it
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
Get a TI calculator and try making some simple games for it in TI Basic. The calculator is nice because you can program in your not-so-great history classes or whatever. Also start messing around with Python, there is no overhead and you ca
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by bmalicoat 16y ago
I don't really think crowdsourcing app ideas is the best idea. Mostly you'll end up hearing from a loud minority. For example, there is a request for an Illinois Compiled Statute app....I don't really think that would have huge market appea

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