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by bonaldi 10y ago
Am disappointed how often posters here have flagged submissions on this topic to death. It's an important one, and HN's inability to allow discussion of it speaks poorly of this place. It's telling too that this is now larger
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Well, one is controversial and has political opinions that antagonise a large chunk of the US electorate, but the other is batshit-crazy, narcissistic, anti-democratic and would blow up the world to salve his ego. So, it's not even app
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by bonaldi 10y ago
This is a guy that 17 nuclear commanders have said isn't fit to have the launch codes; who erupts on Twitter at the slightest provocation and said he'd fire on Iranian ships for looking at US ships the wrong way. He'd take us
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by bonaldi 10y ago
No, the post censures _Trump_. The strongest it gets against Thiel is "I can't understand [his support]". That's pretty weak sauce, and also isn't an official YC position. YC needs to distance itself from this donat
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by bonaldi 10y ago
YC: Happy to cut people off over SOPA support. YC: Can't bring itself to even censure a billionaire who only works with them "part-time" for supporting actual hatred and sexual abuse. I await this thread filling up with &quot
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by bonaldi 10y ago
This is staggeringly odd. I can't believe Apple would sanction this, and don't expect they'll be happy if they're now discovering it. Most contracts would exclude it, too. Hope all is well with Ziegler and he isn't
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by bonaldi 10y ago
I don't disagree with you; it's just that those of us with the DSLRs (and the ILCs) are the last holdouts, we're a niche rump of what used to be a mainstream activity. Someone will make a nice life out of creating a service f
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Yahoo holds a lot of the blame for the death of Flickr, but it would have been in trouble anyway. Flickr was born for a time when a photograph was a rarer thing, and was something you'd put a lot of effort into both creating and curati
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by bonaldi 10y ago
We're now coming up on a day's outage here. Surprised there's so little noise about it online — I thought Wunderlist was more popular than that.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
> In the case of captioning the videos, the captioning costs several times more than putting up the videos in the first place. Probably on the order of 100x more Automatic caption creation is coming on in leaps, well beyond what YouTube
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Yes, it should. What you get is arguably fewer donations, but the donations you get are better donations. You raise the standard. And others want to follow suit, so they up their game too. This is already happening. UK supermarkets used t
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by bonaldi 10y ago
What does it matter in your scheme if the food being given away is substantially devalued? It's a gift, it should be held to a lower standard, right? Or are you saying that the gift must be of an equal value to that sold? Do they have
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by bonaldi 10y ago
What a hideous post. Lord of the Flies was also a cautionary tale. Because, despite your "I'm alright Jack" attitude, it generally turns out that society is a better place for everybody when inequality is at its lowest and wh
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by bonaldi 10y ago
No but people would say they food they give away should still comply with health regulations. Just because you're making a gift doesn't mean the law doesn't apply to you.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
And yet libraries have to meet disability access requirements. If you don't have minimum standards for accessibility, you perpetuate a two-class system, and this is especially bad when it applies to learning — which disabled people can
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Fascinating this. But glosses a bit over the cost of generating bespoke responses to every request. Wonder how it works if expensive queries are implied in the request. You also need smarter caching, I imagine.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Read John Siracusa's Spatial Finder rants in his OS X reviews for Ars Technica for more details than you could ever want
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by bonaldi 10y ago
I wonder if it can be triggered from the webview it automatically pops up when a captive wifi portal is accessed. Needs proximity to the user, but still straightforward.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
You're right that W95 offered a better window management paradigm, but for me that was also hobbled by the inconsistencies: MDI apps handled windows differently from SDI apps, for instance, and you couldn't be certain what was min
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Been a very, very long time since I had this argument, but I do think System 7 was better. Absolutely not technically, but definitely in terms of a coherent and consistent desktop metaphor, especially across shell and apps. W95 broke its ow
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by bonaldi 10y ago
> I'm 35 and I have probably seen an actual contact book only once when I was little. This just seems weird to me. Contacts books were replaced in a very limited way by PDAs for early adopters, but it wasn't until smartphones a
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by bonaldi 10y ago
You want to them to email you to tell you your internet service is down? Er ...
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by bonaldi 10y ago
The rich are busily withdrawing their money from the UK as fast as possible, and the closest thing to government policy right now is "er, we'll leave Europe but stay in Europe", so let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
I'd really love to do this, but there isn't a single editor I know of that can do it well. Because, for me, the trick would be to have different fonts and styles to help give the code context. Eg, the line defining a new method sh
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by bonaldi 10y ago
The audiophiles disagree on this one, I'm afraid. The iPod absolutely did have audiophile quality sound. Then it compromised on this when they were going for growth (and using cheaper parts). It returned to form by the time of the late
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by bonaldi 10y ago
I think you're misremembering or are thinking of the later models when you think of "oldest". The first iPods used Wolfson DACs and were hugely well regarded. Apple changed this for the 3rd gen iPod, which was a duffer in nea
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by bonaldi 10y ago
No support for the original Pixel? It's more powerful than quite a few on the list. Damn.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
Not mentioned here are the built-in speakers. Exclusive to Bloomberg, those, as they have a patent on it.
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by bonaldi 10y ago
And yet the iTunes and App Stores are both built with it, as is a chunk of Apple Music. It's a pity it's been neglected so long; there were some nice touches in there (bindings, EOF, some of the tooling when it wasn't crashin
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by bonaldi 10y ago
> I make sure I mark the most recent email as read. Then, I look back until I find the next email marked as read. I don't have to do any of this or have a special system. I just read my email. If an email is unread, it's unread

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