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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I think this is a positive move for Microsoft. In particular, having all OS development work (including desktop, phone and XBox) looks like a good idea, as I've heard there have been a lot of problems with Windows Phone being managed
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It's really not so bad. I've done 3 Goenka courses and I have no religious affiliation (neither before nor after). He does say some things that are definitely coming from a Hindu mindset/bias, but 99% of the course is just
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
There is nothing new age about Goenka meditation courses, and it's definitely not a resort. It's 10 days of hard work, but it's well worth it. It's also purely donation basis (you donate at the end, and it's optio
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm so glad to see .deb installers alongside the tarballs, I've usually resorted to using third party repos for ST2 installation. It's really great to see a developer treating Windows, Linux and OSX all as first class targets
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
If you are a developer billing that much per hour, then it is undoubtedly worth it. For hobbyist programmers and people just getting started, however, it's a bit more uncertain. It's the age old question of how to price a product
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Well, at least this design is a lot closer to current Android and WP8. When developers designed specifically for iOS and then ported to Android as an afterthought, the results often looked completely out of place. I'm hopeful that it
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Macs have never been marketed as an X (M|G)hz machine with Y (M|G)B RAM. Not quite true, I don't think. Around the late 90s, early 00s there was a lot of marketing around the high Mhz of the Mac CPU compared with PCs - and argume
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
The audiobook version of this is excellent, read by Wil Wheaton. One of the best books I've read in the last few years, and also one of the most entertaining audiobook narrations.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
If this article is accurate - and that iOS 7 has so much eyecandy that it will only work on the latest high end hardware - does this mean that a low end budget iPhone is off the table? Or is this Apple's way of segmenting a high end
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Maybe we need the "Herd immunity" of a large number of people using encryption software. If a sufficient number of people are using encryption, then targeting those users becomes less worthwhile.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology. > Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decad
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> some hopeless ideology The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing. > irrelevant in the desktop space Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking to hire between 2,000 and 3,000 people in order to bolster its research into software. Looks like those 2-3k people might be for a wider effort than just Firefox OS. I think it is a smart move t
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Well for starters, there is a huge fixed banner at the top of the page, and a fixed sidebar. If you are trying to read the page in a windows that is not maximised, then you really lose a lot of real estate.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
That's probably because you were trying to come up with a system this is more restrictive than the traditional physical media system (where you could share or sell a single physical item), but with concessions. There is a very simple a
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
So what is the point of the once per day online requirement? And what is the point of restricting used games? There are no technical reasons for these (as I have explained in other posts), and so people are justifiably were livid.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Unless you're implying that... my disc stops working because my console doesn't have a license That's exactly what I'm saying. The console has to phone home every time the game is installed or de-activated. The re
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Person A puts disc in, phones home, and installs. Person B puts disc in, phones home and finds out that the game is already registered. Person B can't install unless Person A phones home to de-register. Person B can use a partial cod
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm saying that's the way it should work. Give the user a disc and an activation code. Activation code becomes tied to the account until traded. Problem solved.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
As far as I understand it, other people can log into your console to play the game, or you can log into someone elses console. You cannot lend games to anyone to use on another console without giving them access to your account. They also
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
No, it should be that every time you load it on the console it phones home. So only 1 person can ever activate it. Phone home on activation is infinitely better than phone home every day.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
No, they looked at a problem and found an utterly despicable way of "solving" it. There is absolutely no technical reason why the terms had to be so anti-consumer. As long as the system has to phone home every time a game is bou
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"Opt out" of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program.(prism-break.org)
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I think that there is a difference between entities with consciousness and those without, in that you can't cause pain and suffering to an entity without consciousness. In that sense, they are "special". But that doesn&#x27
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm not sure that we necessarily need to become vegetarians in order to condemn the poor treatment of animals. It's perfectly possible (albeit more expensive) to raise and kill animals in a humane manner. Personally I have no pro
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
That's not a very strong argument - the framework with 10 users is a far smaller target than the one with thousands of installs.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Wow, what happened here? Rapidly got multiple downvotes on a day old post for a fairly innocuous comment.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> The new business models can't support the old cost structures, but they can support the new cost structures from new businesses built around the disruptions. Excellently put.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Masters Of Doom Yes! I listened to the audiobook version of this which was read by Wil Wheaton, great stuff. Thanks for the other suggestions - I'm going to start with Drive as I liked Daniel Pink's latest book but haven&#x2
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Some people are upset about the look of iOS, Android and WP converging, but I'm quite happy about it. At the moment many apps get written to fit the iOS style and when they are ported over to Android they look horrible. I think now ma

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