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541.
WWDC Sells Out in Less Than 2 Minutes(mashable.com)
1 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
542.
Herb Sutter's Trip Report: ISO C++ Spring 2013 Meeting(herbsutter.com)
1 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
543.
by btian 14y ago
From what I understand, Office 365 is provided free of charge. The website is down. Would be nice if people can provide more information.
544.
Visualizing Java Garbage Collection(infoq.com)
3 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
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by btian 14y ago
Mac has different hardware. Screen is better quality, retina screens are amazing. Finish is much better. Battery is denser. Fan is less noisy. I can go on but you get the idea. I agree that the processor is the same, but a computer is more
546.
by btian 14y ago
Have you visited the UK? There is universal health care, and there is rampant homelessness
547.
by btian 14y ago
Because Direct3D is not cross-platform. You can't use that on the iOS devices, Android devices, OS X, Linux/Unix systems, PS3/PS4, Wii etc.
548.
by btian 14y ago
>surprised that there isn't more support for a native Linux version of Direct3D There is no surprise. D3D is proprietary while OpenGL is open standard. >It is by far the better of the two APIs I highly disagree. Do you have any exam
549.
by btian 14y ago
+1. Freakonomics a chapter on this topic.
550.
by btian 14y ago
AFAIK cellphones predominantly used 700-900MHz band in the past, and moved to ~2GHz band recently for HSPA/4G LTE Also there has been a lot of usage of 2.4GHz devices in recent years.
551.
by btian 14y ago
I'd say it's more to do with number of employees. 37signals would be considered a start-up by most people while Facebook is definitely not a start-up
552.
by btian 14y ago
Nope. Only your most recently used documents are cached.
553.
by btian 14y ago
Link bait title. It doesn't work in general as reported in the article.
554.
Just Cause 2 Developer on DRM(techdirt.com)
1 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
555.
by btian 14y ago
On the third page it says "(c) Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008" It's just wrong to turn HN into pirate bay.
556.
by btian 14y ago
Apparently some Marvell CPUs have 64-bit address extension http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/
557.
by btian 14y ago
> commenters who repeatedly respond to replies But isn't that the whole point of Show HN posts?
558.
Petition to legalize cellphone unlocking will get White House response(theverge.com)
1 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX 'Dragon' capsule reaches International Space Station(cnn.com)
2 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
560.
by btian 14y ago
They made it!
561.
by btian 14y ago
What makes people think that Apple gives a damn about Wall St.?
562.
by btian 14y ago
So he thinks that income inequality is bad, and his solution is fewer H1Bs which will cause greater income inequality...
563.
by btian 14y ago
have you ever heard of the term "activist investor"?
564.
Boeing looking at changes to keep heat or fire from spreading(cnbc.com)
2 points by btian 14y ago|1 comments
565.
by btian 14y ago
that's comparing apples to oranges
566.
by btian 14y ago
$300 per unit sounds low. Cheapest iPad 4 goes for $500, and Apple has a ~40% margin. Selling an iPad for $300 will eliminate all their margin.
567.
by btian 14y ago
Just signed up. Everything is very intuitive and trouble free. I guess the ability to choose numbers would be a premium feature? Would be great to have an Android app as well.
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Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
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The future of software developers(theelitegentleman.blogspot.com)
1 points by btian 14y ago|0 comments
570.
by btian 14y ago
wiredfool is almost right except in the case for dividend paying stocks. It could prove profitable to exercise before expiry date if the investor thinks the company is going to raise dividend because option holders don't receive dividend.

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