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by buff-a 15y ago
Microsoft abandons silverlight, Sony announces Playstation Suite SDK written in C#. This is topsy-turvy day. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999086
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by buff-a 15y ago
C#?!?
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by buff-a 15y ago
No Google Chrome-in-IE either then. I should probably be paying attention to this, but is Metro HTML5/js only? Does that mean Chrome and Firefox are basically dead on Windows 8 (unless you leave Metro)? And what about anti-trust lawsuits ag
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by buff-a 15y ago
FTA: They've sold out the public, who they're supposed to represent. People keep saying this like its an opinion. This is the central fact of modern day politicians and government bureaucrats. Lets stop fucking talking about it. Lets get
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by buff-a 15y ago
=) I'm talking about a treadmill. Like this: http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-treadmill-desk...
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by buff-a 15y ago
Its a shame they didn't discuss walking beyond "it makes it difficult to type". Question: if I can figure out how to type while walking, will that give me the benefits of standing while avoiding the negatives?
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by buff-a 15y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/09/06/com... "Microsoft’s average revenue from its Office suite licenses sold to enterprise and retail customers has been declining due to competition from cloud-based app providers like
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by buff-a 15y ago
I think it will. Now show me a PC with that spec with the form factor and battery life - i.e. usage pattern - of an iPad. Your ARM tablet wont be able to run legacy software. Your x86 tablet wont have 12 hours of battery life and be thin an
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by buff-a 15y ago
What desktop PC? Running what ? I do have a desktop PC and I do do business with Word documents. But on my latest machine I have yet to install Office (though I have two legal copies) because Google Docs works just fine.
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by buff-a 15y ago
can run the copy of Home Landscape Architect 3D Pro Plus 2007 I'll be impressed if they can pull that off and still make it so I can carry it around like an iPad. What I fear, however, is that they'll make this a hybrid that fails in both
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by buff-a 15y ago
If there's one thing that is guaranteed to keep me awake its a good book. Screw checking email... just one more chapter.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Most companies will have (and should have) a clause saying that unless its totally unrelated to the company's business, then they own it. If you quit a job and start a company that is unrelated to your ex-employers business then you are in
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by buff-a 15y ago
Define "directly relevant". Sometimes that is the extent of the clause. Jury: well its computer software, and your business states right there in the business code classification that your company is a software company, so we say its owned
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by buff-a 15y ago
Sorry. I meant someone who has a legal residence in Manhattan, pays US taxes, US social, but actually spends 350 days of the year "vacationing" in Mumbai, Buenos Aires, etc? And by "legal residence" I mean paying $100 a month to a mate to c
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by buff-a 15y ago
How do you deal with someone who says they live in Manhattan, but actually lives in Mumbai?
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Startup accelerators and Internet bubbles(blogs.reuters.com)
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by buff-a 15y ago
The ability to drag files or log in once hardly makes up for the fact that I have three computers and only one of them runs Windows. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another
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by buff-a 15y ago
Compared to bicycles and shapes, this book is a step in the right^H^H^H a different direction in that it is data-oriented rather than object-oriented. Rather than make the claim (as they do in the introduction) that other textbooks are doin
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by buff-a 15y ago
Python 2.7 will magically make all code work multithreaded. Making code written single threaded run on multiple threads at once is well known to be easy. It is a solved problem that the compiler will just take care of. Just install 2.7. It
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by buff-a 15y ago
On the face of it, all thing being equal, your graph supports your point. However, all things are not equal. Your graph shows no growth in family income between 1970 and 2007. But in 1970, Dad worked a shift and maybe Mom, while in 2007
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by buff-a 15y ago
Sure it sucks to be poor, believe me I know No, you really don't know. Because being poor for you was temporary. I'm technically "poor" right now, but having a wonderful time because to make that amount of money I only have to work a few
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by buff-a 15y ago
No Greg Bear??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel)
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by buff-a 15y ago
I don't believe the problem is economic inequality. It does not matter if the rich get richer. What matters is that the poor are getting poorer in absolute terms: how much they have to work in order to make rent, buy food, enjoy a vacation.
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by buff-a 15y ago
If the community picks it up and starts developing it (in addition to developing with it) great. But if all the code is written by Google employees, and they then get reassigned, you'll be left either learning how to write compilers or hopi
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by buff-a 15y ago
Or it will succeed, you'll start using it, and then they'll pull the plug on it, or find some way to charge an outrageous amount of money for it.
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by buff-a 15y ago
It could cause magical creatures to appear and fellate me while I work, I still wont be locking myself into anything from Google. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972108 - "What’s better: Pricier Google App Engine, or nothing?" or, mo
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by buff-a 15y ago
No, we did the math. We were just wrong by a factor of 20 compared to the numbers that Google "only now" released.
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by buff-a 15y ago
I'm going to speculate Primary complaint. We are all speculating. We went from measurement to speculation. I can't write performance applications on speculation.
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by buff-a 15y ago
GAE was more interesting to me because it promised to be efficient and scalable if I learned their platform. Turns out that MBAs uploading django onto it are getting more reasonable cost increases than my custom built apps. It was interesti
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by buff-a 15y ago
True. I could have lived with instance based pricing if it was actually reasonable. But its a real shame, because resource-based pricing really attracted me to the platform. Now they've just thrown in the towel. I'd rather they added metric

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