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by cbs 15y ago
We already had phones with desktops and icons. They ran Palm and WinCE.
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by cbs 15y ago
Your analogy doesn't really show anything. The candybar is consumed on use. Software isn't, but they're trying to make it so.
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by cbs 15y ago
>However the government, culture and venture capital industry in Australia are still far behind. Few grant programs exist Are you really suggesting the reason they don't "get it" is that the government tit isn't big enough to help you
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by cbs 15y ago
>Therein lies the value of innovation - several failed multi-million dollar marketing campaigns VS a lean startup reaching the same conclusion and offering the same solution. Hindsight is awesome, isn't it? They had now way to know tha
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by cbs 15y ago
But isn't this article reading way too much into a 4 year old liking to touch things and not having patience? Very much so. Young children are still learning the basics of physical interaction with the world and how the world works. Its
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by cbs 15y ago
Not only is that an ethical nightmare, complications arising at the connection site are actually quite probable and removing the ability to disconnect as needed would be a disaster.
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by cbs 15y ago
Several recent-ish negative stories (Dropbox security, Air BnB apartment damage) about YC companies really demonstrated pg's commitment to an open forum Funny you mentioned that. A few days after I posted a few of criticisms of dropbox i
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by cbs 15y ago
Mine says 101. What the hell does that mean? It doesn't even tell you whether that number is good or not. Saying that to a diabetic would be like asking you: The thermometer says 98.6 F is that good or bad? I don't mean to write this guy
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by cbs 15y ago
Look into rockbox (rockbox.org). Its an opensource replacement firmware. I take listening to my music seriously enough that I need a dedicated device with good software. Since I found rockbox I haven't bought a mp3 player unless they were
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by cbs 15y ago
>Is it annoying? Yes. But after moderate use I stop noticing it As someone who uses both devices, I really only notice this when I'm so board that dragging around a menu seems like a good way to kill time or plain old stoned. Its reall
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by cbs 15y ago
$500,000? The number of people for whom visas are the only barrier to buying a home in the USA and would spend over 500k on one is probably way too small to have any real impact on the housing market. Why not $5k? There are plenty of house
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by cbs 15y ago
That means that if somebody on your LAN sniff your cookies (and SSL wouldn't be used) you could use their account on their bank website. But I use SSL when I connect to facebook. And its not the data facebook collects as it files over the
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by cbs 15y ago
Exactly. A few years ago, project constraints had me working primarily on a mac for the first time. I loathed the dock for a good six months. Now I can't even remember what my objection to it was. I believe our dislike is mostly predic
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by cbs 15y ago
I heavily approached using Android as I did using an iPhone. I received a lot of shit for this, though. I was told I was “using Android wrong.” Well, duh. They're different, of course they're going to behave differently. I learned this
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by cbs 15y ago
>The problem is, Unity has done nothing but alienate power users. Ubuntu has almost always acted as a stepping stone for people to come learn Linux and then graduate to a real distribution. There have always been reason for power user
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by cbs 15y ago
>Or you're playing it safe. You're exactly right. This whole article sounds like someone pretending to understand risk analysis. You can make as many technological and human process improvements as you want leading up to the deploy, b
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by cbs 15y ago
>Isn't this the second highly public data point (that I know of) of him slashing and burning G+ and Google and then backtracking and saying how Google is the best place to work for No its not, because thats not what happened this time.
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by cbs 15y ago
>Why not Why In the first place? I plain old don't want to use my twitter account for this, or be forced to create a throwaway account on a completely unrelated service just to have a throwaway account for yours. And all because you ca
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by cbs 15y ago
Backblaze's blog talks about the vibration problem and their solution.
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by cbs 15y ago
We all knew, or should have known, the point the article author was making. Who gives a shit if he wrote if(true) or while(true) in the piece, the same problem applies regardless of if "if(true)" is something you want to see in code or not
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by cbs 15y ago
I like this idea, I've had a thing or two I wanted to write on, but didn't want to setup a blog. I've actually thought of building something similar myself. So, excited about this website, I clicked on "Write a post". Oh, you want to tie
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by cbs 15y ago
Incidentally, despite the oft quoted, "Bill Gates would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once", Bill Gates basically did admit to taking LSD in a 1994 interview: As with most drugs, those who don't wear the uniform of the subcultur
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by cbs 15y ago
yeah, but I'm saying this is about par for the course with stallman, and even if people happened to expect tact from him, why the huge fuss? Say "Not the right time for this conversation RMS" and _move on_. By attempting to refute his poi
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by cbs 15y ago
That is exactly the same thing the poster says about Stallman Yup. Stallman tried to separate the Job's death from the end of his influence on the computing world. It was short and to the point and not the most tactful, but that molehill
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by cbs 15y ago
Good as any for their use. Follow that the thread on lkml (there is a gmane link in the comments here somewhere) for more discussion on identifying taint-introducing modules.
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by cbs 15y ago
>Saying that the world will be a better place after someone dies should be reserved for mass murderers and lobbyists Yep. Certainly not for people that hire lobbyists though. Nothing wrong with paying people to do something despicable
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by cbs 15y ago
The free software approach seems to assume that what a computer should be and do has already been decided and they just need to make free versions of everything. When you you look at their goals, they are by definition playing catch-up.
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by cbs 15y ago
>Why is having a free program that solves a problem that's already solved more important than creating programs that solve new problems, but that also happen to be free? Because their goals include that everything possible should be pos
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by cbs 15y ago
>Which reminds me of that immortal Reservoir Dogs line: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"... Thats the thing about the word "hacker", almost every single context where it is used, it's either used wrong, or as comes
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by cbs 15y ago
Even if you're not Asian, still use this as reason to join the marrow registry. The registry needs as many people as it can get, and it is just as important for the sick who won't ever get this much attention.

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