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by cbs 15y ago
Such a major problem is likely to raise questions about the reliability of cloud computing versus local storage. Is anyone surprised this happened? It doesn't actually raise any questions about the reliability. Those answers were known
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by cbs 15y ago
>The U.S. economy is stalled because of a wave of government legislative activism Really? I thought it was that dive in consumer demand.
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by cbs 15y ago
>The same with phones compared to iPhone. Except, of course, for that phone reveled before the iPhone that had the same basic style. It was a style that the industry was headed towards anyway, apple just helped the momentum.
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by cbs 15y ago
it's hard for my eyes to find what work is actually being done Aside from if a lambda expression or anonymous class is the better choice overall, this just happens to be a case that you're just not familiar with the syntax. Its been year
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by cbs 15y ago
Its sad they have to do this to monetize. But they wanted to build a centralized platform, not a distributed service. A single point of congestion on the Internet so that they could retain their control, and now they're paying for it. The
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by cbs 15y ago
No, it wasn't the ads. Digg aways had ads. The problem was that the community felt more and more pushed out the door. And it wasn't just thet there was an RSS importer, it was that digg was replaced a website built around a community with
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by cbs 15y ago
>Insults like that are not 'straight talk'. She could easily have said, "I expected better than this." Self-censoring is still self-censoring.
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by cbs 15y ago
I don't get it. Is your point Don't ask a person, ask google ? This article promotes introversion more than its own point of "don't ask, do", asking Mr. Computer isn't much different than asking a person. If I ask someone how to get star
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by cbs 15y ago
That's a polite way of putting it. But thats all it is. They're on a website where the community actively discusses their opinion of submissions, and it was their opinion that the ad or advertized product wasn't good. I haven't been to
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by cbs 15y ago
>The reddit community is so unruly that monetizing the site effectively is a major challenge. Where unruly means willing to vote with their feet? The biggest problem is that what users are getting at reddit isn't worth all that much and
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by cbs 15y ago
This only takes 5 mins and you really never know what you might hear. Ideas are great because they make us think, they test us, they inspire us, and sometimes they can make us rich if can figure out how to use them well. I have to say I l
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by cbs 15y ago
Acting condescending towards people who don't understand my field for not understanding my field could be counter productive? Yeah, this is a no-brainier. The anti-"idea guy" attitude was all ego, no logic. I can't say I'm surprised that
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by cbs 15y ago
>Is there any particular reason I shouldn't want to send advertising emails [...] I'm not doing anything harmful You're substantially raising the cost of using an essential business communication tool (email). Is that not harmful?
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by cbs 15y ago
Python already has one base class to rule them all, `object`. From just the title I thought that's what the post was going to be about.
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by cbs 15y ago
Just like Patent Trolling, Apple seems to have taken the "OK If we do it" approach to Impersonating An Officer.
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by cbs 15y ago
the resulting C code is unreadable, which turns maintenance into a nightmare. I've been doing embedded development for a few years and I love our state machines, they're a pleasure to work with. Maybe yours just sucked.
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by cbs 15y ago
...or "person trusts life to tested hardware", but that would be rather run of the mill, much like this video.
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by cbs 15y ago
Element layout doesn't matter on the web? I refer you to any of the 80% of all websites I've ever visited, they look like complete ass on my portrait-oriented monitor, if they even fit.
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by cbs 15y ago
>If there are, then where's the GPL video editor that competes? Not working on it, doesn't mean they don't exist. It is the same place the os that Competes, and office suite that Competes and whatever else that Competes are. Nonexistan
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by cbs 15y ago
Not to mention the HUGE price difference. I'd probably still be on Leopard if it wasn't for the fact upgrades are $6/seat.
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by cbs 15y ago
Unfortunately for our industry, a lot of your post is right, and it doesn't just apply to state machines, but a lot of solid programming practices.
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by cbs 15y ago
>also to note that there is nothing actually wrong with FCPX - I'm using it everyday working on some marketing materials right now. I can see that Pros are missing some features which is fair Just because it works for your use cases, do
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by cbs 15y ago
>most developers use fairly explicitly defined state machines [...] Every time they fire up a regular expression They're not using state machines, in that case it just happens to be an implementation detail of the regular expression lib
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by cbs 15y ago
I've never understood how Alexa stats are considered relevant. Because all outside web statistic providers suck.
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by cbs 15y ago
rather than Apple having to accomodate "enterprise" needs (and thereby perpetuating often antiquated or just poor ways of doing things). Thats kind of a plastering over of the reality though. iOS plays nice with ActiveSync, right there th
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by cbs 15y ago
"Is Apple ever going to go after the enterprise market?" (Steve's response, a refreshing "If you're interested in that, you're probably at the wrong company.") You like our software enough to want to use it at work and/or want others to g
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by cbs 15y ago
>That's a signal that your focus has shifted a little too much from your own work to HN. Amusing that to be the only reason is significantly oversimplifying. The HN community is at best corrosive to the reader that is looking for tech
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by cbs 15y ago
A paid service to merely move files between the proprietary storage containers of all the different services you use? Decades after the concepts of filesystems were established, we're stuck in an ecosystem where our new tools can't easily g
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by cbs 15y ago
>they should do the Silicon Valley long-weekend style hackathons >Make it Thursday night - Sunday afternoon, >8 days off/year instead of 52 should be much more doable for a smaller operation like NPR. Yeah, if I want to spend ex
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by cbs 15y ago
>News.YC community is being much kinder towards Apple than it acted towards Dropbox for identical security bugs My old HN account got shaddowbanned after I talked shit about Dropbox when that happened. The post got a big number of poin

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