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by danford 13y ago
Of course it could just be that it's just hard to have a globally successful app, but consider the following: China has their own social networks and messaging apps because they're sponsored (openly or behind closed doors) by the
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by danford 13y ago
Lambo is dominating the car market by your logic [1] [1] http://www.lambocars.com/lambonews/lamborghini_among_most_pr...
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by danford 13y ago
You're right, how could I forget the iPad, the thing is the business model they have for all of their products is unsustainable. The iPad is doing well now, just as the iPhone did initially, but less and less people are buying the iPho
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by danford 13y ago
Hate to burst your bubble, but the only thing apple has going for them is the iPhone, which is arguably a fad. The reason Rolex never goes out of style is because they never change their style, and apple is no Rolex like a lot of people see
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by danford 13y ago
Great article. One of the things that many people have an aversion to when it comes to this kind of thing is the "socialist" aspect of it. We all agree that it's great, but is it for everybody? I totally see where libertarian
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by danford 13y ago
>TypeScript Why? What's wrong with js? >This rapid growth [of javascript] has outpaced the growth of the language itself, which lacks features that allow teams to communicate requirements and build applications safely. what? I gu
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by danford 13y ago
Perhaps the logic is that if you don't use the data for a month and a half and your only copy of the data is in ubuntu one it must not be that important?
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by danford 13y ago
Are you 100% sure it was Canonical's fault? I've had issues with dropbox, google drive and sky drive at different points in the past and never received an apology letter from any of those companies either. A simple google search w
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by danford 13y ago
As someone who is currently residing in the year 2055 and has a neuro-prosthetic, I believe corporations and governments need access to our brain machine interfaces so that when we copy a patented or copy-righted idea to our memory they c
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by danford 13y ago
It sucks that I see news like this all the time and realize that my own government has probably known about and participated in these activities, yet I'm finding it out through corporate media/organization that have probably known
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by danford 13y ago
>she is actually shallow behind the facade Isn't the whole point of the film about an intelligence that has no facade to hind behind? This "facade" you describe seems to mean that the AI is just "following programming
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by danford 13y ago
Or that people were really happy with the origin.. That's like saying countries that based their "constitutions" off of another countries did it because they don't like that countries constitution. What's more likel
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by danford 13y ago
But isn't the main problem with using an unsupported version of windows security vulnerabilities which are impossible to patch? This isn't true for Linux in any sense. If by "support" you mean tech support, then you don&
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by danford 13y ago
I would just like to add that in some cases linux can be better than windows at emulating old dos applications. I believe some large companies write application code based in the console because they stream the applications from some centra
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by danford 13y ago
What if they just made all the comments anonymous for 24 hours after they're posted? If you really wanted to know someones user name you could just go back in 24 hours. Hard to say whether it would improve content, but it does still al
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by danford 13y ago
Hopefully they'll be nice enough to relieve us of these meat costumes and allow us to ascend to their level where civilization and machine can merge into one conscious entity and we can float around the sun for a few million years char
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Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization (29 July 2008)(adbusters.org)
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by danford 13y ago
What evidence is there that the nuclear family is some sort of evolutionary trait? If anything it's a cultural/religious thing. I believe what would be our "natural" tendency would be for one male to mate with multiple f
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by danford 13y ago
Don't forget that even if you believe you can trust the entity collecting the information, can you trust all the persons that have access to it? Is it inconceivable to believe that people who work for the Chinese government have never
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by danford 13y ago
I've been thinking of this for a while my self. Would it be wrong to assume that git hub would be a suitable platform to start something like this? A lot of thought needs to be put into it by a lot of people and I don't think it n
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by danford 13y ago
I'm scared by the idea that I could one day have a neural implant with closed source code running on some insecure network all because the people of this time were too dumb to realize how software could affect them. Perhaps we should h
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by danford 13y ago
Sorry. Fixed.
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by danford 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > In Comments >Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. >When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling nam
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by danford 13y ago
I feel the only reason your secrets may not be in jeopardy with Apple is because they don't know as many... If you really want your secrets to be safe you wouldn't use any closed source code at all and would take security precaut
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by danford 13y ago
This is sort of what canonical is trying to do with Ubuntu and Unity. The phones they'll be coming out with later this year are said to be a "full os" in the form factor of a phone. The interface is made to allow you to pair
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"Nov 11, 2056"(pastebin.com)
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by danford 13y ago
I don't think it's supposed to be easy to turn off the tracking mechanisms of planes.