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by detst 14y ago
I explicitly stated that FB has its positives. But wasting hours doing anything is bad. FB stalking people != stronger ties. It's a problem many people face, along with excessive gaming, etc. I criticize the assertion that changing weak tie
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by detst 14y ago
> If that's a waste, then I don't really know what else is meaningful in life. The "strong tie"? I'm just not so sure changing the "weak tie" is such a net positive for society. I'm not going to claim that FB doesn't have its positives
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by detst 14y ago
My core argument is that what Chrome OS sets out to provide is what most people need from a laptop; a web browser and somewhere to get "apps" (Chrome webstore: Netflix, picture editing, etc.). If it can do these well, the market for these
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by detst 14y ago
Bigger screen, keyboard, better web experience, the Chrome store to fill in the gaps of what they might miss from Windows. Sure, there are overlapping use cases but they're not the same. Chrome OS gives them what they need/want from their l
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by detst 14y ago
The market seems to be every non-technical family member of mine. All they need is a web browser; if these "just work" for that purpose, have good battery life and they don't have to worry about anti-virus software or other updates, then th
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by detst 14y ago
My speculation/dream: they port Enyo to Dart and make it the default language/framework for Android development. It also still works (where browsers support necessarily features) on the web and has PhoneGap-like functionality for iOS, et al
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by detst 14y ago
I believe Alex's blog was an original part of the "Svbtle network". I don't see any particular improvements over his old blog, which I believe is still up. He seems to have very good design skills so I would rather see something original bu
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by detst 14y ago
You responded before I edited to be clear that I'm not blaming gaming. It was his choice but that doesn't change the fact that spending his time gaming instead of getting some physical activity likely had something to do with a 32-year-old
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by detst 14y ago
Very much, emphatically, yes: > Work offered to pay for a gym membership. Friends coaxed him to exercise and eat better. Instead he was gaming. > If someone is out of shape because they "spend too much time hacking", are you going t
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by detst 14y ago
> infer from the rest of the post that the person in question was unhealthy And we can also infer that he was unhealthy, in larger part, due to spending too much time gaming. > One can argue an unhealthy focus on anything can kill y
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by detst 14y ago
Sure, I have no doubt that they will take every last penny they can get. I do think it could work out well for people that aren't really heavy data users and have a lot of devices to connect.
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by detst 14y ago
They aren't changing your contract; they just won't give you the same contract when your current one has expired: LTE is our anchor point for data share. So as you come through an upgrade cycle and you upgrade in the future, you will have
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by detst 14y ago
> Access-type database app I think that's the idea of Fusion Tables [1]. Since there is an API, I don't see why you couldn't combine it with Apps Script (what this editor is), if you wanted to. I don't think tight integration is there y
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by detst 14y ago
There certainly are people like you describe but I'd say most do understand that their chances are minuscule -- even if they really don't understand the numbers. But they don't care; they're desperate and don't exactly have many options so
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by detst 14y ago
Sounds like a wonderful opportunity for someone to offer cheaper third-party certification.
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by detst 14y ago
I didn't see your original comment but if it was just "good to see django on github", you were downvoted for not adding anything to the conversation. Your edit is better.
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by detst 15y ago
Check out Google's API Discovery Service[1] and a video from the 2010 I/O Conference[2]. It may not be the best basis for developing a RESTful standard but there's some good stuff there. I especially like how they demonstrate building an AP
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by detst 15y ago
I think our only disagreement is that you viewed it as a poor alternative for 0MQ and I viewed it as something else. Just a different perspective that I interpreted as taking away from what this announcement was really about but I suspect i
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by detst 15y ago
No, it doesn't. It signals that unifying multiple code-bases and efforts containing clear overlap is a pretty smart idea. This project will still be used to serve requests from a web browser. It will also be used to make requests to HTTP se
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by detst 15y ago
I don't understand your point and why it's the top comment. Sure, 0MQ is great and can be used in place of HTTP in some cases . But if you want to serve requests to a web browser, you have to speak HTTP at some point. These are the use cas
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by detst 15y ago
Yeah, it wouldn't be surprising if this kicks off a wave of meta-discussions culminating with a poll asking if HN is too meta. It's like complaining about down-votes; it's unfortunate that a quality comment is down-voted but it usually corr
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by detst 15y ago
> If you HAVE to figure out how to make your site do some kind of function because you have people complaining to you that it's not, then you'll go figure out how to do it [...] That's very similar to advice from Patio11 that I just rea
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by detst 15y ago
"RasberryPi release date February 20th". No. FTA: "[T]he boards will be finished on February 20. [...] [Y]ou should be able to buy them before the end of the month."
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by detst 15y ago
Do you see much benefit to CloudFlare swallowing half of your requests when you're already using the GAE edge cache?
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by detst 15y ago
I think you mean promotion, not marketing. I'd say he experimented heavily with his marketing. I'd even say he experimented with his promotion by doing things like answering questions on Reddit. Even the novelty of the experiment is part of
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by detst 15y ago
From the headline, I thought this might be an option to create a private network for your domain, like Google's internal version of Google+. This is nice, but that would be much more interesting.
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by detst 15y ago
True. Being around Detroit you can see the entire industry that supports the "Big Three". There are companies that either supply or assist in the build of nearly every component of a car.
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by detst 15y ago
This is getting way OT but I can assure you the odds of him becoming even an occasional PGA Tour player are not even remotely as good as they were for him to make an MLB roster (of course, at the time he retired from basketball). If the GP
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by detst 15y ago
From the customer perspective, they're a bank with an improved website and mobile app. They're actually just a front end to their partnering banks (but you don't need to know that as a customer). Essentially they're a bank with the improved
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by detst 15y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

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