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by divtxt 15y ago
At this point, it's the "lower" level issues - suspend, graphics, sound - that are ruining the Linux desktop, even for us geeks. They were the reason I gave up on Linux desktop two years ago and forked over the extra money for a Mac. Closi
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by divtxt 15y ago
Haha - fooled you! If you tried this, you would probably fail! The government (lobbied by big companies) will convince the courts to block your injunction and force you to settle. You know, "risking national security by ruining the economy
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by divtxt 15y ago
Unfortunately, big companies with shipping products have every incentive to settle by cross-licensing & royalties. What we need is someone with deep pockets to form a patent troll and actually block shipping products rather settle. Thi
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by divtxt 15y ago
Yes, I agree the patents are the main driver. But I hope they use the opportunity to make great Android handsets. (a role HTC seemed to take on and then drift away from). They don't have to worry about their partners. It's not like any of
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by divtxt 15y ago
Sour grapes would be if Google had said "the Nortel patents suck" after they lost. What you're describing is closer to "they ganged up against us".
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by divtxt 15y ago
To clarify: a biased Gruber article may actually have valid points. The problem is that Gruber will only include pro-Apple points. For example, note that Gruber does NOT point out how the acquisition will allow Google to do Apple-style sea
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by divtxt 15y ago
The problem with Gruber is that he'll write a fair analysis only as long as the fair analysis favors Apple. This means we won't get a fair analysis from him on things like the patent war and app store high-handedness. Sometimes he'll do a
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by divtxt 15y ago
Registered! Not sure if it's what I was looking for, but it looks interesting for many things!
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by divtxt 15y ago
This is great for motivation during a heads-down sprint. What I'm looking for is slightly different: a place to show off when done and get/give feedback.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Wow! Just wow! Bookmarked! A mere upvote is not enough for this! Thank you!!! Questions: - Is there a site pointing out amazing command line tools like this? (their existence as opposed to usage examples like at http://www.commandlinef
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by divtxt 15y ago
He refers to "November Startup Sprint" here on HN. I would love to see regular posts like that for launch & feedback. The current convention seems to be "Show HN: my app" posts, but I'm worried about missing interesting posts and/or
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by divtxt 15y ago
Me: Male, 65+ I'm in my late 30s. They have my interests as Business News & Finance (correct), but no Tech (incorrect), so perhaps the ad system is guessing age & gender from interests?
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by divtxt 15y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Not sure which you wanted details on: - java issues / sun not caring - there are examples above by SeanLuke, gojomo and myself - java.lang.Object depends on hundreds of classes - violates basic design principles o
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by divtxt 15y ago
Another 10-year old issue which has probably cost thousands of developer hours: String.substring() leaks memory http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4513622
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by divtxt 15y ago
The java classes have always had major warts and no one in charge has ever seemed to care . My personal bugbear: java.lang.Object depends on hundreds of classes including, among other absurdities, the Turkish locale (IIRC). This was about
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by divtxt 15y ago
For me just now: Ref A: 1868CAC6D8EA4D63B186C4E1C09E8822 Ref B: 22A00154B361421B403038C5A5D4A80F Ref C: Mon Aug 01 17:20:45 2011 PST Edit: this is under Chrome incognito mode as others have mentioned
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by divtxt 15y ago
Necessary and meaningful, and wrong in this case. - "VCs Got It Wrong" means: many (plural) VCs got something wrong - "VC's Got It Wrong" means: a "Got It Wrong" that belongs to a VC
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by divtxt 15y ago
Re can anyone can read the posts - Yes! Your g+ public profile page doubles as your blog of 'Public' posts.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Can someone suggest why my above comment was downvoted? I gave an actual occurrence for a hypothetical. The only offense I can see is that it was anecdotal evidence. edit: thanks to those who upvoted me back to 1 :)
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by divtxt 15y ago
I saw the untag feature, but it shouldn't be my job to monitor facebook 24x7 to untag embarrassing photos.
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by divtxt 15y ago
What if you tagged an embarrassing photo of me... This happened to me 3 HOURS after joining facebook, and was not even ill-intentioned. (ah, young people!) edit: I marked tagged photos as private for a year till that photo was untagged.
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by divtxt 15y ago
If that was the reason, they could just have asked for your real name without requiring that it be your public name.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Yes - it's not simple to make sure you've done the right thing to make email clients backup correctly. I used to be a regular Thunderbird user on Windows because the mail file format would be open, but haven't touched desktop email since GM
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by divtxt 15y ago
Would anyone buy a simple desktop app to backup gmail to the desktop? I thought of adding features like search and mail viewer. Then I realized I could just use a full email client. :P
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by divtxt 15y ago
There are two issues with that logic: 1. Yes, probability of gmail data loss is less than probability of desktop mail data loss. But that's for the average user. An individual desktop mail user can improve his probability to a higher le
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by divtxt 15y ago
For a cloud-to-cloud backup service like this, my biggest worry would be about finding out the hard way that the backup provider has bugs. How do I solve this as a user? Look for reviews and stories of successful/failed user restores?
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by divtxt 15y ago
There is competition - they're competing with other charities for funds.
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by divtxt 15y ago
The problem is that the evolutionary forces for fundraising non-profits can only result in ineffectiveness. For senior management, success at fundraising and is income security and growth. Actual charity work is a cost center with no ROI,
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by divtxt 15y ago
+1 for single HTML file (embedded CSS) and Safari print to PDF.
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by divtxt 15y ago
Is that one mac mini per version or is there an easy way to set up multiple installs?

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