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by docgnome 16y ago
You are of course right. An e-ink display is the only reason I would purchase such a device, however. I've used LCDs for reading and I find them difficult to read on for more than an hour or so straight.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Am I the only one who remembers that the entire point of an e-reader is e-ink? Seems like the reader market is merging into the tablet market.
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by docgnome 16y ago
The comments are something I avoid about PHP docs. There are lots of bad PHP programmers who feel the need to help everyone else by posting their terrible implementation of X which people then just blindly copy... I like the idea, but in pr
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by docgnome 16y ago
More of a pain than with physical books? I've lost books I've lent... real bummer but it happens.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Problem I have with that is that they may be more useful... right up until version X of some new reader comes out that, Oh I'm sorry, doesn't support the older DRM encumbered eBooks so you can just buy them again if you ever want a newer de
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by docgnome 16y ago
Why do you say that people will always want to own physical books?
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by docgnome 16y ago
From my experience, reading code is a super important skill that just isn't taught in colleges. Just as reading and writing English (Or any other language) are separate but related skills, so too reading and writing code are separate but re
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by docgnome 16y ago
You can turn the copying files "feature" off. Still annoying. I also hate iTunes.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Key word being "startups" I'd hardly call Twitter a startup when Buzz came out. And hardly call... the email industry? a startup when wave was launched.
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by docgnome 16y ago
The only bit of hardware I've had problems with recently is Broadcom wireless cards. Worse Drivers ever. I still won't ever buy one intentionally and when I find one will replace it with an intel or something else that works with out a gian
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by docgnome 16y ago
I don't understand the anti-authoritarian bent to "hacker" culture. Just because I enjoy working on free software doesn't mean I'm out to stick it to The Man.
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Insiders Talk: Interview with Classical Music Composer Melissa Dunphy(insiderstalk.com)
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by docgnome 16y ago
I for one am super glad he "broke us out of the geek ghetto" ( http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=209 )Do you all remember how terrible it was with the Gestapo beating down our doors? Oh wait. -_- ESR is just full of himself like many other public
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by docgnome 16y ago
"If I wanted people editing my words, looking down at me, and deciding to change stuff, I’d start a wiki. as is, my answers are my own, and they reflect my mood, and my typos. and if they want me ot fix them they should ask me." Sounds like
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by docgnome 16y ago
The thing that has always made me hesitant to use Instapaper and services like it (in particular the ability to read stuff on an e-ink reader later) is for me a major part of the value of most of what I read, is the comments on HN. When you
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by docgnome 16y ago
Ironic? I don't really think so. They aren't exactly competitors.
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by docgnome 16y ago
I don't know. Sometimes I just like to turn on my favorite movies as background noise. Maybe I'm just weird though.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Thanks. I took a tour of a lumber mill one time that was all automated. It was pretty cool. To be honest, the way these nuke plants are described is less secure than the lumber mill. I really, really hope that's just really terrible reporti
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by docgnome 16y ago
The problem I have is that a contractor should not be allowed to bring in a USB dongle to plug into a machine onside. Hell the machines shouldn't have accessible USB ports at all. My other problem is that even if they are allowed to plug th
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by docgnome 16y ago
Right. Which is why we need a long term study. To follow a product from conception to production to end of life.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Right, but I'm assuming that there are controls over nuclear control machines. That would seem to render this method of "attack" rather impractical unless you had an inside man. In which case it seems a rather round about method of sabotage
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by docgnome 16y ago
I'm confused. What is the method of delivery for this program? I sure hope no one is hooking up nuclear power plants to the tubes in such a way that it's even possible for the computers that control the reaction are able to make talkies to
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by docgnome 16y ago
monocles and eyepatches? Sign me up!
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by docgnome 16y ago
It's obvious that a small group of great programmers beats a large group of bad ones. This is pointed out constantly on HN and in other programming communities. I'm curious though if anyone has any hard data to support this, beyond anecdota
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by docgnome 16y ago
The problem I have with what you said, is the artist knows what they are getting into day one. It's sort of like buying a house that has a leaky roof and then complaining that the previous owner sold you a house with a leaky roof. Yeah the
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by docgnome 16y ago
Maybe I'm a little confused but... 'Writing and recording "Hey Jude" is now the same thing as writing an English textbook, writing standardized tests, translating a novel from one language to another or making a map. These are the types of
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by docgnome 16y ago
"The ad-men in those days enjoyed simple pleasures. They puffed away at their desks. They drank throughout the day. They had affairs with their colleagues. They socialised not in order to bond, but in order to get drunk." Uhm... That sounds
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by docgnome 16y ago
I don't agree. It's not an issue of straight jacketing programmers. It's an issue of reminding a user they are incurring an enormous bill for no reason. A simple "Hi, we see you're using X widgets but your traffic would allow you to reduce
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by docgnome 16y ago
Would be nice if there was an rss feed to download the interviews. Probably be prohibitively expensive for just one person to handle though. I love the idea, I'm just sort of afraid I'll forget about it. Actually, audio podcasts would be re
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by docgnome 16y ago
Ah thanks. Had indentation reading issues.

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