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by drakenot 10y ago
In what way does it seem more restrictive? I own both the BlueBuds X (which uses micro USB) and the AirPods. I love the BlueBuds X, but the charging solution for the AirPods is vastly superior to that of the BlueBuds. To me, the chargin
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by drakenot 10y ago
Why would they be any more constrained than our biological brains? Humans are able to calculate plenty with a relatively small amount of mass and energy.
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by drakenot 10y ago
Isn't this covered by first-sale doctrine?
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I think a counter example would be Google Streeview. I remember when Apple launched their own Map service I was thinking that there is no way they were going to tackle something in the real-world "meat-space" the same way Google d
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by drakenot 10y ago
That really surprised me. I've followed Stack Overflow from before the site hit beta. At the time, Joel and Jeff put out a podcast every week talking about software development and the new "project" they were working on that
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by drakenot 10y ago
I mostly agree. Take the parent's argument and replace grocery store clerk with gas station pump attendant. "I know all the people who work in these gas stations. The attendant at the pump always whistles a quiet song while he pu
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by drakenot 10y ago
You should check out the financial independence subreddit[0]. The sidebar has links to a lot of material for you to read on this topic. People there are working toward FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early). Some people in the commun
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by drakenot 10y ago
Can you give a brief summary of the points he makes about social status? I'm curious but my reading backlog is already out of hand.
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by drakenot 10y ago
I keep waiting for the next evolution of file sharing to come around. Something fully distributed and with no single point of failure. It seems like a lot of the building blocks have been invented: DHTs, Blockchains, onion routing, etc. I
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by drakenot 10y ago
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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by drakenot 10y ago
If this sort of thing interests you, there is a book along a similar vein titled "The Elements of Computing Systems: NAND to Tetris". It has you build a virtual computer from the logic gates up -- with each chapter moving up a lay
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by drakenot 10y ago
I read those threads while I was first starting to write my parser. I found it interesting, if you look in the thread you'll see that this was a big disagreement between Pilgrim and Aaron Swartz.
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by drakenot 10y ago
I've written a relatively popular Atom/RSS feed parser for Go [0]. I struggled with this very issue but I ultimately ended up attempting to be robust against out-of-spec feeds. A super strict feed parsing library is less useful t
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by drakenot 10y ago
I've used the same. One thing that is odd is the "merge" window that shows the final result of the merge that sits below the left and right pane is set to 0 height by default. I've surprised several colleagues by movin
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by drakenot 10y ago
Thanks, I had never read the full quote. That seems much more reasonable than what everyone made it out to be.
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My point is that I've personally experienced the pain of purchasing a "high-performance laptop." It was incredibly heavy to where you unconsciously start deciding to leave it home because of the discomfort of lugging it aroun
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by drakenot 10y ago
How common are native h265 decoders now? I've been curious when we would start to see stronger hardware support.
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by drakenot 10y ago
They have terrible battery life. My first laptop I purchased in college was a top of the line Alienware. Never again will I do that. If you value portability and battery life at all I would reconsider. If you want power and discrete gra
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by drakenot 10y ago
Looks like that rumor was bogus: "As pointed out by Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham and others, Kuo's outline of chip possibilities does not match up with what is known from leaked Intel roadmaps. Intel is not planning MacBo
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by drakenot 10y ago
Flip side -- I view it as a strong negative if a company has what I consider a weak interview or vetting process. The interview doesn't have to be all whiteboard coding but I want to at least feel like the person got some grasp of my t
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by drakenot 10y ago
Remapping Esc has always been one of the first tips that I read from experienced Vim users. I've had Caps Lock remapped to Esc for years now.
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by drakenot 10y ago
For #2, I would absolutely first contact Upwork. This person in question has already shown that they are willing to steal someone's identity. This isn't some small misunderstanding that can easily be solved by contacting a reason
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by drakenot 10y ago
That link is referencing Geekbench 3, not Geekbench 4. I did some searching and found the following quote concerning the Geekbench 4 benchmark: “These updated workloads include several well-known codebases that are used every day on mobile
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by drakenot 10y ago
I completely disagree with this. You can easily undo a rebase locally if you mess up by resetting to hashes you pull out of the reflog. When I'm dealing with my own work branches -- I absolutely rebase my commits before submitting a p
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by drakenot 10y ago
This is true of NFC but Bluetooth capabilities are much more open. I've personally used Core Bluetooth to connect and communicate with arbitrary devices and communicate over custom protocols.
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by drakenot 10y ago
'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari
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by drakenot 10y ago
For anyone who likes this video, you should also checkout Sega Saturn CD - Cracked After 20 Years[0]. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E
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by drakenot 10y ago
I've used a number of these lightweight webkit / vim browsers. I really enjoy them but they don't seem to last very long. I've probably used 5 different ones in the past.
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by drakenot 10y ago
I think they announced that the panning/zooming issue is resolved with the Apple Maps in iOS10. So hopefully that will be one less annoyance.
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https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/#/details/701

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