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by drats 15y ago
Amusingly, Mr. Loudmax, you are being far more rude, and therefore deserving of a downvote, than I ever was. I believe the word "permitted" with regard to social sanction (HN votes) has a greater range of meaning than you are permitting her
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by drats 15y ago
There also seems to be an over-corrective quality. As I am now on 20 points, but people can't see that (until this comment) and therefore I think some people presume I am only just back from negative and give me an upvote to pad the figures
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by drats 15y ago
This was a home computer, but it was still a significant purchase for dual income professionals. 1989 release price in the USA with the same upgrades we had US$2899 (without monitor?), then the screen (14"), software, printer and "outside t
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by drats 15y ago
My first HDD was 40 meg (in a ~$6000 inflation adjusted computer). For the same price it's eminently feasible to get a system (computer + a NAS or three) with 40 TB. If my calculations aren't wrong that's enough for over ~77.6 years (24/7)
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by drats 15y ago
I am not sure you are allowed to question climate science like that. But it does make me wonder about large tree planting projects as an approach to climate change. Although I've heard there are problems with water tables in China where the
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by drats 15y ago
I imagine of the ~7 billion people alive today, perhaps 6 billion are not potential Apple customers at all due to price. Quite a few billion are potential low-end Android phone users though. As I said in another comment in this thread it co
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by drats 15y ago
This is a minor evolution on the voice capacity I have already been using on my Android for quite some time. Because all of this relies on technology in the cloud Google should have no problem leapfrogging this with weather, booking of flig
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by drats 15y ago
So no papers from Princeton?[1] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3046651
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by drats 15y ago
I think their IPs will start getting blocked if they substitute ads. However, the Kindle ads would work wonders. Just inferring the main categories in which the user makes purchases from their Amazon history and showing the top five best se
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by drats 15y ago
Unfortunately that won't stop Apple from being credited with inventing/popularizing it.
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by drats 15y ago
10,000 homes sounds like a lot but it's tiny compared to the US population, only enough to make a press release make the news really. And very tiny next to the world population now approaching the 7,000,000,000 mark. The simple fact is that
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by drats 15y ago
Scribd would be acceptable if the download link actually worked without a login. As it is I am highly tempted to flag links using the service. Even blogspam usually gives you a link to the original.
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by drats 15y ago
Touchscreens were popular before Apple in business applications. That might not be hipster enough, but Apple certainly didn't invent or popularize them. Further, at this form factor, you have that Microsoft table as well as a great many all
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by drats 15y ago
Good to live in an age where this assumption is perfectly reasonable. Here's a link to salve your disappointment (FPV remote control planes, music soundtrack): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUGvlMDRC98
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by drats 15y ago
Project links: http://pandas.sourceforge.net/index.html http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/
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Author of Python's pandas and statsmodels demos them [vid](vcasmo.com)
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by drats 15y ago
No easy way to extract the number of times something has been +1ed?
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by drats 15y ago
It is indeed blogspam, the cult article we have here breathlessly implies that only Apple products will get this technology. I've become extremely hostile to the Apple bubble recently as it's gone from massive historical revisionism about c
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by drats 15y ago
Another great addition is: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key Getting out of insert mode with a double j instead of moving your hand (esc) or doing the slightly awkward ctrl+[ is a godsend.
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by drats 15y ago
The fatal mistake was having it invite/beta-only at the beginning. Google has enough experience scaling now that they shouldn't have needed to do that. I suspect that they lost a vast number of people with that and thereby a lot of "test" n
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by drats 15y ago
No mention of unix shells, no mention of powershell, no mention of having even used vim or emacs. Screenshot of command.exe. Sorry to "cool-RR" and those who upvoted this, but this is a ridiculously inadequate article for HN, it's total fla
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by drats 15y ago
I believe you are a troll at this point, but it's hard to tell given how fanatical some Apple fans are in their historical revisionism. I would suggest you watch what Jobs himself has to say on the GUI.[1] And read some of the other links t
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by drats 15y ago
http://www.crowdcube.com/ looks interesting for the UK: "equity-based crowdfunding". However, it doesn't look like there is a great deal of activity.
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by drats 15y ago
Clickable: http://madebyargon.com/ Wish I had $999 to spare on my pet project. Good luck.
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by drats 15y ago
Minority report was released in 2002. What about interfaces in Lawnmower Man (1992) or Johnny Mnemonic (1995)? Or endless other sci-fi? Sit a UI designer and an engineer down for a couple of sessions to talk about a touch screen (x,y coordi
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by drats 15y ago
I saw someone had downvoted you and went to upvote and gave you another downvote by accident, sorry.[1] I think you are entirely correct, state competition and experimentation is a good thing, as is decentralisation. Even if someone disagre
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by drats 15y ago
For myself at that age vocabulary drills present in the earlier stage of schooling were subsequently dropped moving to the next level (primary school to secondary school). I presume that junior high and middle school in other systems occupy
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by drats 15y ago
Someone's down-voted you without explanation, which is rather poor form. Entities in this case means extracting the text of the page - with nokogiri for example, or a variant of readability to get just the article - and then extracting thin
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by drats 15y ago
Breaking news events slipping into HN every now and then is one thing, commentary on news coverage of events is another. I flagged this submission for this reason. It's worth discussing, but elsewhere.
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by drats 15y ago
The disqus comments on the page are entirely correct: it should come standard with python (or something like it). I've used it a few times and it's just elegant and would match "batteries included" perfectly.

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