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by drcube 14y ago
I thought the UK decided to extradite him to Sweden for rape charges? While Wikileaks is certainly a motivating factor, and I'm sure it's why this story gets as much press as it does, I don't think it's where his legal problems stem from. A
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by drcube 14y ago
Sure, I'm not saying there isn't an issue here. Apple is in the wrong and so are the litigators in the patent suit. My point is that they shouldn't be in fear of their daughter losing her voice any time soon. Are other kids going to lose by
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by drcube 14y ago
Can you still just copy and paste from your /tmp folder in Ubuntu? I can't do that on Arch, so I just use the FlashGot Firefox addon.
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by drcube 14y ago
I know, that's my point. I don't have an iPad, but can't you turn off updates? Can't you turn off networking entirely? If so, how would an update even occur? Don't just sit there in fear of an update, prevent it .
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by drcube 14y ago
They keep talking about Apple updating the OS, but why in the world would they let that happen? Turn updates off! This is your child's voice, don't put somebody else in control of it! Turn off wireless, mobile data, everything. This should
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by drcube 14y ago
Can I install Linux?
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by drcube 14y ago
I'd like something physical I can feel and use muscle memory to remember. Having to search the screen, interpret some obscure glyph and make sure I touch the right spot requires far too much attention for most tasks. Volume down + left swip
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by drcube 14y ago
The thing I hate most about modern UIs is the lack of information. Instead of buttons with text, it's just a whole bunch of mysterious icons. Give me at least some idea of what will happen when I click your icon, and please try and make it
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by drcube 14y ago
That's just a technicality. :P But seriously, I think this sort of service would be aimed at employers looking for long term professional employees, not some temporary code jockey. In that case, dismissing a proven employee in order to save
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't have anything to do with anybody or anything really, but I think he's saying Zach is NOT a cofounder of iDoneThis. He's the founder of AwesomeReminders, who iDoneThis teamed up with for a promotion a few months ago. Otherwise, nothi
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't see how this is different from saying "The World Wide Web is the open source rival to Facebook". It's true. There isn't anything about Facebook you can't do with your own website. Facebook just centralizes it and makes it easier on
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by drcube 14y ago
I've been thinking of a new recruitment model: guaranteed employment. Suppose a recruiting agency guaranteed their recruits, as in, "We'll pay their salary for the [six months | year | whatever]. If they are acceptable, at the end of that p
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Computer family tree and chronology 1938-1988(longstreet.typepad.com)
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by drcube 14y ago
Advertisers should bid to me . If I accept, Facebook gets a substantial cut. I feel like the privacy issues and misaligned incentives would be corrected if only Facebook saw themselves as a broker between advertisers and consumers rather t
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by drcube 14y ago
Stop making sense. Next you'll start on about how people should be able to work, vote and run for office regardless of which patch of dirt their mothers delivered them on. Turning away brown people from our shores and then slaughtering them
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by drcube 14y ago
We're omnivores, not carnivores. Hence the teeth and intestines. Cecil Adams had this to say in 1990, I'd be interested if others would provide an update: "Like the hard-core carnivores, we have fairly simple digestive systems well suited t
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by drcube 14y ago
Then you should applaud this company, which is trying to bring meat to those who can't otherwise eat it for health or ethical reasons.
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by drcube 14y ago
I think there's some time limit that expires, after which old links can be resubmitted.
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by drcube 14y ago
Technology makes a difference here. For example, it is not illegal to follow someone on a public street. But attaching a GPS device to their car is going over the line, even though the concept is the same. The difference is the lack of phys
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by drcube 14y ago
Why are there trade secrets? Why is there classified information? Why is there encryption? Why are there door locks and window blinds and fences? What was the big deal about Wikileaks if you have nothing to hide? If the US government or som
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by drcube 14y ago
Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3594098
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by drcube 14y ago
This is probably the reason I will never buy an idevice. The very first app I downloaded on my Android phone was a file explorer. I can't imagine any other way to interact with data than as individual files in some kind of hierarchy. What
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by drcube 14y ago
I still can't believe Linus doesn't use Arch, or LFS or some sort of custom setup. The great thing about Linux is that you don't have to put up with the crap some distro gives you. Just remove Gnome and try something else.
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by drcube 14y ago
Aren't HN comments sorted in order of popularity by votes? Is the top comment not the highest upvoted? I don't know, but this is what I've always assumed.
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by drcube 14y ago
You absolutely can run Linux on a router. Smartphones and tablets are more powerful than any PC 15-20 years ago. Were those just appliances too? I think you're trying to justify anti-competitive behavior by making a distinction where there
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by drcube 14y ago
My guess is that rich parents take their kids to the zoo and violin lessons and what not, while poor kids have more time to waste on Facebook and Angry Birds. Not too surprising or alarming if you ask me. The real digital divide is between
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by drcube 14y ago
"The current Udacity exams take about 10 hours of coding to complete..." From the article: " For the first round of exams, programming will not be included." I don't think you can demonstrate programming competence with a 90 minute multiple
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by drcube 14y ago
I'd argue that having a well illustrated overview of your whole company helps you prioritize this list. So put business and technological metrics on that dashboard. And then you can decide whether you should be focusing most on customer s
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by drcube 14y ago
Do you rely on faith when you expect the next full moon according to your calendar? What about your belief that the sun will come up tomorrow? Most of our science is done without the benefit of a laboratory at all. Historical sciences (pale
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by drcube 14y ago
No, it's more like saying "GNOME is basically another Linux program". Which is true.

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