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by easp 16y ago
Yeah, mobile is great and all (I say that as I type this on my iPad) but there is still much that can be done with larger form factors and more powerful devices. But then I'm the guy who still doesn't understand why no one even tried to co
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by easp 16y ago
Which is probably as much driven by the fact that the air hasn't been updated in quite a while as it is by any facts. But who knows, it will be true at some point.
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by easp 16y ago
You've left out other examples where diversity hasn't been the shit, like video game consoles, and spinning optical disks for playing back music or video. And your example of java capable phones isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for crea
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by easp 16y ago
Anyone remember the colo providers offering hosting for your cobalt qube?
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by easp 16y ago
It sounds like you were probably a child of the 70's. It wasn't exactly a decade of plenty, and even with money, good eating often meant overcooked roast or steak and potatoes, or maybe stinky fish. The only garlic available in most places
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by easp 16y ago
The unions are easy scapegoats, but as you point out, there is a reason they are what they are. Let's also not forget that the good old days of American schooling depended on a society where slightly over half the population had severely li
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by easp 16y ago
The state may or may not be able to improve the parenting practices of actual parents, but it definitely can wage a decades long "war on drugs" that disproportionately ensnares the poor and minorities in the legal system and follows up on t
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by easp 16y ago
In about the timeframe at MS, I remember stumbling upon a couple of living, breathing, but rarely bathing, young developer/gamer stereotypes being shown around one of the buildings in the Office division by two young, well, they looked like
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by easp 16y ago
Or even sooner, so they don't drag down the averages.
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by easp 16y ago
I usually choose other airlines, because often the Southwest flights to whe I want to go have too many stops. I like a few things about them though. First, they help keep the other airlines prices down. Second, when I do fly them and hav
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by easp 16y ago
I was really intrigued by Bloom, but when I did a little digging, I realized that the only thing revolutionary about them was they hype. At best, their tech is an evolutionary improvement over other fuel cells. Other fuel suppliers are targ
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by easp 16y ago
Or a hedge against a replay of the Enron-era.
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by easp 16y ago
I agree that libraries need rethinking. I've found that even those Librarians who are inclined to do such rethinking can be surprisingly conservative. Even so, the authors needs a different point of reference needs a reset. I've never bee
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by easp 16y ago
Books still have many things going for them. Once they are produced, the only infrastructure they require is literacy and something to keep them dry. Once you have a book, you can do almost anything you want with it, including give it or s
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by easp 16y ago
Whenever shit like that happens, you can be sure that there are people taking advantage of the situation to settle old scores. Wherever the official reason for depriving people of life or liberty, corrupt functionaries will trump up accusa
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by easp 16y ago
And for whatever reason, rising wealth seems to correlate with a decline in birthrates. Killing people isn't the only thing that keeps a population in check.
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by easp 16y ago
Are you an engineer, or a MBA.
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by easp 16y ago
Cool! 20 years ago, I tried using PCR quantitatively to study estrogen receptor gene expression in feline uterine epithelial cells for my senior thesis. I didn't end up doing much science though, because I spent too much time hung up on t
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by easp 16y ago
...you had to purify your own DNA polymerase and then add more of it at each cycle because a thermostable version hasd't been discovered yet?
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by easp 16y ago
I remember when MJ Research thermocyclers were the bargain option. That was nearly 20 years ago.
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by easp 16y ago
A fine point, though keep in mind though that Mini-computers were themselves sort of the PCs of the mainframe era. A story I heard, possibly apocryphal, is that Ken Olsen named DEC "digital equipment corporation" rather than , say "Digital
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by easp 16y ago
Well, webkit features.
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by easp 16y ago
I thought the clause in question was for iPhone SDK 4 apps. Since v4 isn't shipping yet, it doesn't apply to any of the apps in the store now. As for the question of interpreters, I though for the current generation of apps, the issue was
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by easp 16y ago
Unfortunately, Apple seems to be doing an excellent job creating fear, uncertainty and doubt among developers all on their own. It's no doubt true that most app developers will never run afoul of Apple, but every time Apple yanks an applica
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by easp 16y ago
The more I think about this, the sillier your assertion seems that having your application running in the background is a necessity for functionality like push-intents. Its like you are saying that without all your apps running code runnin
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by easp 16y ago
I think you mean Google bought android. And really, you have no idea when the iPhoneOS was even coded, but given that it is based on OSX coding started well before 2005. But I think the real question is what Android would have been without
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by easp 16y ago
"You think his opinion has less merit because he got it for free? That is just laughable. Brad Feld has more credibility and money than you or I will probably have in our entire lifetime. Completely irrelevant." Clearly there is a lot you d
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by easp 16y ago
Oh horseshit. Apple's model could easily be extended to allow apps to register code that is executed when something is pushed to the phone.
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by easp 16y ago
Much of the attention they are getting is down to timing. The real trick is to find a way to sustain attention until they actually deliver something.
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by easp 16y ago
Yup, my not very techie friends, and their friend, seem to be the most bothered.

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