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by easp 16y ago
Yes, it's opt in. You either opt in to having your interests link, or you opt in to have your interests deleted.
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by easp 16y ago
They created a competent development environment for FreeBSD, so its plausible that they can do it on Windows or Linux. Not that I think it will come to that. Our computing environment is going through another refactoring. The last big ref
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by easp 16y ago
Huh? How much has Apple ever banked on AutoDesk's tools on the Mac?
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by easp 16y ago
Well, in my view, "desktop" computing has been stagnant for a couple decades. Maybe that's too harsh. Web browsers helped move things along for a while, as did 3D gaming. But really, a UI with windows and a pointer that I interact with us
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by easp 16y ago
This is just silly. I expect Apple would hate it, but not because it would spell their quick demise. For one thing, even if such a thing were available today, the iPhone/iPad would almost certainly be the best platform for apps developed fo
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by easp 16y ago
Given the extreme rhetoric I've seen voiced by various "Christian" groups and individuals in the US over the past few decades, I'd be surprised if there haven't been death threats against Parker and Stone. That we haven't heard as much abo
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by easp 16y ago
I haven't been following the evolution iPhone OS releases during the beta phase, but isn't it possible that features are added (or removed) before the final release this summer?
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by easp 16y ago
Huh? You seem to be implying that a growing user base gets them unreasonably high advertising rates. Are you suggesting that advertisers are willing to overpay for facebook ads because of their strong growth trends? That may have been th
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by easp 16y ago
Ah yes, the good old days of sharing email accounts with your spouse/partner. When I search for my name on Google, most of the results are for recipes my now-wife posted to rec.food.cooking back in the early 90's.
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by easp 17y ago
Well, what's the licensing cost for MPEG4? It's probably per user/minute streamed, rather than a one time cost per minute of video encoded.
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by easp 17y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity to me. If only there were a site where...
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by easp 17y ago
Thanks for the reference. I've long wondered if a societies collapse could be precipitated by an excessively complex system of legislation.
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by easp 17y ago
We had OOP last decade, and the one before that too.
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by easp 17y ago
If Android is starting to scare Apple is because Google is doing ad revenue shares with carriers and device makers. As for your example, first, it's requires too much qualification to really work on a feature matrix. Second, you really thi
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by easp 17y ago
Your assertion is debatable, but even accepting it: can just anyone figure out what functionality to leave out, and what functionality to polish?
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by easp 17y ago
And yet we still haven't completely replaced those old, inflexible systems, even as we are inventing new ones. So, were relational databases and spreadsheets really the answer, or just an alternative?
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by easp 17y ago
When I moved to Seattle after college, one of the things that drove me nuts was how lame audiences were at music shows. A band would play a song and call for audince participation. They'd work hard to get people to clap along, or sing a c
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by easp 17y ago
It's a classic death spiral scenario.
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by easp 17y ago
Proxying to Apache for dynamic requests is still a win if you let nginx buffer the response. This local transfer is fast, which frees the apache process, and all the memory it uses, to serve the next dynamic request while nginix takes care
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by easp 17y ago
Which is a gross oversimplification since we know that biomass production is often anything but carbon neutral. Were petrochemical fetilizers involved? Did they clear land to produce it? How much oil was used to transport it? If it came f
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by easp 17y ago
Most of the reason that natural gas generators are not more efficient is that utilities aren't willing to pay for that efficiency. Natural gas is more expensive than coal but it can be used in realively inexpensive gas-turbine generators
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by easp 17y ago
Does it really use any more RAM with python or PHP embedded than Apache + out of process Python or PHP would together? Seems to me that the main inefficiency is that the memory overhea for the scripting language is incurred whether or not
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by easp 17y ago
I think you missed the point, which is that Subversion discourages branching, which is fine, because most of the people he knows do CI. His point is not that you can't do CI with GIT.
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by easp 17y ago
I think that the gym's techniques for gaming customers also benefit by aligning with customer's attempts to motivate themselves. At least some customers are aware that paying in advance could motivate them to go to the gym more often.
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by easp 17y ago
The mobile telecoms business in developing countries is extremely vital and dynamic. Families and neighbors share individual phones, and you can rent cell phones for the time it takes to make a call. Charging the phones is a small problem
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by easp 17y ago
I don't know, he's been pretty enthusiastic about a lot of things, and, anticipating snarks, not just his own work. To take one of your examples, he was quite enthusiastic about Twitter, championed it in the early days and staring building
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“Real” OS X Apps on the iPad? Are You Crazy?(geekfun.com)
2 points by easp 17y ago|3 comments
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by easp 17y ago
The problem I see is that any netbook I lug around is going to be less useful than an iPad. The netbook screen is short and you pretty much have to use it in landscape orientation. The keyboard and trackpad are small and cramped. Also, I
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by easp 17y ago
I use my iPhone camera as a note taking device, and on an iPad, video conferencing could be nice. That said, people seem to be forgetting all about the camera connection kit. Right now it is for downloading off your camera or memcard (some
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by easp 17y ago
Just pointing out that parking is often a hidden subsidy to drivers.

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