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by elblanco 16y ago
Yay! More bloat!
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by elblanco 16y ago
The filed complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36371667/i2-v-palantir-080910 For those not in the know, i2 is the maker of what's essentially the Microsoft word of this particular industry. They're the defacto standard. i2 is also well kn
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I2 Files Suit Against Palantir Technologies - Misappropriation Trade Secrets(i2group.com)
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by elblanco 16y ago
I think that this is probably the case. I can't say for certain if he was mimicking swordplay or just clubs (it's not too specific at that age). But he was definitely mimicking some type of projectile weapon quite often...and often with abs
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by elblanco 16y ago
It'd be an interesting day when forum degeneration can be solved via circular migration around ring of sites vs. Linear migration like today. "everybody barrel shift!"
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by elblanco 16y ago
What's also interesting is how the appropriateness of this particular metadiscussion seems to also come in waves. Today this is top of the front page. Tomorrow the same post might be flagged or comments downvoted into oblivion.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I have a male cousin who's parents absolutely refused to supply gender specific items. Going so far as to purposely ban toy weapons and other "kinetic and violent" items from the toy chest. By four he was turning anything and everything int
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by elblanco 16y ago
So it'd been a while and I ran out and listened to the following, recording my visceral reactions: Op. 17 No.4 (performed by Horowitz) - pretty, no "connection". I'd probably play it in the background during a nice dinner party. Op. 33 No.2
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by elblanco 16y ago
Right...it's like a sympathetic vibration ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_vibration )...but on an emotional level. I guess I'm "tuned" to Bach and you're tuned to Chopin. If anybody is interested, I've found this to be a very p
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by elblanco 16y ago
It has always been interesting to me that, while I can certainly appreciate that more "clinical" aspects of Chopin...the technicality of the writing, the skill of great performances, the difficulty of the music, Chopin's place in musical hi
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by elblanco 16y ago
Every single person I know who used Wave thought the character-by-character thing was terrible and wanted it turned off. A few of them actually stopped using it as soon as they realized it did this since they didn't want to broadcast half-f
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by elblanco 16y ago
I just resize it in chrome so it's bigger.
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by elblanco 16y ago
You know....I don't know how I didn't think of that.
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Here's an entire recent thread on just one topic (installing software) from right here on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630902
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by elblanco 16y ago
With even worse reliability statistics!
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by elblanco 16y ago
"If somebody is saying something good about a pointing device on a non-Apple laptop, odds are good that they've never spent time with Apple's touchpad. It's that much better" Personally, I despise the acceleration curve Apple uses when I'
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by elblanco 16y ago
Thank you for having one of the few reasoned statements of why you like a mac I've seen in this post! It's a breath of fresh air! You like it simply because you like it. You recognize some people may not like it, and may like other things.
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by elblanco 16y ago
There's probably a really powerful argument how they don't even need the sleep light since Macs have the sleep thing so nailed down that it just works.
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by elblanco 16y ago
A logo in the shape of an Apple with a bite taken out of it formerly in a full, colorful, playful rainbow. A sad mac. A bouncing beach ball. Cute naming using words like "mighty", "magic", "Newton", "Lisa", "Macintosh" and the prefix "i-" a
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by elblanco 16y ago
Making great things can be very risky. Most companies are setup to avoid risky behavior at all costs because exposing yourself to risk can be very destructive. The few truly great things squeeze out of a typical company are all because of a
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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree, it's a bit of a meta-comment on the sad state of the Apple user-community. I read through probably a full 100 comments in this thread and found myself become more and more annoyed at the lack of basic critical thinking on display.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Apparently I'm not of the set "people".
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by elblanco 16y ago
Apple is wonderfully mimicked, never really copied. The company's aesthetic is truly unique and standard setting. We cam both be best friends over that. My mbp gets far too much use for a 4 year old piece of hardware. And it still resumes f
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by elblanco 16y ago
Not to sound snarky, but (especially given recent events) I shouldn't have to. Which is precisely my point.
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by elblanco 16y ago
At risk of getting massively downvoted (since almost everybody else in this thread who refuses to participate in the Apple lovefest is down -4 right now)... I really dislike this community conflation of attention to aesthetic detail with "d
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've had the good fortune to be able to travel quite a bit in both my professional and personal life. And I really have to echo everything the author says. But three points in particular: "The media lies" is something everyone should take t
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by elblanco 16y ago
>it's all notifications about his recent shows (which I get via iTunes automatically) and (self confessed) pictures of food he's eating Leo, after the thousands of words he's written promoting these types of social media, found out that
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by elblanco 16y ago
> We need to know what the superficial people are talking about... ugh, no thanks. If I have an hour of free time and a choice between hearing what vapid morons have to talk about, or illuminating myself with something a bit deeper, I'l
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by elblanco 16y ago
Unfortunately, most of the HN comments < 140 characters are so content free as to basically violate the site's guidelines. (and yes, the above would fit into a tweet, but it would be so devoid of context as to be absolutely meaningless
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These are real interesting and nice interaction models. Definitely some of the better interactive work I've seen going on in canvas land. These types of experiments definitely push the boundary of what we can do today with HTML5. And as def

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