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by elithrar 15y ago
> maybe it used to be how apple did things, but it is most certainly not how apple does things now. look at their most recent new product line - the iPad. it was not a device that needed iterating on, as evidenced by the iPad2 being vir
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I thought it was interesting that Apple, who is usually so finicky about things being just so, apparently didn't filter or edit this data set. I think it would be more accurate to say that Apple know when to be finicky. This, it see
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by elithrar 15y ago
> they want to be the "Filesystem of the internet" - this is scary, I really hope they won't succeed. Why? Are you interpreting this differently from me? I see them as wanting to provide universal storage for web & mobile applicatio
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by elithrar 15y ago
Pythonistas should look at the "Requests"[1] lib for Python mentioned here on HN[2] a few days ago, too. [1]: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ [2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094695
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by elithrar 15y ago
> At 11 stops up from ISO 100, you're getting to have a great deal of noise at the max ISO I would have thought even at full frame. You'd be surprised how clean some of these things are, especially so if you don't plan on blowing things
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by elithrar 15y ago
The humor in some of the responses is a really nice touch; perhaps something I didn't expect from Apple, who is fairly straight-down-the-line with their dialogs and software. Saying that, it's actually appreciated, and does a great job at a
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by elithrar 15y ago
> So much of image (and audio!) processing is about getting away with noise the person can't detect :) Adobe's noise processing algorithms in their software are something else, especially in ACR6/Lightroom 3. I moved 'down' from a 5D2 t
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Out of curiosity I checked to see if their DSL is Symmetric. Well, it isn't (too much to hope for, I guess), but they do show their upload bandwidths. Well, it's not possible to provide high upload bandwidths on ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+, bec
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I don't know about his diet, but I do know it's virtually impossible to have healthy lifestyle with the responsibilities he has. He might have needed Apple, but there is a chance he put his body over the limit and ignored symptoms How
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I hope that whomever HP sells Palm off to will bring back the brand. I think the Palm brand is "too far gone" in the public mindset to be worth bringing back. The Amazon brand is a far stronger, far more popular brand and its importan
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by elithrar 15y ago
> "was more of the Python way." That you tailor each environment to the language/framework around it is a great touch.
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by elithrar 15y ago
Looks great. If I had the time/ability, I'd love to fork it and see commit and branching command support. Being able to commit straight from ST2 would be fantastic in terms of workflow. Commit after each new function, perhaps even with a wa
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by elithrar 15y ago
> "I've never used it; is it really /just/ a text editor?" It's not a text editor in the scheme of Notepad or TextEdit; it's an editor for text. That is, it's a tool for programmers, with all the searching, syntax highlighting, and what
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by elithrar 15y ago
Not particularly. You'd be surprised how many control systems are split from corporate LAN's via VLAN tags (only).
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by elithrar 15y ago
> So what's everyone's "bloodline"? I Can't be the only one who went Coda -> textmate -> macvim -> vim Coda > TextMate > Coda > BBEdit > Coda > Sublime. I like Coda a lot, but it's not a great editor (jus
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by elithrar 15y ago
> "You probably remember SCADA from the starring role it played in the Stuxnet worm" Nitpick: The article writes like 'SCADA' is a product from a single vendor. It's not. It's just an acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Does this effect dual booting OS X? I doubt the side-effect of blocking Linux boots was anything but a coincidence. But could Microsoft be fearful of Hackintoshes becoming more popular and a increase of OS X running on non-Apple hardw
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by elithrar 15y ago
The [Foxcon] workers jumping off the building in the screenshots is extremely tasteless.
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by elithrar 15y ago
I always found the persistence of some tech companies (i.e. ASUS, Samsung) in using "Booth Babes" to be so strange. Do they ever find a direct correlation between the use of models and the interest in their product? Or to put it another way
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Except the PS3, which is a pretty good Blu-ray/Netflix/DLNA player and probably had problems with low attach rate in the first few years. And it's precisely why it took Sony a while to make any money out of their PlayStation division.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> The high latency with dsl usually comes hand in hand with interleaving enabled. Interleaving doesn't add huge amounts of latency. To the LNS with the ISP I'm on, I usually see about 11-16ms to the first hop, maybe 5ms to a game server
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by elithrar 15y ago
> 12,756.2 km / c = 42.5501031 ms It's worth pointing out that we're looking at more like 0.65c, through optical fibre. This would also be ignoring routing infrastructure/processing time and network prioritisation.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Somewhat off-topic, but what's the rental situation like in Australia for those moving to the country? Are there substantial obstacles to a non-citizen resident like there are in other countries like Japan? My wife and I are planning
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by elithrar 15y ago
Cost. I would also say that most of the 'cable' is laid inside conduit, but conduit with limited space and owned by a particular carrier who has no incentive or regulation dictating that he share that conduit.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Is a PDF download really so bad? I think a key attraction to the PDF menu download is that it allows them replicate their menu layout and style on their website. A menu change or update would require a website update otherwise (i.e.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Apple believes the licence it has protects its partners. Without seeing the terms of the licence it is impossible to say if this is the case, but it is certainly possible. And it certainly seems silly that Apple would not have sought
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Why do hackers like Macs that much? Wouldn't it be better to use cross-platform tools? I think a lot of us like OS X because we get a Unix build environment with a fairly slick GUI and good third-party app support. Being able to use t
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by elithrar 15y ago
> https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer That looks very good, especially for my disk space constrained 128GB 11" Air. I don't need XCode on it, but I do need gcc and friends if I want to build things with homebrew for deve
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by elithrar 15y ago
You can find that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnitin#Controversy Turnitin has always been a concern of mine; not just the copyright/fair-use conundrum, but the privacy issues too.
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by elithrar 15y ago
Paintbrush makes for a good free image editor ( http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ ) — I use Pixelmator as an almost-Photoshop replacement, but the former is good if you want something really light.

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