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by elithrar 15y ago
It's a bit closer to $5000/sqft these days: https://twitter.com/asymco/status/71216106173509633
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by elithrar 15y ago
I'll agree with aaronbrethorst here: your books are going to out-dated regardless; it's the major downside to software hardcopy these days, especially web-focussed stuff. Saying that, Rails 3.0 to 3.1 isn't like 2.x to 3.0 (where your books
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Not sure if that's the case. The company makes the most money from online ads, so is it better to foster long-term technology growth or to convince more people to use Android? Getting more Android devices into the hands of users now
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I'd rather have no movies and no music than to have our technology become increasingly hobbled by the entertainment industry. Unfortunately, whilst you're not alone in your sentiment, the majority of users to whom Android devices are
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by elithrar 15y ago
> THe employer still has a lot of power. You can be fired at a moment's notice and be forced into poverty. That's waaaaaay more power than a union has! Forgive my lack of knowledge, but is this just a US thing? It seems that you can be
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by elithrar 15y ago
Just to add: you can listen to Siracusa's comments re: Merlin on Hypercritical [1]. Also worth listening to is Merlin's own podcast (with Dan Benjamin) called Back to Work [2]. A lot of his recent talk has been about his book, the challenge
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I think his point is that nuclear power is still safer (by number of lives affected) than, e.g. coal; and the fear of rare events (like this one) pushes back on what could be a very viable energy source with (relatively) few lives los
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by elithrar 15y ago
A short, but well written article that does a good job of taking on the "full meltdown" hysteria that some news organisations seem to clutch on to. Granted, the situation at Fukushima isn't good, but "meltdown" seems to trigger the idea of
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by elithrar 15y ago
Only the same people who know how many Kindles they've sold. Amazon is pretty tight-lipped about their financials, at least at a granular level.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> There is also the factor of "crap, I somehow missed a payment and now I can't complete my coursework" when colleges are busy trying to get rid of computer labs because "everyone has a laptop". Assuming you're doing most of your work i
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by elithrar 15y ago
> oh boy. that's actually the mode that keep novices clueless about what's going on with the settings. That's hardly the fault of the mode itself — it's just a large number of SLR-buying consumers probably didn't need the complexity (or
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by elithrar 16y ago
This is definitely a much better communique about how the transition will work. Wish they'd said it in the first place. As a current Slicehost customer, I also appreciate their candidacy about how the transition itself will work, even if it
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by elithrar 16y ago
That's not a fair statement — branding all nuclear energy technology as a means to generate material for weapons is incorrect. A good example? Thorium reactors [1], which generate very little in the way of weapons-grade by products. Why is
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by elithrar 16y ago
I would say that their metrics are more likely to show the majority of dev-channel users are on Windows, purely because of volume. Might be a smaller fraction than Linux users, but the actual figure would be larger.
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by elithrar 16y ago
We have a lot of these issues here in Australia thanks to the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) [1] — though to be fair, that's not the only cause. Thankfully, due to the way statutory damages are legislated here, we hav
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by elithrar 16y ago
It seems so strange that a group of some of the most knowledgable geeks we have rely on CD's to generate important parts of their funding.
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by elithrar 16y ago
Did not Sony state they did not store any CVV2 numbers?
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by elithrar 16y ago
Similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496317
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by elithrar 16y ago
My 11" Air plays lower bit-rate 1080p stuff fine (ie. Apple's movie trailers site), even on an external display. Of course, with a sub-2.13Ghz C2D it will definitely struggle on higher bit-rate content, so I wouldn't be surprised at all.
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by elithrar 16y ago
Rumors abound of a Sandy Bridge- based Air hitting later this year, along with Thunderbolt — if a Thunderbolt to GigE adapter comes out, it will remedy this issue.
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by elithrar 16y ago
I'll always wonder when keyboard manufacturers will replace the 'Windows button' with something more universal. Pressing Windows + key in a non-Windows operating system always seems so counter-intuitive to the everyday user.
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by elithrar 16y ago
In which case, validating and ensuring the flow of patents coming in doesn't stop becomes a business interest to them.
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by elithrar 16y ago
That Whispernet works because the cost can easily be built into the device, or the books — ebooks aren't large downloads and therefore it's easy to set up cheap deals with carriers. After all, Kindle users won't be data hogs or cause networ
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by elithrar 16y ago
Sony would never have agreed to those terms. Period. That is not how they conduct their business or PR.
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by elithrar 16y ago
It's funny, but also great that they're taking this step. The keyboard short-cuts are there for those of us that love them (they even mentioned this in the keynote), but the UI is far more friendly to mouse-based editing (especially with tr
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by elithrar 16y ago
I've been using Slicehost for a while now — since May 2008, according to my email records. I use my slice mainly for development work, as a static media server (w/ nginx) and it has occasionally hosted the odd Django app. It's been rock sol
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U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High’ and Urges Deeper Caution in Japan(nytimes.com)
9 points by elithrar 16y ago|1 comments
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by elithrar 16y ago
> ...rather than trying a high profile (and high risk) product launch. To me this demonstrated some much needed corporate self-awareness (there are some things Google just isn't good at) Well said. Wave was far from great — mostly becau
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by elithrar 16y ago
Django likes to call it 'MTV', or Model-Template-View. Templates are similar to Rails' Views (markup with variables/tags) & Views are similar to Rails' Controllers (methods used to validate/process data coming from/going to the Model).
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by elithrar 16y ago
It's free for up to 8GB (with referrals) — which is very good value in my books.

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