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by epo 13y ago
This is complete rubbish. 2048 succeeded because it was a blatant 2nd generation copy of the threes gameplay and concept (albeit a poor long term game). It would not have attracted any attention had threes not been so hot. Its principal adv
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by epo 13y ago
I use the magic trackpad on a 27" iMac, it is a wonderful input device and exactly fast enough. There are always clueless users who don't know to adjust tracking speed just like there are always clueless Apple haters who want to b
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by epo 13y ago
According to http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/xerox/star8010.shtml Xerox had an optical mouse in 1981, I know for sure it had one in 1985 because that was when I was using them.
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by epo 13y ago
Rolls Royce. Make a law affecting every nation on the planet? Best of luck wth that.
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by epo 13y ago
America has a huge number of graduates who are unemployed or working at menial jobs, the supply is far from limited.
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by epo 13y ago
If you need something for a couple of hours use a provider who supports that charge granularity. What is silly is criticising a firm for not doing something which they do not claim to do. I could just as justifiably call them silly for not
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by epo 13y ago
And the world has moved on, something Microsft seems to very poor at adapting to.
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by epo 13y ago
Fascinating. Please share your insights about drink driving, we'd love to know.
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by epo 13y ago
> 50 bytes may not seem like a lot, but when you’re serving 500 million pageviews per month, it adds up. This is rubbish. What matters is how many packets of data go through the network. It is packets which are the unit of transfer and
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Rivals can create copycat software through testing and user manuals: UK court(out-law.com)
77 points by epo 13y ago|30 comments
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by epo 13y ago
Another fan here. How gratifying and unexpected to find such a niche story on the HN front page, won't last.
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by epo 13y ago
They are supposed to guard the people but job security and mission creep means their priority becomes guarding themselves. This should come as a shock, unfortunately it does not.
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by epo 13y ago
Tries to compare Apple's behaviour to McCarthyism. Hilarious really, the kind of paranoid, whining nonsense that is only taken seriously by witless Apple haters, the sort that downvoted you without comment, presumably.
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by epo 13y ago
The danger is two-fold: firstly the USA is losing friends abroad, 'allies' are realising that at best they were slightly favoured underlings but never equals. At least this is explicit from the outset with China. Secondly, America
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by epo 13y ago
Coined '63, published '65 according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson I'm old enough to have read Computer Lib ('74) when it came out, I have a first edition which I imported into
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by epo 13y ago
In other words, you can't name them either.
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by epo 13y ago
No, you shouldn't be impressed. It only shows that some cacheing scheme can deliver data this quickly. One byte reads possibly, perhaps the same byte read one million times. Almost nothing to do with MySQL performance in fact.
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by epo 13y ago
The IUPAC standard name is aluminium, aluminum is listed as a variant (but only at the insistence of Americans I'd bet). What we mock is the pretentiousness of claims like "more legitimacy". Insecure, much?
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by epo 13y ago
Doctor Who was first broadcast in the UK on November the 23rd 1963. To be accurate the Google doodle shouldn't be visible in your country before the 23rd. That said, it is early afternoon of the 22nd in the UK, the doodle wasn't v
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by epo 13y ago
Silly example, who decides what is 'an extremely large number of records'? Whoever has a view about this should monitor and police the limit. If you are saying that you can't protect against every eventuality so you may as we
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by epo 13y ago
The check constraint should only be applied when the column is updated so depends on your usage.
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by epo 13y ago
Comments suggest article is a spoof. Flagged.
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by epo 13y ago
Have you never seen or heard of political advertising? Any form of marketing which creates comparisons tries to create a lesser impression of the thing which isn't being peddled. And my point is that some very smart people work in mark
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by epo 13y ago
That's the point of marketing. What is silly is being a poseur, like many people on HN, and pretending you are above all this. Different people just respond to different styles of marketing.
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by epo 13y ago
You're either trolling or you have a mental health problem (depression perhaps?).
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by epo 13y ago
Dbvisualizer ( http://www.dbvis.com/ ) works with lots of databases and is really pretty cheap. Disclaimer: no connection other being a long term customer, I use it with Oracle, MySQL and Postgresql.
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by epo 13y ago
Oh please. Come back in 10 or 20 years time and say it is not a fad. Technology cycles are getting so compressed that everything is a fad now. The whole thing being fuelled by the immature and inexperienced who know nothing about the past a
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by epo 13y ago
"Skill" as a catch-all term is a meaningless word bandied about by those trying to sound as though they know what they are talking about. There are two sets of attributes, the first (commonly called "skill" but perhaps b
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by epo 13y ago
Any rational planning system would enhance public transport to mitigate the effects of curtailing widespread use of privately owned cars. However, you seem to be American so perhaps the notion of rational planning is alien to you. Certainly
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by epo 13y ago
That would be called "convention".

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