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by ergo98 16y ago
You seem to be wording your reply as if you're somehow disagreeing with what I posted, and you've gotten the corresponding upvotes. -He needs to set foot on actual Canadian soil to claim refugee status -He can't walk to the border. He needs
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>And he didn't even use it to try and get into Canada But he did. He would have needed a visa to get on the flight to Canada (carriers are responsible for ensuring that border protections are enforced), and this was his circumvention.
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It would be similar if crappytire sued Canadian Tire.
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"if you don't want to use Java or you want to do layouts in text (I ended up writing my own DSL in Python to generate layout XML, but man it was a PITA)" You made it more difficult than it really is. It really depends upon what you want to
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I'm not sure that "browsing the internet and being shown advertisements on web pages" should be considered a task whose intensiveness is on-par with 3D rendering, 1080p decoding, or encoding. Browsing the modern web is an incredibly com
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I strongly suspect it'll be better performance than Flash. There is absolutely no empirical basis for assuming this. In actual comparisons between the two -- at least the tests that I've seen -- Flash take the lead. Removing Flash and bei
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The tablet market was dead for years Aside from a robust but small market in PMPs (by companies like Archos), the "tablet" market is but an offshot of the netbook market: People just wanted to browse the web and consume media, and the iPa
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"The dating game in this country is broken, as evidence I point at the 50%+ divorce rate." That stat is always brought up as proof of the failure of marriage. To me it validates marriage. Seriously, if you told a computing engine that two p
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"By your logic, other PC/mobile manufacturers should have similar profit margins to Apple, but they don't. " How you could you possibly extrapolate that, attributing it to me? I propose no such thing. Electronics is a low margin arena, and
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"What is "though they managed to brand it" supposed to mean anyway?" When the A4 was introduced a lot of the speculation regarding it was incredible. What was this amazing new processor, people asked? Apple, it was widely perceived, was sud
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>Then why not connect all those thoughts together? If it was so easy Who are you responding to? I didn't say it was "easy". I further said that Apple is a software company, not a hardware company. They do software well. Their hardware s
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Apple is responsible for shockingly little of the innovation in the smartphone field. They didn't create their processor (though they managed to brand it and fool a lot of people for a while). They didn't create the GPU. They didn't create
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Perhaps they're taking advantage of BizSpark or WebSpark or a similar programs. If they aren't, the dual CPU machine they mention would require $14,000 of SQL Server licenses (if you paid list). EDIT: Actually there's a newer "Web Edition"
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The technology stack of StackOverflow is excellent . The scalability potential is rationally limitless. Joel, Jeff and crew did a great job. Huge kudos to them.
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It seems like you are one for conspiracy theories to try to make that work. The British airport guy complained about shoe checks and laptop scans. This threat was about cargo shipped bombs. They are two entirely different things with an m
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It sounds like Microsoft is adaptive and pragmatic. What's not to like about that? If everyone was using Silverlight today I suspect they wouldn't be saying the same thing. Instead it has virtually no traction among devs (aside from a core
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The gross throughput factor is hugely oversold for the vast majority of uses: In most scenarios IOPS is Godzilla to throughput's mouse. IOPS is reality, and throughput is something that only generally comes up in benchmarks.
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I was specifically replying to the "especially" bit. The net benefit of an SSD is far less pronounced with many NoSQL solutions (in particular document stores) than with relational databases. That's because the former was built and adopted
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If that public wifi is secured with a password -- albeit a public password -- does that protect individual sessions? Meaning you go to a cafe and the blackboard tells you that today's WPA2 password is "greenbeans". Knowing this does it pr
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>SSD's should result in huge performance boosts, especially with nosql systems like MongoDB & CouchDB. This is entirely backwards. NoSQL solutions tend to trade space for reduced I/O, whereas a relational database trades I/O for red
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The only operating system that moves fast enough to add support for something like this in that sort of timeframe is Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost The ars article isn't very clear, however it isn't talking about a sys
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That's nice.
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"If digg wants to use their own batch of sockpuppets to influence the front page to their partners benefits they are free to do so, the responsibility, the upsides and the downsides are all theirs to take home." The downside is that someone
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by ergo98 16y ago
>It is extraordinarily odd to me that digg would create fake accounts to promote sites Agreed. The fact that it was primarily promoted publishing partners doesn't implicate Digg at all: Many of these spam accounts first seek to establis
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MongoDB is extraordinarily easy to develop for. It's a big (I would say the biggest) advantage of the tool. Seriously, you owe it to yourself to do their superbly written tutorial - http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tutorial . That simpli
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>you will see a few financial and ecommerce sites Could you provide some examples? Scanning the list I see a couple that have a very periphery relation to financials, but the actual applications have very little financial applicability
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It's kind of shocking that the session vulnerability seems to be so new to so many. It is painfully obvious. It's one of the reasons that many sites demand that you enter your old password before entering a new password (ensuring that, in t
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>Regardless of whether human creativity is intrinsically bound to economic reward "Reward" is the means to pursue your creativity. The ability for an author or a photographer or a painter or a musician to actually work on their trade in
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You're looking in the wrong place to discover scarcity. Copyright law is there to prevent real scarcity. Without copyright law there would be no big budget or little budget movies, little recorded music, few books, and on and on and on. Sur
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This junk should stay on Reddit.

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