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by felixmar 16y ago
But it does show the Achilles heel of cloud computing. Is it wise to depend on 3 American companies that have other interests to protect? The potential cloud computing oligopoly could be bad for freedom and openness on the net.
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by felixmar 16y ago
Bluetooth low energy is option once more phones support it. With a button cell the transmitter will operate more than a year. Hide it completely in a wall or somewhere else where it is difficult to remove.
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by felixmar 16y ago
Thanks. Bonus points for creating a universal app for iPhone and iPad. I am starting to become annoyed by developers that just scale their iPhone app, put "HD" at the end of the title and then ask the same or higher price again for the iPad
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by felixmar 16y ago
The slow-motion effect may be the result of the mind mapping the experience to a single timeline afterwards. I was at the Enschede fireworks disaster ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster ) ten years ago and experienced
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by felixmar 16y ago
One thing that surprised me after using an iPad for a while is that the web is starting to feel old. I now see bloated web pages everywhere. Unnecessary widgets, links, icons, useless side columns, actual content making up a quarter of the
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Microsoft Research Street Slide(research.microsoft.com)
6 points by felixmar 16y ago|0 comments
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by felixmar 16y ago
Nobody in the 90s but the wildest visionaries saw Wikipedia coming Tim Berners-Lee mentioned "General reference data - encyclopaedia, etc." as the first area for intended uses of hypertext, see http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Uses.html H
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by felixmar 16y ago
Why is the developer page behind a log-in wall?
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by felixmar 16y ago
VC Mark Suster has written a must-read post about this topic: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/02/17/app-is-crap-wh...
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by felixmar 16y ago
You can summon dons anywhere on the Internet by using the magic word "Haskell". I don't know how he does it but it is amazing.
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by felixmar 16y ago
Is that what those gentlemen in shorts are doing at the Vuvuzela concerts? (stolen from esoterik@reddit)
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by felixmar 16y ago
It's about control. Like most companies Apple prefers not to be dependent on unilateral decisions made by other companies. Even though WebM is free it is controlled by Google. WebM has only one implementation and Google sets the direction o
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What a toddler can tell you about the future of media(adage.com)
1 points by felixmar 16y ago|2 comments
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by felixmar 16y ago
I do not get the impression that Hacker News readers are anti-Microsoft. It's more that Microsoft is mostly irrelevant for a community interested in startups and web applications.
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by felixmar 16y ago
At what point did you decide to sell Delicious to Yahoo? Did you sell because of the money offered, because the initial idea was more or less finished or something else?
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by felixmar 16y ago
Apple has one or more pending patents for it's (rather trivial) live streaming protocol and so far only agrees to RAND terms, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1142/ I have not seen a confirmation from Apple that it will offer royalty-
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by felixmar 16y ago
Not Python specific but languages that regularly interface with C code are often troublesome on Windows because the library writer assumes Posix functionality is available or the library depends on Unix libraries that are at best badly port
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The future of O3D(blog.chromium.org)
34 points by felixmar 16y ago|7 comments
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by felixmar 16y ago
It seems that Google's purchase of On2 already has effect because MPEG is seeking to develop a royalty free video codec. Given that there is a desire for using royalty free video coding technologies for some applications such as video dist
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by felixmar 17y ago
We found that the iPad applications we designed, made it relatively easy to be translated back into websites. The iPad could prove to be a wonderful blue print to design web sites and applications. If it works on the iPad, with a few tweak
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by felixmar 17y ago
Only HTTP is supported unlike Silverlight which also supports TCP sockets and even multicast UDP with Silverlight 4.
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by felixmar 17y ago
My mistake, i meant to write "No native code execution support like Android has".
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by felixmar 17y ago
The downside of Windows Phone 7 is that it is the most limiting and sandboxed development platform of all mobile operating systems. No native code execution like Android, no multitasking, no direct access to the camera, no sockets support a
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by felixmar 17y ago
Adobe’s H.264 encoder in Flash Media Encoder is so utterly awful that it is far worse than ffmpeg’s H.263 or Theora; they’re practically assuming users will go use x264 instead. Why is x264 GPL licensed instead of LGPL like FFmpeg? It wou
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YouTube turns five years old, but without Google it would be bankrupt(blog.streamingmedia.com)
4 points by felixmar 17y ago|1 comments
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by felixmar 17y ago
That's pretty bad. Bandwidth caps and charges create a different mindset that hurts many providers like Dropbox. If i transfer a large file i only think about how long it will take, not how much it would cost. Unfortunately bandwidth caps a
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by felixmar 17y ago
Xs4all is actually the most expensive consumer ISP in the Netherlands. The cheapest ISPs offer 20 Mb DSL for 20 euros per month. DSL is slowly becoming legacy technology due to high speed fiber and cable connections.
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by felixmar 17y ago
Besides, the problem isn't educating the kids but the parents. In one episode of Jamie's School Dinners some parents were giving junk food through the schoolyard gate to their children when Jamie had convinced the school to start serving
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Why former employees say Microsoft can't innovate(betanews.com)
58 points by felixmar 17y ago|57 comments
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by felixmar 17y ago
The chart has base e , not base 10. My point is not about how much the Dutch have donated or not, but to show that the inclusion of private donations of all countries would significantly change the chart.

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