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by gbhn 16y ago
I agree that Apple's attention to the iLife suite isn't on par at all with with the work they do on hardware and the OS. I've had some truly awful experiences with iMovie where you wonder how the thing even shipped. (Activities like changin
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by gbhn 16y ago
Thanks for posting it. I think a blog on this would be interesting to the HN audience.
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I'm really curious to see whether these smaller 7-8 inch tablets end up being closer to the sweet-spot than the iPad-sized 10-12 inch screens. Is the lighter, one-hand form factor more mobile and appealing? Or is it just a pain not to have
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by gbhn 16y ago
Yes, I think for browser-heavy computing (the author mentioned opening hundreds of tabs) a ton of ram and a fast ssd cache are doing a a lot more than a fast cpu (and indeed, the author reports the cpu is usually operating at 1 or 2 %). CPU
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The United States of Inequality(slate.com)
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by gbhn 16y ago
I don't think so, no. My experience is that mediocre and poor programmers take refuge in high-ceremony work environments like agile, where there is basically an infinite amount of non-productive "work" that can be engaged in, and no-one can
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by gbhn 16y ago
You think? I thought the typical blame was placed on high school stereotypes; as you point out, by college most women want nothing to do with engineering or computer science. (Hence FIRST, among other efforts.) Another explanation I've hear
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by gbhn 16y ago
I think there's truth in both these points. That is, some of the vast difference in unemployment between college graduates and those without right now is just due to hiring managers (who are largely college graduates) being more comfortable
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by gbhn 16y ago
Why do you think they're rebelling? Isn't the most natural interpretation that the corporate statement ("we don't want to profit from this issue") is accurate, and that Conde Nast doesn't mind if Reddit runs the ads?
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The article tends to use more polarized language, but it's worth observing that it took tens/hundreds of thousands of years to build up that stark 80/40 percent success rates. At any time, the gender differences are a lot less stark, and of
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by gbhn 16y ago
I don't know much about advertising, but could this be on purpose? That is, an attempt to create the impression in the market that the Droid is the powerful, bold, masculine device, and so by implication (certainly never stated directly) th
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Facebook mobile app stats: 104M iPhone users, 12M Android users(engadget.com)
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The kind of throttling you're talking about here is something these "statusphere" products need to get better at. I don't necessarily want to unfollow someone, or unfriend them, or whatever the local idiom is. I just want to see less, and p
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by gbhn 16y ago
That is the most awesome twitter account!
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I don't think the author was saying Android specifically or uniquely enables this (that's just his experience with this process), but rather that the smartphone product does.
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by gbhn 16y ago
Are these rules on the 700MHz spectrum not going to take effect? I've seen nothing that suggests that's the case. Certainly a policy proposal doesn't have the force necessary to change these rules. If anything, those rules are evidence that
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by gbhn 16y ago
I wasn't sure whether to feel happy that all kinds of great cross-platform hacks were well-documented, or sad that so many millions of hours have gone into dealing with them. :-/ I wonder again when I see things like this whether the browse
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by gbhn 16y ago
The huge consequences are if P = NP (which no-one really believes).
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by gbhn 16y ago
Here's a link to the Google Books blog post Crunchgear links to (with many more details): http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-...
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by gbhn 16y ago
A complication with patent trolls is that they're immune to defensive patents: they don't practice, so they can't be countersued or bargained with. I think you probably mean "other companies that develop mobile apps." In this case, especial
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by gbhn 16y ago
Have you considered that an even and thorough approach to tech news may go through periods where it levels more criticism than usual at Apple?
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Definitely. I laughed out loud when reading about how "true" journalists always provide attribution. "Real" journalism on anything of interest is cluttered with anonymous quotes and reeks of the journalist's efforts to protect his or her co
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by gbhn 16y ago
The Stack Overflow goal is to build the "FM" in a search-friendly way that speaks directly to specific questions. For myself, I like the site, and sometimes have problems it helps with, but too seldom for it to become a go-to resource. I th
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by gbhn 16y ago
When I did some website commerce programming a while back, the merchant account we had came with a monthly fee that for many just-starting situations would be a sizable fraction of the total fees ($70/mo or so). Perhaps this has changed, bu
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by gbhn 16y ago
I think this is a really fundamental computer science thing people whose names are not "Alan Turing" have to be taught (ideally in gradeschool) but few are. In many fields, the more expert you are, the bigger the wall of tools you have. (48
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by gbhn 16y ago
Robots.txt governs automated retrieval of a page's contents. I don't think it makes any comments about what the retriever does with that data. Those uses are governed by other sets of rules. For instance, just because a site's robots.txt in
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by gbhn 16y ago
I'm not sure I follow the "Retinal Display" name. Is this just branding on a 300dpi pixel resolution? Or is there something to do with multi-resolution support for apps (those coded in the old resolution will still get up-converted text res
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by gbhn 16y ago
From the linked article: "If you’re developing software for the Windows platform, yes [you are a sharecropper]. Or for the Apple platform"
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The congressional testimony has good diagrams, and The Oil Drum has reproduced a lot of them, amidst good discussion. (Of course, other missing information has contributed to the multitude of plausible-sounding theories about what is actual
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I don't remember the source, but "it's easy to take a reservation, the hard part is filling it." Meaning, of course, that Facebook privacy has continuously eroded, so some (myself included) have no faith that such a dropdown has any persist

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