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by gcb 15y ago
even if it has lag. you have the option. do you rather wait 2seg for an feature to finish executing or not have the feature at all? (as it would be if you had bought an iphone 3G instead of the G1 at the time)
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by gcb 15y ago
The referrer log of this should be interesting :)
693.
by gcb 15y ago
good luck buying an macbook air, which started the post from the article, that can even play video at decent frame rates.
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by gcb 15y ago
great analogy. and just like with food, anyone who has a clue about what they are ordering, will never enter an apple store.
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Ask HN: what do you use for mobile connection when abroad?
1 points by gcb 15y ago|2 comments
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HP had no app store capacity for all the devices to be sold(forums.precentral.net)
1 points by gcb 15y ago|0 comments
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by gcb 15y ago
despite it being a GUI tool that can't be piped, that loose all the shell goodness such as command history and text substitution, I already did in my example. the sysadmins in question used mc to delete weird named files just because they n
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by gcb 15y ago
and that validates midnight commander as a tool with the unix philosophy how? downvote all you want. but a clone of norton commander was and always will be a joke. ...saw several sysadmins using it to delete files named with dash because th
699.
by gcb 15y ago
i went back to ion3. i missed it and didn't know :) i'm impressed how much debian and ubuntu are the same after you install the non-free firmware package. now i'm wondering if ubuntu is giving a lot back to debian or just doing minimal chan
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by gcb 15y ago
1. he sells for MS. 2. shareholders get some above average return in MS shares. 3. a bunch of companies buy some dismembered yahoo pieces like flickr, babelfish, etc 4. those companies pays more returns than microsoft in 5yrs.
701.
by gcb 15y ago
yahoo power is eyeballs. because it has 'premium content'? HELL NO! front page PVs skyrocket when it redirected the email logout to it... so that proves NOBODY goes to the frontpage for 'premium content' people go to yahoo for the assorted
702.
by gcb 15y ago
learn unix ... use midnight commander. lolwat?
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by gcb 15y ago
To be honest, this happens with locals too. often companies rather hire 3 'available ones' instead of paying 3x for a good one that would add immeasurably more value over the other 3 combined.
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by gcb 15y ago
implying microsoft acquisition of a big competitor is a good thing.
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by gcb 15y ago
unity is cancer. I loved it when it was just maximus for better screen state on netbooks and a few dashboards... but now, that's a travesty. it's so wrong that they are adding feature and features to try to 'fix' it. tabs in the bottom, fil
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by gcb 15y ago
So, what one should do to avoid this?
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by gcb 15y ago
Just like chrome and android
708.
by gcb 15y ago
exactly. Getting to a shell on the touchpad was easier than on my nexus one. ...now, ignore android and webos... Just get X running there and you will have the killer tablet system. Period. no need to reinvent the wheel.
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by gcb 15y ago
i think i got the parent comment's point. it's not about race in this case, but assuming --even if with the back of the mind, how the candidate would fit into the cultural aspect of the organization. Imagine a guy in a organization that has
710.
by gcb 15y ago
:s/all the have/all the rave back then/
711.
by gcb 15y ago
the top 1% buys peanuts that cost 250.000 each.
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by gcb 15y ago
When some friends come back from China, they bought a bunch of kingston pen drives that were all the have. 8Gb was the largest one at the time... they got the 8Gb for like $5 each. of course it could only store 256mb... playing later with i
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by gcb 15y ago
i was almost taking this article serious until i got to that point. It's a bunch a new-age gurus fighting among themselves. Nothing to see here. now i'm picturing Mr. Natural in a jail in Maryland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Natural_
714.
by gcb 15y ago
eeekeyboard had this. was a total failure. i still want one. but the price point was just crazy.
715.
by gcb 15y ago
some paradoxes... 1) by running an antivirus, your emails end up on some public searchable and discloseable database? 2) They couldn't hack RSA clients that were using rsid, but they could hack RSA itself? that's the worst case of not eatin
716.
by gcb 15y ago
for one i remember apple suing it for using appstore. but there is no line for that
717.
by gcb 15y ago
but i think the 250000 people is just the poor with a good life.... isn't that about the <1% you are taking about?
718.
by gcb 15y ago
no. security and government decency is telling everyone "we spend x billions here and use z and y to encrypt access to it" what happens is "we spent x billions on toilet seats (to quote an alien movie) and password go over the air unencrypt
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by gcb 15y ago
why people still think it's ok to have secrets in a government? is it the many movies where the hero help the gov to hide some alien invasion to prevent panic that causes people to think this is right?
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by gcb 15y ago
in another thread i'm downvoted when people says that multiuser is essential for a desktop and i call it a minor annoyance for 99% of the setups. here i'm downvoted because i want multiused on my mobile stuff. And if you blindly trust andro

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