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AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years(nytimes.com)
97 points by gphil 16y ago|73 comments
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by gphil 16y ago
This article talks about consumer software, but most of the issues are applicable even to relatively technical enterprise software. The end users of this kind of software generally have a lot of expertise in their daily routines, but stumbl
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by gphil 16y ago
This sounds cool--is it available for use now?
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Ask HN: What password management software do you use?
3 points by gphil 16y ago|4 comments
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by gphil 16y ago
Maybe the only thing keeping Java relevant to consumers. It's also the de facto standard platform for just about all recent enterprise software projects.
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by gphil 16y ago
Is the FCC so hapless that they can't make independent decisions about this? I sincerely hope that their logic isn't just: "Well, since Google and Verizon both agree on this then we better agree with them too!" I actually don't think Google
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Statistical Literacy Guides(lonegunman.co.uk)
1 points by gphil 16y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 16y ago
DuckDuckGo certainly does the trick for general web search, but like you I'm really tied in to Gmail/Talk/Reader for my personal life and Google Apps for Business for my work life. Unfortunately, replacing these isn't entirely up to me at t
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by gphil 16y ago
What I meant by my initial comment is in no way contradictory on its face, nor contradicted by any amount of real world data. Allow me to clarify with a simple example: Consider the case of a shareholder invested in a company behaving in an
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by gphil 16y ago
Yes, but what about when the shareholders are also mostly Americans? Big corporations tend to operate in their stock's best interest, and this can still cause serious problems for their shareholders.
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by gphil 16y ago
Confusingly, "incidentally" isn't always used to describe an action as being incidental. Consider the following definition from a Google search of "define: incidentally": Used when a person has something more to say, or is about to add a re
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by gphil 16y ago
"Having a life" is how people explain why they don't do anything fun with their friends except eat and have drinks. It's funny, I always think the opposite. Whenever I'm working hard at my job during the week and then just eating and drinki
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by gphil 16y ago
"The level of success probably depends pretty heavily on the type of product you're trying to build and the resulting level of communication that's required. For enterprise software (or perhaps I should say "domain-specific apps" or somethi
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by gphil 16y ago
Forget comparing the OSes, instead compare this to Apple's equivalent website: http://www.apple.com/why-mac/ . I don't think there's any question who has the better campaign going.
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by gphil 16y ago
It's ~5pm on the east coast of the US, I imagine there's generally a spike in traffic at this time which might have something to do with it.
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by gphil 16y ago
If Red Hat has contributed 16% and Canonical contributed 1%, isn't that about equal when you normalize for the size of those organizations? I don't have a good sense of how big Canonical is, but Red Hat is a ~6 billion dollar company and qu
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by gphil 16y ago
I've also noticed that's becoming harder and harder to find unsweetened iced tea anywhere. Is it really that unpopular?
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by gphil 16y ago
Wow, that's a pretty bold executive decision to force people to come up with more creative names. Not that I disagree with it, though.
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by gphil 16y ago
Sorry, I missed that the first time I read through the article.
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by gphil 16y ago
If this isn't just sensationalist reporting, then this is pretty bad. I wonder if it's related to the piracy crackdown that was recently announced by the White House.
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by gphil 16y ago
Yeah I agree. Additionally, I think that the points in the article are generalities that are applicable to basically anything.
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by gphil 16y ago
Since it's not covered in the link you posted I can't recommend labrepl enough as a way to get started. http://github.com/relevance/labrepl
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by gphil 16y ago
Fair enough, but it also wasn't clear to me from watching the clip that she wasn't a CNN journalist--I don't think the OP was trying to be disingenuous. I quickly tried to look up some sources in order to verify her claims but came up empty
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Deuterium DIY: Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor in Brooklyn(popsci.com)
1 points by gphil 16y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 16y ago
Now that I think about it, it's always felt 100% male to me. Can any females speak up and prove me wrong?
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by gphil 16y ago
The OP should just get a non-programming job to pay the bills, just like many artists and musicians have to hold "day jobs" to support their passion.
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by gphil 16y ago
I'm using Chrome 5.0.375.38 on Mac OS X and the site didn't work for me either and I'm not running any kind of "NoScript" style extensions, just an out of the box Chrome.
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by gphil 16y ago
> Microsoft has shipped more software than any other company on the planet. Do you know this as a fact or are you just speculating? (I don't care if it was speculation, I would just like to know if this is true and how it was measured i
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by gphil 16y ago
One of the first results I got back from this script is "guiism." I'm surprised that hasn't been snapped up by any designers out there.
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by gphil 16y ago
For the record, I don't think this is the case. But it is interesting that lots of theories like this are starting to pop up.

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