groggles

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by groggles 15y ago
It is mentally arduous to try to parse through it. I really tried but had to give up. Punctuation exists for good reason.
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by groggles 15y ago
Pedantry -- that isn't Moore's Law related, aside from the loosest interpretation that computers as a whole get faster. This is so true, though. Much of the horizontally scalability need comes from the land of extremely underpowered VPS mac
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by groggles 15y ago
That would create lots of restrictions Microsoft wasn't comfortable with The most likely scenario was that Microsoft would have been broken up, which while it was unwanted by Gates would have likely led to a much more valuable set of co
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by groggles 15y ago
Probably, given that Microsoft has never made money on Windows Mobile -- minuscule licensing costs coupled with a high engineering price. In their brightest expectations I don't think they see themselves making money with it. Microsoft's mo
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by groggles 15y ago
Do you perhaps see the Apple glass as half full, and the MPAA glass as half empty? As the GP argued, one could just as easily argue that every MPAA policy is for your own good . Further I think it's incredibly unfair to say that the MPAA m
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by groggles 15y ago
Indeed, but the piece is primarily anti-MPAA. See- "The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are e
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by groggles 15y ago
Given that the author is Marco (and the article is on HN because it is from Marco Arment), I wonder what his boycott position is regarding Apple? Apple has a long history of supporting draconian IP policies, and has a business model built
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by groggles 15y ago
They do it for all comments to have a protection when someone comes gunning for some comments. This isn't about someone defending a champion of free speech or a hero of mankind. It's about, in most cases, liars who invent claims in commen
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by groggles 15y ago
>I do have to agree with the site that they might not be able technically to give the info. I have mixed feelings about sites that rely upon the "we regularly purge identifying information" excuse. In this case I believe it makes the si
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by groggles 15y ago
>These are examples of 'bad' comments They weren't bad comments at all. The circle-the-wagons "we're better than this" reaction is worse. While a death is usually a tragedy, made magnitudes worse when it's a child, the title of that pos
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by groggles 15y ago
The Citi claim is based upon absolutely nothing. For that matter every single "Microsoft makes $X from Android" are based upon nothing but speculation. Show me a line item in either HTC or Microsoft's quarterlies validating that? It is inte
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by groggles 15y ago
A decent watering schedule is not an overwatering schedule. Watering plants properly is not a difficult activity. Further even assuming that it is very low power, just the energy and materials used to construct it blow away any notion that
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by groggles 15y ago
HN has been soundly trolled. This guy -- who apparently rejects 99% of interviewees -- apparently runs a single-person company of dubious purpose. This absurdly trollish post is over the top because that's what ensured it a front-page showi
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by groggles 15y ago
That sounds pretty cut and dry. Of course in reality it is absolutely nothing like that . I've experienced plenty of lag on iOS devices. I've had buttons not respond, apps crash, and behaviours that left you wondering what you're supposed
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by groggles 15y ago
>those for whom the little details like UI responsiveness are supremely important That isn't what he said. The general angle of MG and Gruber is that iOS is universally superior to Android. I remember trying out the iPhone and being sho