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by guan 14y ago
If you count them there are actually 16 pins. Apple wants you to think there are only 8 pins and that the connector can be reversed. But nothing prevents them from adding some additional handshaking in a future device that lets them use all
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by guan 14y ago
Why is the physical realization of a CPU’s registers called a “file”?
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by guan 14y ago
Eventbrite doesn't pay out until 5 days after the event, but at least they announce that up front and don't tend to randomly freeze accounts and hold on to your money indefinitely.
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by guan 14y ago
Are you sure that the app knows your email address? I had to go into the app to add my email, and then it worked.
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by guan 14y ago
And my point is that a cost that’s 1 to 2 percent of your revenue every month is worth looking into and possibly reducing. Even if you decide to keep it for the time being, it’s worth revisiting every couple of years or so.
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by guan 14y ago
Sorry, I meant per month.
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by guan 14y ago
If you bill 160 hours per week and work maybe 200 hours, that’s still 1.5 to 2 percent of your time. I would call that non-trivial and worth at least looking into.
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by guan 14y ago
Based on this post, I’m sure we can come up with some kind of function that he is maximizing.
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by guan 14y ago
What about a construction worker working on a house? A McMansion? A skyscraper?
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by guan 14y ago
A heartwarming story, but why is this posted here? Are these people well known in the HN community?
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Aaron Swartz(economist.com)
24 points by guan 14y ago|1 comments
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Aaron Swartz NYC Memorial Service(aaronswnyc.eventbrite.com)
104 points by guan 14y ago|0 comments
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Aaron Swartz’s potential prison sentence in context(guan.dk)
1 points by guan 14y ago|0 comments
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by guan 14y ago
It’s up on the MIT website too: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/letter-on-death-of-aaron-...
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MIT and Aaron Swartz(crookedtimber.org)
98 points by guan 14y ago|19 comments
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The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime”
7 points by guan 14y ago|2 comments
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Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26(nytimes.com)
356 points by guan 14y ago|5 comments
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by guan 14y ago
Federal prosecutors are appointed politically and are political figures. This can sometimes be a good thing because they can be more accountable than a faceless bureaucrat—maybe this prosecutor won’t win her next election because of this—an
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by guan 14y ago
Federal prosecutors have a lot of independence and discretion. She could easily have let Aaron go with a slap on the wrist or pursued lesser charges.
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by guan 14y ago
Ordinarily yes, but attorney–client privilege would apply here.
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Prosecutor as bully(lessig.tumblr.com)
1200 points by guan 14y ago|260 comments
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by guan 14y ago
There’s no evidence in the article that she was confused about anything. She figured out that the tweeter could see the photo because of a connection with her sister.
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by guan 14y ago
When you present the Fourier transform as frequency spectrum, what are you actually plotting? Magnitude? Real part?
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by guan 14y ago
A lot more. $850 for the cheapest model, vs. $649 (no contract) in the US. I believe the Chinese price is with sales tax, but some US states don't have sales tax. http://store.apple.com/cn/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
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by guan 14y ago
This is the University of South Carolina, not Southern California which most people probably associate with “USC”.
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by guan 14y ago
The ARM chips available in DIP packages are microcontrollers that you are more likely to see in a toy or gadget than a general purpose or multimedia computer. In embedded systems where they are used, you probably can't swap them out for ano
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by guan 14y ago
Most ARM chips are BGA.
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by guan 14y ago
I imagine a special IMAP server for this purpose that doesn’t allow you to delete messages.
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by guan 14y ago
I said “post”, not “send”. You can insert messages into a mailbox with APPEND.
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by guan 14y ago
So sad. But shouldn't we post well-wishing messages using IMAP?

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