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by halo 18y ago
No. That's missing the point. It's got to stop. Social features are great for some things. Social features are not great if you shoe-horn them in a totally inappropriate way that doesn't add value. Life is better for me and the vast majorit
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by halo 18y ago
This sort of post is one of the great failures in social news sites. 7 upvotes, 13th on the front page, zero interesting content. The cause is the plague of feel-good "me too"-ism, groupthink and lowest-common-denominator-ism that causes pe
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by halo 18y ago
I've been thinking about it lately and I've decided the problem isn't inherently DRM itself. The problem is that when companies use DRM without giving back and, in particular, use horrible invasive DRM that is a pain for the genuine custome
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by halo 18y ago
CSS 2 was specified in 1998, and updated to be more realistic in 2005, and even today no browsers follow the standard to the letter - although both Gecko and Webkit admittedly both have a good go at it. Let's not forget that Hixie has seen
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by halo 18y ago
Having checked the T&Cs, this is US only
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by halo 18y ago
I have the opinion that the 'misunderstandings' largely consist of either preconceived notions of what the ad campaign would be like or, more commonly, anti-Microsoft sentiment repeatedly raising its ugly head and any Microsoft advertising
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The second Seinfeld and Gates Microsoft ad(youtube.com)
57 points by halo 18y ago|82 comments
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by halo 18y ago
I think it's not necessarily about people using F# but rather about creating cool things to help attract intelligent people to Microsoft and to give technical-minded people a better impression of them. Secondarily it also gives puts them in
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by halo 18y ago
No. Lots of people don't actually like JavaScript much, especially its inheritance model, which is why you get obscene over-the-top technical solutions to stop people from writing it. The language has also been slow to evolve to fix core pr
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by halo 18y ago
I think as time goes on computer manufacturers will make slow movements towards it to avoid paying the 'Microsoft tax' particularly on low-end computers where Linux thrives. If computer manufacturers want to use it hardware vendors will be
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by halo 18y ago
The actual blog post at http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/162 is much, much more interesting than this one.
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by halo 18y ago
Their product is on 95%+ of a huge market worldwide and everyone already uses it and knows about them. They don't need to sell their core product as the OEMs do it for them, and I seriously doubt that their commercials have any real impact
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by halo 18y ago
Dramatic headline with little-to-no information. Sounds like utter scaremongering. I don't really see how Google can face an antitrust challenge over Chrome: they don't dominate the browser space, they aren't product-tying or doing anything
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by halo 18y ago
An impressive piece of tech but I'm not really convinced this is a good approach, especially after comparing their photo demo with Sproutcore's ( http://cappuccino.org/learn/demos/FlickrPhotoDemo/ vs. http://www.sproutcore.com/static/phot
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by halo 18y ago
I'm not convinced it's still a war because no single browser is going to be able to dominate and have undue influence on web technologies as a result. All browsers (yes, even IE) are slowly but surely converging on standards compliance - e
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by halo 18y ago
Really old news, sensationalist headline for a crappy biased article. Microsoft have been moving forward towards 64-bit for a while, although they arguably should offer 64-bit as default on new builds, and a large proportion of people run 6
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by halo 18y ago
Fair enough, but Chrome does inherit them - I haven't used a Webkit browser very much before because FireFox, in my experience, has been a much superior experience on both GNOME and Windows than their Webkit alternatives.
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by halo 18y ago
A few miscellanea you may have missed: * JavaScript is lightning fast. 3x faster than FireFox 3 on the Dromaeo test suite. * JavaScript compatibility isn't 100%. Fails in RaphaelJS, apparently Facebook and probably more. I'm unsure why. * T
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by halo 18y ago
>Try Europe sometime if you really want to see government making life difficult. You've just made one big sweeping generalisation about 47 different independent countries.
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by halo 18y ago
>but rather just showcase that the iphone internet experience is much more capable than the competition. Except the competition does have both Java and Flash, so it depends how you define "capable" doesn't it? It's interesting how they'
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by halo 18y ago
Actually, I think the idea isn't terrible. However, the problem is that the implementation was flawed. Relying on people having solely the Android platform is a mistake. Basing it on the web as well as having a simple implementation over ma
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by halo 18y ago
What is with Hacker News' obsession with Apple minutiae?
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by halo 18y ago
I very rarely get a "Holy Shit" feeling. I get "Oh, that's clever" or "that's neat" quite a lot though. I think perhaps the fact I'm young so take things for granted and the fact nowadays I see everything as it appears on the internet makes
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by halo 18y ago
I'm not convinced they are wrong but the reasoning is poorly explained or misleading. Without knowing the size the image will take up, the browser may be forced to rerender the page as the attribute data is received from the images to make
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by halo 18y ago
In case anyone is interested, the main site - http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/ - lists papers from many graphics conferences. An excellent resource.
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by halo 18y ago
Anyone interested in this will likely be interested in: Bit Twiddling Hacks - http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html The book Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren Jr and published by Addison Wesley - homepage at http://www.ha
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An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube(youtube.com)
3 points by halo 18y ago|1 comments
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by halo 18y ago
Doesn't change the fact that it pops up a scary unintelligible message and makes you jump through hoops whenever someone tries to visit a site with a self-signed certificate. It's very much a "break the web" situation. As suggested by the o
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ECMAScript Harmony project announced - a unified continuation of JavaScript(mail.mozilla.org)
5 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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US Federal Circuit decides open source licenses are enforceable under copyright law(groklaw.net)
3 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments

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