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by halo 17y ago
I've never seen $606 billion US dollars being referred to as 'paltry' before.
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by halo 17y ago
The "best scenario" isn't really the best scenario. You will confuse a whole bunch of non-technical users by including more than one web browser. Then Microsoft or Apple end up having to support whatever browsers they ship so it becomes the
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by halo 17y ago
I've used Firefox since the very early days (Phoenix 0.3) and I can honestly say it could never be described as a "fast browser" - before Firefox I was using Opera which was much faster and much more lightweight. If anything, I would say Fi
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by halo 17y ago
To be fair here, a more accurate comparison would be people saying the same thing about the $500 Palm Foleo, a similarly limited device which was crushed by negative press and relative limitations compared to its launch rival the Eee PC.
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by halo 17y ago
Wow, that's one of the most pretentious paragraphs I've ever read. I mean, let's use the exact same argument, swapping television for books: "In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened
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by halo 17y ago
The idea behind OpenID is great. The user experience of using OpenID is so bad that even as a technically-inclined person I can't work up the motivation to use it.
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by halo 17y ago
NTFS does indeed support both symbolic links and hard links in recent versions of Windows, and they can be created with the "mklink" command-line utility. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link )
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by halo 17y ago
Back in 1989 a proposal was written about organising information within CERN for the "LHC era". ( http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html ) There's some irony that twenty years later you're able to use the very technology spawned by th
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by halo 17y ago
Android sales are almost certainly increasing faster than development cost, so I doubt that's the issue. The likely reason is that Android doesn't yet have the critical mass behind it to make development profitable and Gameloft overestimate
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by halo 17y ago
The @font-face spec doesn't mention a font standard, and Microsoft have already said they won't implement TTF or OTF because the font foundries don't like it. It's possible that IE will implement the upcoming WOFF (Web Open Font Format) sta
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by halo 17y ago
>Outlook is to most people the most irritating broken non-functional idiotic piece of rubbish ever to grace their computer. You're forgetting that it was competing with Lotus Notes.
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by halo 17y ago
I disagree. There is no deadline, especially not in a market where people purchase new phones every 18-24 months. I can see Android's sales continuing to trickle upward as prices drop on phone hardware, as companies use their brand loyalty
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by halo 17y ago
It does support IE - IE has supported @font-face for the EOT format since IE5.5, it was originally a proprietary IE property that has since been standardised.
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How Apple Handles App Store Infringement Complaints: Badly(osnews.com)
24 points by halo 17y ago|13 comments
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by halo 17y ago
You'd think that, but the whole Novell/SCO affair proved that companies can pay $150m for something with neither side fully understanding what was sold.
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by halo 17y ago
Opera's UI is still pretty clunky (it's improved, but not enough), they've never built the enthusiastic community of Mozilla or have the brand recognition and products of companies like Google or Apple, and its USPs have gradually eroded ov
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by halo 17y ago
The majority of them aren't in banking...
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by halo 17y ago
This isn't "Google Chrome OS", it's just a confusingly-named Linux distribution with Google Chrome included.
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The New Old Thing: Once you announce a date, you're already late(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 17y ago
Requires iTunes. Can you please put this in the title?
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by halo 17y ago
The basic idea of having a second touchscreen that matches the first is an obvious one to anyone who has thought about the problem for a few minutes, and presenting it as something innovative is pretty laughable, especially as it doesn't me
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by halo 17y ago
I'd argue that David Flanagan's excellent The Definitive Guide To JavaScript is better known than Resig's book. In addition, "beginner" books tend to sell better than advanced books aimed at professionals, which might explain the relatively
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by halo 17y ago
To paraphrase a recent blog post (possibly by rjlipton?), one good reason to avoid a specific concrete example is that the answer to P=NP or P!=NP isn't quite as important as the specific time complexities involved in solving NP problems -
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Decoding the USPS barcode(forums.somethingawful.com)
117 points by halo 17y ago|14 comments
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by halo 17y ago
Well, anywhere in London except Parliament Square without prior permission as you'd be arrested for doing an unauthorised protest.
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by halo 17y ago
True, but I doubt anyone really gives a damn about the sincerity of the apology, rather people care about whether Palm will actually fix the issues raised. The fact they've acknowledged and responded to jwz's post at all is a good sign.
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by halo 17y ago
Sure, content is the best indicator of context, class, and quality... given you have unlimited time to read all the content. Since most people don't have infinite reading time, people use a heuristic to work out what's worth reading and w
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by halo 17y ago
I'm not really sure why Techcrunch dislike Bartz. Yahoo have been struggling with their position in search for years, and they have been losing marketshare. They have an inferior product, and they haven't been able to compete technologicall
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by halo 17y ago
They aren't incompatible viewpoints. As a thought exercise, imagine a job that requires a qualification that has little-to-nothing to do with the actual profession. This would both artificially increase the barrier to entry for people with
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by halo 17y ago
Considering how popular PPK's site is and that the first person to reply is Hixie, the author of the HTML5 spec, I think they'll already know his feelings by now ;)

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