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by hartror 16y ago
Neat idea just some implementation niggles. I not sure I trust my Mother to understand the extremely non standard tag return form. I know the form is very simple but it looks like an image and the internet illiterate probably will get confu
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by hartror 16y ago
True, often high end hardware can be snake oil. It is like using gold in HDMI cables, a basic copper cable does just as well but companies still tout their stupidly expensive cabling.
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by hartror 16y ago
I know plenty of people who pay that much, and more for headphones. These are people who get into discussions about the loudness war [1] and the pros/cons of various audio formats for different musical genres. They're not stupid, just enthu
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by hartror 16y ago
It is a horrible meme, that just won't die. By the time we actually want to get rid of the "waste" from reactors (note we haven't done anything or the sort so far) the waste will be seriously less dangerous than this article concerns itself
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by hartror 16y ago
As long as the feelings are mutual and are able to grow beyond the initial smitten stage then nothing wrong with falling head over heels in love. I've done it, and come through the other side with the love of my life. ^_^
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by hartror 16y ago
They even gave a Nobel prize for the basis of this work like a year or two back.
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by hartror 16y ago
This throws aside IMO the major contributing factor, that these big companies generally run in heavily commoditized sectors where the margins have been forced down by the competition. High volume, low margin.
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by hartror 16y ago
Which I pay for for the exact reason Instapaper users will pay a subscription for their service.
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by hartror 16y ago
Considering I work with graduates who were 10 when the whole Y2K thing was news I am not surprised.
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by hartror 16y ago
I am never surprised when code is written without decent testing good testing is the exception rather than the rule.
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by hartror 16y ago
How can you say that lag doesn't matter when playing a twitch game such as a FPS! Have you ever played one online!?
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by hartror 16y ago
Me neither, all the coverage I have seen (and I haven't been following too closely I have to admit) has pointed to some magical prediction algorithm they've supposedly developed and having very local servers. Given on a great day I get a 30
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by hartror 16y ago
"To Continue Reading Subscribe Now" I get that the key piece of information is in the snippet but it is frustrating none the less. Some coverage we can all read: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/htc-to-invest-40-million-...
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by hartror 16y ago
Chrome makes Google lots of money directly? I'm not so sure about that. A post on the Huffington has advertisements alongside it making the company money. That alone makes it much more a grey area than contributing to an open source project
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by hartror 16y ago
Oh yes forgot that!
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by hartror 16y ago
Sure, but I am in the startup space and hear about Groupon every other day so I have a bit of selection bias. Also if it was to create controversy then it negates their response to the uproar.
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by hartror 16y ago
Hadn't seen the ads or read the coverage, but had seen headlines and tweets complaining. Had been thinking "How bad could they be?" so I just watched them . . oh crap who thought this was a good idea!
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by hartror 16y ago
You've just been reading the wrong science fiction. One of the great concepts in Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge is a galaxy wide internet and the malevolence in it is effectively just a super virus. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson has
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by hartror 16y ago
It depends on the economy, Australian tradespeople make the same if not more than good coders right now. We're growing so fast the demand for those skills is high and shows no signs of dropping off.
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by hartror 16y ago
I love Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" speech[1] as it not only places us in the universe but puts our silly futile arguments, battles and wars on the tiny stage they are actually fought. As an atheist I like to point to this video as one plac
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by hartror 16y ago
OR I invested three years in gaining important startup experience for my next project
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by hartror 16y ago
I truely don't buy into the whole "good school" thing as being overwealmingly important for a child's future happiness and success. Though this is based on my own personal experience rather than solid data. Certainly in my childhood and you
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by hartror 16y ago
We have a social game so Facebook works quite well. People are in a relaxed state looking for entertainment.
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by hartror 16y ago
As an aside (this is the first time I have noted this) is anyone else annoyed by Techcrunch having a "read more" link on the article page that links to Mobilecrunch? Seems like having your cake and eating it too page view wise. Surely just
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by hartror 16y ago
Could you post a follow up statistics in a week or so? As this is a one shot sort of deal I wouldn't imagine you feel the need to keep the numbers under wraps.
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by hartror 16y ago
He doesn't. At the end of Bainlings he says he doesn't even have the money to hire one.
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by hartror 16y ago
Really? I would have thought it is fair use, but I guess no Machinima producers have true tested the law in this regard? Certainly Blizzard attempts to control the use through the TOU and restrict derivative content to non-commercial use on
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by hartror 16y ago
The usual "Don't dig for gold, sell shovels" type thing and in this case the analogy holds up very well. The SC2 players are digging for gold and only a few of them make a big strike and the casters and distributors are the ones making all
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by hartror 16y ago
He is back from Argentina. Believe he is in Washington state or North CA from memory. Edit: MichaelApproved below said Washington DC, which is probably actually right, all I remember was Washington being mentioned in an interview and assume
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by hartror 16y ago
I am sure many people are wondering about the alternative to giant explosive tin cans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

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