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by hernan7 15y ago
The "copy to" and "move to" buttons, seem to be some variation on the old "send to" command, which is currently available via both right-click and menu bar. (For those not familiar with Windows: if I select a file, the "send to" options are
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by hernan7 15y ago
Opa is Argentinian slang for "retarded" :-(
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by hernan7 15y ago
Am I the only one that found that French fries illustration to be terrible? Cheesy picture that purports to be a "chart", that shows 2 values, plus the cryptical legend "French fries do not reflect actual earnings-per-share gains." And I'm
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by hernan7 15y ago
Prototype was just lost during the last test flight earlier today: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/new-york-to-la-in-l...
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by hernan7 15y ago
For lots more on fiber optics and the colorful characters that lay them down under the sea, this old Wired article is a must-read: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html ("Mother Earth Motherboard" by Neal Stephenson, 199
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by hernan7 15y ago
So thanks to black hat SEO spammers and related ne'er-do-wells, we are back to AltaVista times.
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Prediction: Apple phasing out pro software(analogindustries.com)
1 points by hernan7 15y ago|0 comments
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Listening Together: The Other Side of Social Music(createdigitalmusic.com)
4 points by hernan7 15y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 15y ago
Maybe there is a niche for a not-so-smart phone: like a dumb phone, but with a usable web browser. I could live with a phone like that.
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Advertising is dead, and so is the customer(business.blogs.cnn.com)
3 points by hernan7 15y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 15y ago
Actually, it's a former AOL contractor.
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Spotting vaporware: nanotech, fusion, quantum computers...(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
1 points by hernan7 15y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 15y ago
Cringely: "consumers have been leading the IT market for the last decade" More like for the last 3 decades (the IBM PC came out in 1981).
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by hernan7 15y ago
I imagine the hellbanned users' comments get some random upvotes to keep them extra-clueless, no?
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by hernan7 15y ago
Or maybe he heard of situationism, dada, etc., and classifies them under "nothing important".
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Ask HN: are idea people still cooking up "Facebook of X" projects?
1 points by hernan7 15y ago|1 comments
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by hernan7 15y ago
Also check out the dual-screen version (just like Microsoft Courier, only real): http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/iconia
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by hernan7 15y ago
He was the CEO of a popular company.
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Music software developers also have to fight "idea guys"(kvraudio.com)
2 points by hernan7 15y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 15y ago
Yes, the NC (or at least the models I saw back in the day) was basically an X Windows station with a Java engine bolted on.
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by hernan7 15y ago
You can also paste in "ex" mode. ESC Q --> to go to "ex" mode i --> to start inserting paste text here . --> line containing a single period to exit "ex" insert mode :vi --> to return to "vi" mode ...golfer, moi?
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by hernan7 15y ago
Back then Next was doing mostly OO/Web software, and Pixar was just starting. So I guess he could have done some Web/entertainment mashup a la Club Penguin, or maybe the Facebook of that parallel universe.
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by hernan7 15y ago
I have seen some non-technical people that use the scrollbar all the time. Some even use those little arrows at the upper and lower ends of the scrollbar. I guess they were taught that way, and it works for them (for the few times a day the
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by hernan7 15y ago
100% not Borges. The story of this particular poem is kind of weird... it basically wrote itself. http://www.reelyredd.com/instantes-pick-more-daisies-who-wro... The original version was a (prose) piece published in Reader's Digest in the
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Notch's dead brother: videogames get their "Paul is Dead" moment(minecraftforum.net)
1 points by hernan7 15y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 15y ago
A throwback to simpler times. Back then many datacenters were just a room where you had a couple of desks with some PC's on them. Maybe a Sun pizza box or 2. And people would be there to listen to the machine play "Fur Elise" when the power
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by hernan7 15y ago
About point #1... wasn't the Microsoft Kin supposed to be the "Facebook Fone?"
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by hernan7 15y ago
Have you tried this site/book? http://www.dspguide.com/
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by hernan7 15y ago
Sorting works well enough for me too. I would even add a bit (10% or so) of randomness to the sorting, to give the less popular comments a bit of time in the spotlight.
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by hernan7 15y ago
More like after 1 week, I would say, but yes.

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