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by hinathan 14y ago
Ditto for Mac/Safari. There must be something diabolical and/or useful to do with this tech but I'm struggling to come up with a good use case other than 'because kitty'
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by hinathan 14y ago
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
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by hinathan 14y ago
I'm a little baffled by the pricing here — Microsoft's goal in the desktop world seemed to more or less break even on OS and push the application suite for the real cash. Does anyone have a sense of whether this makes sense at all? Perhaps
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Goodbye cheap Windows 8 tablets: Windows RT costs OEMs $85 a pop(venturebeat.com)
47 points by hinathan 14y ago|59 comments
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by hinathan 14y ago
I noticed that too. I hope Google will release their own native apps for iOS before too long, unless Apple dings them for 'duplicating existing functionality'. I love having the transit directions in SF, it's pretty well done across Muni, B
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by hinathan 14y ago
They're not just going to render everything 1:1 as if it were a 30"-class screen. This is going to work like the 'new' iPad screen and render text at high res and images at whatever dimensions are natural for the layout (uses 50% scale up
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by hinathan 14y ago
Small change but makes me really happy — power and Mini DisplayPort on the same side so I can 'dock' at my desk with one bundle of cables.
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by hinathan 14y ago
Not enough to keep Meebo independent.
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by hinathan 14y ago
That's a perfectly reasonable approach — we did that at PBworks a long time ago. Totally transparent to users if done right. You can also declare password bankruptcy and zero out everything. That forces password resets for your entire user
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by hinathan 14y ago
Travis Kalanik (founder of Uber) did this back in 2006 to great effect, decamped the team to Thailand: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119179859820351674.html
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by hinathan 14y ago
Part of the charm of a tiny team of guys making a clever product is the unique voice they bring to the game. They'll will absolutely need to polish up that image to move too much farther into the enterprise world, but you don't really boots
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by hinathan 14y ago
That's just cruel. Good for them that it worked nicely, though.
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by hinathan 14y ago
I'm not sure how to think about a business model which relies on this conversation: A: "You are copying our technology" B: "We've never heard of your technology" A: "It's right here in your product, you just didn't know you were copying it
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Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff(bloomberg.com)
2 points by hinathan 14y ago|1 comments
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by hinathan 14y ago
Couldn't this be clarified greatly with just a few more words of explanation on the profile page itself? There are a few pages and blog posts scattered around HN which explain most of the fields on the profile but there's nothing like expla
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by hinathan 14y ago
Neal Stevenson's Cryptonomicon does a pretty good job, in places, of calling out some of the more terrifying and gruesome aspects of WW2 in the Pacific. It reads so distinctly removed from the Hollywood version but this piece is a good remi
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by hinathan 14y ago
Is the HN traffic enough to crush their servers? Something is deeply broken as I post this.
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by hinathan 14y ago
New to me, thanks!
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by hinathan 14y ago
Webcast team wiping away tears as the camera cuts back to them. Awesome.
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by hinathan 14y ago
This is a long read but worth the historical perspective, it's the Apollo 11 landing, annotated transcripts of the voice communications between mission control and the astronauts: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.landing.html
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by hinathan 14y ago
It is if you need to consider so many objects during a request that the memcached request and deserialization becomes too much time per API operation (requests like visible object ids in an unbounded folder with acls/permissions applied per
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by hinathan 14y ago
This was exactly the situation for us at PBworks when I wrote my version of OP's system — huge existing business logic and object model in php but with new requirements and performance demands. Move the business logic into a stateful backen
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by hinathan 14y ago
I built the same basic thing a year ago (using libevent for php, same general API as node.js) for a particular project. https://github.com/hinathan/edges-php#summary For some these php-but-like-node.js projects are abominations but there
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J.P. Morgan Flags $2 Billion Trading Loss(online.wsj.com)
16 points by hinathan 14y ago|2 comments
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by hinathan 14y ago
From the site — "same price as an ACH transaction" — so a few to tens of cents per transaction.
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of NetStumbler(nytimes.com)
46 points by hinathan 14y ago|76 comments
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by hinathan 14y ago
I hadn't thought about the fragmentation angle here. That's downright fiendish. Good old Microsoft.
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by hinathan 15y ago
Then again, people could stand to relax a bit. I thought it was kinda funny.
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by hinathan 15y ago
I don't know about you but "building up on SPDY" triggers my memory pretty sharply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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by hinathan 15y ago
I had no idea Romanian looked so much like Latin, at least for that trivial "Romanii sunt" clause.

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