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by hnriot 13y ago
Maildrop looks awesome on the iPad.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Yes, but do you really think those rural areas are going to want to walk around lie cyber dorks? The corp I work for has already banned glass on premises.
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by hnriot 13y ago
And little things like Unix
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by hnriot 13y ago
The traffic is routed through NY to make it easier for the NSA.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Yeah, I'm sure the NSA are trembling, if they gave two shits about laws or civil liberties we would be here, so I'm sure this isn't going to do a thing.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I agree with apple, the world doesn't need another weather app that does nothing more than animate clouds and snow etc. the apple weather app that we all saw today is a world clock, has pinch to summary, a ton of more useful info and w
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by hnriot 13y ago
seriously??? get over yourself.
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by hnriot 13y ago
And more programmer red flags! Dead reckoning and using the sun will get you really far in navigation. Unless you're trecking across the tundra or sailing the high seas, you'll need something a little Mir modern. This is getting s
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by hnriot 13y ago
Or, rather than stop at a gas station to buy an out of date paper map, you could get with the program and pull out your smartphone and have the worlds most advanced cartographic system at your finger tips.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Luddites among us! Run for the hills... A smart phone is a digital camera. Paper maps are like horse drawn carriages - sure they still work, but they are outdated, inaccurate and a relic of the past. It's like saying you still pull out
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by hnriot 13y ago
It's odd that you're on hackernews if you don't have a phone and use paper maps. That just seems like an odd combination. I actually find it very hard to believe that someone who develops for a living wouldn't use google
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by hnriot 13y ago
Why add pigment. Every stood next to a white wall in bright sunshine? There's also the aesthetic reasons, people don't just optimize for cost, they like things they live with to look a certain way. The likely reason is a bunch of reasons, i
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by hnriot 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by lag, chrome has preloading, possibly that's what you're seeing (negative lag?). I use Ubuntu 12.04 and don't see any "lag". FF is snappy. I use chrome most, but mainly because I prefer it's developer tools and
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by hnriot 13y ago
It's hard to know which side you're arguing for. The iPhone is likely faster, there are a plethora of apps that burst shoot, it can switch to video in a moment and it's faster to start taking photos. By the time the SLR has been set to P mo
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by hnriot 13y ago
it does negate what you said, you argued that shallow depth of field and telephoto shots were what's needed, and this is wrong, as was pointed out.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Or rather, the other way round...
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by hnriot 13y ago
"Should make it start not rotating" - what does that sentence even mean?
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by hnriot 13y ago
Maybe geographically, but it's not in the EU and nobody in/from Europe or the Ukraine would ever say it's in Europe. Just like Russia is also geographically (at least in part) in Europe, but it's by no means European. Google (or books) are
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by hnriot 13y ago
"Should I not open an e-commerce shop because Amazon exists?" - probably not, and definitely not if you're going to only sell 10 things.
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by hnriot 13y ago
the same old whining. If you don't like the new features, the blog clearly says you can choose not to use them, they provide backward compatibility. You say this has been done before, what hasn't. You should live with the features for a whi
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by hnriot 13y ago
This might make sense to be added to Bootstrap.
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by hnriot 13y ago
this has been debated endlessly, the use of jQuery is not an issue. An abstraction layer like jQuery buffers the code from browser differences and since it's almost always already in the user's cache and nearly always used for anything non
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by hnriot 13y ago
What a naive perspective. Who, seriously, these days develops in a vacuum, referring to printed reference matter? Software development these days is a series of google trips to the likes of stack overflow and others. If we lived in an 80's
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by hnriot 13y ago
Referrers have nothing to do with pagerank. It's used in website analytics of course, and, in general is a very bad idea leaking information between websites. Search engines don't see your site's referrer data so the association you tried t
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by hnriot 13y ago
It must be a really quiet day for this to make the front page! I can't believe I just wasted time reading that.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I wish it worked on the iPad. I tried it and couldn't figure out how to use it until I read the comments here about using a mouse. Sounds like it would be easy enough to catch the touch events instead of the mouse.
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by hnriot 13y ago
If you're on anything, google documents is excellent - and you don't have to back up, you always have your documents, they are available mobile, and best of all, collaboration. I'd never go back to an installed word processor. The net benef
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by hnriot 13y ago
Not to mention working in Paris is like working part time here. 35 hour weeks!!! Mandated by law too. Of course this might also be why there isn't a vibrant startup culture.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Haha, 3 people on here that are lost. Being on hn and not having a smartphone seems silly. I'm guessing these are just people who like to lie on polls.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Yeah, this point is just plain dumb. And although he says windows is an extremely popular o/s, it might be, in general, but not for software engineering. A unix like environment is far superior for software dev, unless you stay in visual st

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