jakewalker

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by jakewalker 15y ago
Opinion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701385
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Scalia: "Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat. But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional ones."
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Supreme Court overturns CA's violent video game law; violates First Amdt [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
4 points by jakewalker 15y ago|1 comments
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The Murkiest WWDC Ever(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by jakewalker 15y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
I think the [very sic] referred to the fact that it should be "my boyfriend and me." That's all.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Off topic, but reminded me of a great joke from Judge Kozinski in the Roomates.com case, viz.: ". . . Some subscribers are just looking for someone who will get along with their significant other[34] or with their most significant Other.[35
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Damn. Already went through my allotment of 20 NY Times stories.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Works fine until it doesn't. Therein lies the rub.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
If you find this interesting, I highly recommend the book Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone. http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lan...
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The Convertible Debt v. Equity Financing Omnibus Post(daveheal.com)
2 points by jakewalker 15y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
There are some legendary stories about what happens when Apple enters your market. I think Marco's right that he's pretty safe on the Instapaper front (for the reasons he says). That said, here's another tale of Apple entering a market, w
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What Safari’s “Reading List” in Lion means for Instapaper(marco.org)
39 points by jakewalker 15y ago|34 comments
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Price war Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
18 points by jakewalker 15y ago|26 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
I have a very similar setup. I highly recommend this article, which elaborates on what you discuss: http://remiel.info/post/1601242301/making-the-leap-to-ssd-on...
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Ahh, that's the problem. My law firm forces me to install a profile that encrypts the backup. Fair enough.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Beautiful.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
I get the same error, although I have the directory. I do keep my iTunes library on another drive, though I can't imagine this is related.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
My law firm (which is arguing Microsoft v. i4i before the Supreme Court) is hosting an event on the morning of May 4 in Palo Alto to discuss i4i along with two other major patent cases before the Supreme Court this year. Both of the attorn
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by jakewalker 15y ago
tl;d(l): Because Objective-C's memory management (or lack thereof) is presently a benefit to iOS when mobile devices have limited resources, Apple has bought itself some time before relying on Objective-C for development of OS X and iOS app
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Hypercritical: A Dark Age of Objective-C(5by5.tv)
2 points by jakewalker 15y ago|1 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Interestingly, John Siracusa's latest episode of Hypercritical, "A Dark Age of Objective-C" touches on much of the issue of Apple's reliance on Objective C both for OS X and iOS, and argues that in the long term, it's extremely problematic.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
I can pick up and read Cuckoo's Egg anytime and re-read it and every time it is just as exciting. If you haven't read it, you should. Also, the NOVA documentary is available on YouTube, viz.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1swbLfrP6g Wo
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Well, really from $307 to $108, since the $199 requires the $9/month for a year commitment too.
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by jakewalker 16y ago
Would definitely be interested.
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by jakewalker 16y ago
I am curious about how Dan gets such great recordings from his co-hosts, who are remote. I'd have thought they record audio natively then upload him a high quality audio file with time sync, but then I remembered that he does these shows l
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by jakewalker 16y ago
Just to make things more complicated, in the U.K. and certain parts of the U.S., you will often here people say things like an historic, because they tend to drop the "h" sound when they pronounce historic; it sounds fine when pronounced th
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Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Coudal(37signals.com)
3 points by jakewalker 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 16y ago
Sorry; missed this yesterday.
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by jakewalker 16y ago
If this is anything more than a bug, it's really troubling. There is really no possible justification for not allowing full screen web apps to have access to the Nitro engine.
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iOS 4.3 Not Providing Nitro Engine To Web Apps Launched Full Screen?(gigaom.com)
13 points by jakewalker 16y ago|8 comments

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