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by jarek 14y ago
Facebook is still attractive to developers?
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by jarek 14y ago
Yeah, absolutely, huge credit to Google if they do put a self-driving car on the customer market. I was just responding to parent's question about the last truly exciting thing that was being tested in the real marketplace, which I felt tri
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by jarek 14y ago
By that measure carsharing and decent transit is revolutionizing urban life today.
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by jarek 14y ago
Looking at it, the concept of a multi-story building must seem so alien and far-fetched as to naturally conclude the future is underwater.
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by jarek 14y ago
> one can imagine the massive benefits gained by society at large One can also imagine a massive drawback: the continuation of sedentary lifestyle status quo and all of its associated ills. But hey, who wants to walk 10 minutes to trans
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by jarek 14y ago
Yep, the guideline does say that. That is why I said recent policy. There have been several recent instances of submission title being edited to match the article linked, in some cases when that title was misleading or provided minimal cont
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by jarek 14y ago
A recent luxury vehicle has so many "assist" systems it could drive itself if only the manufacturer wanted to deal with the liability. Calculating the route? Trivial. Traction while braking, cornering, accelerating? Done. Staying in lane? S
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by jarek 14y ago
I don't really think "revolutionize" is the right word to use here. Lots of people live urban lives while interacting with taxis twice a year, on their birthday and on NYE or similar occasions. Free energy forever might revolutionize things
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by jarek 14y ago
This will surely differ from person to person. My experience with all nighters is decent productivity through most of the night, extreme tiredness and the low productivity phase around 20-24 hours in (5-9 am, typically), then what I thought
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by jarek 14y ago
> Also, kindly avoid the linkbait title The title of this submission matches the title of the article, matching recent HN policy. Users objecting to the phrasing may wish to flag the submission instead.
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by jarek 14y ago
It's not as though the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 or anything...
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by jarek 14y ago
I've always had my garbage picked up by at least a two-person team. I would be extremely wary of mechanical arms activated by a sole operator at 4 am, but that might be just my privileged socialism bubbling up again. Going from one human t
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by jarek 14y ago
I don't know. I saw ad boards boasting of iPhone 4S's "dual core" and "8 MP" camera when it came out, it was a pretty "uh oh" moment.
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by jarek 14y ago
Holy liability Batman! Self driving cars are bad enough, and people get in them voluntarily and they aren't designed to crush-compact what they pick up.
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by jarek 14y ago
Ah, the thing about marketing is that successfully calling yourself the new VP Marketing is most of the battle for being the new VP Marketing.
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by jarek 14y ago
Sanitation ninjas can't be far off. You'll think you're in the clear and drop that wrapper...
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by jarek 14y ago
And Apple is a shining example of backwards compatibility and concern for the 20%. Prioritizing tasks, focusing their efforts, and consciously deciding not to support some users or pursue some customers is why many people on HN hold Apple
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by jarek 14y ago
And downvoting someone on HN is going to make Apple abandon this philosophy?
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by jarek 14y ago
Are sandboxed applications from the Mac App Store able to access these files? Sincere question, I'm not sure what the sandbox limitations are.
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by jarek 14y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted. This is a very accurate representation of Apple philosophy in a nutshell.
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by jarek 14y ago
Some of us have tried neither but by god I will tell you my opinion!
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by jarek 14y ago
I'm having huge issues getting over the layout (no space between F key groups, home/end/pgup/pgdown block broken up). I haven't typed on one, admittedly.
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by jarek 14y ago
People brought T430s to OSCON? The keyboard layout alone should be enough to disqualify the __30 series :(
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by jarek 14y ago
Would be a start!
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by jarek 14y ago
Thinkpad X31, Pentium M 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 12" XGA, hard drive upgraded to a Seagate ST980815A ( http://bin.piorkowski.ca/hdtune/x31-seagate-5400.3.png ) Running Ubuntu 10.04 or something, used to run Windows 7 quite well too
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by jarek 14y ago
> American exceptionalism refers to the primarily used meaning of exceptional as "unusually good." I am aware. It's fun to use terms outside of their usual meanings sometimes. I am not supporting a gun ban in the U.S. I'm asking what y'
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by jarek 14y ago
Ah, yes, the U.S. exceptionalism. No other country like it! No one else could have an invasive dominant culture, a disadvantaged minority group, large prosperity divides, and a God-given fear of groups of other people (you call it "governme
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by jarek 14y ago
I use an 8 year old laptop. Quite capable for wasting time on HN and reddit. Oh, and pretty much every web app out there...
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by jarek 14y ago
> A gun's primary use for law abiding citizens is that it intimidates things. The most effective way to use a gun is simply to deter crime. A purpose they are quite clearly failing at. So the question is what, if anything, citizens of t
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by jarek 14y ago
I'm a crazy homeless person, my name is Adam Smith, nice to meet you. Or was it John Brown? Do they check government-issued ID? I'm visiting from BC or Ontario, you think they could recognize a fake ID?

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