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by jauco 18y ago
Are the new viewers gone yet?
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by jauco 18y ago
My point was that intuit will have recieved money for the product. So they can honestly say that it was sold. They don't claim that buyers actually use it. (though in order to keep up sales in the long run, they probably strive for that)
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by jauco 18y ago
They'll count them as sold copies as soon as the money is in. Buyer != user
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Call for EU intervention in browser war is troubling(arstechnica.com)
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by jauco 18y ago
that you can't just shove ideological concerns aside.
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Encoding an image to sound(ohmpie.com)
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by jauco 18y ago
You might find it interesting that Tomboy was written in mono with the goal to force a discussion on how viable it was as a platform I also had a political agenda. I wanted the question of Mono or Not to be brought forward and answered ser
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A demo of the OLPC software [video](interdimensionmedia.com)
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by jauco 18y ago
This is _Not_ for the Android applications.
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by jauco 18y ago
usually when I submit large amounts of text on an unstable site/device I copy it first to save the text to memory :-p
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by jauco 18y ago
Or just keep using HN as a blog ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226482 ) P.S. Thanks for the URL :)
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by jauco 18y ago
The question I meant to ask was: "what would you do if there isn't a solution to the customers problem?" + explanation why this particular question doesn't have a solution.
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by jauco 18y ago
What if there isn't one? 1) The site builder added a certain effort treshhold to block out spammers. 2) The complaining user doesn't want to invest the effort to cross the treshold. These statements are mutually exclusive. The only way to r
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by jauco 18y ago
summary, stop adding features and make your software fast (oh, and cheap)
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by jauco 18y ago
Spore contains Intelligent Design elements? How awful! Let's build a computer game in which the player has no direct influence whatsoever!
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by jauco 18y ago
The salty cookies that are called 'cut' in America and England, are rebranded as 'tuc' in the Netherlands since 'cut' is dutch slang for vagina (written with a `k'). They sell pretty well around here.
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Tracking HN via Google reader? try aideRSS(gr.aiderss.com)
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by jauco 18y ago
Actually when the first ipod (1st and 2nd) gen came out, it was simply miles ahead of any of the competition. It had more than 128mb of storage data and it fitted in your pocket (there was one alternative from creative which, well, didn't
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by jauco 18y ago
Oh well. We can only hope that now that DRM is removed from this weird cyberspace environment, people will start to realize how strange and harmful it really is.
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by jauco 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_English... There are over 50 countries where english is the main language. So that's not really possible.
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by jauco 18y ago
You probably shouldn't hire extremely cheap programmers if you want a product that, besides barely functioning, is also extensible and scalable. No matter what country your programmers are from, if they have spent enough time working on var
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by jauco 18y ago
This reminded me of http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/12/28/receipts
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by jauco 18y ago
If you like open source development, you'll love Mac OS X. This fully-conformant UNIX operating system—built on Mach 3.0 and FreeBSD 5 -- http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html [edit better source]
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by jauco 18y ago
First of two small corrections: * The 'parc' (Xerox's computer, with mouse and GUI) was built and shipped and actively used, just never sold commercially. * Apple is BSD-based, not linux based. being BSD-based is most certainly not innova
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by jauco 18y ago
If you have enough karma, there's a 'flag' link to the right of a submission. (I'm not sure how much karma that requires. probably 20 or so). But generally spam doesn't stay around here for long.
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by jauco 18y ago
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. -- Charles dickens, david copperfield
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by jauco 18y ago
Indeed, money is but one potential reward. Social recognition is another. Though I think most of free software is written for the 'finally this thing does what I want it to do' reward.
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by jauco 18y ago
You're confusing ethically wrong (as in 'considered to be not nice') with scientifically wrong (as in 'considered to be not consistent with observations')
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by jauco 18y ago
I know from using the tobii that eye-tracking has one big problem: Your eyes never stay still. Whenever you're focusing on something, you are making mini-movements (called micro saccades IIRC) around the focus point. When you move to the ne
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by jauco 18y ago
potentially interesting, tagged as toread in del.icio.us.

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