jbermudes

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by jbermudes 15y ago
Seconded. I understand that SF is the place where all the cool kids play, but it's kind of sad that in this day and age of the internet we're still chained to desks in a particular location.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
While the WiiWare SDK is a lot cheaper than previous kits, Ninntendo still has you jump through the hoop of being a registered and licensed developer with a business office and a secure facility to store the development kit/hardware. So whi
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by jbermudes 15y ago
That's a good point. I believe the patents on the NES Lockout chip expired recently and hence the flood of NES/Famicom hardware clones in recent years.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
Emulators themselves do not constitute copyright infringement. For instance, if I wanted to write my own software to run on a Super Nintendo I can do so and run it on an emulator or build a cartridge and flash it on there to play it on the
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by jbermudes 15y ago
IIRC, the game on the smartphone was running via a native C++ binary, so it's pretty close to the metal. In a web browser you have layers of abstractions that kill performance. It's a sad day when we herald slow and buggy modern implementat
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by jbermudes 15y ago
While I agree with you, it is interesting to note that ACTA originally started out as an anti-counterfeiting agreement. But then again, counterfeiting currency might still be under different laws from counterfeiting designer jeans.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
I'm curious about corporate culture in an American company in Japan. Does that mean that it's not as bad as the salaryman horror stories that we often hear about? Would you say that the corporate culture in the offices is more American or J
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by jbermudes 15y ago
It seems that the UI shown in games and movies is meant more to quickly show the viewer what the screen is trying to say more than it is supposed to be usable to the person. That's why you always see such big fonts and simplified diagrams.
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by jbermudes 15y ago
ARGs and similar types of viral marketing can be a novel way to engage customers into your brand, but at the same time you run the risk of it leaving a worse impression of your brand if at the end they feel it was a waste of time and nothin
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by jbermudes 16y ago
In this world of airplanes and shipping services, there's no non-medical non-legal reason why you're stuck in any particular expensive city. Choosing to live in a big expensive city is an expense choice that you make, just like buying a pre
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by jbermudes 16y ago
I see a lot of those capacitive styluses, and the thing that bothers me is that they look too wide at the bottom, as if they're designed to mimic the area of a fingerprint. If I wanted to do more intricate and accurate work, I'd like to hav
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Unless you want to use a stylus...
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by jbermudes 16y ago
The test is from 1869, but the stamp indicates that it was placed in the archive in 1899.
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Not to mention how the iphone originally only offered webapps.
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by jbermudes 16y ago
I think the "evil" that is alleged is that Sony is the type of company that is ruthless enough to do things like installing a rootkit on your machine to ensure that its copyrights are not infringed.
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by jbermudes 16y ago
In the "2 wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner" sense...
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Where are you guys located?
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Yelp has an API that returns business data in a given geographic area. You could probably get a list of zipcodes from wikipedia and then just loop through that.
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Here's a screenshot of how Chrome 10.0.648.204 renders it: http://i.imgur.com/auBKm.png EDIT: Forgot to mention this is on Windows XP
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by jbermudes 16y ago
IANAL, but it seems that mens rea (intending to commit a crime) would play a big role in this area. While you are correct in saying that Abbey Road might under some form of digital encoding turn out to be the number "34", this wouldn't make
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by jbermudes 16y ago
I think that the permit fees are supposed to go toward the expenditures that the city has in paying for someone to look over your application and do the appropriate research for zoning, local impact, etc. With the salaries and benefits give
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Yup. The homebrew scene is often the one that does all the hard work and the pirates reap the rewards of the broken security systems (Notice how the security system of the PS3 wasn't broken until well after the Other OS feature was removed
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by jbermudes 16y ago
The article correctly points out that just because the software license is $0 doesn't mean that you can change an organization's entire IT infrastructure for free. Proprietary vs open source TCO studies always tend to disagree depending on
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Also see the previous discussion with the author here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346711
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by jbermudes 16y ago
He brings up many great points about the shortcomings of many textbooks and even software for learning a language like Japanese. That's why my favorite introductory kanji textbook is Tokyo University's 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday life
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by jbermudes 16y ago
>> I will personally continue to build #!-only websites, designed exclusively for javascript enabled browsers We as web developers just spent the last 10 years as slaves to IE6 and saying "oh how I wish developers would/could develo
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Looks like gawker sites show up pretty much empty with javascript turned off, and on top of it there's no warning that it has to be turned on? What ever happened to graceful degradation? Give me 1996 text only if you have to, but please, do
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Looking at how much has changed in 30 years in desktop publishing, imagine what laborious aspects of web development will be automated over the next 30 years. While some people may say that arranging the layouts of paper publications by han
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by jbermudes 16y ago
You're right. Flash, Silverlight, Java applets, and Java Flex were all designed to solve these problems, but all of them suffer from the same problems: Their owners seek to control the platform and it has put users in a weird spot. Linux us
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by jbermudes 16y ago
That's an excellent point. When one technology improves on another in certain aspects it's only natural that they be copied back into others. I just wish that we could have it both ways and use some of the stuff we've developed over the yea

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