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by jgranby 17y ago
Having ability to learn and having learned are quite obviously different. For example, I was good at languages in school, and could easily have gone on to a language degree at a good university, but decided to do law instead. 3 years later
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by jgranby 17y ago
I second OmniWeb. It's the best browser there is. The tab implementation is second to none, in particular the ability to discontiguously select multiple tabs. Site-specific preferences are also incredibly useful.
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by jgranby 17y ago
Absolutely. Inexpensive cuts of meat are by no means 'worse' than expensive cuts. Certain cuts are always going to be expensive, such as fillet of beef, rack of lamb, but more under-appreciated (and cheaper) cuts can be just as good. As for
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by jgranby 17y ago
Non-hysterical?! It compares modern-day Britain to East Germany and the October Revolution, on the basis that Britain criminalises hate speech (lots of other countries do, too). The author is Australian, and doesn't live in Britain as far a
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by jgranby 17y ago
The definition of Conservative used is laughable. Religious belief has nothing to do with whether you're a conservative or not, and there's no mention of small government, lower taxes, which are what conservatism is about. The definition
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by jgranby 17y ago
Perhaps. Although there is, I would suggest, an element of problem solving with programming that doesn't seem to apply with poetry. Most projects I start are chosen because I feel that that particular app needs making, that the problem in q
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by jgranby 18y ago
It still works for me. Are you just referring to keyboard shortcuts, or can you not cycle through using the menu bar either? If you're trying to use cmd-shift-arrows, it won't work when a text field has focus, because they're the keyboard s
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by jgranby 18y ago
Anthropogenic global warming hasn't been "proved" either. And the agreement by peer review of however many climatologists, whose jobs also depend on global warming's acceptance, doesn't really lend it any credibility in my eyes. Of course o
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by jgranby 18y ago
I don't think it would be anywhere near as funny without such over-the-top profanity. There is clearly plenty of tongue in cheek, and I found the whole thing hilarious. Don't evaluate it as a serious critique but rather as an amusing skit o
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by jgranby 18y ago
Durham
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by jgranby 18y ago
It amuses me the great lengths people go to trying to downplay 70s global cooling. You're doing it yourself -- a few scientists, a few publications. If it really was only a few publications, and as trivial as you insist, then why does e
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by jgranby 18y ago
You've hit the nail on the head -- our CO2 output has been going up all the while, which suggests that (dare I say it?) the increase in temperature isn't caused by man. CO2 output didn't decrease in the 50s, either, when we had our last d
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by jgranby 18y ago
It isn't just about how many early adopters there are -- it's that, with Linux and OS X, they make up a much larger proportion of users. There are probably a lot more savvy Windows users, but the high proportion of early adopters in Mac/Lin
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by jgranby 18y ago
Because the people who designed them didn't agree on what was the best solution for the problem. And the people who use the various languages don't agree, either. Do you really think that you could sit down with a Lisp fanatic and a Java fa
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by jgranby 18y ago
Analogy with human languages isn't ideal, because they have almost all grown up organically, whereas programming languages are, to a large extent, designed. The reason that every language doesn't use the Latin alphabet is, amongst others, g
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by jgranby 18y ago
This isn't the average iPhone app. As the article mentions, this requires actual hardware infrastructure -- not something your average iPhone indie is worried about. Even if the $500k wasn't overspending for what they wanted to do, the
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by jgranby 18y ago
It is indeed, but it's clear from the interview that they knew how opaque and unpredictable Apple's policies are. I'm baffled as to why they went and spent so much money before they knew they'd be accepted.
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by jgranby 18y ago
horrid and butcherous hack Obj-C, unlike C++, is a strict superset of C. All C code works in Obj-C (bar the new keywords), unlike with C++. I really think you're missing the point here. Apart from the controversial syntax, Objective-C's e
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by jgranby 18y ago
Compared to the average iPhone app budget, I'd bet that it is a lot of money.
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by jgranby 18y ago
The main thing I dislike about this is that the domain isn't shown. But neither this nor iCombinator does as good a job as the main HN site at displaying a lot of information in a small amount of space. There is no need for iCombinator to h
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Apple Announces Last Year of Christmas(applecanceledchristmas.com)
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by jgranby 18y ago
A good deal of OS X is open source, but that's beside the point. I don't really care that XNU, etc, are open source, because I don't want to develop an OS -- I want to develop for that OS. If you're so bothered about everything being op
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by jgranby 18y ago
That isn't the case, because his site isn't broken in IE. All he said was that he doesn't care to check any more. I used to access it when I was at school and IE was the only option, and the only thing that didn't work was the unicode cha
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by jgranby 18y ago
Nice to see someone recomending dubstep. The more minimal, techno-influenced stuff is good for working to, particularly anything on Skull Disco. Also check out the Millie & Andrea 12".
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by jgranby 18y ago
Exactly. DRM is usually there to make it difficult to do something that is illegal anyway. With music, it's just as illegal to copy (copyrighted) non-DRM music as it is to copy DRM-protected music. The reason the DRM is there is because peo
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by jgranby 18y ago
I could see this being pretty popular for Facebook statuses, etc. I'd change the download links suggestion for one about Twitter, though.
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by jgranby 18y ago
The whole point of DRM to to remove people's freedom; therefore Apple clearly are taking people's freedom away. No, it's not. Apple don't use DRM because they're anti-freedom. Is this really what you're suggesting? That Apple looked at DR
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by jgranby 18y ago
Apart from YouTube videos, it can play some H.264 videos with its built-in Quicktime player, which can be launched automatically from Safari. This is how BBC's iPlayer (on-demand) service works with the iPhone/iTouch. I don't know too much
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by jgranby 18y ago
I write a small Mac shareware program. Perhaps the suggestion isn't aimed at me, but if I open sourced the whole thing, one person with enough knowledge could compile it and distribute to everyone else for free. I have little doubt that sal
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by jgranby 18y ago
Use this link to bypass the "register to read the whole article" rubbish: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66c87994-aec1-11dd-b621-000077b076...

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