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by jhancock 16y ago
The U.S. government has had the ability to seize property for quite a while. The earliest I recall it happening is with drug related crimes. These laws were passed in the '80s allowing officers to seize not just drugs, but all your proper
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by jhancock 16y ago
Megacorps like Walmart and EA would never order 50,000 kiosks to be built knowing that Apple (or U.S. gov) could get a court injunction within hours of them being deployed. This is the very nature of rackeeting (in this case the gov being t
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by jhancock 16y ago
Perhaps you'd be happy with a Palm Pre: hotspot..check (and free with Verizon)...possibly world's finest notification system...check. I had an iPhone for a year and now have used a Palm Pre for a year. I just bought my son an iPod Touch an
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by jhancock 16y ago
These types of markets have only been around a few years. I don't think you can extrapolate much. Its a very short time frame.
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by jhancock 16y ago
My son just received an iPod Touch for his 6th birthday. Problem solved!! He can do whatever he wants with it and sync it to our family iMac using his own account. All I need do is be a bit careful about handing the 'iTouch' back to him
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by jhancock 16y ago
Apple's single app store can only exist in the economic distortion created by U.S. government regulation which provide severe penalties for unlocking an iOS device. If it were not for these regulations, we would see kiosks in Wal-Mart spons
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by jhancock 16y ago
>Apple restricts the app market because it adds value to their platform (for everyone). Provably false. I'm part of the group 'everyone' and am stating that having one market does not add value for me. I believe there are quite a few
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by jhancock 16y ago
Perhaps its better to simply enable prison systems to treat people with mental illness properly without regard to whether the mental illness was diagnosed or related of the original reason they ended up in prison. Of course, treating menta
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by jhancock 16y ago
Apple's 30% is a tax on the consumer, not the app publisher. The tax is always on the person whose wallet was opened. Apple and the publisher are beneficiaries. The publisher will make money off these sales or not stay in business. Its
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by jhancock 16y ago
rambling late night thoughts from someone who has done lots in China: Do you expect more customers in China? If so, find a partner in China to handle sales there. I would expect most any Chinese customer to want to have your solution hoste
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by jhancock 16y ago
Your 2 examples are no different than what PayPal does. Granted PayPal has few restrictions to what they allow you to buy/sell through them. However, there are restrictions and PayPal (as will most payment systems) does cut off malicious
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by jhancock 16y ago
The article talks about the plaintiff being asked for their zip code, but not ID. I don't see in the article or in the snippets of law it references where proof of ID is unlawful. Perhaps its perfectly fine to ask for proof of id to authe
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by jhancock 16y ago
In many places, there are only 1, sometimes 2 choices for internet. If AT&T or Charter (my 2 choices) wanted to make it hard or more expensive for me to receive Netflix, there would be little as a consumer I could.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Jacques, thanks for what you've contributed here. You are a voice of reason and capture the spirit of why I lurk and occasionally participate on HN.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Your position is certainly how things have been for the last 15 years or so. Recently, the IRS is more apt to provide penalties and pretty high interest for perceived underpayment and its your task to prove "good faith" after you've coughe
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by jhancock 16y ago
It is unfortunately accepted nomenclature, but still off and there exist models that are truly "group buying". This model is quite popular in China. Hundreds of people will show up in front of a big store in China in the morning and deman
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by jhancock 16y ago
http://www.prosperity.com/ is the source of this study. Skip to this to see the list without Forbes' layer of editorial and ads.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Can you provide some rational or data points on why hyphens are not a good thing, particularly given your example of google parsing the words accurately? I hear this often but always without explanation.
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by jhancock 16y ago
I get bad and dropped connections on high trafficked highways in fairly well populated east coast U.S. on both AT&T and Verizon. If you've ever experienced the high quality and low cost of cell coverage in China (yes, even in the most r
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by jhancock 16y ago
I've found I don't need top flight hardware, just well designed hardware that has driver support. I'm using an old Thinkpad X41 with ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition. The drivers have been working flawlessly. I get the best suspend/resume ba
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by jhancock 16y ago
"are people doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again" This is a common view in mainland China. Particularly, the last few years, in regards to the U.S.: "They've had a good 200-250 year run, now this arc/dynasty is coming to
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by jhancock 16y ago
1 - Yes, its ok to charge for dev costs && keep the resultant product for your own use and to white-label to another. 2 - Its ok to do the "powered-by" thing. Best to add it and then put a config option for the customer to turn it
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by jhancock 16y ago
I've just been writing a small app in pharo the last few days. I haven't used Smalltalk in 15 years and its coming back very quickly. Pharo is nice but it still needs polish to get to the Smalltalk I had in 1994. For this new app, I am us
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by jhancock 16y ago
I'm not sure the legal structure in China or the U.S. has caught up with your position on this. You can be certain the U.S. Secret Service chases down perceived threats from online and offline comments fairly regularly. This is the problem
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by jhancock 16y ago
ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition runs very well on my 5 year old laptop (thinkpad x41, the 'netbook' of its day).
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by jhancock 16y ago
looks like a great app!! If you have a little savings and your job offer isn't too stellar, I'd say run with it. Assuming it contains a useful set of features now, focus on marketing what it already does and worry about replacing your co-
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by jhancock 16y ago
I've done everythign in his list over the last 5 years. Today, I'm coding retro...Smalltalk ;) pharo feels nice.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Since you have a few hundred customers already, your project is obviously not in stealth mode. I think most here could give you better feedback if you posted a link to it.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Forget about the time to complete. The real advancement here is the use of insulation!!! Most Shanghai structures are poured concrete with zero insulation. Cool video.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Does anyone know if they removed all the X11 dependency garbage for a server install? An RHEL5 was approaching the bloat of a Solaris install. There was no "click here to install a slim server" option.

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