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by jm4 17y ago
Then by the performance of the competition, we have to surmise that either users don't care about said features, or said features have such flawed execution that the majority of its target users simply choose not to use it. That's a stron
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by jm4 17y ago
It's flagrant now that we know the story. There's no argument there. It was not so clear when the story first broke. I think the whole point of this is the lengths one has to go to just to get a clear answer. Not to mention, they had a serv
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by jm4 17y ago
I agree. I remember when the first story circulated. It seemed a little fishy and it wasn't entirely clear what terms of service the guy violated, if any at all. Now, it's pretty clear that he did violate the terms of service and didn't hav
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by jm4 17y ago
Maybe because it's possible on competing smartphones? I was curious about the new features in IPhone OS 3 and decided to take a look at the list. Copy and paste? MMS? Voice memos? Search? You've got to be kidding me. The competition has had
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by jm4 17y ago
Flagged as a dupe. This is already on the front page.
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by jm4 17y ago
This is just a stab in the dark but the other method would allow for metadata on individual fields, although I can't think of what kind of metadata you'd want to add to a street address.
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by jm4 17y ago
I'm sorry, but this is very basic information and probably not suitable for the audience here. Running 'java -h' explains as much.
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by jm4 17y ago
I'm sorry, but that's a horrible logo. It's like some kind of optical illusion. Trying to see the lowercase A in there reminds of one of those posters where you have to defocus your eyes to see a hidden picture. I only noticed it after it w
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by jm4 17y ago
PS: Some of the differences are just funny. Retric in Google = Hacker News profile, Retric in Bing = Slashdot Profile. Slashdot has been around for over a decade. It has a PageRank of 9 versus 6 for HN. I would imagine Bing has a similar
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by jm4 17y ago
So what? The algorithm obviously heavily weights search terms in a URL. I doubt this is some sort of conspiracy.
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by jm4 17y ago
I don't know that this necessarily kills the Kindle and other ebook readers, but it will definitely require some serious adjustments. Up to now, ebook readers held an a huge advantage with the e-ink screen and ergonomics. Ebook readers stil
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by jm4 17y ago
If they are they're certainly being discreet about it. Microsoft was obviously anti-competitive in the 90's. The Windows/IE bundling thing was only a small part of it. All of their software was designed to lock you in. It could sometimes be
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by jm4 17y ago
Honesty is not nice and neither is owning up to failures. It's expected. It's a sad state of affairs when there are enough people and companies that hold themselves to a lower standard that the ones that do what they're supposed to do are s
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by jm4 17y ago
They were working on a lot of other things besides DNF so it spent most of that time on the shelf. It's not like they had a team working on this thing for 9 years straight. The real push to get the game released didn't start until relativel
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by jm4 17y ago
I love IntelliJ, but if you think Eclipse and NetBeans are bloated you'll almost certainly think the same of IntelliJ. Keep in mind, though, you do get a lot of features in return for all the "bloat"-- refactoring, intentions, inspections,
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by jm4 17y ago
I haven't seen the big Kindle, but I own the Kindle 2. Page turns are faster on a Kindle than they are with a paper book, although it's not as convenient for flipping ahead a few pages when you're quickly scanning for specific information.
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by jm4 17y ago
Mildly amusing in a completely juvenile way and inappropriate for this site. Take it over to Reddit.
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by jm4 17y ago
I'm so tired of the netbook/iPhone comparison. It's apples and oranges. An ebook reader is a dedicated reading device. A netbook is a multi-function computer that could also be used for reading, but it lacks the ergonomics of an ebook reade
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by jm4 17y ago
It might only be $12 but it's also a 150% increase. I think when you're comparing apples and apples (as in two products that have roughly the same features-- not a Rolls Royce and moped even though they share a basic function) there are goi
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by jm4 18y ago
This would make sense if he wasn't using their brand name in the domain name. It's not so much that he's got a competing application as it is that he's piggybacking on their branding by using a domain name that's different from their tradem
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by jm4 18y ago
It started with a presentation that a Rails contributor gave that included pictures of half naked women. I can't remember the guy's name, but there was something posted on here about it yesterday. There was some sort of uproar with a bunch
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by jm4 18y ago
Ok, this was sort of amusing, but do we really need to post some petty little pissing match on HN one sentence fragment at a time? Something more substantive and less personal would be more appropriate.
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by jm4 18y ago
No offense, but I think a submission explaining such a basic concept as HTML checkboxes is inappropriate for the audience here.
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by jm4 18y ago
No offense, but I think a submission explaining such a basic concept as HTML radio buttons is inappropriate for the audience here.
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by jm4 18y ago
The $10.95 Mosso plan doesn't include transfer and the $20 Slicehost includes a total of 100GB. If you use the calculator on the Mosso site to estimate the cost of the $10.95 server and 100GB of transfer (50GB in, 50GB out) it comes out to
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by jm4 18y ago
Flagged for editorializing in the headline. The article says nothing about seppuku, motive or method.
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by jm4 18y ago
The app is used to put one's face on extremely large denomination bills as a joke. He says he included a few presidents and other public officials as examples to play with. Apple's terms state that your app can't ridicule public figures. Fa
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by jm4 18y ago
What is this guy supposed to do? Show up with a bouquet of flowers and ask nicely? It sounds like he's already tried the carrot and now it's time for the stick. These people owe almost $10k and basically told him to go piss up a flagpole. O
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by jm4 18y ago
The fact that you think a submission like this will get flagged is a good indication that it may be off topic or inappropriate. In that case, why submit it? There are plenty of other sites where this submission would be perfectly ok.
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by jm4 18y ago
At first I thought this was just a smartass, exaggerated headline. I was a bit surprised to see that it's the original headline from the Yahoo article. I was even more surprised to find that the "toxic nuke stockpile" doesn't refer to so-ca

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