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by jvm 14y ago
Whoo boy does that site ever not work without javascript... Sort of ridiculous since it's a static page advertising a desktop app, neither of which should require javascript at all. EDIT: Oh God, and hot pink highlighting does NOT complemen
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by jvm 14y ago
You don't count this as inheritance? Also, classes aren't required for OOP. function Parent() { // somestuff } function Child() { Parent.call(this); } Child.prototype = new Parent(); Child.prototype
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by jvm 14y ago
I just switched back to vimperator for the time being. It's not so terrible.
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by jvm 14y ago
> given that the US has roughly 10x the population of Canada, a job offer ratio of approximately 1:12 isn't so bad on per capita basis. Seattle doesn't have 10x the population of Vancouver, and Boston doesn't have 10x the population of
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by jvm 14y ago
I love me some tech employment as much as anybody that frequents hacker news, but this just looks like tech bigotry to me. The attitude that "all other modes of employment suck, therefore tech should be #1" is not going to gain a lot of tra
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by jvm 14y ago
I use FF for Vimperator/Pentadactyl. There's no equivalent in Chrome (and never will be because of Chrome's design choices), and it makes every other browser's interface feel hopelessly pedestrian to me now.
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by jvm 14y ago
Great example of why I hate this usage "we" though. Whenever I read an article about something "we" do I often wonder who this "we" is, especially when I don't really think I'm personally part of "we".
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Canada’s vanishing tech sector(theglobeandmail.com)
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by jvm 14y ago
Oh wow, interesting! Although of course if this really has such a definable cash value, why can't that just be part of the award if Samsung loses?
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by jvm 14y ago
> If Samsung gobbles up market share, a big check won't bring that back... This is just the point I'm trying to make. Apple doesn't want market share, so they don't care if it goes away for its own, sake, they care if it goes away if th
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by jvm 14y ago
> I'd argue that there is no check large enough to restore a lost market advantage. I think you're considering the status or intangible satisfaction of being the market leader. That is not what Apple's shareholders are interested in. Th
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by jvm 14y ago
Darwin support... is that what it looks like? Can I boot OSX from Grub2 now?
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> So yes, with an interest rate target of essentially 0%, they can increase the amount of reserves out there, but this does not translate to more money in public circulation. Sorry just noticed this. This is a common misperception. They
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by jvm 14y ago
They may target interest rates, but they are perfectly welcome to target the money supply, they just choose not to.
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by jvm 14y ago
I agree with you technically speaking, but another way of thinking about it is that cashflow is really what we think of when we think "quantity of money" (Adam Smith, a gold piece that sits in a chest is realy not part of the money supply,
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by jvm 14y ago
That guy is talking about stock value, not money itself.
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by jvm 14y ago
The US states, largely, have very little debt. Many of them have legally banned themselves from deficit spending.
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by jvm 14y ago
I hope you also enjoy the 25% unemployment in Spain...
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by jvm 14y ago
Here's my attempt, without talking about apples or anything: Essentially, the 'money supply' is determined by the central bank, since they are the issuers of money. You can read on your US dollars that they are issued by the federal reserve
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by jvm 14y ago
Transit times were pretty spot on for New York, nice job guys!
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by jvm 14y ago
I get where you're coming from but I just want to raise two quibbles: > If arch linux doesn't include it, it's not a 'unix' ...but according to that version of SUS, I'm sure the original unix isn't unix either. In any case, I don't thin
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by jvm 14y ago
I don't know if unix is the most ahem "specific" specification ever given. What specification of unix do you think the author was referring to? In any case, they have corrected themselves in the blogpost.
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by jvm 14y ago
> Quality is simply a measure of the bullet list of features, and no attempt is made to what is behind the items on the bullet list. I don't know what a more appropriate method of comparison you're suggesting would be. I can say that I'
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by jvm 14y ago
Patents are intrinsically anti-competitive (preventing competition is literally the point of a patent) even if they are legal and/or desirable. But I agree that "anti-competitive" has negative connotations that are clearly a matter of opini
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by jvm 14y ago
It has been found empirically that people are worse at reasoning about MPG than L/100km. That's the argument this post should have made. Source: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/the-illusion-of-m...
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by jvm 14y ago
Nowadays with IE10 almost here and IE9 half-decent itself, failure to support IE is sort of a signal of unprofessionalism, since it usually takes a modicum of effort to support it. Personally I design sites first in Firefox, then extend sup
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by jvm 14y ago
The other replies to this comment are correct, but just to be clear: USER PASSWORDS SHOULD NEVER BE STORED ON THE SERVER, EVEN IN ENCRYPTED FORM.
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http://thesaurus.com/browse/amateur
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I'm not sure you checked the definition of amateur in that dictionary.
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I think parent was speaking as a consumer, not moralizing about it. In the eyes of the law or economics, of course this is completely reasonable, it is absolutely Apple's right to do this. But the consumer experience is horrible, something

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