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by kemiller 14y ago
But there's no standard way of representing the dates as strings, or indicating that this field here is a date and not a string that happens to look like one, so nothing can rely on what you do. You can represent literally anything with a
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by kemiller 14y ago
This presents elections as a system to be gamed, rather than an earnest attempt to learn the will of the people.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I think it's more nuanced than that. If Apple customers are more affluent than average, and/or more willing to spend money on apps, then it continues to be a great market even if the sheer volume is lower. If you're making something that y
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by kemiller 14y ago
The article lists a bunch of GSM standards, but not CDMA or LTE, which it would need to work on Verizon or Sprint.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Apple isn't in this (the lawsuits) for the money. I'm quite sure they're spending more on the suits than they'd lose to Samsung in the marketplace. It's about credit and fairness from their point of view. They don't want people riding th
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by kemiller 14y ago
How does it do that? Disney has had a reasonably friendly relationship with Apple due to Steve's presence on both boards. Now that he's gone that might weaken, but he had a long time to win hearts and minds over there.
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by kemiller 14y ago
For what it's worth, this is the first I've heard of it, and this convinced me to contribute.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I guess I don't understand where the line between code and data lies, then. Is there a store for variable data that is separate from the image? EDIT: To clarify, I know that Lisp and Smalltalk have a fuzzy-to-nonexistent line between code
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by kemiller 14y ago
Something I've always wondered is how image-oriented languages like smalltalk handle deployment, version management, etc. How do you make a frozen, repeatable bundle? I realize that may be the wrong question, that those things are irrelev
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by kemiller 14y ago
I think their rationale is that they need to fit a lot of battery somewhere. The Model S is not just long, it's wide for a sedan. That's all about fitting the massive battery pack under the passenger compartment.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I think seeing it put so clearly, it's convinced me that I don't even want to found a startup. I'd like to own a business, but that's different, and I should behave accordingly. That might make it the most useful thing I've read in years.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Those are most likely standards-essential patents, no? In which case they can't use them to block sales, in theory. IANAL so this is an honest question.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Preaching to the choir. :) But my point is that I doubt she will have experienced enough of that to miss it.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I don't know that it's just that. Car and driver ran a fearmongering editorial about it in their most recent issue. ("We can't trust them with our credit cards and now they want us to trust them to drop little Sally off at the pool?") Th
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by kemiller 14y ago
UI-wise. "Authentically digital" -- lots of rectangles and inorganic colors, no hint of skeuomorphism.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Oh, I'm not either. But you'll note that Nokia runs Windows and Symbian, which are pretty much both all-business. They also carry a lot more models, which broadens the scope for the hardware.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I dunno, it sort of reminds me of the Beatles (another Jobs favorite). John being serious and political, Paul being silly and saccharine. The combination was part of the magic, and everyone had their favorite. I think if you fully digita
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by kemiller 14y ago
That was three years ago. The page has plenty of new information. Perhaps there should be a statute of limitations on the dupe check.
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by kemiller 14y ago
That is true. But it was much more relevant in an age when the rider was more or less at the mercy of the driver who picked them up. The internet on your phone (not to mention the GPS) means you can much more easily tell if you're being c
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by kemiller 14y ago
That's why you need advanced auto-pilot before this is feasible. And bear in mind that there's a lot more room for collision avoidance in the air. You'd probably have to have something like special lanes in the air to minimize the number
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by kemiller 14y ago
I do agree that that's the true vision of the flying car, but I think there's still room for something that is more car-like than the vehicle in the article. Something that functions more or less like a car for short trips but could replac
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by kemiller 14y ago
I basically agree with you that supporting undelete is a lot friendlier to 95% or more of the population. But you can get the best of both worlds by simply keeping it around for a fixed time (and letting the user know how long after they h
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by kemiller 14y ago
Another way to put this is that myopically optimizing for perfection along one axis may fatally de-optimize another.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Pg has gone on record (one of his essays - I'm mobile or I'd find it for you) as preferring table based layout for his own projects because it's easier to understand and hack. The HTML layout in arc is thus table based, and hn is written i
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by kemiller 14y ago
So the issue here is that there are people who pay for cable (C), and people who don't pay for cable (!C). There are also people who would, all things being equal, pay for HBO (H), and people who would not (!H). It sounds like he is sayin
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by kemiller 14y ago
I can't reply to him directly, so I'll do it here. You wouldn't want to convict someone of murder, no. But you could certainly use it to generate leads.
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by kemiller 14y ago
So this means that CSI's "enhance" is actually more possible than reputed.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Totally aside, but interesting: 80 characters was not an arbitrary limit, at least not directly. It was the size of the IBM standard punched card, and the terminals that succeeded them. Famously, versions of COBOL (FORTRAN too?) well into
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by kemiller 14y ago
Well, that's the point, right? People are worried about hostile AI, and how scary it would be to be confronted by an enemy possessing overwhelming resources and no emotional common ground. But much of the world already has that experience
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by kemiller 14y ago
In The Terminator , Skynet is supposed to have achieved sentience and turned against its masters. But if you look at something like this from the point of view of someone in a part of the world where the political structure is not aligned

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