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by kemiller 14y ago
But it does matter, because it tends to be a disincentive to get into the landlording business, which tends to further decrease inventory, which tends to make the problem worse, which tends to necessitate more onerous regulation, etc. I mea
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by kemiller 14y ago
So they should be paid better, and the burden spread among the constituents of those services. Not pinned on landlords.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I'm not arguing that it's legal, or that Apple is thrilled with it. But DRM implies something pretty specific and (in theory) harder to defeat than an "if" statement.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Adapting to an unsupported BIOS is not remotely "defeating DRM". Apple just doesn't support other firmware -- it doesn't include features deliberately meant to defeat unlicensed installs (like Windows) or any cloning (like iOS).
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by kemiller 14y ago
There is no DRM on OS X. The only issue with Hackintoshes is drivers and hardware support.
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by kemiller 14y ago
There was plenty for iPhone to do without apps. Phone + web browser + email was pretty great. The Apple TV is ALL about content, there is very little point to it otherwise. Airplay, while awesome, is not going to sell devices in Peoria
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by kemiller 14y ago
You already have kids wearing fake glasses for style. I think the trick here is just to make the fancy glasses look like normal ones.
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by kemiller 14y ago
These devices should be used with the monitor turned into a drafting-table like angled work surface instead of mounted vertically in the usual way. If you can work touch/resting into the screen, you have a much more humane setup.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Wealthy people can get investment visas pretty easily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
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by kemiller 14y ago
I think the way the US claims taxes on foreign income is wrong. But this is clearly not foreign income, and he's leaving with clear foreknowledge of a likely future windfall. I don't think anyone is claiming he has not complied with the la
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by kemiller 14y ago
If he truly intends to live outside the country and not return here, then what's proposed has no teeth. But it's more likely that he's doing what many wealthy people have done before him, namely renouncing citizenship officially, but conti
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by kemiller 14y ago
I don't think Saverin's contributions are really proportionate to his windfall. But even that aside, yes, it's great that people come to this country to build things. But this country also offers a lot that makes that possible (there's a
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by kemiller 14y ago
I'm not sure why that's controversial. Sure, Perl was quite popular in the CGI days, but at scale? I guess Yahoo has been using PHP for a long time. Certainly things like Ruby, and maybe Python, were not really feasible until we had fast
555.
by kemiller 14y ago
Go seems like a pretty promising alternative. Static typing + garbage collection without an axe to grind or a lot of historical cruft.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Google is not the current generation. In 1998, hardware was not fast enough to make dynamic languages feasible.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Why is it that folks who point out that Facebook, Twitter, and Square all had to move to a "fast" language never seem to be able to point to any company (in the current generation) that achieved massive success by starting in a fast languag
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by kemiller 14y ago
I basically agree with everyone pouring cold water on this as far as reforming the statute law system is concerned. That is a much more entrenched problem than any computer system is going to solve overnight. However, I do see a niche for
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by kemiller 14y ago
You think the bankers generally follow that rule?
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by kemiller 14y ago
Dressing well as a sysadmin is an act of rebellion. ;)
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by kemiller 14y ago
Surely a lot of that value comes from the prestige and attention that accrue to 37signals, not because it's an amazing job board.
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by kemiller 14y ago
People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. Why is it so important that there be one? The interfaces we use to talk between components are so much more important, so that we can use what fits for different parts.
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by kemiller 15y ago
It interrupts their (extremely powerful) brand, though. Right now, the word "google" literally means search to millions of people. If that switches to "let me siri that for you" it opens the door for entrants who today don't even have a c
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by kemiller 15y ago
I wonder how politically difficult it would be to get one of these built near Yucca Mountain. Given that a) it's already a nuclear hotzone in the minds of the public, and b) this offers some possibility of improving the situation while gen
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by kemiller 15y ago
Thorium reactors are often MSR designs too. But if this offers the possibility of reducing our existing waste supplies, it might make it more publicly palatable.
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by kemiller 15y ago
That actually sounds pretty great. The Silicon Valley Mentality is what it is because it advantages the venture capitalists and the small number of companies who "made it." I think for a lot of the rank and file, not to mention the 90% of
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by kemiller 15y ago
If you've only worked on projects with nailed-down requirements, you're probably not working on the sorts of projects most HN people face. The requirements change because the world changes, or our understanding of it. That's the nature of
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by kemiller 15y ago
Don't underestimate the value of running all the code. In a non-compiled language that will really save your bacon if you need to change things later.
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by kemiller 15y ago
It's no joke at all. They're no more entitled to their gravy train than Hollywood is.
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by kemiller 15y ago
Not arguing that they won't do it. Just that it's worse than never allowing something.

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