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by kgermino 16y ago
O. Ok sorry about that. The duopoly comment is referring to the US cell phone market as a whole. Andrew was saying that because of the merger he believes Sprint and Verizon will be forced to merge, leaving only Verizon and at&t.
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by kgermino 16y ago
at&t is the other GSM carrier. If your lucky you might live in a place where you can get another regional carrier (U.S. Cellular, Virgin, etc) but odds are you'll still be stuck using at&t towers.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Are you sure? What's that at the 1:30 mark? Serious question, I thought it was IE 1, but now I feel like I missed something. Edit: I'm sure he does, he explicitly mentions various performance issues with IE 1.0 several times, starting with
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by kgermino 16y ago
Hey man no politician in Illinois has ever been bought off. I'm sure this law passed strictly because the representatives in Springfield felt it was the best thing for the state, and definitely not because Walmart made a $25,000 campaign
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by kgermino 16y ago
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2299608 No discussion on either yet, but they both are getting votes.
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by kgermino 16y ago
What stops them from making fake Facebook accounts now?
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by kgermino 16y ago
I disagree. I think that the average person looks almost exclusively at price, and not much else. However, in my experience the few people that pay much attention to the specific type of laptop they are buying pay at least as much attent
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by kgermino 16y ago
I can't speak for design, I know most people think that Thinkpads look ugly, however regarding build quality I own a Thinkpad T500 I bought 2 years ago and I have: +Dropped it way more times than I can count, usually while closed and turned
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by kgermino 16y ago
A part of me is sad about this. The old page functioned just fine and acted as a relic of the old Internet. I thought it was kind of cool how they left it alone, especially since it served it's purpose just fine without costing anything.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Not just you. Took >45s to load for me
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by kgermino 16y ago
This isn't about a defendant that "outfought" a P2P attorney, this is about a company that tried to mass-sue on the cheap and got a judge that saw right through it. There was a number of problems with the plaintiffs case, the civilian defe
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by kgermino 16y ago
MLB.tv isn't terrible. Their interface is actually quite nice, except that it only works properly in Firefox. The blackout restrictions are so-so, all local market games are blocked, as well as Saturday afternoon (FOX) games and Sunday Nig
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by kgermino 16y ago
True, I hadn't thought about that. Have you heard of it happening before? With that being said my backup dataset is way too big to make Dropbox a cost-effective solution so I also have Backblaze account that backs up everything including
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by kgermino 16y ago
I still say Dropbox provides a legitimate backup, consider the features my free Dropbox account offers: (1) Redundancy - All files in your Dropbox are saved on every computer and stored on Dropbox's servers (2) Accessibility - Files
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by kgermino 16y ago
Dropbox also lets you go back and open past versions of all your files, meaning that anything in your Dropbox is effectively backed up as well.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Yes. The question shouldn't be "have you ever?" but rather "How often do you?"
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by kgermino 16y ago
I've asked this before, but what is there to keep Netflix from creating an iPhone version of their site and directing users there? This would let them cut Apple out of the equation completely, and still provide the same functionality, unle
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by kgermino 16y ago
It seems that everybody forgets about web apps. Take Netflix for example, the app is useless without an internet connection anyway, is there any reason that they can't come out with a web-app designed for the iPhone and leave Apple out of
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by kgermino 16y ago
I'm confused. Where's the spoiler? I don't remember seeing anything in the article (and I'm glad I didn't I wouldn't appreciated the spoiler).
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by kgermino 16y ago
Related stories with comments: Apple's Press Release: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221195 arstechnica: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221375
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by kgermino 16y ago
Yes, AFAIK Jennings and Rutter have only ever faced off in the 'Tournament of Champions that Jeopardy has every so often, so probably 3 times at most (I'm almost positive it was more than once). Also, I actually came up with my prediction o
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by kgermino 16y ago
I'd say it's going to be between Rutter and Watson in the end, and between them it's probably a tossup. (Full Disclosure: I voted for Rutter) I just don't see Jennings winning, especially after today. I could be wrong but considering that
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by kgermino 16y ago
404 Edit: Working link, courtesy mhb http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/14/the-secret-to-a...
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by kgermino 16y ago
That looks nice. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Resources to Learn Web Development
2 points by kgermino 16y ago|4 comments
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by kgermino 16y ago
Classic view (news.ycombinator.com/classic) looks the same, however the stories are ranked using only votes from older users. The cutoff is either (1)accounts that have been around for more than a year or (2)accounts that were made in the f
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by kgermino 16y ago
I just went to check out InDinero and linked up my personal accounts to see how it worked. I have to say it was so nice, easy clean, etc. that I think I might start using it to monitor my personal accounts, it's 10x better than my banks on
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by kgermino 16y ago
I would have asked for something closer to a full refund and possibly a longer, if not lifetime, term of free usage. It's obviously expensive for Flickr to offer something like this but I mean they accidentally deleted 5 years of a paying c
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by kgermino 16y ago
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes"
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by kgermino 16y ago
Please keep us posted as best you can.

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