krrrh

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by krrrh 14y ago
Bashing Apples map app has jumped the shark.
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by krrrh 14y ago
Exactly, it's not like Apple didn't reach out to the unix community last year and work on putting together a slick command line tools package to make projects like homebrew even easier to use and support. If you're the sort of user who comp
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by krrrh 14y ago
"Submit your information and we'll respond with a quote" == "Our software costs twice as much as it should, because we need a fat margin to pay for the long sales cycle". I don't think I've willingly filled out one of those forms for over 5
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by krrrh 14y ago
I think it's implied that there's a difference between a taco stand that is just running in a local geography and not really innovating, and a company like Chipotle which spent a lot of time and effort optimizing their business model to mak
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by krrrh 14y ago
The other insight Bezos had about books was that the extent of the market was limited by a physical constraint in how big a store could get. It was a perfect product to exploit unmet demand for long tail titles. Groceries don't seem to suff
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by krrrh 14y ago
CBC ideas did an excellent series on sleep which went into depth on biphasic sleep research. http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4578034
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by krrrh 14y ago
There is no way he had a core duo system that is only 4 years old. Apple only made core duo MacBooks in early 2006.
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by krrrh 14y ago
There are piles of evidence that Apple's computers have a longer useful life than a typical PC if you look for it. For instance, comparing measures of installed base vs market share. Here are a couple of links. If you put some time into it,
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by krrrh 14y ago
I posted a quote from Apple's (Canadian) website up the page. The programs vary by country so they post different info on different country pages. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212398 http://www.apple.com/ca/recycling/
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by krrrh 14y ago
"Apple meets the requirements of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. All e-waste collected by Apple-controlled voluntary and regulatory programs worldwide is processed in th
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by krrrh 14y ago
If this is still too advanced for you, and you need to brush up on the atom, proton, neutron, and electron, this video of Venus Flytrap explaining the concept in 2 minutes might be a good place to start. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbq
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by krrrh 14y ago
I think you're right on the money. Your comment reminds me of Neal Stephenson's characterization of Windows as the station wagon of operating systems. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
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by krrrh 14y ago
So true. The other significant thing here is just how fractured the retail POS market is. There are literally dozens of single-point POS systems, and Milo integrates with 5 of the larger ones. Many of them are regional players who built the
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by krrrh 14y ago
Years ago a friend of mine worked at a local BestBuy-style retailer as a consultant. I asked him why they continued to use green screen POS terminals on the sales floor when much better technology existed. Apparently they had tried 3 separa
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by krrrh 14y ago
37Signals did this on basecamp for years too. I haven't checked recently and I assume when the consolidated their authentication they probably fixed it. It was pretty shocking to get my password in plaintext in an email from a leading web a
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by krrrh 14y ago
Whoa, I had no idea that Starbucks was explicitly owning the term 3rd space/place in its advertising. If anyone's interested in the aademic source of this model of places there's a nice intro in this economist article. Cmd-f for 'third plac
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by krrrh 14y ago
The concern I have with this is that it provides a bit too much information to potential crackers. Security through obscurity is nothing to rely in, but it doesn't hurt to have a little. It's why disabling the reporting of http server versi
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by krrrh 14y ago
Googles two-factor authentication system is open sourced. https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/ They include a JavaScript implementation and a PAM module. In fact, Dreamhost just implemented two factor auth that uses the Googl
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by krrrh 14y ago
It seems way too hard to turn pages in a predictable way on an iPad.
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by krrrh 14y ago
Dexter Sinister is a cool artist collective whose work I have enjoyed since learning of them when they visited Vancouver a couple of years ago. If you're not up to reading the whole essay, it's sill worth it to scan down the PDF and see how
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by krrrh 14y ago
> At that point doing new frontend for Webkit from scratch is probably not going to be any cheaper than buying Opera The article notes that Opera's current estimated market cap is $670M, which is a lot of money for a browser frontend. I
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by krrrh 14y ago
I might be out of line here but it sounds like you may not have given homebrew a decent enough chance. Fink and macports have always had problems, but a fresh Lion install + homebrew has about the same number of issues as a package manager