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by kylec 14y ago
The cost of bandwidth and storage is dropping at a faster rate than inflation. Besides, I'd say 90%+ of the blogs on a service like this would be mostly text and low traffic, and $5/month can cover that today several times over. That said,
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by kylec 14y ago
Interesting observation. I don't particularly care if the Chromebook succeeds or not, but I wholeheartedly agree that the trend towards wider and wider (i.e. shorter and shorter) screens was terrible. In addition to all the valid points I'm
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by kylec 14y ago
You should look into Squarespace. They built their own platform and do all the maintenance and upgrades. I've never heard of a Squarespace exploit or of a Squarespace site going down because it got too much traffic. They did almost go down
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by kylec 14y ago
It's been significantly warmer the last few days than it supposedly was when the first trip was done. Given that temperature has a big effect on the car's energy, both the battery capacity and use of the heater, I'd say CNN's results don't
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by kylec 14y ago
48T of attached storage for your current computer? Why so much?
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by kylec 14y ago
Sure, most people probably do, but Lion & Mountain Lion hide the scroll bar if there's a trackpad, as was the case for me. I clicked the link from pg's Twitter feed, read the words "Airbnb is poised to bring memorable local experiences
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by kylec 14y ago
There's no indication that you should start scrolling the page. I completely missed that fact the first time I visited.
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by kylec 14y ago
The title of this article is misleading. From the article: At the time of the talk, Etsy’s had twenty women on its 110-person engineering team, which is a roughly eighteen percent (or a four and half times) increase from the p
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by kylec 14y ago
It's probably a coincidence, but the title and subject of this article are the same as last week's Ihnatko Almanac episode: http://5by5.tv/ia/58
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by kylec 14y ago
Jobs must have liked it somewhat though, otherwise he wouldn't have had Noah Wyle reprise the role in an Apple keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os
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by kylec 14y ago
I think there's a subtle, but distinct, semantic difference between someone being "responsible" for something vs "accountable" for something. The former means that someone is expected to do something or have that thing done, while the latte
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by kylec 14y ago
To put it bluntly, Google has assembled the greatest collection of computer science talent in the world. Similarly Amazon has a multi-year lead in delivering compute power by the drop, with which it’s happy to provide to you
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by kylec 14y ago
No sincere apology ever starts with "Soooooo".
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by kylec 14y ago
Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia. A week ago that was edited from $23 billion to $230,000 billion (i.e. $230 trillion), which is obviously preposterously wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Walton&dif...
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by kylec 14y ago
I think that's a false dichotomy. It's possible to make the network and the attached services more resilient to a DoS without making it less open.
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by kylec 14y ago
The amount of stuff you have is the difference between the amount of stuff you acquire and the amount of stuff you sell or discard. This essay does a pretty good job of covering the former, but the only mention of the latter is the followin
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by kylec 14y ago
Using closures to encapsulate private variables is a good idea, but the way this article recommends doing it doesn't demonstrate any of the benefit as it doesn't really close over anything. I don't know if it's an example of good JS code, b
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by kylec 14y ago
I think they have been for a while. Rogue Amoeba has offered Airfoil with support for acting like an Airplay speaker for a while now.
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by kylec 14y ago
Noted and corrected, thanks.
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by kylec 14y ago
This whole UEFI secure boot thing is a deliberate attempt to lock out competing third party OSs. I'm surprised there haven't been antitrust inquiries in the US or EU about it.
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by kylec 14y ago
The problem though is that if everyone waits around for services to become established, then no service will be able to grow to the necessary size to become established.
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by kylec 14y ago
Well, I suspect that part of the reason why the Nexus One didn't take off was that the phone was $550. Dropping that to $300 made the purchase a lot more desirable.
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by kylec 14y ago
I've been using TweetNest ( http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ ) for a while to get an archive of my own tweets and will continue to do so, but it's nice that they're providing an official way. TweetNest, as well as all other tweet archivers,
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by kylec 14y ago
Actually, this brings up an interesting idea - why not allow people the option of disabling the password entirely if their phone is locked with a passcode? Apple already does this with the Find iPhone and Find Friends apps, they could easil
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by kylec 14y ago
$80k is still a lot more than the (iirc) initial $5k + $5k/founder.
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by kylec 14y ago
Say what you will, it took me more than four minutes to find the power button on the Xoom.
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by kylec 14y ago
I have an account, but I don't use it. Recently Facebook has been sending me emails with people it thinks I might know, but I don't know any of them, which in turn means Facebook doesn't know me at all. Just the way I like it.
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by kylec 14y ago
New Zealand tied for #1? This is the same country that's suspended local elections in Canterbury for years: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/7954650/Suspension-of-...
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by kylec 14y ago
Oh sure, but the tone of the two people on CNN made it seem like he was crazy for not wanting to turn himself in. I highly suspect that if/when he ever gets in custody, he won't be out of it for a long time.
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by kylec 14y ago
If he's not a suspect and has nothing to fear, why are they so desperate to find him?

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