loire280

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by loire280 15y ago
Oops, I even checked before posting and didn't see it, though I was looking for it on the bottom right.
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by loire280 15y ago
I wonder how many iPhone users realize that the Maps app on their phone is powered by Google maps?
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by loire280 15y ago
Enthusiasts know that Apple product cycles are pretty predictable (especially now that they follow a bit behind the Intel roadmap), and there's plenty of tools to help you track if it's a good time to buy or not. http://buyersguide.macrumo
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by loire280 15y ago
Cable providers provide terrible DNS service. You may notice a big difference in performance by changing your DNS settings to http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ or http://www.opendns.com/ . As a bonus, I've noticed that many servi
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by loire280 15y ago
Hopefully Rovio is big and well-connected enought to fight back, and maybe make a legal dent in this problem. This weekend's This American Life was an hour long feature on the software patent mess. It's a good intro to the situation, espec
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by loire280 15y ago
According to the JPL article linked above, the water vapor is "300 trillion times less dense than Earth's atmosphere." So it sounds like the cloud may as well be empty vacuum as far as life is concerned.
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by loire280 15y ago
We'll find out in the teardowns how much space they're taking up, but I suspect volume is the limiting factor - RAM and flash chips are only so dense (at least at a certain price point). The RAM is already built into the motherboard to sav
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by loire280 15y ago
Death can never be defeated - besides accidents and catastrophes, there's always entropy - but life can have some interesting twists if your life extends longer and your mind extends further. However, I think even a few small changes to men
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by loire280 15y ago
They're both owned by Conde Nast - it makes sense that they're trying to cross-pollinate their audiences.
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by loire280 15y ago
Banks and financial institutions are subject to extensive document retention and security regulations -- using Google Docs is out of the question. Of course, that is one of the primary reasons why their upgrade paths are so slow.
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by loire280 15y ago
Here and Now (NPR) just did a story on how the military is using solar power, right now, to provide electricity for remote bases and soldiers on the field. The military's adoption of solar power is providing the scale that solar companies
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by loire280 15y ago
This is a key advantage of native code, but it is being eroded by the rapid development of WebKit and Gecko. Browser makers are driving the environment faster than we initially expected, with the tradeoff of potential fragmentation.
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by loire280 15y ago
Lots of people pick up a bit of .NET in business school - just enough to get hired for an entry-level programming position. They don't teach any programming fundamentals in those classes. After they're hired at a bigcorp, the devs get by
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by loire280 15y ago
PCI requires that CC#'s are stored encrypted in the database. A service this big has had a full PCI compliance overview, and they wouldn't miss a basic requirement like that (I hope).
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by loire280 15y ago
This instantly became my favorite weather site. The line graphs are a surprisingly intuitive way to quickly get an idea of where the weather is going in the next few days without hiding the actual numbers. Are these guys on HN?
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by loire280 15y ago
The law appears to be designed to ensure that foreign workers aren't hired for cheap to undercut the wages of US workers. If visa paperwork lives up to its reputation, however, a rational company would only hire foreign workers if they are
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by loire280 15y ago
Amazon's pricing is complicated for this kind of price comparison - it actually costs ~$150/yr to run a micro instance full-time. Here's the math: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049196
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by loire280 16y ago
I use them for my domain registration. You don't get any freebies from them (DNS service, private registration, etc. cost extra), but there are real people on the other end. Another positive is that their site is entirely garbage-free, and
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by loire280 16y ago
Preventative care also consumes resources. A doctor can only perform 8-10 hours worked / (duration of preventative procedure) preventative procedures per day. The number of doctors is limited. Thus, the number of preventative procedures is
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by loire280 16y ago
To be fair, some of these APIs expose data sets and user bases that we couldn't have dreamed of accessing ten years ago. It sucks when we get locked out by the API provider, but the availability of these APIs has transformed what a single
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by loire280 16y ago
This has been my experience learning to program the iPhone. A few hours reading "Objective-C Phrasebook" by David Chisnall got me enough Objective-C to be comfortable with the syntax and understand some basic patterns. It took weeks of re
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by loire280 16y ago
Any technically inclined Gmail user should at least consider switching his email address to a domain he owns plus free Google Apps. It works just like regular Gmail, but you can change providers whenever you'd like. It may take many years
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by loire280 16y ago
America isn't the most punctual culture, but there are plenty of cultures that are much more casual about lateness, including some Middle Eastern, South American, and African cultures. Most Americans brush off as much as 15 minutes of tard
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by loire280 16y ago
It's funny how difficult window management is in an operating system named Windows. The only useful addition to window management since XP is the addition of easy vertical maximization. The lack of virtual desktops is especially unfortuna
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by loire280 16y ago
Just remember to be careful with changing permissions on your hosts file. You wouldn't want an unprivileged user to be adding lines to it. 69.57.123.17 your-bank.com
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by loire280 16y ago
Trying to find remote opportunities in today's post is difficult, since many employers put "no remote" in their posts. Same issue for H1B ("sorry no H1B at this time"). However, I'm sympathetic to employers who might not want to post in b
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by loire280 16y ago
If you miss the hiring posts when they're on the front page, you have to trawl through multiple posts (one early one that has some employer posts and a thread about "don't post early). Inconsistent naming could cause you to miss a thread.
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by loire280 16y ago
No DRM on ebooks, that is. I agree that Safari's usefulness is severely hampered by the copy-protection methods (I used to use it as a free service through my university library). Unfortunately, as a subscription service O'Reilly has stron
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by loire280 16y ago
It's probably an incentive to get people to become paid developer members. You already need to be enrolled to submit apps to the Mac and iOS app stores. If you just need a compiler, install the development tools on the OS X install DVD tha
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by loire280 16y ago
I haven't seen any indication that they won't continue to include XCode in the install DVD that comes with every Mac.

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