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by loire280 16y ago
The backwards-compatibility with PS2 games was facilitated by the presence of the PS2 CPU and GPU in the PS3 hardware. Newer revisions of the system eliminated first the CPU and then the GPU. I think it's fair to assume this was done for
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by loire280 16y ago
Reserving a micro instance only means that you get discounted usage hourly usage of that instance. You have to pay usage fees on top of that. By my math, 24 hours * 365 days * $.007 per usage hour (VA datacenter) = $61.32 in usage fees.
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by loire280 16y ago
Satisfied customers can give their discs to friends and family. In fact, sending discs to existing customers might be more effective, since a disc given to you by someone you trust must have a significantly higher success rate.
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by loire280 16y ago
There must be more than "release Humble Bundle n+1" in their gameplan. I can think of three long-term strategies: 1. Sell the platform. They have a pretty slick payment/delivery system that could be expanded into selling other digital ass
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by loire280 16y ago
For me, there isn't much difference in friction between a <$5/month subscription and a <$20/year subscription. Both fall below the impulse-buy threshold for an interesting-looking service. More than $20/year, however, and there has
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by loire280 16y ago
Webdev celebs like Zeldman and Gruber helped fan the flames, too, by quickly spreading the news over Twitter. I watched this unfold through my Twitter feed; first I heard of it was a retweet from Zeldman.
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by loire280 16y ago
Oh, cool, this is generated using docco. http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
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by loire280 16y ago
I like the way the documentation is written -- two columns, with the code on the right and the documentation for that section of code on the left. Very easy to read, and perfectly suited for a short piece of code like this. http://kolber.
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by loire280 16y ago
It's probably worth plugging http://prgmr.com/xen/ , run by fellow HN member lsc. If you prepay for the year, a 256MB VPS is only $6.40/mo. I've had good luck with it so far; it's a perfect always-on dev environment. (I'm just a customer
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by loire280 16y ago
Or he needs to implement caching on his Wordpress site. Almost every day there's a popular blog post that misses a large portion of its audience because the author wasn't caching. You'd think that more authors would plan for a traffic spike
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by loire280 16y ago
It's worth having a VPS around as your dev environment. The laptop you're carrying around is extremely likely to get lost, stolen, dropped, or otherwise damaged. A VPS isn't a backup solution, but it's not at constant risk of physical har
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by loire280 16y ago
It's written using NanoBlogger, which generates static HTML files. They're being served from a university server, which means powerful web server with nearly unlimited bandwidth. Hardly anything's static HTML nowadays... Also it doesn't h
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by loire280 16y ago
Anyone who is offended by a sexist title (this one is an apt historical reference as well) is probably going to have a problem in a startup where employees "[t]ell jokes that would make sailors blush". I bet a fair number of those jokes ar
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by loire280 16y ago
A subscription plan with heavy discounts would go a long way to making me feel better about the DRM on books. Most books are disposable to me: a tech book that is obsolete in a year, novels that are not worth rereading, a popular career or
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by loire280 16y ago
I agree, as a novel it's frustrating at best. I usually give science fiction a pass on plot and characters if the ideas are good. The science is generally sound, the ideas (especially the terraforming techniques) are very interesting, and
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by loire280 16y ago
It does essentially give you number portability. 1. Set up Google Voice to forward your GV # to your cell phone. 2. Install the Google Voice app to get push notifications for SMS messages sent to your GV #. 3. Give out your GV # instead of
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by loire280 16y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Series is a very detailed trilogy about the colonization of Mars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy The first book, Red Mars, follows the colonization from an initial expedition of 100 scientists to the
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by loire280 16y ago
On the other hand, streamlining the software-buying process and making buying software a regular activity is huge for the software market. I'd bet there's a huge number of computer owners who don't understand or don't care to buy and instal
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by loire280 16y ago
Maybe the admins could be coasting at some big company for the same salary but a small fraction of the responsibility.
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by loire280 16y ago
The official release name is Ubuntu Y.MM (10.10 just came out, replacing 10.4 released in April). The... err... fanciful names are development codenames. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
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by loire280 16y ago
The worst news about this phone is the web browser: IE7 based with IE8 technology. IE7's still-buggy, slow rendering; glacial Javascript performance; no support for forward-thinking web technologies ("HTML5", canvas or webGL, CSS3). I hop
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by loire280 16y ago
In my experience, suspend/resume breaks because of device drivers failing to put their components to sleep properly. The biggest culprit is wireless drivers. It may be that as they improve wireless support by including more drivers and mak
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by loire280 16y ago
A game with the action shown on the TV and the interface shown on an iPad would be awesome. Imagine the incredible UI ideas that would be possible if you had the entire screen as your canvas. Reminds me of the Optimus Tactus keyboard conce
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by loire280 16y ago
Logistically, it seems extremely unlikely that a new version of the iPad would be introduced in time for the holidays. It's only been 5 months since launch, after all, and they would have already had to be building them to be ready in time
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by loire280 16y ago
Is the purpose of the fee to filter out spammers and trolls in the same way that attaching your Facebook credentials creates some amount of social accountability for your actions in the service?
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by loire280 16y ago
I don't think you can use Instapaper as a model, unless you can be Marco. His Internet fame originally came about because of his status as the (late) lead developer on Tumblr. Marco frequently writes insightful posts on Apple products that
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by loire280 16y ago
If you're smart enough to get code from github working on your own box, paranoid enough to worry about facebook's control of your data and be interested in an alternative, and savvy enough to get wind of such an early release, I don't think
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by loire280 16y ago
I, for one, forget to appreciate the fact that one of the fastest web apps I regularly use is the one that searches the entire* internet. *kinda
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by loire280 16y ago
I expect the idea behind that is for the user experience. A non-Apple mail client, for example, won't have the level of integration into the system (send mail from apps/camera/etc., notifications, background process that never quits) that
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by loire280 16y ago
The startup is http://www.challengepost.com/ (the linked site uses their software/platform). This isn't the first government initiative to use their platform: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/us_government_taps_chal... They really

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