loire280

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by loire280 16y ago
It depends on what you do, I suppose. If your work doesn't have a large command-line component, using the command line might be disruptive. A large part of my job involves working with remote Linux servers, so I chose to invest time learni
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by loire280 16y ago
In my experience these are the shortcomings of using bittorrent: 1. It can take several minutes to find a decent release for titles that are older (>5 years) or less popular. 2. Older/Less popular items are poorly seeded, meaning I pot
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by loire280 16y ago
The iMac update was a spec bump (and a particularly minor one at that). There's not a whole lot of marketing message there. They made a much bigger deal when the current enclosure was introduced and when they released the 27" iMac earlier
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by loire280 16y ago
Chalk me up for anecdotally noticing a huge improvement when switching to the touchpad. It's worth noting that the Apple trackpad is not only way bigger than a laptop's touchpad, it's also angled so you're not resting your hand on its edge.
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by loire280 16y ago
The DJs at night clubs, the knob-twiddler guys in indie rock bands, and the film students at the local university are all using Macs to make their art. In fact, I'd say Apple's devices and the tools they create to publish to those devices
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by loire280 16y ago
Since we're still in land-grab mode in the ebook business, selling at a loss might make all kinds of sense. Once users amass a virtual bookshelf, you've got them locked in pretty hard, especially if they use the Kindle to read it. If the i
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by loire280 16y ago
I think it's partially about the hardware. iPhone OS is a lightweight, stable embedded OS that runs well on cheap, low-power hardware. The old Apple TV is expensive in part because it's a low-spec Mac desktop with a custom UI (read: expen
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by loire280 16y ago
If anyone can pull off the consumer education necessary to make 720p seem okay, Apple can. There's plenty of angles: storage constraints (show number of videos that can be stored at each resolution), download speed (esp. considering the so
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by loire280 16y ago
Good point, I forgot about the gap in Javascript performance. We're currently in an arms race of Javascript interpreters, though, and there's nothing stopping Apple or Palm from using Android's interpreter in the next release.
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by loire280 16y ago
But as the parent stated later in his post, not only do college graduates earn more money, but the unemployment rate of college graduates is also far below the average unemployment rate. In fact, it looks like the unemployment rate for coll
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by loire280 16y ago
I'm glad you like your phone, but of course your brand new Android phone surfs the web better than your old iPhone. It's got a faster CPU, more RAM, and a higher-resolution screen. Web surfing is very similar among similarly-specced phones
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by loire280 16y ago
> I'd consider a library to handle i18n in javascript to be extraneous, thus the comment. It may be extraneous, but it has nothing to do with the size of jQuery core: it's a plugin, not part of the actual library. jQuery has a plugin s
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by loire280 16y ago
> Which, FWIW, is something that's been available everywhere outside the US for at least 5 years. Not always used much (in Europe anyway), but it's been available for a very long time. If Apple manages to make video calling mainstream t
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by loire280 16y ago
Do music stores even matter anymore? Selling DRM-free MP3 downloads is a commodity business if I've ever seen one. The only trick is getting labels to sign on. Besides, syncing is an essential part of buying MP3 music: you don't want you
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by loire280 16y ago
I've never minded the disorganization: I think of these threads as a good way to see who's busy and learn about a few new companies and products. Besides, considering the high quality of opportunities that are usually offered here, time spe
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by loire280 16y ago
It's not in the official repositories, but that's probably a good thing considering the frequency of updates during the beta period. The Chrome beta .deb packages add the Chrome repo to your sources list, so updates are handled through the
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by loire280 16y ago
I agree that it's a red herring in the "future of Flash" argument, but it's still a significant hurdle. The value of any existing Flash content that requires keybaord or mouse hover interactions is diminished almost to the point that you m
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by loire280 16y ago
The carrier subsidy model provides an incentive to throw away your phone every 2 years, anyway.
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by loire280 16y ago
Google's interest in how the mobile market develops is at least as strong as Apple. Google provided the business muscle involved in getting a phone sold by a major carrier (who provide the massive subsidies that make these phones mainstream
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by loire280 16y ago
Another thing to worry about is manufacturers abandoning support for old phones prematurely, or causing long delays between updates to new major versions. (I'm not sure if Android phones can update over the air, but if not then you may hav
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by loire280 16y ago
The one site I'm getting reliably is WSJ.com (I'm a subscriber). May be the paywall-deterrent-effect. Some of their data got pretty stale (30min+), but that's probably because things are down across the entire market foodchain.
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by loire280 16y ago
Assuming that large portions of the Android Flash player are borrowed from the Linux version of Flash, I'm not very hopeful for the final product. Flash Player for Linux is by far the buggiest of the desktop implementations. On the other h
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by loire280 17y ago
Vimium brings me one step closer to never having to use a mouse. Hints mode and vim-style navigation keys are my favorite features. ? (shift-/) brings up a handy shortcut overlay. A must-have if you live in vim.
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by loire280 17y ago
If Apple's strategy of toolkit lockdown (to improve app quality, performance, and differentiation) is overly draconian, their platform will fail in the market.
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by loire280 17y ago
The iPhone 3GS has very fast javascript performance. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/iphone-3gs-javascript-p... I don't think I'm making a big leap to speculate that this means the iPhone runs javascript comparably to the consumer-le
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by loire280 17y ago
I agree that in the short term, not having Flash will wall off large sections of web content. However, if the iPad takes off we will have to either provide alternate content or abandon flash on our heaviest flash sites. The web design comp
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by loire280 17y ago
I'm in Milwaukee as well. Great city.
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by loire280 17y ago
I thought so too when my dad purchased one for my college commute. However, its ride quality, comfort, and utility quickly won me over. After a few months, I actually began to like how it looked, too. If they hadn't discontinued it a few
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by loire280 18y ago
There's a good demo at their site http://2dboy.com/games.php (you can also get it through Steam). The presentation is very slick (atmospheric, with a dark undertone reminiscent of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and the
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by loire280 18y ago
Ha, you're lucky. My grandpa managed a few programming projects in the accounting industry during the 70's/80's. Every time I tell him about something I'm working on, he tells a long story about how he either invented or pioneered the con

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