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by macrael 15y ago
Where does that information come from? Is that a common way for such deals to be made?
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by macrael 15y ago
The most convincing explanation of their actions I read was essentially: 1. they made streaming a free add on to DVDs to get people using the service, which resulted in streaming becoming popular. 2. The media owners started to (or perhaps
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by macrael 15y ago
The most important question involved with increasing the screen size is what the story for developers is. Increasing the screen size from 3.5" to 4+ inches would cause many many apps to be rewritten. Yes, you could just scale apps up and th
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by macrael 15y ago
Thank you for shareing. I'd feared that I wouldn't get to save that moment.
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by macrael 15y ago
I'm not sure the .com is canonical. I don't speak Chineese so I don't really know what is going on with that site. the .org variant and his other pages are all returning 410 Gone.
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by macrael 15y ago
Do look at what iOS provides for accessibility. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/physical.html There are already a lot of built in features (which Siri no doubt augments greatly) for people with disabilities.
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by macrael 15y ago
Tesla makes all-electric cars; no gas involved. HOV stickers are for all-electric cars only, now. I've seen them on Nissan Leafs.
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by macrael 15y ago
I think audiophiles who can't stand mp3s are a pretty minuscule part of the pirating population and not much to hang your argument on. The vast majority of people who are pirating music and movies just don't want to pay for it.
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by macrael 15y ago
It sounds like they are using SPDY for the connection between the device and the cloud, so I believe that means that your connection to the Amazon server is secure. My reading is that Amazon will be able to see the secure traffic so that it
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by macrael 15y ago
Personally, I think github is trying to become that simpler interface. We'll see how they do, but so far it is promising.
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by macrael 15y ago
Ironic that this news is coming from CNN, where is the Techcrunch post?
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by macrael 15y ago
It is my understanding that this was pretty much exactly the pitch for Intellectual Ventures, and now they have sunk to aiding and abetting trolls.
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by macrael 15y ago
There is a strong incentive for me to use a GSM phone over a CDMA phone because the former works in the majority of the rest of the world. So if all the GSM phones sold in the States were sold by AT&T, it is likely that I would be getti
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by macrael 15y ago
Does Stasis (or any of the other tools in this space) allow you to run a service on your web server that you could post new markdown files to, kicking off a recompile of your static site? I'd like to be able to post a new entry without havi
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by macrael 15y ago
Verified: http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/106762517526745089
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by macrael 15y ago
I'm with you, I think that if the Touchpad had launched at a $99 price, it would not have flown off the shelves the way that it has these last few days. Part of the reason people are buying them is that it is their last hurrah, no Touchpads
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by macrael 15y ago
They are both enterprise software companies. It looks like Autonomy focuses on data analysis while SAP focuses on business development. Regardless, Autonomy is much much much more like SAP than it is like a consumer electronics company. The
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by macrael 15y ago
Switching to a winCE based OS delayed the release by at least a year, which definitely hurt their chances in the market. Not to mention that it probably made whatever internal pressures from phone 7 much worse as well, since the phone 7 pro
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by macrael 15y ago
Yeah, my point was just that the statements clearly came from a common source (Google) not surprise that CEOs were not speaking with their own voices. The effect is that the statements do not appear at all sincere. They sound like they made
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by macrael 15y ago
Yeah, creepily robotic. It seems forced, and feels like the lines were fed to them.
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by macrael 15y ago
Are there programmers editors for other platforms that are better than what is available on OS X?
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by macrael 15y ago
What was that economic theory that most of the colonial empires were run on, where the prime directive was that more gold needed to be flowing into the country than flowing out? It was later abandoned, but I don't recall exactly why. That m
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by macrael 15y ago
What does it mean for it to be a 64k demo. That all the code required to produce the video fits in 64k? Can they call external libraries? How do they talk to graphics hardware?
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by macrael 15y ago
What do you think about the fact that Microsoft council claims the following: Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no. https://twitter.com/#!/BradSmi/status/
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by macrael 15y ago
The biggest advantage for Markdown is that it is in plain text. It looks good in plain text. This makes it incredibly portable, lets me write it in whatever text editor I have at hand (even ssh'd into another machine (though I don't do that
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by macrael 15y ago
Truly bizarre. A straight up clone of the entire service, no detail too small to be copied. Id hoped to find that the developers had tried something new with the format. I'd love to see a similar service where everyone in the room somehow c
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by macrael 15y ago
Does OS X (and iOS, I suppose) being built on Mach not count?
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by macrael 15y ago
I'd recommend you read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html wherein Joel Spolsky was reviewed by Bill Gates. It is pretty clear the man had serious technical chops.
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by macrael 15y ago
I believe it is fairly common in the US for victors to be awarded money to cover their legal fees. The problem is that none of these companies being sued are confidant they would win, and they don't have the money to cover losing.
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by macrael 15y ago
When did Steve Jobs announce he was going to retire? I can't find any evidence of that.

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