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by macrael 15y ago
Is there any way to see the age of the text on a wikipedia page? Might be a good way to combat the sense that everything on the page is solid. If most of the page is years old except for a couple of sentances from the last two days, I might
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by macrael 15y ago
What's the source on that?
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by macrael 15y ago
Apple's Memory Management Programming Guide: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...
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by macrael 15y ago
What are the terms for developers?
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by macrael 15y ago
jwz is pretty well respected, especially in this field. He was one of the original authors of Netscape Navigator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
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by macrael 15y ago
Will you be able to use the same hardware to decode WebP and WebM?
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by macrael 15y ago
I've found this is something that really surprises Europeans. But, once, when I was comparing notes with some travelers in a hostel in New Zealand, we asked a South Korean among us for his perspective. He said that he and everyone he knows
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by macrael 15y ago
What do you mean? What api's? What customization? Are you asking about the source of the app?
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by macrael 15y ago
I'm not so sure. I agree that weasel words can destroy a piece of writing, but a complete lack of them can come off badly too. The main effect of killing the qualifiers in your writing is increasing the confidence in the tone of the piece.
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by macrael 15y ago
I didn't hear any noise about this compared to, say, when Tumblr was down for a similar amount of time. Does that speak accurately to their relative popularity?
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by macrael 15y ago
Can you expand on that comment? I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Should this change how we interpret the stock price growth comparison between Microsoft, Apple, and Google? Just thinking about it, I only see two ways in which t
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by macrael 15y ago
There doesn't seem to be a mention of encryption anywhere. I'm surprised they didn't avail themselves of a little PGP. If a giant notorious terrorist organization isn't using public key cryptography, who is?
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by macrael 15y ago
Twice, Apple has said publicly that they are running the store at "just above break even." From last year: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wild... and February: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_sto
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by macrael 15y ago
I'm pretty sure I agree with that, but I'm not sure the OP would. From the article: > Filmmakers were not content to make movies with video cameras until those cameras could shoot 24p, because video, with its many-frames-per-second, loo
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by macrael 15y ago
I'm not sure how the amount of data is very related to the importance of the settings on your TV. Now, of course, all these things are sort of ephemeral, so it is pretty difficult to quantify their effect on the viewing experience, but the
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by macrael 15y ago
To be fair, the screen may have 1% of a theater's surface area, but the angle of view is more like 30 - 40% of what you get in a cinema.[1] I agree that going to see a movie in a theater is superior to seeing one at home but that is no reas
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by macrael 15y ago
The author's apparent belief that 24fps is the only good way to make movies might be wrong, but his (central) thesis that interpolating / smoothing 24fps video up to higher frame rates is spot on. Regardless of the future popular frame rate
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by macrael 15y ago
How often do you modify your hosts file? I only ever find myself adding more things to block to it.
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by macrael 15y ago
> Google has seven major product groups. Advertising, Commerce & Local, Mobile (Android), Social, Chrome, YouTube and Search. Anyone know who owns apps? Is Gmail not represented in one of these groups?
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by macrael 15y ago
I don't think there is any evidence that Google would not have paid up if they had won with their low bid, they just had no intention of winning the auction. They were confidant someone would pay more. Is that illegal in financial markets?
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by macrael 16y ago
To me the most interesting part is that these are not the only unskilled labor being employed by Google. As the video points out, the janitors at google are given access to the many perks. It seem strange that this one group is singled out.
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by macrael 16y ago
The Instapaper app is fantastic. Primarily it is a list of articles, cleanly presented and bookmarked. The reading experience is superior to the browser because one can simple swipe to advance a page. Perhaps a small thing but it makes a bi
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm not sure purchasing a dying service with a negative brand is a good way for Google to get into the game. With Google's recent level of seriousness directed toward social, I sincerely doubt they are looking to acquire the central parts o
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by macrael 16y ago
But the interesting part of this to me is not that "anyone can publish"; tumblr gives you that. What is interesting is that they are building a framework for beautiful interactive "storytelling" as they said. It is something you definitely
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by macrael 16y ago
Anyone know how Google Talk's video chat works compared to Apple's FaceTime? Is there a reason everyone can't agree on a standard?
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by macrael 16y ago
But as he points out there are other costs to be taken into account. The amount of ad revenue can't be directly weighed against the money generated by sales. You also need to consider the development costs of maintaining the lite version, d
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by macrael 16y ago
I don't know much about online credit card transactions, but how are you supposed to do it? Don't you need the number to transfer to Visa or whoever in order to get money out of someone's account?
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by macrael 16y ago
All comment scores do is reveal the inner workings of the site. HN already has an algorithm to turn vote count and time since posting into relevance, that's how we order posts now. Perhaps that could be a bit more fine grained, so that you
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by macrael 16y ago
The US Census Bureau projects that last year's census will count 114.8 households in America.[1] That tracks pretty closely to what Nielsen has measured. So you don't really need the "with TV's" qualifier. It appears nearly every American h
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by macrael 16y ago
I like git a lot, but find that the more I hear about it, the more pitfalls I discover. The actual user interface often does not seem to have good defaults and just generally does things differently from how I expect. So. I love that gith

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