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by macrael 16y ago
Just my own ignorance here, but I'd love to hear what you like better about linux than BSD. I don't know a lot about the advantages of linux.
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What's really wrong with BlackBerry(mobileopportunity.blogspot.com)
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by macrael 16y ago
To be clear: these images came from the US Marshals Service scanning people entering a courthouse in Florida, not from the TSA. The TSA maintains that their machines are unable to store images: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/tsa-response-to-f
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by macrael 16y ago
Jason Kottke's Silkscreen is not quite so tiny, but very legible. http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/
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by macrael 16y ago
That video appears to play just fine without flash if you change your user agent to iPad.
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by macrael 16y ago
Doesn't seem like they are actually using Azure for their films. The article says this was a proof of concept.
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by macrael 16y ago
Quite right you are. I still take some issue with the idea that 75% of the poor don't want to work. The report is not entirely clear on what it means to be "looking for work", and it's hard to know what different motivations are driving tha
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by macrael 16y ago
Well, you've done the Ayn Randian thing here, and distilled a very complex issue into two different polarizing viewpoints. Saying that I, or the previous commenter whom I mostly agree with, "would gladly have [our] opinions and preferences
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by macrael 16y ago
So, kill them? How do you decide if that is justified? If you have evidence that a man robbed you, are you allowed to seek him out and steal back what was taken from you? What if he ate it? To kill him? How does the society know that you fo
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by macrael 16y ago
Sorry, did you get that "80% of poor people don't want to work" figure by dividing the number of working poor by the total number of poor people from that report you linked to?[1] I didn't see any information in that study pertaining to mot
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by macrael 16y ago
I have a friend here in the states who is from Iran and he spent many nights during the protests refreshing twitter and Facebook. I can't say whether twitter changed the way the protests went, but they seemed the best way to get a sense of
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by macrael 16y ago
This whole question of dealing with learning something surprising about a person you know and like is the subject of my favorite movie of all time: The Third Man. I highly recommend it.
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by macrael 16y ago
But what about when that person is taking pictures of everyone's houses and posting those pictures online? They may not have been intending to invade your privacy, just show a picture of all the houses in the neighborhood. There is a differ
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by macrael 16y ago
Right now, they do. But as digital substitutes get better, the physical market is going to shrink. Books and comics are just data, there is no reason they won't go the same way as music and movies, by which I mean, better and easier to deal
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by macrael 16y ago
So, free access to a digital version of the comic led more people to buy the physical vesion. What about when the physical version doesn't exist anymore or is more completely substitutable with a digital version? Digital distribution is fan
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by macrael 16y ago
This analysis seems spot on. Windows Phone Seven's low information density has troubled me from the first time I saw it. On a small screen like a phone, pixels should be precious. The fact that the contacts app uses a fifth of its screen te
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm not sure I would characterize the Mac growth as "modest" for the past several years they gave been growing several times faster than the industry average.
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm curious, are you on a touch screen device? I've accidentally downvoted a number of times because I missed the little arrows with my fingers. It's frustrating that I can't change my vote afterwards. Does anyone else feel like this is a p
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by macrael 16y ago
What makes you say they have a smaller learning curve than iOS? Is that assuming previous knowledge of Microsoft development tools? Or do you think that someone who only has experience with say C or Ruby would have an easier time of picking
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by macrael 16y ago
My point is that they already have a list of free operating systems, and pretty much nobody uses them. Do you think it likely that their list of free hardware will be more useful?
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by macrael 16y ago
People don't need to start in C. If we required that, there would be many fewer programmers. In University, our CS department got people started in Java (not the best starter language, but certainly cleaner than C) but our required OS cours
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by macrael 16y ago
They don't actually weild any power with which they could apply pressure, so its a bit of a moot point. I guess I was calling their purpose, as expressed by their completely ignored list, into question. I know people say that there is value
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by macrael 16y ago
Are the FSF's endorsements really worth anything? How many people on HN are using an FSF endorsed linux distro? The full list is here: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html Spoiler: Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian aren't on it. What's t
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by macrael 16y ago
Supporting a wider variety of hardware does not necessarily lead to commanding a larger market share. Who's to say a smaller number of devices that Google (or the device makers) were able to spend more time on supporting and polishing would
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by macrael 16y ago
Good question. The original iPhone was web-only for a year and developers clamored for access to native development. There is a long way to go until browsers plus the web development stack can provide the same experience as native code, a
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by macrael 16y ago
Unfortunately, IMAP is a mess of a specification that is not consistently implemented between different vendors. Gmail itself is not built on top of IMAP at all, it just has a layer thrown on top for compatibility. This path seems to make a
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by macrael 16y ago
What does a CEO do besides think on company wide strategies?
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by macrael 16y ago
Another lovely counterpoint to Ayn Rand is "Sewer Gas and Electric" by Matt Ruff. It is absurdist science fiction that is hilarious and full of fascinating characters. I really enjoy Atlas Shrugged as well, I've read the whole book twice, a
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by macrael 16y ago
Cheers, thanks for following up.
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by macrael 16y ago
Is this guy phishing? Why the link to hn.NET? Is that a sanctioned mirror? Why would I need to login again? Likely an honest mistake, but what is news.ycombinator.net anyway?

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