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by macrael 17y ago
In the context of this article Income == Profit. The gap there is "narrowed" to $1B. Still a very large number no matter how you slice it.
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by macrael 17y ago
Absolutely. And, I can't think of any email service that sends passwords in clear text. I'm not convinced it is this easy to compromise someone's email account.
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by macrael 17y ago
Node embed has the same license. What is dupral licensed under?
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by macrael 17y ago
Who indeed? OS/2 is a prime example of what can happen to a hardware company that puts its destiny in the hands of another. IBM got screwed by Microsoft when they pulled out of OS/2. If IBM had their own OS independent of Microsoft, they wo
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by macrael 17y ago
I didn't mean to say deal making was the biggest reason, just a big reason for Microsoft's success. As someone else pointed out in this thread, while Microsoft did indeed supply the hardware makers with an OS, they very quickly made sure it
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by macrael 17y ago
I think you are simplifying things a lot. I wasn't around back them to know the whole history myself, but my understanding is that there were a whole lot of factors that contributed to Windows taking over. A big part of it was Microsoft's a
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by macrael 17y ago
It doesn't matter, the phrase means what it means and when someone uses it, we are communicating. But I think that the issue is not one of grammar but of meaning. Saying you could care less is not grammatically incorrect, it just doesn't se
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by macrael 17y ago
That's true, choice is a good thing until you are blind and then you have no choice. In the US, the whole point of Section 508 is to protect the minority. If you left it up to the market, the majority of people who have no disabilities woul
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by macrael 17y ago
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/04/12/apples-ipad-brings... http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/accessibility.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-accessibility-fe... http://developer.apple.com/technologies/iphone/acce
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by macrael 17y ago
Google adds more data to their store. Will Google be retaining the documents to be printed in any way?
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by macrael 17y ago
Real world filing cabinets are not infinitely hierarchical, they are very flat. I don't think I've ever seen someone use a filing cabinet with nested folders. You have one list of alphabetized folders with the files directly in it. In this
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by macrael 17y ago
I can't seem to edit my post, looks like mobile safari has done this since 2008 for what it is worth.
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by macrael 17y ago
Alas, then I remember wrong. Regardless Safari has done it for a while. If someone can find discussion of its removal I'll edit my original post.
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by macrael 17y ago
MobileSafari hasn't displayed http:// since its inception.
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by macrael 17y ago
Merlin Mann is one of the people whose tweets were used without permission. He detailed his perspective in three blog posts: http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/508615417/regret http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/511063886/tweets-are-not-n
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by macrael 17y ago
Wow. Coming from the Mac, I have never realized you had to pay, and possibly pay so very much, for dev tools on Windows. What kind of things does VS do that are exciting? I see they have a feature list a million miles long, but I can't get
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by macrael 17y ago
I don't think so. Advertising is where they make their money, but Google's core competency is storing and making sense of massive amounts of data. That is what they do better than everyone else, advertising is just how they monetize it.
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by macrael 17y ago
Where did the article go? I can't resolve the host.
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by macrael 17y ago
My question is who ran rm *? Terrifying.
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The Mobile Web vs. the Objective-C Web(cameronmoll.tumblr.com)
3 points by macrael 17y ago|1 comments
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by macrael 17y ago
Yeah, it's actually the same guy. CmdrTaco
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by macrael 17y ago
>If the iPhone wasn't here, people would be buying it in droves What about the article's point that if the iPhone weren't here, Android would not be nearly as good as it is now?
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by macrael 17y ago
I wonder what their april fools plan was before all of this Topeka nonsense. This seems hastily thrown together compared to their past efforts. Actually, I am guessing that it would have been their "Translate for Animals" that ended up on t
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by macrael 17y ago
It seems like email encryption should be a pretty solvable problem tech-wise. Does anyone here actually regularly send and receive such mail? If all the emails saved on servers were encrypted, we wouldn't have this problem.
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by macrael 17y ago
It is nice to think that all patents are supposed to bring something into public knowledge that would otherwise have remain hidden but I don't think that is their real purpose. It seems to me that the contract is that the state will protect
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by macrael 17y ago
Interestingly, I think this is a big part of why patents were invented in the first place. The idea was to give companies incentive for publishing their methods in detail because doing so benefited the industry as a whole. You show the worl
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by macrael 17y ago
Was it a game? I don't know anyone who actually played it, we just built the trap and set it off. :)
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by macrael 17y ago
Multi-core processors are plenty useful in a non-multitasking environment. A single process with many threads is sped up by having multiple cores. Apple is definitely interested in multi-core processors, look at Grand Central on OS X. I wou
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by macrael 17y ago
One nice benefit of the change is that the home page now looks much nicer in a "top sites" or "speed dial" or whatever you want to call it mode. It stands out. I like it.
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by macrael 17y ago
Several studies have shown that red light cameras do not improve road safety. Here is one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10... I think that this article is a vision of a dangerous future. A free society must ne

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