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by martey 14y ago
I think overcharging for RAM (or HDD/SSD) upgrades is one way that OEMs make more money off of their machines. I am a bit amused that this is the reason you give for reconsidering Lenovo when Apple (the maker of your current machine) is not
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by martey 14y ago
It's in reference to the YC job ad at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332117 posted an hour ago (after the AllThingsD article was submitted). The first paragraph claims that they "can't go into too many details about the exact featu
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by martey 14y ago
Your comment seems to be talking about GTK (the user interface library, which like Qt, is also LGPL licensed), while the original post is about the GNOME desktop environment. Since the latter does not run in Windows or OS X, your comment is
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by martey 14y ago
I think heyrhett's was trying to say that article does not teach its readers anything new about the world. You could sum it up as "practice makes perfect". From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports
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by martey 14y ago
The article you linked to in your note 0 is from two months ago , not two years ago. Diaspora is in YC's Summer 2012 class.[1] The homepage is probably not listed as a duplicate because it is no longer in the server's RAM. [2] A simple sea
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by martey 14y ago
This is definitely easier to use (and understand) that Dominion's maps. Some notes and questions: "Severe" is spelled wrong. Some periods are missing at the end of sentences. Why is the ZIP code required even if I enter a full address? It a
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by martey 14y ago
I remember trying this when I was younger (with the Cheat menu). The primary issue is that while it is quicker, it is difficult to figure out the details of what is happening in the game when there is no pause at the beginning of your turn.
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Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing(holovaty.com)
183 points by martey 14y ago|65 comments
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by martey 14y ago
Their website has a pretty comprehensive privacy policy: http://kicksend.com/privacy
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by martey 14y ago
Verizon's LTE phones do use SIM cards, but it would probably be futile to try to use them on Sprint or AT&T's LTE networks, since they run on different frequencies, and you wouldn't get standard voice or 3G data coverage.
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by martey 14y ago
I am confused about why regulators should be involved. The purpose of the ETSI is to create mobile industry standards. I think the author would argue that these benefit the consumer. The main issue with the article isn't its hyperbolic head
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by martey 14y ago
Is The Verge really much better? Their original editorial content is interesting, but like Engadget, a significant number of their daily articles just rehash news found elsewhere.
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by martey 14y ago
Looking at the law [1] it seems to be part of Section V, entitled "Revenue Offsets". According to sources I could find online [2], it looks like prior to the law, people who gave up their citizenship were not required to report it to the IR
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by martey 14y ago
Alexstra [sic] has positioned themselves to get acquired in the next 24 months ... without an acquisition Alekstra plans on running an IPO and becoming a stand-alone operator by the first half of 2014, offering services to both business
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by martey 14y ago
Wikipedia says mass-produced sunglasses were introduced in the US in 1929. Umbrellas have been used to keep off rain since at least the 18th century. Both of these times are significantly earlier than the decline of the hat in America.
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by martey 14y ago
You linked to a discussion of a tool that lets you lookup the IP addresses of Skype users (which seems like it might have been developed with this tool), but I think you meant to link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155
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by martey 14y ago
Furthermore, is it not a better idea to simply include this in the readme and leave it out of the code altogether? Luis Villa discusses some reasons why you might want include licensing information in every file: http://tieguy.org/blog/2
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by martey 15y ago
The issue is that it is not just the initial proposal. As the NYTimes article points out in the previous paragraph, and the complete FCC report [1] clearly states, there were additional events after the proposal was submitted where other me
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by martey 15y ago
On Apartment List's blog, they are claiming that they asked voters to forward their confirmation emails to them, so that they could confirm votes right before the voting ended: http://blog.apartmentlist.com/the-2012-peoples-choice-webby-..
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Congress Should Grill the FCC Over Redacted Google Wi-Fi Snooping Report(wired.com)
2 points by martey 15y ago|0 comments
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by martey 15y ago
The linked KB article says that Apple is "developing software that will detect and remove the Flashback malware." A tool designed to remove one malicious program after it has been installed is not the same as a general-purpose antivirus app
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Cliff Theory: How Handset Makers Die(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
3 points by martey 15y ago|0 comments
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by martey 15y ago
" I'd really like to see the source of the data and what exactly is being measured. " Following the source link in Yglesias' post [1], the graph seems to come from a presentation that Paul Heald (a professor at the University of Illinois) [
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by martey 15y ago
I am using firmware to reference the entire mobile operating system, from the kernel and radio interface libraries all the way to the crapware applications installed by mobile carriers. On Android devices, the best analog to the BIOS would
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by martey 15y ago
" Or perhaps I'm being naive and there's something else that's holding up updates other than technical issues with drivers/hardware compatibility. " In the United States at least, mobile firmware updates are subject to the approval of mobil
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by martey 15y ago
From http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... : " Even if you choose to keep your +1's tab private, your +1's will still appear publicly. +1’s can appear as annotations on the content you +1’d wherever that content
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by martey 15y ago
Similar issues with bookmark synchronization have been raised over and over by many people, on various versions of FF ranging from 3.6 to 9.x, on various platforms Of the bugs you mentioned, only one of them [1] involves a desktop version
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by martey 15y ago
People used to complain about this when Sync was first released as an add-on to Firefox 3.6. They still haven't fixed it! I did a cursory search on Mozilla's Bugzilla and did not find any bugs with this issue involving a recent version of
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by martey 15y ago
I don't understand this project. According to the creator, the purpose is "to make Skype open source" [1], but the project relies on binary files distributed by Skype. As a result, they have repeatedly faced DMCA notices [2] which regularly
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by martey 15y ago
Reading the article now (15 minutes later), the objections seem to be addressed in the next sentence. Was the essay edited after publication because of InclinedPlane's comment? If so, I wish writers wouldn't make "phantom edits" that add o

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