metageek

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by metageek 15y ago
You're conflating two issues. Conspiracy to fix prices is generally illegal; robbing users of the right to use their own hardware is not. And Amazon isn't dictating terms on ebooks. You can install .mobi books you didn't get from them. Y
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by metageek 15y ago
It's a tradeoff. Some of my worst managers were former programmers; some of my best came in through some side door. Management ability-- real management, as in getting people to get along and get the job done, not as in making Gantt char
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by metageek 15y ago
> HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP Is that true? Most encryption schemes include compression (since compression removes redundancy, and redundancy is where cryptanalysts attack).
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by metageek 15y ago
>Attrition at Amazon is at horrific rates. I know the actual number, though I'm pretty sure that'd violate my NDA to reveal. It's high. It's really high. Guess a really truly terrible number. It's probably higher than that. Maybe this
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by metageek 15y ago
"Sure, we'll give you a new razor," said the bladesmith...
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by metageek 15y ago
And the autocomplete relies on the Places system, which is what is hanging (or was, until a few weeks ago).
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by metageek 15y ago
I thought I hadn't seen Firefox hang in a while.
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by metageek 15y ago
> the argument could be made that Palm invented the smartphone Didn't Qualcomm beat them to it? I remember reading about a Qualcomm phone which was a PalmOS device, around 2000 or 2001. At that time, I don't think Palm had any smartph
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by metageek 15y ago
The front page says "Earnings are transferred to your bank account on a 7 day rolling basis.".
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by metageek 15y ago
$100, actually--BestBuy is now selling the 16GB Playbook for $299.
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by metageek 15y ago
What happens if you use a nonstandard Unicode character, something from the one of the private use areas? Will screen readers ignore it?
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by metageek 15y ago
Providing a localized title and description, without localizing the app, strikes me as misleading--unless the localized description explicitly says the app itself hasn't been translated.
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by metageek 15y ago
I think you mean "going for broke".
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by metageek 15y ago
> I almost never use my queue for streaming. On my Blu-Ray player, the queue is the only way to play anything.
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by metageek 15y ago
Prime is $79/year.
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by metageek 15y ago
> Why do you think this is a terrible move? Because the two services work well together. There are lots of movies and shows that you can't stream, but you can get on disc. Your data about what discs I rent improves your recommendati
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by metageek 15y ago
So maybe the overall answer is that whether a school has people checking IDs depends less on rational decisions and more on their history—have they had trouble, have they had paranoid management, that sort of thing.
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by metageek 15y ago
I don't know about that. Thinking about the four universities I've got experience with, the only one that didn't have someone checking IDs at the door of the library was the small one that probably couldn't afford it.
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by metageek 15y ago
Same in the US.
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by metageek 15y ago
Yeah, but it wasn't as obviously electronic; until I read that Ars article last fall, I always thought it was just a pad of paper.
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by metageek 15y ago
True. Upvoted.
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by metageek 15y ago
Two points. First, when you're requesting a patent be reexamined, you're talking to a patent examiner. To a patent examiner, patents are the most convincing form of prior art--if only because she's used to reading them. Second, it's widel
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by metageek 15y ago
Bundle them with PCs, most likely. Landfill space is expensive.
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by metageek 15y ago
>The thing is, the Touchpad already had a dual core cpu built in. Except it's an A8 instead of an A9.
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by metageek 15y ago
>He used to work at SaS SAP.
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by metageek 15y ago
No. Spammers include unsubscribe links, too; they just don't obey them.
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by metageek 15y ago
If there were 6 people, he wouldn't be saying 82%. 83%, maybe.
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by metageek 15y ago
Right. "Through" is better than "until" because "until" leaves the reader unsure whether it includes August 19th. And 2011 is unnecessary; if someone does find an old message, they can look at the Date: header. Personally, I would say "Au
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by metageek 15y ago
>I don't see how having WinCE as the OS hurt Kin's chances in the market after it shipped? Well, it meant the Danger team had to start from scratch, and the delay meant they were going up against tougher competition.
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by metageek 15y ago
Chromebooks start at $350.

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