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by mmagin 14y ago
Because they've been told that they're paying a premium for Apple products because they'll have a better experience.
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by mmagin 14y ago
It seems like they fit a different need -- the differing number of USB ports and wired/wireless Ethernet are what most users are going to care about. (Sure, you can use a USB hub, but then you're into another rats nest of cabling.)
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by mmagin 14y ago
Here's another similar product http://www.naturesplatform.com/
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by mmagin 14y ago
Although it is possible that virtual machines change more rapidly than physical machines, isn't this also true for languages more directly targeting a physical machine, e.g. C? I suppose what you're really getting at is that in JS we are su
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by mmagin 14y ago
Back when I was involved, the compression was gzip -- each archived page (HTTP headers + body) was separately gzipped and concatenated onto a ~100M file, though I believe they're now doing 1G files. (This cleverly allows retrieving the ind
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by mmagin 14y ago
It's not entirely clear how rare it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_remission#Frequency...
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by mmagin 14y ago
I suppose a startup could make it easier for other startups to access contracted design and manufacturing, but I think there's a lot more regulatory barriers too. As soon as you're selling hardware, you're dealing with customs, FCC (or equi
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by mmagin 14y ago
I'm not sure Atmel AVR microcontrollers (used in the rest of the Arduino line) are open source hardware either. Sure, they are fully documented from the user's perspective, but Atmel doesn't give away source (Verilog/VHDL/etc.) for the cor
519.
by mmagin 14y ago
Possibly of similar interest - Ready, a program for exploring continuous valued cellular automata: http://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion/
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by mmagin 14y ago
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but even now, some of the EPROMs of that era are exhibiting bit rot. The floppies aren't doing so well either.
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by mmagin 14y ago
I'm slightly younger than you. I think there's a certain point in adulthood when you realize that you are just like all those old people who came before you. You realize that your parents, perhaps in late middle age and hopefully in good h
522.
by mmagin 14y ago
No, there is more than the technical advantage held by police which factors into this. There is also the extent to which the mass of people tend to believe whether it is better to do things in a law-abiding manner or whether legal authorit
523.
by mmagin 14y ago
I don't think Gandhi was suggesting people devote their life to working at Apple.
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by mmagin 14y ago
Ha ha ha. I remember a few years ago when everyone was in love in Feedburner, blissfully ignoring the fact that they were choosing to give their users a RSS (or Atom) URL which wasn't in their own domain name space which they control.
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by mmagin 14y ago
And why does it need a turbocharger? Is it even an internal combustion engine?
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by mmagin 14y ago
I assume this doesn't allow cars to make a right turn during a red light. That, and the long path for cyclists to make a left turn are probably what would make a lot of people in the US resist this design. (I think it looks like a good ide
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by mmagin 14y ago
I don't understand why vigilante justice is perceived as necessary against those who exchange child pornography. While it's something that most of society finds disgusting, it seems like something that the proper law-enforcement authoritie
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by mmagin 14y ago
Arguably, those should be nearly the same thing. (In a perfect world, at least.)
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by mmagin 14y ago
I had a similar experience. Xfce could handle my differently-sized dual-monitor setup easily. LXDE failed such that it thought to put some things off-screen where I could never reach them.
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by mmagin 14y ago
I find it distasteful because it means that in searches which naive users may be accustomed to being local searches of their computer, those search queries are also being passed to some third-party (Amazon) API. If they're interested in th
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by mmagin 14y ago
I gave them my email address for an invite months ago, and since then I've seen lots and lots of talk about AeroFS, but still it's not available, so I lost interest. If you have a web page and a blog and repeatedly get mentioned on HN, but
532.
by mmagin 14y ago
Well, UVB exposure is what causes the process of vitamin D synthesis in the skin, wearing sunscreen is going to prevent that.
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by mmagin 14y ago
Personally, I find Cygwin to be a horrible substitute for a real Unix, in large part because so many emulated Unix operations like fork() are horribly slow. Sometime try running a "configure" script, and see how much slower it runs than on
534.
by mmagin 14y ago
The Linux FHS agrees too, that this should be the distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp.
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by mmagin 14y ago
There's even a (1990) film, _Pacific Heights_, about the nightmare of being a landlord.
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by mmagin 14y ago
The TMS 9900 (and its predecessor, the TI 990 minicomputer) had a similar sort of idea, except back in the days of less layers of caching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9900#Arch... (Of course, those days, there were
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by mmagin 14y ago
Direct link: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/mark-kitto-youll-...
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by mmagin 14y ago
In recent memory, I haven't needed a knife to open an apple box easily. (Not counting brown outer shipping boxes.)
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by mmagin 14y ago
The latter clause is awfully broad and subjective. If someone put in their Dropbox account pictures of say, artifacts of the Nazi regime, would that be violating the rules? It's not at all clear that that would be advocating bigotry, reli
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by mmagin 14y ago
I find that in this case, conscious concentration can actually make performance of the password sequence more difficult for me. Also, I get into a stateful kind of memory where if I have to produce a password I normally produce at home whil

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