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by nathanb 14y ago
Show me where I can buy an Intel graphics card. Please. Near as I can tell, the only Intel display adapters are the ones integrated into laptop motherboards. You may be able to buy the occasional desktop motherboard with integrated Intel gr
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by nathanb 14y ago
Seems to me like a huger win would be if the open-source graphics drivers would get improved. I'm not even talking ideologically here. The OSS drivers are included along with the kernel in most distros. They're what you get by default when
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by nathanb 14y ago
Well, we know they get an email address and, quite probably, a username associated with an account. Of course, that would only be of value to someone doing something sketchy... Alternatively, he gets a large sample size of unwanted emails w
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by nathanb 14y ago
Needs an RSS feed for data mining purposes...
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For someone who posts things like "Not only are you surprisingly easily manipulated, apparently, don't you have better things to hack on?", it takes a lot of temerity to act offended at personal attacks. There's a difference between giving
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by nathanb 14y ago
If you tested that in court you would almost certainly find that the receptionist has not been granted the authority to enter the office into legally-binding contracts.
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by nathanb 15y ago
Works great until you have to pull the server and swap out a PCI card....
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by nathanb 15y ago
I thought they already proved that the faster-than-light neutrino was due to relativity between the GPS satellite, the origin, and the destination? Did I just hallucinate that?
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by nathanb 15y ago
"I’m sure I’ll catch a lot of flak for that prediction, but it wouldn’t be the first time. People called me crazy when I predicted the end of console gaming, too." The author makes that statement as though this example vindicates him, while
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Ask HN: How many Googlers left the company due to SPYW?
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by nathanb 15y ago
Do you really want to be a victim of an arms race where every extension tries to outdo all other extensions when it comes to rewriting affiliate links, etc?
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I'm a little disappointed with the article when compared to my expectations given the title. Besides using a fraudulent boarding pass, the journo didn't "test" the TSA in any meaningful way. This wasn't like the experiment where a guy got a
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by nathanb 15y ago
An xpi is simply a zip archive, FYI.
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If the clearly ill-informed ramblings of idiots causes multiple Microsoft developers, at least one of them very senior, to waste a week, I think I've found a IRL DDOS vector into their dev process...
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by nathanb 15y ago
Sorry about that. My comments aren't all winners.
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The Googling I did, as well as your quote, seem to disagree with your assertion. You say that Google have apparently declined to renew the deal, while those two links say that we don't know, but (per your quote) it's likely that they have.
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by nathanb 15y ago
Citation needed
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The second paragraph, if I'm reading it correctly, details how they don't report streaming data to the labels until they have enough data to guarantee that they can charge labels more than the cost of streaming the songs. I imagine the labe
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by nathanb 15y ago
I would argue "be careful whom you send emails to" as well. While drivingmenuts' comment about behaving ethically might apply in this case, sometimes you might think you're behaving ethically and it's only later than you realize that, while
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by nathanb 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, were Google to simply not comply with this ridiculous abortion of justice, what would be the result? Could Google appeal any sanctions imposed as a result of their non-compliance? What a mess.
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Suggestion: what about a lite version? I don't particularly want or need a watch that can display email alerts or interface with my phone or even run a program I wrote (although that last one is really slick). I have a smartphone in my po
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by nathanb 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, and I think this is what jwz is getting at as well. Hard work can be rewarding, but only if you let it. Hard work which is pushed on you without your consent is rarely rewarding in any sense of the word.
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This seems like a brilliant use case for augmented reality. If I could look at something and have my HUD display "turn this valve to disable all water flow to the upstairs" from the previous owner of my house (or from the contractor who plu
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by nathanb 15y ago
I think you're attributing to insecurity something which could be equally attributed to the sort of hubris which engineers are infamous for. To me, my problem domain is rich and varied, but your problem domain is mostly trivial. I understan
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by nathanb 15y ago
Indeed. I (a systems programmer) can write web code just as well as a good web programmer can write systems code: badly. That web frameworks and infrastructure tend to be more forgiving than bare hardware and system architecture is likely w
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by nathanb 15y ago
He was making a prediction about the future. A prediction which was provably wrong in 2009 and has become even more wrong today. If there's no accountability--if we don't look back on the things we write about the future and learn from them
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And you are making the critical assumption that the employee or the employer in your hypothetical situation expected those four shares to remain four shares. If I'm a small company just getting started, what do I have to attract top talen
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by nathanb 15y ago
I can't answer for jsavimbi, but I think it insults the audience because it takes the easy way out. It would be like not proofreading your slides and showing up with typos or txt abbrs rather than well-thought out phrases. Swearing works in
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by nathanb 15y ago
Holman is making a mistake by conflating use of profanity and strength of emotional connection. He is implying that given his stated goal of a passionate reader base, profanity is a necessary evil. I dispute the necessary part.
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Here's the problem: when I share something on Reader, I know that it will only be seen on Reader by my other friends who have specifically opted-in to say "I want to see stuff Nathan has shared". It is very reasonable to add a feature allow

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