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by necubi 16y ago
I really like their tea, and the atmosphere is very nice. Definitely recommended to any tea-lovers visiting Santa Cruz.
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by necubi 17y ago
Funny, that's why you couldn't pay me to use Thunderbird over GMail. Incidentally, if you are interested, there are ways to manage multiple accounts, though they're a bit clumsy. Basically, you can have GMail download your other email accou
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by necubi 17y ago
Hence my qualifier "in comparable form." Origami did ship, but when it did it was twice as expensive as promised (initially: "as much as a good mobile phone", when released: $1200+) and was an unusable mess (read some reviews). The devices
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by necubi 17y ago
This is a very sensible decision. Ultimately, it will be very hard for anything running on x86 to compete with ARM at the moment in power/watt, which is probably the most important metric for these sorts of devices. Inte's working hard to c
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by necubi 17y ago
And this is surprising to who exactly? Microsoft has shown repeatedly in the last few years that they excel at creating pretty renders and hype for products that never appear on the market in comparable form. Anybody remember the Origami pr
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by necubi 17y ago
Here's the best argument against that pessimistic view: people at Apple, Steve Jobs very much included, use Macs. They obviously love their macs, and would be very unhappy to be forced to move to windows. Steve Jobs does not want to use Win
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by necubi 17y ago
Gruber gave the exact screen resolution, which was far from obvious (as, to my knowledge, no other phone has been released with that resolution).
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GnuPlot 4.4 Canvas Export(gnuplot.sourceforge.net)
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by necubi 17y ago
In case anybody's wondering, it works by moving a radial gradient with 0 alpha at the center using javascript. It's slow on Chrome, probably due to the effort required to redraw the gradient at every time step. A better approach, at least f
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by necubi 17y ago
I don't think you've actually used the iPad to browse the web. Personally, I block flash on my desktop and rarely find reason to unblock it, so the lack of flash doesn't bother me. Meanwhile, surfing on the iPad is in general so nice that I
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by necubi 17y ago
Disabling text selection is actually really simple. All you need to do is apply user-select: none (currently available as -webkit-user-select and -moz-user-select) to the element.
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by necubi 17y ago
Google Calendar, too, has a very useful three week view which does the same thing.
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by necubi 17y ago
You're missing the point, but not for the reason given below. The pipe is the natural monopoly, not the services provided over it. This is so obvious that it hardly bears repeating, but again: it makes no more economic sense for multiple co
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by necubi 17y ago
It's not actually that nebulous (I was simplifying because it seemed more appropriate for the setting than to give a thorough discussion of the relevant analysis). The technique, though, is regression analysis, which is widely used in econo
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by necubi 17y ago
The study was merely commissioned by the FCC, but it was actually conducted by Harvard's Berkman Center for Public Policy. And your curt comment neatly avoids actually evaluating this very well-done study. I've done my own analyses of the d
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by necubi 17y ago
Except that it's not created by government regulation, tt just doesn't make economic sense. Broadband is very much a natural monopoly, like electricity or water. In a free market, the first few incumbents (usually the phone provider and the
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by necubi 17y ago
The big issue is that it imposes a high mental cost for switching between applications. If you're browsing on Mobile Safari and you want to look up something in another app, you generally wont, because by the time you get back to Safari you
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by necubi 17y ago
The biggest issue with facebook photos is the resolution. Most people have 7MP+ cameras now, but facebook resizes them to ~600x450. While I can understand facebook being reluctant to store large pictures, it has become the primary way for m
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by necubi 17y ago
Developers were abusing notifications, and facebook decided to do right by their users and disable them. It should be lauded for putting its users' needs before those of its developers.
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by necubi 17y ago
It should be noted that "return" isn't really the right word. No devices have actually shipped yet, so all the 15 people did was cancel their pre-order.
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by necubi 17y ago
Though it should be noted that Canvas looks like it's also going to be MIA.
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by necubi 17y ago
Sorry if I was unclear by my remark on rendering. What I was referring to was Cappuccino's habit of rendering a lot of stuff using canvas, which SC (at least natively; obviously developers can use whatever presentation layers they want) doe
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by necubi 17y ago
I evaluated both pretty extensively and eventually decided to go with sproutcore. Cappuccino is in many ways more revolutionary and the SC, as it completely throws out any notion of dealing with HTML and CSS. By completely abstracting the p
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by necubi 17y ago
As a 19-year-old who plays for contradances (a folk dance tradition from New England) and scottish country dances, it's hard to believe that the diverse crowds of teenagers, kids and adults of all ages are there because of nostalgia. The sa
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by necubi 17y ago
I've been doing a lot of sproutcore development in last six months, and I can say it's a really powerful platform. The docs aren't great, but once you get you're head around it it's very productive. For me, it feels like the biggest paradig
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by necubi 17y ago
"Patents are often like art. You can see a painting and think, "I could do that!" You can look at a patent and think, "I could code that." But you didn't code it before you saw the patent, so you don't really know for sure. Hindsight is 20/
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by necubi 17y ago
Incidentally, I found that date in about five seconds, with Chrome's address bar even auto-completing the name of the battle. The article is amusingly myopic, and the author is completely unable to imagine a world (not far from his own) whe
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by necubi 17y ago
The placebo effect exists, but it exists independently of whatever expensive alt-medicine crap is being pushed at the moment. Therefore, if we're discussing the efficacy of the "medicine," you can't include placebo effects. This is also why
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by necubi 17y ago
Yes, there have been mistakes and imperfect scientists working on climate change. But you can find such foibles in nearly every scientific field—and very rarely do they shake the foundations. For example: evolution. I hope we can all agree
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by necubi 17y ago
I think you're missing the point of the article, which is that this merely looks like abuse to people who don't actually understand what's going on. The author describes why the $400 hammer doesn't really cost $400, but because of the par

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