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by nickolai 15y ago
> Of course, if for some reason none of your Macs will even POST or you happen to be Mac-less, and you're nowhere within driving distance of someone with a working Mac or an Apple Store the, yes, disassembling the drive is probably a re
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by nickolai 15y ago
I'm no economist, but it seems to me that in the example, the debt owed by the whole vilage to the outside world is essentially zero. The problem described is a liquidity problem much more than a debt problem. We could in theory imagine the
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by nickolai 15y ago
This reminds me. Haven't we seen a post about Asus doing nothing but shamelessly copying Apple on top of the first page some time earlier today?
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Now with GNOME 3, Linux Mint 12 Will Meet Users Halfway(pcworld.com)
3 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Google lawyer: Why the patent system is broken(sfgate.com)
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Linux Mint 12 Builds Custom Desktop on Top of GNOME 3 [to avoid Unity](osnews.com)
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Calendar Interface(dilbert.com)
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by nickolai 15y ago
Interesting idea, but I'm with Napoleon on this one "Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence"
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by nickolai 15y ago
Very Cheesy, but i think, 'worst ever' is a bit of a stretch.
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by nickolai 15y ago
Great piece. was already discussed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425 .
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by nickolai 15y ago
>Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic. it's #2 there now ( http://news.ycombinator.com/classic )
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Speed-of-light experiment to be repeated(telegraph.co.uk)
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by nickolai 15y ago
While that's an understandable concern, I think parent was wondering whether Microsoft should be more concerned with why their system allowed the rootkit to install itself in the first place.
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by nickolai 15y ago
Was posted on TC and discussed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3155358
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by nickolai 15y ago
From reading the title I thought it would be jail sentence for the blatantly incompetent people in charge of security. 800k user accounts stolen ? If negligence is proven, C-level guy goes to jail. Would definitely put some selective pressu
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by nickolai 15y ago
In this particular case it is also google's fault for turning up results of such dubious freshness( blekko for examople gives perl.org as first result - which looks better to me) So as weird as it sounds, Google shares the blame for the poo
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by nickolai 15y ago
>I'm lucky enough to live in an English-speaking country, but I'm sure that if I lived in a country that typically sees long delays before localization, I'd find a way to get it early. Even if that meant learning English and engaging in
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Android Overtakes Apple with 44% Worldwide Share of Mobile App Downloads(abiresearch.com)
65 points by nickolai 15y ago|22 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
She has some valid points, especially regarding the freezing issue. I get it sometimes, although it is always me trying to hack somithing stupid in the system, and not some spontaneous freeze like what ol'Windows used to do. Thats why the f
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Recalling the Mars flagships(thespacereview.com)
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by nickolai 15y ago
This piece of advice does not apply to legacy systems. There is a lot of stuff in there that nobody knows how it works or why it is in there, yet attempting to throw it out has led to so many disasters in the past that no one dares to even
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by nickolai 15y ago
> Layout adjusts to different screen sizes and orientations I am getting very weird slide jums when resizing the browser window on any slide after the first one(resizing seems to only work on the first slide, on Firefox 7.0.1 at least)
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WTFPL(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nickolai 15y ago
>One day we will run out of colors, layouts and "business models" to patent... and then what? Then a countdown to the expiration of the last patent will start. And then we will enter an era of freedom of innovation. You will be free t
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by nickolai 15y ago
Im not worried. Its the military. They'll soon come up with a "Feynman can open our safe locks ? Don't allow Feynman near the safe locks!" kind of solution.
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"Mirage-effect" helps researchers hide objects [underwater](iop.org)
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Microsoft falsely labels Chrome as malware(news.cnet.com)
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by nickolai 15y ago
>Just remember, the CIOs have the power to ban technologies that sneak out through the back door. Alienate them at your own peril! I agree about the general idea of not throwing stones into the sky. They have a tendency to fall back dow
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'Oldest running car' a steampunk's dream(news.cnet.com)
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by nickolai 15y ago
>you can't trust exploration to the politicians. I've seen that " you cant trust X to polititians" waaay too often. What's left around that one can supposedly trust them with ? Or even better, is there something we don't trust politicia

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