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by nkorth 14y ago
Yeah, I know my view is idealistic... Having a gun for self-defense may be reasonable, but killing is never "the right thing to do" except as an absolute last resort in such situations.
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by nkorth 14y ago
I don't agree with it, but I think the American idea of guns is like what you said about knives: hunting guns are okay (like how kitchen knives are mostly used to cut tomatoes), but there's a line drawn somewhere for "assault weapons" (nobo
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by nkorth 14y ago
Sprint does this too.
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by nkorth 14y ago
Sprint is another (lesser?) offender -- their mobile broadband injects a script in every page that loads compressed versions of images until told otherwise. (Annoying, but at least it's well-intentioned.) I've long since blocked the IP, but
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by nkorth 14y ago
Upon seeing the title I was expecting an article about movie piracy. I think this was ultimately more interesting.
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by nkorth 14y ago
Agreed, equating the entire internet with the "tech community" is more than a little bit sensational. There certainly are misogynists in the tech community, but I doubt they were responsible for all of the overall backlash.
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by nkorth 14y ago
Lua is known for pairing really well with C.
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by nkorth 14y ago
And that doesn't work on mobile, because they have a "forgetful" mobile site :(
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by nkorth 14y ago
* CPU speed will get vastly more ridiculous, but battery life probably won't improve significantly (on x86 laptops). * ARM will have around 50% market share as tablets become ubiquitous and laptops move to ARM. Those laptops will run some f
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by nkorth 14y ago
The Verge says this about the Pixel: "Google’s greatest advantage is that it doesn’t need bleeding-edge specs to build a high-functioning computer." That could be exactly what I'm talking about.
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by nkorth 14y ago
Never mind, I found rjtech.com. The designs don't look spectacular, but that's just from the pictures. What does look great, though, is the "No OS" option.
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by nkorth 14y ago
I could deal with a 15.6" computer if it meant decent resolution, but more 1366x768? Really, Asus? Aside from that, it looks promising. I'm seeing it for about $400 at a couple places.
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by nkorth 14y ago
I've been meaning to try a tiling window manager. Right now I'm working with Unity, Chrome, and either Vim or Geany depending on my mood.
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by nkorth 14y ago
That's the "original" netbook, isn't it? I can't believe I hadn't ever seen one of those before. At a quick glance, I think the biggest problem with it would be the 800x480 screen! If screen resolution wasn't an issue, I think a netbook cou
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by nkorth 14y ago
This is very irritating. I really don't want to buy a Mac, but the PC laptop market seems determined to suck!
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by nkorth 14y ago
I looked at Clevo's site a while ago and was kinda put off by their obscure model numbering. Can you recommend a friendlier site to look at, and where I could potentially buy one?
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by nkorth 14y ago
I have been looking at Samsung's ARM chromebook. It looks like it might be the best of my options right now, but I would really like a higher-resolution screen, even if that meant a bigger screen size. (Every laptop is 1366x768 these days..
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by nkorth 14y ago
It just seems to me that it should be possible to design a really good laptop that costs less than $1000, if specs are secondary. I think that would be the best way for a PC manufacturer to finally beat Apple. The problem, however, is that
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by nkorth 14y ago
See also: http://gizmodo.com/5711720/every-laptop-should-be-like-googl...
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Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone make a laptop like the Cr-48?
8 points by nkorth 14y ago|24 comments
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by nkorth 14y ago
Thanks, that will be very helpful.
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by nkorth 14y ago
Do you have any tips for setting up a new VPS? I just got one recently. I know my way around Apache, but I've never run a mail server before, so I'm reluctant to move my domain until I know that I won't miss any emails in the process. (I'm
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by nkorth 14y ago
would you be willing to sell talkto.me?
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by nkorth 14y ago
Try the trance channel on http://di.fm (or whichever genre suits your taste)
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by nkorth 15y ago
This is cool, but what the cloud needs to truly work is a standard for communicating between any two services. Optimally, I should be able to use any Dropbox-type service with any web app, by setting "file opener" URLs. There would be some