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by notauser 16y ago
3 extra. 1-11 (US) 1-13 (Europe) 1-14 (Japan). American MacBook Pros (used to?) come locked to 1-11 with no way to change that, which really sucked if you ever traveled anywhere.
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by notauser 16y ago
The nice thing about 2.4ghz is that it's pretty well attenuated by walls. That sounds like a disadvantage... but it does let you cram a lot of transmitters into a city. If everyone had a 102Mhz transmitter the resulting network would be lik
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by notauser 16y ago
Thanks to the London bike scheme I can now take a bike home in the evening without having to ride one to work in the morning. A similar scheme would be great in Manhattan, the rides between a lot of high density places (including Brooklyn a
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by notauser 16y ago
I live in London and I frequently split a meal with someone. I have never had a restaurant complain.
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by notauser 16y ago
There's also much more room for creating opportunity for one person without removing it for someone else. In a business there's usually only one spot for a COO, but you can have many senior developers. Therefore the stakes are lower, becaus
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by notauser 16y ago
I lived in an apartment in Northern England one winter. In about January I found out that I hadn't understood the thermostat and the central heating had never turned on. I went through the whole of December oblivious (and warm) thanks to th
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by notauser 16y ago
People have done it before on a WT visa. I'm not sure that the INS would treat you kindly if they found out was was going on though. Other than I'm not aware of any good options unless you have a company to back you (L1/H1B), serious money
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by notauser 16y ago
I think it's actually meant to be a comment on the editorial slant of The Economist, which is generally not in favor of the choices that are made by European states. (They give reasons though, which makes it an interesting read even though
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by notauser 16y ago
Even for the 2gb data plan they will be expecting a certain level of breakage (use under 2gb, which is charged but never used). The same is true of minute bundles. Users which go a lot over (and pay per minute) are fine, users which are a l
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by notauser 16y ago
The phone industry is way too complicated to be able to assume that cause and effect can be simply described. Losing the iPhone exclusivity might actually end up being good for AT&T. One possible mechanism to explain that: - All their h
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by notauser 16y ago
Phones are a bit different though. On the Internet, we saw a lot of 'personal home pages' which were basically globally accessible bookmark menus. Those had limited utility because they were public and only available when on-line. By compar
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by notauser 16y ago
You can solve(?) this by creating a dummy console.log object when one isn't already present, then throwing away all of the output.
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by notauser 16y ago
There are historical reasons for these provisions though. Take, for example, the standard UK limitation of liability cut-and-paste block. (About half a page.) It's that long because there is case history on each point suggesting that if you
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by notauser 16y ago
It is a free market (a free market is a market without economic intervention and regulation by government) it just isn't a perfect market (perfect competition occurs in markets in which no participant has market power).
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by notauser 16y ago
The reason we have limited liability is because we wished to promote company ownership to more people. Personally I'm right behind the idea of telling people that if they, or their pension fund, owns one share in BP they are jointly and sev
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by notauser 16y ago
It should be obvious that they love some regulation, but not all of it. For example if AT&T and Verizon are so keen on it then why are they spending so much money fighting net neutrality regulation? Regulatory oversight of big players i
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by notauser 16y ago
They don't have links that open a page in Safari. They have http:// URIs, which happens to invoke Safari as the registered handler on every iPhone. There's no reason (other than Apple policy) why that URI handler couldn't be registered as
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by notauser 16y ago
That depends how you do it. This is a good example of being both honest and positive: "I know that I'm a bit weak at financial forecasting, so I'm currently studying for a certification. Actually I'm finding it really interesting and I'm pr
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by notauser 16y ago
I'm not sure you deserved to be down-voted because it's a legitimate question. Fortunately I don't think that anyone has tried to claim that posting to HN makes you a hacker. It's (news (of interest for hackers)) rather than (news of intere
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by notauser 16y ago
I tried it out but none of the demos worked for me, which made me pretty wary.
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Ask HN: Keyboard shortcuts in web applications
2 points by notauser 16y ago|2 comments
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by notauser 16y ago
Off the top of my head... Technically: You can't intercept calls from the dialer on the iPhone. You can build a look-alike replacement which is pretty good, but you will never be able to do things like intercept tel:// URIs. Call quality/se
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by notauser 16y ago
All other things being equal I'd rather have an employee who had a personal following of the right kind. This is because it shows: - They care enough about what they do to do it in their off hours. - They do it well enough to gather some re
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by notauser 16y ago
Which is odd because BestBuy used to sell unlocked E71 handsets (one of the best phones Nokia ever made) for 60-70% of the European retail price! They are like BlackBerries but actually good. I got mine for $250 SIM free, no contract. It wo
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by notauser 16y ago
Same experience in the UK. 3G video calling was so unpopular that even when some of the carriers started including video call minutes as regular minutes (making video calling essentially free, anywhere) no one used it. Apple has some advant
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by notauser 16y ago
If it is psychological then it is entirely possible that a magnetic leech wristband would be an effective cure.
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by notauser 16y ago
There was a comment on Reddit a while back about what the 140 character limit means in different places: In English, you get a comment. In Japanese, you get a poem or a brief news article. In Chinese, you get a short story... it mig
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by notauser 16y ago
From the article, the only really nasty things are: [a].forEach(fn(){}) [b].forEach(fn(){}) // Parses as [a][b] return a+b // Parses as return; You would have to work pretty hard to trigger the rest. I'm curious about th
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by notauser 16y ago
{Related} I wonder how search engines are using the 'nofollow' tag these days. I know it's supposed to mean that PR does not accrue to the destination but they would have to be mad to ignore such a huge source of data.
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by notauser 16y ago
In the UK the paperwork of a LTD is the responsibility of a 'director' which is quite a handy nondescript indicator of general responsibility.

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