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   by oliyoung 11y ago

   … and Netflix is smart enough to consider them competition, because they actually understand that the market isn't defined by paying for content
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   by oliyoung 11y ago

   Once upon a time http://www.metafilter.com/ but I've not been there in a long long time to say for certain it's like it was, but for obscure but interesting that was/is your place
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   by oliyoung 11y ago

   Secret city, inhabited by aliens, close enough to know who we are but smart enough to stay away? http://marvel.com/universe/Inhumans
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   by oliyoung 11y ago

   If you're questioning how, you're not the target market.
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   by oliyoung 12y ago

   i agree with as Apple will go so will the market because switching out payment systems is an order of magnitude different (because of money and politics) than choosing an inductive power standard
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   by oliyoung 12y ago

   To be fair, you're comparing apples (ha!) and oranges… “Windows Threshold/XP/9/10”, “OS X Yosemite” are comparable to “Ubuntu“, not Linux. NT & -Darwin- [Edit: You're right LukeShu, XNU] are the Linux equivalent
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   by oliyoung 12y ago

   I walked into my local Apple store in November with an iPhone that wouldn't wake from a screen-touch, 15 minutes later I walked out with brand new handset. Apple's still like that, its why I buy their hardware.
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   by oliyoung 12y ago

   also fades curtains
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   by oliyoung 12y ago

   Well that makes sense in the real-world; Broken Hill gets South Australian television and radio and is much closer to Adelaide than Sydney (500km to 1200km), it makes sense to be on ACST not AEST
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    As a dev living in one of those half-hour offsets (ACST +9.5 Adelaide, South Australia) i think the only thing it's changed is our awareness of timezone issues, although there's discussion about moving us into AEST or back to AWST
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Great great (old school) DJ, single-handedly can break an artist and has an impeccable taste in music. Really interesting to see what he's going to do at Apple, I assume it's iTunes Radio/rebooted Beats
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    I've been down on "cross platform native apps" because they're always the lowest common denominator of the language and platform, but this looks intriguing.
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Apple now has more cash at hand (AU$178bn) than the Australian government (AU$136bn)
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    They bought it a few months ago. Minecraft.
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    It makes the Minecraft purchase make a whole lot more sense now. I mean, it made immediate sense it's a cash cow, but long-term Minecraft is perfect, it's simple, easy, forgiving and fun - a perfect entrance into VR/AR
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    It's all internal, Kinect was the first product out of the R&D apparently (its in the Wired article).
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    I'm finding they're becoming a decent newswire in Australia at least, they did a good job covering recent hostage incident in Sydney
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    It sounds idyllic, but you run the risk of ending up with Kowloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    we're (Australia) doing okay with the democracy thing, no explicit freedom of speech. Plus, it depends if you define speech as "giving money to someone"
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    I'd argue that any HN member (or even any 1/2 tech savvy consumer) isn't exactly their target market
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb was posting about his passing on Twitter this morning, including this fantastic photo of Mr Baer still in the workshop at 92. https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/541707579605282816
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Countdown to Apple slapping this down in 3… 2…
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Yeah, the irony that is for people with vision impairment and that site is hard to read and navigate is strong
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Looks like a neat concept of something that Apple will commercialise in 3 years
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    That's kinda the point, Tesla, SolarCity & Space-X just don't exist without Musk's $165m exit from PayPal
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    My problem is that 1Password et al are curing symptoms, not solving causes. Personal infosec hasn't evolved quick enough to match the technology it depends on. Sure we're comfortable with 12 character, 3 month rotation passwords,
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    I love Rails, it's been my tool of choice for the last six years, but "Support for real foreign keys!" shouldn't be a thing in a change-log in 2014.
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Somewhere in Eastman a Kodak executive is weeping. Polaroid may not be the same company they used to be, but at least they're attempting to stay relevant.
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    Has anyone ever found out if @Mattt is actually human? I mean, with the quality and volume of work he produces he quite obviously doesn't ever sleep
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    by oliyoung 12y ago

    It's why Gibson doesn't write "in the future" anymore, we're already in that world.