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by pieter 15y ago
The point with the cable is that extension cables aren't allowed by the USB standard, so Apple created a cable that would only work with their specific device for which they guarantee that it works. I've tried the extension cable with other
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NodeJS maintainers don't respond to fixes for Node 0.6.x after 4 months(github.com)
2 points by pieter 15y ago|0 comments
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by pieter 15y ago
I don't really care anymore about the design of Google Reader. The only thing I use it for is for syncing my read items between my different reader apps (like Reeder for iPad). As long as they keep supporting that I'm fine, but this seems l
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by pieter 15y ago
I understood it as meaning that you can use it for at least 3 hours, but if they have 'time over' you're allowed to use more. Not sure though.
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by pieter 15y ago
Interesting idea, but the pricing is just much too complex. By having to choose between monthly/weekly, morning/day/evening and then number of hours there are perhaps 50 different plans available? I'm just too confused to make a choice.
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by pieter 15y ago
"never" is also "a matter of weeks or less"
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by pieter 15y ago
I think only Android devices ship with >512MiB RAM. More RAM is more expensive and eats your battery. The iPhone seems to work fine with 512MB, perhaps it's just Android that needs it?
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by pieter 15y ago
Amazon isn't really budget. The free tier is nice, and the tiny instances are priced ok, but beyond that they're quite expensive for a VPs. The nice thing with AWS is the scaling and the supporting infrastructure, but you do pay for that co
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by pieter 15y ago
Might be easier to run it through Mechanical Turk
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by pieter 15y ago
This doesn't sound at all like Apple. More likely, they'll determine which services are the best for which type of query, and you'll only be able to use those.
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by pieter 15y ago
I wonder how they'll handle different grammar constructions in different languages. For example, in English, "Text my girlfriend that I'm coming home later" would send a message with "I'm coming home later". However, in Dutch, saying the sa
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by pieter 15y ago
Nice to see the names of the Sofa guys show up in those screenshots!
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by pieter 15y ago
Hey, I tried your app but didn't order a card. Here's why: I had to manually enter addresses instead of being able to select them from my address book. This is really annoying, I'd rather have only the option to select pcontacts than being
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by pieter 15y ago
Yes, but WIMAX is pretty much dead, even Sprint's dropping it for LTE. I just don't see Apple producing a new phone with WiMAX and having to test a completely different radio technology when they pretty much know it won't last for more than
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by pieter 15y ago
You have to compare it to the alternative -- how many sales on Verizon / AT&T will they lose with this exclusivity? How many phones would they sell on Sprint if it was available there, just not exclusively?
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by pieter 15y ago
The links are a bit small to click on comfortably, and the comments are rendered a bit too wide, which makes you have to zoom in and pan to read them.
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by pieter 15y ago
Rosetta worked because the switch to intel processors gave Apple such a performance boost compared to their PPC systems, that existing PPC applications worked with about the same performance as they used to on PPC native. The same probably
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by pieter 15y ago
Of course your autosaves will still be sent to gmail in plaintext while writing your original message.
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by pieter 15y ago
I think they can produce them within the reactor, by using a mantle of Lithium, just like fission reactors can use mantles of heavier elements.
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by pieter 15y ago
I agree with GoDaddy being horrible, but this really isn't just their fault. Certificate revocation does exactly what it says. It's a technical term that everyone using SSL should know and understand the implications of. Their offer of crea
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Ask HN: How does your startup manage user logins?
5 points by pieter 15y ago|1 comments
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by pieter 15y ago
Yes, this is exactly what they're going to do. They've already said they'll update the firmware before the deadline to remove the scrolling behavior, so their phones won't get taken out of the stores. [1] Dutch: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/
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by pieter 15y ago
The graphic is unfortunately not very clear, for example because the arrows can split midway. This way it looks like Microsoft is suing just one company without being countersued, while in reality they're suing three companies.
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by pieter 15y ago
I only started using HTTPS after HTTP stopped working, so that's probably not it.
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by pieter 15y ago
For some reason it's now impossible for me to connect over normal http: manila:pieter$ curl -I http://news.ycombinator.com curl: (52) Empty reply from server manila:pieter$ curl -I https://news.ycombinator.com HTTP/1.1 200
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by pieter 15y ago
It's Xperia Play only for now: http://mojang.com/2011/08/16/say-hello-to-minecraft-pocket-e...
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by pieter 15y ago
Next to the fact that NASA would rather give money to a US company, which will invest part of it to develop cheaper and more capable rockets, than to Russia, these SpaceX costs are likely to be significantly cheaper than Soyuz. In 2007, NAS
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by pieter 15y ago
Extensive update including many pictures is here: http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
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by pieter 15y ago
Perhaps you can add a list of default applications that many people want to silence, and offer to silence them automatically once the user runs them.
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by pieter 15y ago
Yes, the most annoying thing is you have to pay the Whispernet tax even if you don't have a Kindle and just want to read books online or on your iPad.

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