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by politician 15y ago
I know, and I am glad you managed to get /something/ working because node.js is that cool. In fact, I've been working with it on my Mac and on Joyent's node cloud, but while Cygwin provides a passable experience for Linux hackers stuck on
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by politician 15y ago
Actually yes, I did mean cool dev tools. Sorry if that was unclear. However, I don't think Photoshop is a good counter-example since OSX has top-tier graphics applications AND runs on Linux.
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by politician 15y ago
I wish I could up vote you, but Cygwin prevents me. Imagine a world where all of the cool software was written on Windows, and the Linux folks had to be happy using Wine to run it at all. That situation would suck; that's how I feel when s
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by politician 15y ago
FWIW, we also found the HTC HD7 to be unreliable in QA. While I like Windows Phone 7 overall, I will not be buying an HD7 for my personal device.
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by politician 15y ago
I wish I could up vote your second point independent of your first. It stands apart at a higher elevation, so to speak.
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by politician 15y ago
No, I think they're doing the right thing here. A firm hand on the backs of people who would otherwise never upgrade, not a punch in the face. Frankly, I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people in Redmond that secretly approve this
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by politician 15y ago
And if they're hackers, then well, they're skilled free labor.
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by politician 15y ago
Unfortunately, the problem with your question is that it assumes that the purpose of prison is rehabilitation.
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by politician 15y ago
Whoa there. Your parity-checked bytecoins are only worth 7 bitcoins each ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit_clean ).
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by politician 15y ago
That's a fantastic idea for a web service. Google, are you listening?
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by politician 15y ago
From my research, it looks like the Listbox enables UI virtualization by default. It didn't help. I ended up finding some helpful soul's NavigationListControl and limiting the number of results until the user taps a "show all" button. It
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by politician 15y ago
I'd suggest that you go after end-user consumers first by adding 10:10 support to their personal GPS devices -- iPhone, Windows Phone, Android. If people like the idea, then major manufactures of single-purpose devices are more likely to a
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by politician 15y ago
"For example, people have said that the ability to compare two codes is important to see how close they are. They've said this without justification and it is not a use case for which I designed the code." So, actually, that property would
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by politician 15y ago
Maybe that's true, but I'm working on a Windows Phone 7 app right now that struggling to hit its performance targets. The major culprit? Silverlight's data-binding. Microsoft shipped the framework without shipping high performance control
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by politician 15y ago
Google and Mozilla have both stated intentions to get rid of the address bar; the number of users that will even see IDNs is a shrinking market. Rather than "typing strange stuff into the address bar", in a year or two most people will be
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by politician 15y ago
Phrasing.
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by politician 15y ago
"Spend a few weeks hanging out in bars and cafes asking what people do and you’ll hear some of the most idiotic business ideas in the world. A lot of journalists use this argument to call San Francisco an echo chamber whose sole purpose is
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by politician 15y ago
Wisconsin is suffering from the political equivalent of a priority inversion bug -- there is a Republican majority in their legislature and a Republican governor, but enough of their house members are embroiled in a massive recall campaign
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by politician 15y ago
The author hasn't suggested XML for presentation, but rather for content.
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by politician 15y ago
That's my point -- we know that people aren't proactive about their privacy, yet we also know that there are "considerable issues with regard to Facebook and privacy." So what can we do but hope that the fickleness of public interest event
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by politician 15y ago
My hope is that people have simply tired of the concept. The privacy implications are staggering.
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by politician 15y ago
Agreed, but the style of post appears to be characteristic of many on the site -- slightly longer than a tweet.
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by politician 15y ago
It's worthwhile to point out that he's producing this steel through his own venture where the process "is run at his proprietary lab setup at SFP Works, LLC., in Detroit." Perhaps you and he share the same view of the value of patent protec
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by politician 15y ago
I agree with your sentiment generally, but the HN community is overwhelmingly against software and business process patents. Therefore, as a matter of balance, when an article appears where patent law might be applied as originally intended
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by politician 15y ago
I think it's fair to point out that /this/ is an acceptable process to patent. I'm sure that's obvious, but HN does spend a lot of time denouncing software patents (rightly so). EDIT: Not really sure why I got down-voted; nevertheless, I d