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by polshaw 14y ago
Sorry in advance for the rant but i think it is fucking stupid to charge developers at all. Yes, it is nothing, but the principal itself leaves a sour taste. I am improving your platform, you are going to take 30% of anything made, and you
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by polshaw 14y ago
When considering the war on terror, and the threat to america/'the west', i think of how damn easy it would be for any one of us to cause at least double digit deaths, if we were determined[1]. And yet, there are extremely few of these even
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by polshaw 14y ago
> The war on terror is... about preventing fear. Many people would argue exactly the opposite
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by polshaw 14y ago
I kind of agreed with your first post; patents mean that the inventor will share with the world how to make the invention. (although, i am generally anti-patent for several reasons; much too great scope and time-length especially for the
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by polshaw 14y ago
>[google] probably dropped the ball midway for reasons similar to firefox Sorry, i really can't accept this. Google absolutely had it in their power to move us away from h264. If youtube, chrome, android and firefox were all webM ce
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by polshaw 14y ago
Not reading material as such, but i feel the need to shout out democracynow.org for some independent, intelligent news (Chomsky is often a guest). PS they are seeking donations!
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by polshaw 14y ago
Basically, we are seeing devices with an increased dynamic range WRT power. They are going to idle at similar power, and they will have better performance-per-watt, but at 100%, they will use more. IMO, this isn't so bad. Take it to it's ul
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by polshaw 14y ago
Wikipedia? And surely you could just buy shots of them?
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by polshaw 14y ago
>5th low power core As did the Tegra 3. Android breaks down battery use stats for each part of the phone; it really depends on what you are doing. But for the normal phone use; a bit of web browsing, simple apps etc, the screen dominate
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by polshaw 14y ago
Raw power and efficiency are not unrelated. The key gain available today, other than process node shrinks, is being faster at the race to idle. If the CPU uses 1W at 100% and 10mw idle, then the quicker you complete your processing task the
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by polshaw 14y ago
Parent is talking about the GPU performance; there are six times more graphics cores. The use case for OUYA, a games console, requiring more graphics power is surely obvious.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Unless/until there were a revolution, increased automation leads to increased inequality rather than a 'post-scarcity society', though.
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by polshaw 14y ago
And in doing so almost certainly netted CAH more profit via the free advertising than if they had paid $5 (which, they still may have done). TBH, i wouldn't be shocked if it was an inside job.
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by polshaw 14y ago
The site looks very good, but $122 monthly costs for getting your site to 'a few hundred' visitors (mostly friends) is crazy. Of course, the site works and looks good (all that really matters to the end users), if you are getting a large in
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by polshaw 14y ago
Lovely narrative, but there is nothing about the music! No examples, no mention of the direction the record will take. I suggest they fix this because it's just a call to charity without it.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Except the $8m figure included iTunes sales too. Source: TFA.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Interesting the post about google's tax avoidance[0] is the same age, with twice as many points. [88/44 at time of posting] Yet that has now slipped off the front page, and this is at the top of it! 0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by polshaw 14y ago
(Much needed) publicity for PPUK, and the issues of a censored internet.
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by polshaw 14y ago
What are the main reasons you want an API?
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by polshaw 14y ago
Very sad to see all the 'HN competitors' (lobsters, hackful, lamernews) are all essentially dead (at least extremely dormant). To me, all they needed were a small handful of dedicated posters/commenters (and to be open, i'm looking at you l
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by polshaw 14y ago
How i WISH we could rid ourselves of the 'Contrarian blog post to recently popular blog post' cancer. It's a phenomenon i can't say i even see anywhere else online.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Sorry but this post is so full of rubbish it's almost trolling. >for consumer-facing software, I don't think open source is the right solution.. Firefox, chrome, vlc, android.. think they work pretty well. Maybe not always, but yours
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by polshaw 14y ago
Because they don't just want to sell apps. They want you to get all your digital content from the play store; music, video, ebooks and games/apps. Play seems a fairly good and obvious name for that to me.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Heh, lovely story, but isn't this type of post what Reddit is for? Which is where i saw it on Friday, and 'shockingly' is the source (well, originally youtube). On the topic; it is surely obvious to anyone in marketing/PR these days that do
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by polshaw 14y ago
I agree, i would be very interested to see the effect of hiding usernames (an ID that lasted only for the thread), I bet it would distribute points significantly differently. There is also the timing aspect however; habitual commenter are m
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by polshaw 14y ago
Now IE is not batshit insane, the biggest problem is that is has a very slow release cycle. The second being that MS shuts out all its users on their older OS-s.
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by polshaw 14y ago
My mistake! Clearly nuclear is far more energy dense.. memory failure. TBH i thought there would be a far greater exclusion zone around it than shown on your links (good source, btw)-- obviously fission is going to be off the scale on energ
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by polshaw 14y ago
> It is not a counterargument against seed-level funding for [thorium].. Nor did i ever suggest it was! (NB: 'OTOH'). > a couple of million ..would be rather 'pissing in the ocean' though on this issue, don't you think? (and thus
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by polshaw 14y ago
>nu-cu-lar is baaaaaad Nuclear is not the panacea almost every 'informed' internet citizen thinks it is. It is EXPENSIVE. Wind and hydro power are already cheaper, for example. On top of that, whilst any new nuclear power plant will tak
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by polshaw 14y ago
No, he is saying that the exit node's role is little different from that of any other node that the traffic is routed through (including) after the request hits the exit node-- eg the exit node operator's ISP.

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