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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   Taking you back? My house mate and I are currently moving through our Killer Instinct phase on SNES, and I just lent my NES to my 18 year old sister and her boyfriend who borrow it regularly. I'm taking this article very seriously, as I am
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   > I can see lots of companies doing this, especially for legacy parts. I wish I could agree with your conclusion, but I have had a lot of trouble looking for "out of print" arcade game roms [0]. I want build and use an arcade machine f
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   There is a show run by the government broadcaster in Australia called Mediawatch. It does just that, keeps watch on the news organisations to highlight when they are acting inappropriately. They did a short segment on the launch of the new
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   Although not an Apple fan, I can relate to their purchasing behaviour through an analogy of my own: I am a massive Pixar fan. I think almost everything they touch turns to gold and I haven't seen a Pixar movie that I dont' like (to be fair,
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   The free community edition [0] supports Android just fine. I used it for a while for my own personal projects and found it very snappy indeed. [0] http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_m...
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   I applaud Rick for having this discussion. Normally I (perhaps like many others) would be turned off reading about a topic like this. When the first thread [0] came up, I ignored it. However, as it slowly accumulated more votes on HN, I fel
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   This is a good point. I can't comment on Plan9 or Xiki, but I believe this was how Linus went about developing Git. I remember watching a video where he discussed his complete ignorance about CVS and SVN, and how that was a blessing. Having
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   Thanks. I didn't think it added up :)
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   Yes. I often accidentally click on ad overlays.
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    The most amazing thing for me was that Cassini (1.50bn kms) is 300 million miles away from Saturn (1.20bn kms), but still it is orbiting Saturn. Is this just the furthest point of its elliptical orbit? Or is it typical of how we send spacec
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Good work mate. Nice and simple. One suggestion is to make it easier to look up the artists/songs that you enjoy. I find it hard to select the text of the artist/song because the anchor tag fills the entire width of the screen. Perhaps a ni
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I guess the reason that I like Arch (new software releases quickly) also caused them to beat the official guideline here :) Thanks for the pointer.
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I would love to see Groklaw adopt something akin to the way that openaustralia.org or www.theyworkforyou.com provides online access to hansard. Here is an example exchange, the most recent at time of posting: http://www.openaustralia.org/d
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I don't know the answer, but your use of the word "ruthless" brings up a good point. I seem to remember hearing about studies[0] which showed that to be a politician (or even a CEO of a large company) required certain psychopathic traits. T
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Keeping in mind that although we vote for individual MPs (although as you point out, mostly based on party affiliation), the party itself chooses for the Prime Minister. When our previous PM got ousted mid-term, I noticed that lots of peopl
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I wonder if this will cause much strife. I run ArchLinux, for which the default /usr/bin/python is Python 3. Often I run into issues with (admittedly software not from the repos) which uses the #!/usr/bin/python shebang, and expects it to r
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I also use Street View quite a lot (Australian here). However, I use OpenStreetMap for everything else. I don't actually access it from OpenStreetMap though, rather, I use it through http://open.mapquest.com in my browser, or OsmAnd+ on m
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Perhaps my choice of words was poor. I actually quite liked most of Windows 7 when I installed it on my partners laptop. However, I still get extraordinarily frustrated trying to get to the folders I want in a Windows Vista/7 save dialog. S
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Don't want to stray too far off topic, but it is a reference to an episode of South Park [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I agree that Samsung has gone overboard with regards to the packaging. However I feel that a design patent on a tablet form factor is not the best idea. Perhaps it works for fashion designers, and I am not denying that there is creativity i
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I think the obviousness argument is getting a little confused in most comments about this case. I am arguing that the technology itself was obvious. This is also what the OP is arguing. Several examples of prior art for patented technologie
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Is it the JVM throwing incomprehensible stack traces? Or is it the android SDK throwing slightly less but still uselss stack traces? I often see the later, which is just poor error/exception handling by the developers. I very rarely (someti
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    True, but at the very least, this shows that at the time the iPhone was released (or just before), many of the concepts were "obvious".
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I agree. Windows XP which is still floating around in so many places is actually not all that easy to grasp for someone who has not used a computer before. I recently installed Ubuntu on a laptop for my grandmother who is in her 80's and ha
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    This is good to read. I am one of the people you alude to who come up with countless ideas, start any number of proejcts, but never get through to shipping anything at all. I think this sentiment will help me to Just Do It™
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Don't get me wrong, I agree with your sentiment. However, I think in this case, it is about the fact that the stakes were much higher with the iCloud account. Yes, I would be very annoyed if an account which had personal information, a hist
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Me too. I think it is the same talk as he gave at the Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne [1]. I must say, I never thought someone could explain a Perl library which runs programs in negative time (they finish before they start)
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I started reading it and admiring their attention to detail with the first two charts. Extremely clear and informative: http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/07OLAltEnergytechfig3-134088965... Then it went down hill fast, culminating in stuff like
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I was thinking glorified bookmarks at the beginning too, but then I saw how it integrated the last.fm controls into the media widget in the panel. I am also currently using the Online Accounts functionality in Gnome, and it is pretty cool h
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    That sounds cool. The term for what you want to prevent is "statistical disclosure" ( http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=statistical+disclosur... ). That is: How do I release interesting and useful data, while still preventing the discl