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   by ptomato 16y ago

   Far better then a desktop/laptop, not quite as good as a kindle for text, though very usable, much better than a kindle for graphics.
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   Portal as a required college text(brainygamer.com)

   76 points by ptomato 16y ago|44 comments
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   "This one's a render, but Google's Chrome OS table is REAL." At least per their anonymous yet doubtless terribly reliable source.
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   This may help: http://joneslee85.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/howto-compile-rub...
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   Yeah, people like Jason Santa Maria or Jeffrey Zeldman or Veerle Pieters or Jon Hicks or Adam Stoddard or Liz Danzico or Kai Brach or Dan Benjamin would never even dream of using anything from Typekit. And no serious designer has ever use
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   I prefer it for most things, actually, web browsers being one of the few exceptions depending on monitor size. There's usually absolutely no point in maximizing something to full screen on a 27" 2560x1440px display, for example. But for the
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   "Window Max & Min buttons randomly work depending on the application" That's because what the button with the plus on it (Zoom) is doing is not supposed to be making the window the size of the screen, but rather making the window the
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   "This will probably break a bunch of other random sites validation. Oh well." Fun fact! Among said sites, PayPal. Or more specifically, paypalobjects.com which hosts their CSS.
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   by ptomato 16y ago

   In this context, /. refers to http://slashdot.org , the grandaddy of all hacker-oriented sites.
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    Oracle's complaint against Google for Java patent infringement(scribd.com)

    9 points by ptomato 16y ago|0 comments
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Umm, Mongrel2 is probably great, but it certainly doesn't have wide adoption as of yet. It was started only a few weeks ago. You may be thinking of the original Mongrel, which doesn't really have any relation to the new one except by name.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    I think that was Modern Warfare 2.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    None of which in any way contradicts what she said.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Curious, considering that T-Mobile's 3G network is on a frequency that iPhone hardware doesn't support. (U.S. iPhone, U.S. T-Mobile.)
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Yes.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Part of this is probably that philosophically the *BSDs don't really want to be reliant on GNU tools.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Ruby deployment has gotten at least an order of magnitude less painful in recent years, particularly with Passenger ( http://www.modrails.com/ ). On a couple servers I run the average memory footprint of a Rails app on Passenger (per instan
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Also works in Safari 5, at least.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Which shit would that be? Video? That's a pretty small part of iTunes overall revenue... And even that plays just fine on Windows computers.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Well, don't complain then that they don't think your idea is a good idea and aren't going to spend their time (which nobody is paying them for) implementing it.
21. 291.▲
    by ptomato 16y ago

    So prove them wrong.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    It's open source. Knock yourself out.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says: "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    That is not something that Apple would ever do (while Jobs is alive, at least).
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    I'm not sure complete humorlessness is actually necessary to be an advocate of Free Software(or whatever the trendy term is these days), but there certainly seems to be a high degree of correlation.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    iTunes EULA has a clause stating that you're not allowed to use it for “development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.”
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    HN's de-duping will only reject articles that are still in memory, which is generally articles that have been viewed fairly recently.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    Maybe you don't get to decide how other people distribute what they create.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    I believe it is 150 now. There's still no down voting on articles, however, only on comments.
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    by ptomato 16y ago

    You mean like MacRuby, say?