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by ptomato 17y ago
"My point is that the massively profitable, "free" website run by three people in a garage is probably a myth." Why hello, craigslist.
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by ptomato 17y ago
You can also do this with Terminal.app on OS X with this: http://visor.binaryage.com/
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by ptomato 17y ago
You can split windows, but otherwise pretty much the same, yes.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Ahh, so people suddenly have a right not to be offended now? I find this view of yours very offensive. Shut up.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Just as a side note, the "gigabytes of cruft" mentioned cut from Snow Leopard curiously comes to almost exactly the size of removing the PPC binaries from Leopard.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Anecdotal evidence from a single source does not a compelling argument make. b) "They still dominate in terms of unit-sale market share, yes, but not because people don’t recognize Windows as second-rate, but because they don’t care, in the
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by ptomato 17y ago
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730994
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by ptomato 17y ago
Speaking of production pipelines... http://uni-verse.org/ See videos here: http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/video.html The tool & development video in particular is fascinating, though the actual game he's developing also looks kinda
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by ptomato 17y ago
Except that as far as mobile phones go, the iPhone isn't particularly low-end pricewise.
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by ptomato 17y ago
People have been saying for years that Apple needs to come out with lower end products or they'll die. Their steadily increasing profits (even through the recession) and massive cash reserves say otherwise.
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by ptomato 17y ago
1984 was certainly "shock" at the time it was written. Since then many of the concepts have simply become so commonplace as to be unremarkable. And I'm certainly not claiming that this is great literature, merely providing counterexamples t
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by ptomato 17y ago
And yet, great satire frequently seems to go for shock. See: A Modest Proposal, 1984, quite a few of Mark Twain's short stories, Chaucer, etc.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Legal might be part of it. UK/EU libel laws, etc.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Well, I believe the main point of that is as an anti-spam measure.
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by ptomato 17y ago
The way to fix it is simple: have other search engines leapfrog google in the same way that google leapfrogged the existing ones.
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by ptomato 17y ago
But this isn't about you, precisely... it's going to end up enabling the same thing on (hopefully) cheaper, lower resource hardware resulting in broader adoption.
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by ptomato 17y ago
What are you saying, exactly? Should google endeavor to make their search results worse so that more people use other search engines? A simple monopoly based on the excellence of a freely provided service is not necessarily a bad thing, e
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by ptomato 17y ago
They provide pop3 access that lets you download all 18000 of those emails. You can then do whatever you want with them. Certainly set up your own webmail system on a server, say. Oh store them locally in mail-client-of-your-choice. Or impor
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by ptomato 17y ago
You're forgetting, though, that it is an OS that (appears) to consist solely of an environment to boot a browser as rapidly as possible. And, really, it consists more of linux kernel modified for rapid boot, probably optimized for low batte
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by ptomato 17y ago
My point precisely. I was referring to the package management system being better, not necessarily the packages available.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Though it must be said, rubygems is miles ahead of anything available for python.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Yeah, it's an option now and (most?) new customers would be there by default now I believe.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Indeed. Steve Yegge? Paul Buchheit? not to mention any of google's blogs.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Slicehost in general may be up, but slices hosted in the DFW datacenter were down.
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by ptomato 17y ago
That's a 13 year old writing stories for the BBC. And the kid's better then half of Techcrunch's writers, unsurprisingly.
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by ptomato 17y ago
1and1's entire interface is an unholy pain in the ass. I'm quite fond of DynaDot, actually, and switched to them as registrar of choice, transferring about 50 domains to them from assorted others and haven't had any problems.
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by ptomato 17y ago
It might, if I was really to pay $20 for a hack that does something that should be in the OS by default. And it looks like it still won't let you just resize windows with the mouse from any corner.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Inability to resize windows from any corner except the bottom right.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Bit different. The GPL doesn't require that the source code be immediately available. And if they had just said "sure, we'll go ahead and send that out, it will take a month to process and then however long mail takes", well... there's ab
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by ptomato 17y ago
... No, not so much. They are abiding by at least the letter of the GPL, as long as they do send the code at some point. The GPL doesn't specify that they have to ship you the source code immediately , just that they have to ship you the

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