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by pyrmont 15y ago
I was critical of an earlier edition ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2362741 ) so thought it only right to say Google has done a far better job making a high-quality magazine website with this one.
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by pyrmont 15y ago
I love Instagram but I hope they find a way to make money out of this.
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by pyrmont 15y ago
This is illustrative of a fundamental misunderstanding among a lot of programmers about what 'front-end' means. 'Front-end' doesn't mean the colour scheme of the website. It means the features which are exposed to users, the mechanism in wh
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Horace 'Asymco' Dediu has new podcast Critical Path on 5by5(5by5.tv)
3 points by pyrmont 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Windows 8 is Fundamentally Flawed(inqk.net)
6 points by pyrmont 15y ago|2 comments
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by pyrmont 15y ago
I don't see the problem with this. They host your photos for free and they want to try to make some money out of it. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
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by pyrmont 15y ago
Sounds like this might be the problem http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2538706
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by pyrmont 15y ago
According to Chrome, I'm running the latest stable build (11.0.696.65). I've asked others via Twitter and not everyone is suffering from this problem but some people are http://blogote.com/2011/gaming/angry-birds-doesnt-work-mac.h... .
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by pyrmont 16y ago
Great example of how much better magazines generally look printed as opposed to put online. The 'physical' copy of the magazine is inviting with attention clearly lavished on each page. The website, although nice, puts the text into a tiny
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by pyrmont 16y ago
Whenever anyone talks about the problems that beset Microsoft it seems almost a universal consensus that it's political infighting/poor management. An honest question, though: is some of it the tools and/or engineers? I've never worked in a
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by pyrmont 16y ago
Translation: Look, the VCs are expecting a payout at some point and the only way we've worked out for making money is through ads. Now that's not going to fly if people can just get some sort of 'ad free' client from you guys. Our hands are
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by pyrmont 16y ago
Are you sure? He refers to the iPad 2 and then the iPad 3. In this follow up post ( http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/the_next_six_months ) he refers to the iPad 3 as potentially shipping in Fall 2012.
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Gruber Hints at iPad 3 Coming this Summmer(daringfireball.net)
4 points by pyrmont 16y ago|3 comments
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by pyrmont 16y ago
Maybe they thought dontmakemeinfringe.com didn't have the same 'zing'.
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I think the problem that I (and presumably the others in this thread) had with your point was two-fold: 1) your tone and choice of language implied entitlement; 2) if not a defence of piracy, did not add a great deal to the conversation. So
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I'm not overly familiar with the law in the United States, but in Australia recent court decisions strongly suggest that it will be more difficult to prove copyright subsists in a database. See particularly the decision in Telstra Corporati
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by pyrmont 16y ago
Probably not. While the Droid mark is a distinct trade mark, it seems to me that Google would have a compelling argument that calling a non-Android Droid would lead to confusion amongst consumers. Additionally, although unlikely, it may be
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I think I remember this story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/technology/internet/30goog... . Oh wait: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/technology/28yahoo.html
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by pyrmont 16y ago
It's long-term good in the sense that it means your freedom to produce video that other people can play back is no longer at the convenience of others. At present, you can do most of the things you do because the people that control the int
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by pyrmont 16y ago
tldr: The simple answer to John's questions is that sometimes, when you act in the real world, in order to achieve things you have to make compromises and cannot be ideologically pure. In more detail: 1. Because, like it or not, Flash is an
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I'll have to make my way up from Kyoto next time :) Have a great party!
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I'm not sure to be honest. The title of the post is slightly facetious but really only slightly. I'm thinking I must have a problem because if there is no other way, and if this is not really a big problem for most web users, then it's my p
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I am the man and yes, it's a long post. I'm not actually against putting a large amount of content on a web page. It's the overloading to pieces of content that themselves lead off to individual pages that has me frustrated.
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by pyrmont 16y ago
You can hold it in one hand.
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I am a Crazy Person(inqk.net)
44 points by pyrmont 16y ago|25 comments
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by pyrmont 16y ago
This is a terrible article. The bald assertion that Tumblr is more successful than Posterous because it is faster is repeated about a half dozen times during the piece but no evidence is ever advanced to prove this point. Without further da
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by pyrmont 16y ago
I'm so glad Apple supports HTML5.