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by quink 14y ago
> MUMPS It might be a punchline, but I'm writing code in it right now.
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by quink 14y ago
> The problem with having your code all in a software image is that the second you do this you lose a large existing toolset that people have invested a lot in mastering. Intersystems Caché. There's a CACHE.DAT, which sits on the filesy
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by quink 14y ago
No, thank you. I'm 25 and I can honestly say that for all of us on Hacker News, Slashdot has been a part of all our lives, a huge one. I've checked Slashdot at least once every second day since 2000 (I'll admit more frequently in the past),
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by quink 14y ago
What's most telling is that they didn't do this publicity stunt back in 2005, when they could have just as well done it with a thousand $10 used Nokias in a thousand magazines.
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by quink 14y ago
I agree. Some paragraphs in I was thinking that the solution is to just calibrate it when it's on the ground, but was curious what solution he came up with... > While on the ground, use the ACCELEROMETERS to see which way is up. Oh. Yea
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by quink 14y ago
That chart is seriously wrong. For starters, not least of all due to the definition of "major version". And also because being stuck on one Android version is not so bad since apps from the Android Market have way more control over the OS t
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by quink 14y ago
a) It's not a list. b) The iPhone 3GS was on sale, new from Apple, until September 12th, 2012.
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by quink 14y ago
> I am not upset they're not keeping support for a phone from 2007. Except that sales of the iPhone 3G seized... on June 4th, 2010. Of the iPod Touch 2G, with the same CPU, on September 1st, 2010. This isn't about not keeping support, t
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by quink 14y ago
The videos linked to from the iPhone and iPad pages, then they're video tags these days. If you're talking about the movie trailers or whatnot, then Apple isn't trying to sell you Quicktime, but it's damn well trying to sell you an iPhone o
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by quink 14y ago
Between about 8:30pm and 7:00am, me. It's close tthe ideal overnight device. Stick an LED on it and the only things left are better text entry and some browser fixes.
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by quink 14y ago
Sweden has the option, under their law, to interview someone over a video link, and it does the job just as well. Edit: They also have permission to come to the UK and interview him there. They have been offered many times over by now, but
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by quink 14y ago
> Sweden would like to question Julian Assange about allegations made be two women. These women have a right to make these accusations, and they have a right for the state to investigate them. Nobody could possibly deny this. You may ha
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by quink 14y ago
Something like The Pirate Bay or any of the dozens of torrent metasearch sites?
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by quink 14y ago
I just thought of an awful analogy: A builder is suing another builder in the next state over for stealing his plans and constructing a house following them. Used by Oracle as evidence is that someone swung a hammer three times in the garag
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by quink 14y ago
So, I saw this and opened up Chrome's Inspector. It's a slideshow. Advance with space or →.
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by quink 14y ago
We knew :) http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2010/a-minimal-html5-document/ <!doctype html> <html lang=en> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>blah</title> <body> <p>I'm the content
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by quink 14y ago
> How does one proceed in a future-proof way whereby the choices are not regretted down the line? What's wrong with HTML that has classnames, or the new data attributes that HTML5 has? They're not dependent on any one implementation and
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by quink 14y ago
Oh, I didn't downvote it. I guess one main difference is that a plugin for Internet Explorer can do so much more than a plugin for Chrome can, and that the basic philosophy for IE is that it's a relatively thin wrapper around mshtml.dll, on
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by quink 14y ago
> Personal insecurity seeing that certain individuals are successful and praised for it as well as insecurity that their philosophy of "success is all due to luck" is in jeopardy. Nope, that's not it. I don't feel insecure due to other
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by quink 14y ago
Each public library pays amount x into a government fund for each person living in its coverage area. Said government fund then pays for this: http://rowling.books/index (served as a JSON or Marc file) http://rowling.books/hp1.txt (or e
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by quink 14y ago
I think the problem solves itself quite elegantly: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." -- Steve Wozniak
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by quink 14y ago
> I set a reminder(thanks Siri) to check these stats later that night. Thank you, alarm clock! Thank you, spoon! Thank you, hammer! In any case, thank you for the post, and thank you even more for keeping this kind of service running f
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by quink 14y ago
I think I can either smell a personality cult coming up or a reality distortion field. Or it may be both. Can we please leave it up to Elon Musk whether he wants to go to Mars or not, without presupposing the notion? I'm fairly sure he migh
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by quink 14y ago
I appreciate the idea behind this, and it's an excellent technical demonstration. Very impressive and all that. I'd just like to, however, preempt anyone from thinking that this kind of thing is appropriate for books or texts of any sort. C
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by quink 14y ago
There's a hundred Thinkpads on the ISS right now, and zero MacBooks. There's a data point. And if you're concerned about useful life, then I can tell you right now that you'll get major OS updates for about three years. Windows 8 requires b
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by quink 14y ago
Drag and drop just doesn't seem to be in the lexicon. It's only to be expected after 20 years of not having it on the web. Sure, there may be some exceptions - GMail's sorting into tags comes to mind - but it's just not happening any time s
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by quink 14y ago
It isn't surprising that IE still sucks. In part, it sucks for the same reason that Safari sucks, which is updates (or lack thereof). Google Chrome, when it was first released, was a crappy browser with an excellent update and installation
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by quink 14y ago
I'm just wondering what is so special about Apple that this whole thing warranted not just this article, but a whole series of four articles on that website... If there was enough of an incentive to write it, then surely it must not have be
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by quink 14y ago
Here we have it again, another bunch of people who think that science is both just an opinion and can be legislated out of existence. One wonders whether the same would hold true for what other kind of science here. I don't disagree that th
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by quink 14y ago
They're officially "down for maintenance" now: http://www.billabong.com/maintenance.htm

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