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by randrews 16y ago
He actually goes on to list another dozen or so companies; Apple's valuation is all of those combined .
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by randrews 16y ago
"He did it and got away with it" isn't a defense for breaking the law.
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by randrews 16y ago
A lot of his complaints are Windows-specific, but some are general, like the filesystem thing, or application-specific "computer classes". Edit: Well, since you edited yours... Yeah, a lot of the problems go away when you get away from the
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by randrews 16y ago
Okay, so 600 megs. An extra gig of RAM has to be cheaper than a hard drive + controller you wouldn't otherwise need, right?
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by randrews 16y ago
If it's only 20 pages, I'd actually guess not. HDD + controller, for a minimum of (say) a 20 gig drive (I couldn't find any smaller ones), I'd guess would be a lot more than the extra hundred megs (tops) in the RAM that it already needs to
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by randrews 16y ago
Why would you need nonvolatile storage for that? Why not just store it in RAM temporarily?
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by randrews 17y ago
According to the rules: > When the manager arranges overtime, employees are not allowed secretly or openly to avoid overtime if they do not have permission. Not exactly "voluntary" overtime.
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by randrews 17y ago
That's a nicer theory than my current one, which was that some guy with a lot of EC2 instances put "gem install groundwork" in a chef script for setting them up. :) I've tried googling a few different things though, and couldn't get mysel
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Ask HN: How do people keep finding my gem?
9 points by randrews 17y ago|4 comments
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by randrews 17y ago
I'm a big Zed Shaw fan, and I plan on sending a rant to this site, but I have to disagree with him here. The real issue isn't that they're forcing developers to use C. The real issue is that they're forcing developers to conform to an arbit
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by randrews 17y ago
> Nobody complains about Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo restrictions as far as console games. People complained about Sony just last week killing Linux on the PS3, and have complained about breaking firmware cracks on the PSP forever. Ther
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by randrews 17y ago
They're framed with that assumption because of the other articles that call it "the future of computing". If something's the future of computing, it's supposed to supplant the present of computing, right?
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by randrews 17y ago
"dwindling supply of natural gas"? I work for a company that makes it more efficient and safer to throw away natural gas. It's nowhere near as rare as you think, in fact, in drilling, it's considered a nuisance more than a product of the we
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by randrews 17y ago
Hmm, that's another thing in its favor, I guess. I could take it to my girlfriend's house, plug it into her TV, and watch things streamed from Netflix.
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by randrews 17y ago
I've actually been strongly considering buying one, even though a week ago I was pretty unimpressed. Some things you're right about, some things you are misinformed: 1. This bugs me too. If I do get one, I'll get a book stand or something f
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by randrews 17y ago
The word "hack" comes from the tradition of elaborate practical jokes at MIT. I can't think of anything more hacker-like than April Fools stories.
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by randrews 17y ago
That's actually a pretty good idea. :-)
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by randrews 17y ago
I've been looking at a dongle that allows you to run code on it, so you'd be able to pass it an encrypted program and it would encrypt it for you (without putting the key on the host machine). That should be as secure as the dongle is. My p
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by randrews 17y ago
The main problem is that we want to do time-based licensing, so they can only use the product for a month or whatever before buying a new license. Anything we do in the program to check that license, they'll be able to edit the program to r
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by randrews 17y ago
Yeah, the code is the product, it's a program to do physical simulations of a certain industrial process (actually more interesting than it sounds!)
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by randrews 17y ago
That's the problem I've been running into. At some point, in a piece of code we ship them, we will have to have a thing that checks a license and then decrypts the code and runs it. They can just edit that code.
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by randrews 17y ago
Some kind of dongle is definitely required, but wouldn't someone be able to read the code to our app, remove the dongle-checking part, and then copy it all they want? We do have a way to keep the code encrypted until we run it, but we have
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Ask HN: Copy protection?
5 points by randrews 17y ago|13 comments
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by randrews 17y ago
I could not agree more. The thing I finally realized is, it doesn't matter. Someone who will struggle reversing a linked list will struggle on any coding problem, no matter how simple. The one I ask is: given a string, return a hash where t
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by randrews 17y ago
That's actually what most of the arcade game achievements are like, in my experience: stuff you would never do during the game, but is weird enough to warrant the game noticing, like in Geometry Wars, doing a certain (difficult) thing in th
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by randrews 17y ago
Eh, every time I hear this argument my response is the same: if they stop making open Macs, I'll stop buying Macs. I'm not married to it, and there are open platforms to switch to. When they make a new thing I don't want, it doesn't make th
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by randrews 17y ago
A Novation Launchpad, which I have already hacked to play Connect 4 with. I really wanted to play with a Monome a couple years ago but I could never get my kit to work very well (electronics were no problem, building the case was), so this
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by randrews 17y ago
Yeah, exactly. I wonder if that's why Fox features so much insane commentary? News is fairly easy to get, even primary sources are easy to get, but a community of like-minded people is still worth something. I bet people watch Fox because t
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by randrews 17y ago
This would only make sense if Fox were the only trusted news outlet (to borrow the article's term) that Google indexes. Since it's one of a whole bunch, Fox is really only hurting themselves here. People will go to Google to search for a st
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by randrews 17y ago
I don't see how this is any different from any other Blub paradox: these people don't see what's useful about the features Sass adds to CSS, because they think in CSS, and think the syntax is funny-looking, so they don't want to bother.

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