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by riobard 16y ago
If 110V is not feasible, can we try lower voltage? 36V DC is sufficient for laptops with correct adapters. Also I don't really want to work on laptops in tight space anyway. A 5V USB port is sufficient. All Air Canada flights have this. (Du
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by riobard 16y ago
The 11" MBA has a screen solution of 1366x768, wider than the 13" MBP at 1280x800.
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by riobard 16y ago
“Economic espionage charges are also pending against Jin Hanjuan, a software engineer for Motorola, who was arrested with a laptop full of company documents while boarding a plane for China, prosecutors said.” Not sure how this case ends, b
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by riobard 16y ago
I put the quotes around premium 'cause I don't really feel Apple charges unfairly for its products. The software and design is worth every penny of that extra 20%~30%. My take on the R&D thing: Yes Apple is likely to be the largest tech
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by riobard 16y ago
I hate to say this, but it seems common to compare price based on the hardware alone. Good software and good design cost money too. A lot of money. You pay for the development, testing, and design of all the prototypes discarded before the
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by riobard 16y ago
I tried that too on some PC's around. It's a nice feature given the need to reinstall the OS more often... There are some compatibility issues with USB booting on different BIOS, but other than that it is really helpful. Now the next questi
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by riobard 16y ago
I use the optical drive mainly for reinstalling OS. An old habit carried over from the Windows time. Later I discovered that OS X is probably the easiest OS to install from alternative media. (It is probably also the easiest to run from alt
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by riobard 16y ago
"Canada is such a technologically backward nation that it costs an order of magnitude more to send data over their maple-syrup-soaked drunken-beaver-operated telecommunications system than it does here in the US." This is so true!!!
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Intel X25-M SSD (G3 25nm) Specs Revealed(anandtech.com)
8 points by riobard 16y ago|0 comments
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by riobard 16y ago
Just ordered an Apple TV yesterday ...
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by riobard 16y ago
The biggest thing I still cannot get over with in OS X: THERE IS NO CUT!!! If you want to move a file to somewhere else, you have to either copy&paste, or use mouse to drag (which sometimes is really difficult if the two locations are n
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by riobard 16y ago
Doesn't it mean that your laptop bought in the States won't work with WiFi stations in Europe?
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by riobard 16y ago
Any words on why there is no API for HN?
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by riobard 16y ago
As I'm developing on GAE, I'm wondering how reliable it is compared to other cloud services like Amazon EC2? I know they are quite different in nature, but I guess for reliability measurement it's fine to put them side by side.
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Google App Engine Datastore is experiencing writing problem(code.google.com)
2 points by riobard 16y ago|2 comments
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by riobard 16y ago
"with webOS 2.0 Palm is switching to node.js-powered JavaScript background services instead of the Java services currently in use. This means faster, better, and more webbier development for webOS" So JavaScript/V8 is now faster than Java/J
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by riobard 16y ago
Since there is no concept of CAPS in Chinese, I assume you mean that Chinese and Japanese characters are more or less square-shaped (thus less "shape contrast" from the linked article), are they harder to read? The answer is probably no for
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by riobard 16y ago
I'm thinking just the opposite: why cannot we make phone calls with a 3G-enabled iPad?
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by riobard 16y ago
Is Python pre-compilation just compiling to bytecode as in .pyc files, or is it compiling to native code?
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by riobard 16y ago
The link from mainland to Hong Kong is censored by GFW and connection reset if sensitive keywords are detected.
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Ask HN: recommend a logic book
1 points by riobard 16y ago|2 comments
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by riobard 16y ago
The rendering quality is sub-standard compared to Safari on OS X at the moment, but I'm really excited there is another browser vendor trying to solve this problem!
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by riobard 16y ago
There's a tradeoff between larger character set and easier input method. It's not trivial to input Chinese characters with keyboard. It compensates by allowing richer expressions with fewer characters.
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by riobard 16y ago
The supply of all domain names is infinite, but the supply of short domain names is definitely finite. That's why it's so damn hard to find good short ones. It doesn't matter how you get the limited resource first. What matters is whether t
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Current Status of Web Fonts(riobard.com)
1 points by riobard 16y ago|0 comments
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SVG Web Fonts Suck(riobard.com)
1 points by riobard 16y ago|0 comments
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by riobard 16y ago
I'm wondering how long Skype calling in fring < http://www.fring.com&#62 ; will remain for free.
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by riobard 16y ago
I really hate the stupid banks' decision to disable saving password. Luckily there is a Chrome plugin to force autofill https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ecpgkdflcnofdbbk...
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by riobard 16y ago
Anybody knows the font and color scheme in that image? Looks really pretty!
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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)(downlode.org)
25 points by riobard 16y ago|3 comments

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