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1. 31.▲
   by roop 14y ago

   Hey, I thought of tentpole too (that's what's getting the tent up and running).
2. 32.▲
   by roop 14y ago

   It appears to me that most commenters missed the point of the article, which (to me) is more on the lines of Arthur C. Clarke's third law: " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Replace magic by religion.)
3. 33.▲
   by roop 14y ago

   I'm using Windows 8 in a VM, and I'm liking it just fine. I just think of it as: instead of a Start menu, we now have a start screen - that's it. Most of the time (ie. when you don't need to access the Start menu), you never see the Metro s
4. 34.▲
   by roop 14y ago

   Just guessing: Maybe the .apple won't be used for the root apple site, but could be useful for microsites like ipad.apple or icloud.apple? Or, heck, they could have just applied lest some cybersquatter gets hold of that TLD.
5. 35.▲
   by roop 14y ago

   > Also the link says they get to "know every road by definition", but you could read that almost entirely from TomTom's maps as well. Roads change, weather conditions change, etc. 'Know' here doesn't mean just knowing the road as in a m
6. 36.▲
   Show HN: Blowfish for/in Qt(github.com)

   2 points by roop 14y ago|0 comments
7. 37.▲
   by roop 14y ago

   Cool. A Brainfuck-ish langauge, but more powerful. I initially thought it would have been a pain to write just the test programs, but I guess they were just programatically search-replaced from Lisp programs?