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by rplst8 10y ago
I wonder if anyone has thoroughly considered the impact of tens of thousands of gas stations closing their doors as the demand for petroleum goes down.
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by rplst8 10y ago
The comment you replied to is the typical "city-dweller" POV. What few people realize is that there are millions of people that live in rural areas where the taxi/uber/shared asset model just does not work.
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by rplst8 10y ago
What you say is true but hardly comparable. Those are open systems where users can mix and match speakers with different amplifiers. In closed systems there is definitely a expectation that they are a tad more idiot proof.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I can see your point, but this is one of the downsides to vertical integration.
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by rplst8 10y ago
For the record, if the speaker is truly blown (ruined) this is a problem with the hardware - not the software. If you can't design a speaker and amplifier combination with a limiter that won't let itself self-destruct, you are an
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm not going to be on call for other's people's garbage they call a production system.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Not all software engineers make that kind of cash. In fact I'd say over 90% don't even come within 10% of that range.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Interesting article, but the title of this seems a little odd.
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by rplst8 10y ago
There was plenty of progress in the laptop market before Apple became the power-player that it is today. Did Apple play a part? Yes. Did many of the other companies that have since gone out of business, merged, or still exist today? Yes.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Again, I think you are wrong. Fujifilm makes extremely high quality professional lenses that are used on medium and large format cameras. Or at least did fairly recently. They've also announced a new medium format digital system wit
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm not sure about Leica, but Fujifilm is not in the "refined consumer / prosumer" category either. Neither is Canon, Nikon, or even Olympus for that matter. AFAIK they all make high performance optics that are used in
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by rplst8 10y ago
It brings new meaning to the term "full-stackoverflow developer."
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think this was a feature of NTFS over FAT32 - not an OS level feature. XP was the first home oriented OS to support NTFS natively.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm happy to see a link on the top of Hacker News that is grey (visited) for maybe the first time ever. I've been frequenting Shorpy for many years. The view on the past it gives is always interesting and often stunning.
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by rplst8 10y ago
There are a lot of comments here such as "Git has a horrible UI/UX", "I don't want to have to learn the inner workings of a tool", "Certain systems are designed so well that they can be understood as black
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think the market for high-end phones and devices is probably starting to saturate. Apple has also been relying a bit too much on planned obsolescence, specifically through software updates. Iterating over iDevices and essentially making
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by rplst8 10y ago
> There really is no reason this drug should cost more than a few dollars. Laboratory testing, animal trials, human trials, efficacy studies, FDA approval, liability insurance, etc. etc. etc.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> So, being easy to use is a much more powerful feature for a language / framework / platform than most. I never said that JS was easy to use. I said it was easy to access. With JS, you don't really need an IDE, compiler
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by rplst8 10y ago
> But something that I almost never hear: critics offering a candid explanation for why their platform / language / framework - which maybe wasn't perfect but CERTAINLY compared to JavaScript was awesome - did not become t
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by rplst8 10y ago
You might be right about the price. But for a lot less you can pick up a used X-E2 or X-T1 which are still fine cameras. The best part about any of them (including the X-T2) is you get access do Fujifilm's superior glass. Their lense
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by rplst8 10y ago
> I own an X-E2S and I think that model is even over priced. > I love my Fujifilm and take it everywhere. It's a leica without leica cost, and that's exactly what I wanted. I don't know how you can rectify those two sta
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by rplst8 10y ago
> I'm just not going to spend that much of a premium on a what is almost a repackaged phone sensor. A repackaged phone sensor??? I think you need to take another look at Fujifilm's APS-C sensor tech and image quality.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Not sure why your being down voted (if this was a serious comment). The "pro" DSLRs do have speed advantages, both in FPS, and in auto-focus tracking etc. Dual memory cards are also important if you are working paid gigs and wan
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by rplst8 10y ago
I know it's a mirrorless camera. The point is, the advantage of a mirrorless design (over an SLR) is that the viewfinder doesn't need to be centered in the body like every SLR and DSLR has been for the last 60 years. However, e
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by rplst8 10y ago
Agree. The actual sensor itself may be the same substrate/silicon/CMOS whatever, but the color filter array, and processing are totally different.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I up-voted this because I think the Fujifilm X series cameras need more love than they currently get. I have an X-E2 and I love it, but I'm very curious to see if they release an X-E3 and what features of the X-T2 and X-Pro2 it will in
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think it addresses number three too! If I can live anywhere I want, I can buy anyhouse I want, and sell it to someone who is looking for similar house-features instead of location, location, location.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'd argue that we are way beyond this being a problem. In many cases the highways were designed with a much lower traffic count in mind. When the population was half what it is now. The problem to me it seems is that highway planners
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think the article deviously wraps up a whole host of issues and presents them as "if we didn't have these dang cars around, all these costs would go away." First, without cars, keeping commute times reasonable requires that
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by rplst8 10y ago
Agreed. I'm seeing terms like "elitist" being thrown around below for "git apologists" when it's simply a matter of learning a tool. Not everyone needs all the power of the git CLI and the complications it

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