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by rufo 16y ago
You can buy many of those games on Nintendo's Virtual Console service, so yes, they are licensable.
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by rufo 16y ago
I always refer to the Apple/NeXT acquisition as "the time NeXT bought Apple for negative $429 million."
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by rufo 16y ago
There's so much going on here my head hurts a little. :-)
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by rufo 16y ago
You may not want to eat the cake when you find out what's in it. http://www.planetfortress.com/dfa/portal-recipe.html
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by rufo 16y ago
Not that I run a site that's anywhere close to Reddit, but I was a bit scared to hear one of their admins mention MongoDB "suffered more than one bout of catastrophic data loss in my brief testing": http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/co
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by rufo 16y ago
Cory Doctorow's Whuffie just went up several points in my mind after reading that.
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by rufo 16y ago
Anecdotally, everyone I know who's been taught git with no prior VCS experience has had no problem with learning it.
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by rufo 16y ago
Yes, it does. I wrote a small HTML5 offline-capable web app, processing a ~100KB JSON file with around 200 items. For ease of development, I initially used a JSON query library, which was perfectly fast on my laptop, a bit pokey on my 3GS,
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by rufo 16y ago
I e-mailed Chris and Leah a friendly notice last Sunday about these errors and never heard anything back...
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by rufo 16y ago
As far as I know, the way Gmail handles conversations and archiving is unreplicated by any desktop client, and single-handedly the most powerful thing about Gmail. I now have a regular habit of archiving any message that doesn't have an act
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by rufo 16y ago
You're legally only allowed to run OS X Server virtualized on Apple hardware. VMware and Parallels have both implemented checks in their products to help Apple enforce this (although I believe they're somewhat trivial to work around).
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by rufo 16y ago
On my 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, their "Site of the Day" can't even update the cursor regularly; it only updates once every second or two.
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by rufo 16y ago
I think this comment sums it up nicely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299174
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by rufo 16y ago
"Disgraced liar"? Is there something in particular you're referring to?
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by rufo 16y ago
I honestly don't buy that. You find an iPhone lying on a street-corner? Then maybe you go through your own methods. You find an iPhone at a bar? The first place that person is going to look is at that bar . The sensible thing is to turn
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by rufo 16y ago
One fact I find interesting: Engadget was offered the device as well, but was advised by their counsel (in no uncertain terms) to not acquire the prototype.
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by rufo 16y ago
Why didn't he do something reasonable, like turn it into the bartender or the police?
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by rufo 16y ago
Several sites have posted excerpts of California's penal code detailing how not returning lost property is equivalent to theft. Between that and the half-assed attempts of the "finder" to try to return the phone, according to California sta
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by rufo 16y ago
How is this different from any other platform upgrade, regardless of web/desktop? Platforms evolve. APIs get deprecated. Stuff either breaks or gets updated.
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by rufo 16y ago
See the Reddit discussion thread with comments from the author here: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bvzzt/hey_reddit_i_ma... I find it hard to believe that this would make it through approval - even though he claims he's not using
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Wi-Fi Sync: Coming Soon to the App Store?(youtube.com)
5 points by rufo 16y ago|2 comments
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by rufo 16y ago
It's seemed like it's anything with over ~100-120 comments, but I'll drop you a line the next time I encounter one.
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by rufo 16y ago
Overall, I quite like it (better than iCombinator and trying to use HN directly). Only two problems I have: 1) It seems to crash on threads with too many comments... I'm guessing it runs out of RAM, perhaps? 2) I can't log in with my OpenID
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by rufo 16y ago
I'm not sure you get that kind of attention to detail without a crazy genius's ego.
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by rufo 16y ago
That doesn't seem typical - I'm using an 160GB X25-M G2 and have almost certainly filled the drive at this point (been running with less than 15% drive space free for a while, I leave hibernation on, installed and removed Boot Camp, etc.) a
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by rufo 16y ago
I'm not saying they don't degrade... just when they do, the performance is still so off-the-charts when compared to a hard drive that it's crazy to obsess over it. And 10X sounds high to me - what sort of benchmark are you running? Most of
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by rufo 16y ago
Given that Intel SSDs are claimed to support writing 100GB of data every day for five years before losing the ability to write, and I rarely hit even 10GB written in a bus development day according to OS X's Activity Monitor, I'm uncertain
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by rufo 16y ago
Since you're going to be reading and writing to the drive repeatedly, the drive is always going to hit the write performance crunch no matter what you do (unless you support TRIM - Windows 7 does with the correct drivers, OS X does not, not
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by rufo 16y ago
What's wrong with ambitious? Also - I'd thought real-time capture of video sources was something the DVR solved a long time ago... if you can talk about it, what's different about your project?
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by rufo 17y ago
Wikipedia linked to this article with some details on the arm: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/dean-kamens-luke...

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